(historical) In Ancient Greece, an enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
abator
abator
noun
(law) a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee
(law) one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance
abbots
abbots
noun
plural of abbot
abbott
abbott
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
abboud
abhors
abhors
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abhor
abilao
abilao
noun
Alternative form of abilo.
abipon
ablock
abloom
abloom
adj
(figuratively) Having something growing or grown.
Blooming; covered in flowers.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
adv
(postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
abmhos
abmhos
noun
plural of abmho
aboard
aboard
adv
(baseball) On base.
(nautical) Alongside.
Into a team, group, or company.
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
prep
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
Onto a horse.
We all went aboard the ship.
abobra
abodah
aboded
aboded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abode
abodes
abodes
noun
plural of abode
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abode
abohms
abohms
noun
plural of abohm
abolla
abolla
noun
A cloak made of a piece of cloth folded double, worn by Ancient Greeks and Romans draped over one shoulder and fastened with a brooch.
abomas
abomas
noun
plural of aboma
abongo
abongo
Proper noun
A Negrillo people of Gabon.
Noun
The people of the Abongo tribe.
abonne
aborad
aborad
adv
(anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral)
aboral
aboral
adj
(zoology) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.
aborts
aborts
noun
plural of abort
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abort
abound
abound
verb
(intransitive) To be copiously supplied
(intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
(intransitive) To be highly productive.
(intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
(intransitive) To revel in.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy.
abouts
abouts
adv
(obsolete) About.
aboves
abramo
abrazo
abrazo
noun
A Latin American embrace.
abrico
abroad
abroad
adv
(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
(dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
(sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
noun
(rare, Scotland) Countries or lands abroad.
prep
Throughout, over.
abroma
abroms
abrood
abrood
adj
(obsolete) Upon a brood; hatching eggs.
adv
(figurative) Mischief.
(obsolete) Upon a brood; on a hatch.
abrook
abrook
verb
To brook; to endure.
absmho
absohm
absohm
noun
Alternative form of abohm
absoil
absorb
absorb
verb
(transitive) Assimilate mentally.
(transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.
(transitive) To defray the costs.
(transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
(transitive) To occupy or consume time.
(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
(transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
(transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
(transitive, physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
(transitive, physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
(transitive, physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
(transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as
abucco
abucco
noun
(historical) A unit of mass used for gold and silver, used in Burma, approximately 196.44 grams or 6.316 troy ounces.
abvolt
abvolt
noun
(electricity, electrical engineering, dated) A unit of electrical potential equal to one hundred millionth of a volt (10⁻⁸ volts), used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units.
abydos
abydos
Proper noun
A ancient city in Egypt with archaeological interest.
A city in Asia Minor at the Hellespont.
adobes
adobes
noun
plural of adobe
adobos
adobos
noun
plural of adobo
adsorb
adsorb
verb
(transitive, chemistry) To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption
aerobe
aerobe
noun
(biology) Any organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive.
akimbo
akimbo
adj
With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
adv
Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.
Of weapons, especially firearms: one held in each hand.
albedo
albedo
noun
(alchemy) One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia.
(botany) The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith.
(physics, meteorology, astronomy, optics) The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage.
albino
albino
adj
Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.
noun
(countable) A person or animal congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born with albinism.
albion
alboin
alborn
albugo
albugo
noun
(dated) A leucoma.
aljoba
alkabo
ambros
amober
amober
noun
(historical, law) In Wales, a maiden-fee paid to a lord on the marriage of a maiden in his manor.
amobyr
amobyr
noun
Alternative form of amober
amoeba
amoeba
noun
(biology) A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
(mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
(slang) An asexual.
aplomb
aplomb
noun
(ballet) The apparent elegance and precision exhibited by a confident, accomplished dancer.
Self-confidence; poise; composure.
The perpendicular; perpendicularity.
arbalo
arbors
arbors
noun
plural of arbor
arbory
arbota
arbour
arbour
noun
UK standard spelling of arbor.
arroba
arroba
noun
(historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 14.7 kilograms.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of liquid measure, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 15 liters.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 11.5 kilograms.
athrob
athrob
adj
Throbbing.
ausubo
ausubo
noun
balata tree
babion
babion
noun
Archaic form of baboon.
babloh
baboen
babool
babool
noun
Alternative form of babul
baboon
baboon
noun
(colloquial, derogatory) A foolish or boorish person.
