(by extension, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Any ballpoint pen.
(uncountable, by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.
boar
boar
noun
A male bear.
A male boar (sense 1).
A male guinea pig.
A male pig.
A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
boer
bohr
bohr
noun
(physics, chemistry) Synonym of Bohr radius
boor
boor
noun
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
A peasant.
A yokel, country bumpkin.
An uncultured person.
bora
bora
noun
A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
bord
bord
noun
(mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.
Obsolete form of board.
Obsolete form of bourd.
bore
bore
noun
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
Calibre; importance.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
Something dull or uninteresting.
The place where such a well exists.
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
verb
(colloquial) past participle of bear
(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
(intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
(proscribed) simple past tense of bare
(transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
(transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
(transitive) To make a hole through something.
(transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
simple past tense of bear
borg
borg
noun
cyborg
verb
Alternative spelling of Borg
borh
bori
bork
bork
noun
(Internet slang, humorous) The sound a dog makes.
(informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.
verb
(Internet slang, humorous) (of a dog) To bark
(intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
(transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
(transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
(vulgar, slang) To boink.
born
born
adj
Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
noun
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
verb
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
(obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
past participle of bear; given birth to.
boro
boro
noun
(US) Alternative spelling of borough
verb
(Jamaica) borrow
bors
bors
noun
plural of bor
bort
bort
noun
Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.
boru
bour
brio
brio
noun
Vigour or vivacity.
brno
brno
Proper noun
a city in the south of the Czech Republic
brob
brob
noun
A wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber where it abuts another. Much used in earlier times in the construction of tunnelled box-timber headings.
verb
(obsolete) To poke or prick
brod
brog
brog
noun
A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.
verb
(transitive) To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
To broggle.
brok
brom
bron
broo
broo
noun
(Scotland) broth
bros
bros
noun
plural of bro
brot
brow
brow
noun
(figurative) Aspect; appearance.
(mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
(nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
(nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
The first tine of an antler's beam.
The forehead.
The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
verb
To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
broz
buro
buro
noun
(US) a chest of drawers for clothes
a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
an office
ebro
ebro
Proper noun
a river in Spain that flows into the Mediterranean
forb
forb
noun
(chiefly ecology) Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush).
gorb
ober
orbs
orbs
noun
plural of orb
orby
orby
adj
(obsolete) having characteristics of an orb
prob
prob
adv
(dictionaries, text messaging) Clipping of probably.
noun
(informal) Clipping of problem.
raob
rboc
rbor
robb
robe
robe
noun
(US) The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.
The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.
verb
(intransitive) To put on official vestments.
(transitive) To clothe; to dress.
robi
robs
robs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rob
roby
roub
sorb
sorb
noun
Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.