(Britain, dated, euphemistic) Bloody (used as a mild intensifier).
adv
(UK, dated, euphemistic) Very.
noun
(MLE) A balaclava.
balmy
balmy
adj
(informal, US) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
Of weather, mild and pleasant.
Producing balm.
Soothing or fragrant.
barly
basyl
bawly
bawly
noun
Alternative form of bawley
bayal
bayle
bayly
belay
belay
noun
(climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
(climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
(climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
verb
(intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
(transitive) To lay aside; stop; cancel.
(transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.
(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
(transitive, obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.
(transitive, obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
(transitive, obsolete) To overlay; adorn.
(transitive, obsolete) To surround; environ; enclose.
simple past tense of belie (“encompass”)
belly
belly
noun
(architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
The main curved portion of a knife blade.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
The stomach.
The womb.
verb
(intransitive) To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
(transitive) To cause to swell out; to fill.
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
beryl
beryl
adj
Of a dull bluish green colour.
noun
(countable) An example (a stone) of the mineral beryl.
(uncountable) A dull blueish green colour.
(uncountable, mineralogy) A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone.
beyle
bialy
bialy
noun
A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle.
bigly
bigly
adj
(Scotland, now obsolete elsewhere) Habitable, liveable; hence delightful, pleasant, pleasing.
adv
(now rare) In a big way, greatly; to a great extent, on a large scale.
(now rare) In a blustering or boastful manner; haughtily, pompously.
(now rare) Strongly, with great force.
bilby
bilby
noun
An Australian desert marsupial (Macrotis lagotis), with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
bilgy
bilgy
adj
Containing, or resembling, bilge.
billy
billy
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.
(Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.
(Tyneside) A good friend.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A silk handkerchief.
A billy club.
A billy goat.
A male goat; a ram.
A slubbing or roving machine.
blady
blady
adj
Consisting of blades.
blayk
blazy
blimy
blimy
intj
Alternative spelling of blimey
bliny
bliny
noun
Alternative form of blini
blowy
blowy
adj
(of fabric, hair, etc.) Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind.
(of soil) Susceptible to drifting.
Windy or breezy.
noun
Alternative spelling of blowie
bluey
bluey
adj
Having a colour similar to blue.
noun
(Australia) A bluebottle.
(Australia, medicine) A disposable underpad.
(Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
(Australian slang) A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
(Australian slang) A bushman's blanket.
(Australian slang) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
(Australian slang) A person with red hair.
(informal) A blue film.
(slang) The metal lead.
blynn
blype
blype
noun
(Scotland) A thin membrane or small piece of skin.
blyth
blyth
Proper noun
a town and river in Northumberland, England,
a village in Nottinghamshire, England.
a river in Suffolk, England.
boily
boley
bolly
bolly
Proper noun
Bollinger champagne
bolty
bolty
noun
An edible fish of the Nile, the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, formerly Chromis nilotica).
booly
booly
noun
(obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.
(obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
boryl
boryl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any organic boron radical of the form R₂B- especially when linked to a metal atom
bowly
boyla
boyla
noun
An Aboriginal witch doctor or sorcerer.
boyle
boyle
verb
Obsolete spelling of boil
bulby
bulgy
bulgy
adj
Having one or more bulges; bulging
bulky
bulky
adj
(bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Being large in size, mass, or volume.
Unwieldy.
bully
bully
adj
(US, slang) Very good.
(slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
intj
(often followed by for) Well done!
noun
(dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
(field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
(mining) A miner's hammer.
(obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
(obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
(obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
(uncountable) Bully beef.
A hired thug.
A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
A sex worker’s minder.
The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
Various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper goby. , Gobiomorphus cotidianus]]
verb
(transitive) To act aggressively towards.
(transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
burly
burly
adj
(Britain, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
(US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
(usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
Full of burls or knots; knotty.
butyl
butyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₄H₉, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene.
bylas
bylaw
bylaw
noun
A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business).
A local custom or law of a settlement or district.
A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
byler
byrle
byrls
colby
colby
Proper noun
name, transferred from the surname.
One of two villages in England.
A village in the Isle of Man.
A city in Kansas, USA, and the county seat of Thomas County.
A city and town in Wisconsin.
Noun
A soft, moist, mild cheese made with a washed-curd process.
cybil
cybil
Proper noun
name. A 20th century spelling variant of Sybil.
dolby
eably
flyby
flyby
noun
(US) A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade.
(figurative) A brief visit.
(nautical) A sailby performed by a hydrofoil vessel while hydrofoiling.
A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.
gilby
gilby
Proper noun
A city/town in North Dakota.
gleby
gleby
adj
Relating to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
globy
globy
adj
(archaic) Resembling a globe; round.
hybla
kelby
kilby
labby
lamby
lamby
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a lamb or the meat of a lamb.
noun
Alternative form of lambie
libby
libby
Proper noun
name and
A city in Montana, USA
libya
libya
Proper noun
country in North Africa.
Africa; that is, the part of North Africa known in classical antiquity.
limby
limby
adj
Having many limbs, or branches.
noun
(slang) An amputee, especially one who has lost a leg.
lobby
lobby
noun
(West Midlands) lobscouse
(nautical) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
(politics) A class or group of interested people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
(video games) A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
(when preceded by "elevator") A waiting area in front of a bank of elevators.
A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
A margin along either side of the playing field in the sport of kabaddi.
An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
verb
(intransitive, transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.
looby
looby
noun
(now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
lusby
nobly
nobly
adv
In a noble manner.
obley
obley
noun
(obsolete) A communion wafer.
sably
sably
adv
in a sable manner
selby
selby
Proper noun
a town in North Yorkshire, England, formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
a small city in South Dakota, USA
sibyl
sibyl
noun
A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.