An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. [from 13th c.]
baboos
baboos
noun
plural of baboo
baboot
babson
baccio
bacons
bacons
noun
plural of bacon
bacony
bacony
adj
Resembling bacon, especially in flavor
bacopa
bacopa
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Bacopa of aquatic plants, the waterhyssops.
bacova
bafaro
bafaro
noun
(South Africa) Either species of Polyprion, the wreckfishes.
bafyot
bagios
bagnio
bagnio
noun
(obsolete) A building for bathing, sweating.
(obsolete) In Turkey, a prison for slaves.
bagobo
bagong
bagpod
baguio
baguio
noun
(Philippines) A typhoon.
bailor
bailor
noun
(law) One who bails property; one who places property in the hands of another (called a bailee) for safekeeping.
bajour
balafo
balaos
balboa
balboa
noun
The currency of Panama, divided into 100 centésimos
balcon
balcon
noun
Obsolete form of balcony.
baliol
ballon
ballon
noun
(ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
ballot
ballot
noun
(chiefly US) A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.
Originally, a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.
The total of all the votes cast in an election.
verb
To draw lots.
To vote or decide by ballot.
ballou
ballow
ballow
adj
(obsolete) Round; pot-bellied.
noun
(nautical) Deep water inside a shoal or bar.
baloch
baloch
Noun
A member of an Iranian people who primarily speak the Balochi language and inhabit Balochistan and other nearby areas.
balolo
bamako
bamako
Proper noun
The capital city of Mali
bamboo
bamboo
adj
Made of the wood of the bamboo.
noun
(countable) A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used for corporal punishment.
(slang) A didgeridoo.
(slang) A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
(uncountable) The wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.
A fast-growing grass of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.
verb
(India, slang) To penetrate sexually.
(transitive) To flog with a bamboo cane.
(transitive) To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
bambos
bamoth
banago
bancos
bandog
bandog
noun
(archaic) A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog.
(figurative, literary) Anything that behaves like a bandog; something or someone who pursues doggedly.
(obsolete, slang, cant) A bailiff or prison guard.
(specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs.
bandon
bandon
noun
(obsolete) Disposal; control; licence.
bandor
bandos
bandos
noun
plural of bando
bangor
bangor
Proper noun
A city in Gwynedd, Wales.
A town in County Northern Ireland.
Any of several other places named after the city in Wales, or the town in Northern Ireland.
a city in Maine, USA
bangos
banjos
banlon
bannon
banquo
banuyo
banuyo
noun
The tree Wallaceodendron celebicum.
baobab
baobab
noun
A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
barato
barboy
barboy
noun
A young man who works in a bar, serving alcohol etc.
barcoo
barcot
bardot
barhop
barhop
verb
(idiomatic, informal) To drink at a number of bars during a single day or evening.
barlow
barlow
Proper noun
The name of several villages in north-eastern England.
originating from one of these villages.
The name of several towns in the United States, either named after one of the English villages or a person bearing the surname.
baroco
baroda
baroja
baroko
barolo
barong
barong
noun
A cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razor-like edge, used by the Moros of the Philippines.
baroni
barons
barons
noun
plural of baron
barony
barony
noun
(Scotland) Any large manor or estate, regardless of its owner's rank.
(historical, Ireland) Synonym of hundred, an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides and in various numbers composing counties.
(law) The legal tenure of a baron's land; military tenure.
(obsolete) The baronage: the body of barons in a realm.
Baronship, the rank or position of a baron.
baroto
baroto
noun
A small dug-out boat of the Philippines.
barrio
barrio
noun
(Philippines) A barangay.
(Spanish America) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
(Venezuela, Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
(informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
barron
barron
Proper noun
A city-county seat and town in Wisconsin.
barros
barrow
barrow
noun
(Britain) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
(chiefly Britain) A hill.
(mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
(obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
(obsolete) A mountain.
(saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
barsom
bartko
bartok
barton
barton
noun
(archaic) an arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton
A farmyard.
the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
bartow
bartow
Proper noun
a city in Florida, USA
baryon
baryon
noun
(physics) A heavy subatomic particle created by the binding of quarks by gluons; a hadron containing three quarks. Baryons have half-odd integral spin and are thus fermions. This category includes the common proton and neutron of the atomic nucleus.
bascio
bascom
basion
basion
noun
(anatomy) The middle of the anterior margin of the foramen magnum of the skull.