(British) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
The church of a monastery.
The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
abbye
abody
abray
abray
verb
Obsolete form of abraid.
absey
absey
noun
(obsolete) ABC; alphabet.
(obsolete) Absey book; abecedary.
(obsolete) An alphabetical acrostic list.
abury
abyed
abyed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abye
abyes
abyes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abye
abyla
abysm
abysm
noun
(archaic, poetic) Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.
(now chiefly literary) An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole.
abyss
abyss
noun
(figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
(frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
(heraldry) The center of an escutcheon.
(oceanography) The abyssal zone.
(with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
akyab
albay
albyn
albyn
Proper noun
Scotland, especially the Highlands.
ambay
amboy
ambry
ambry
noun
(architecture) A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc.; an armarium.
(now historical, rare) A bookcase; a library or archive.
(now rare) A pantry, or place to store food.
(obsolete) A storehouse, especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage.
araby
araby
Proper noun
Arabia
ashby
aubry
aubyn
babby
babby
noun
(UK and US dialects, also Internet slang) A baby (human infant).
baccy
baccy
noun
(slang) Tobacco.
backy
backy
noun
Alternative spelling of baccy
baddy
baddy
noun
Alternative spelling of baddie
badly
badly
adj
(Northern England) Ill, unwell.
adv
In a bad manner.
Very much; to a great degree.
baffy
baffy
noun
(golf) An obsolete wooden golf club with high loft.
(golf) The 4-wood or 5-wood
baggy
baggy
adj
(figurative) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
(music) Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
noun
(UK) A member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement.
A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
Such a bag filled with marijuana.
bahay
baily
baldy
baldy
noun
(informal, derogatory) Someone who is bald.
balky
balky
adj
Refusing to proceed or cooperate.
bally
bally
adj
(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.
bamby
bandy
bandy
adj
Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy-legged.
noun
(sports) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To fight (with or against someone).
(transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
(transitive) To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
(transitive) To use or pass about casually.
bangy
bangy
adj
Characterized by banging sounds.
noun
(India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
(India, historical) A kind of parcel post originally carried by this means.
Showing or emitting rays of light; beaming; radiant; shining.
beany
beany
adj
Resembling or characteristic of beans.
bebay
bebay
verb
(rare, transitive) To bay around or about; embay; hem in; surround.
becky
becky
Noun
A placeholder name used to refer to a (usually white) woman held in contempt by the speaker.
becry
becry
verb
(transitive) To cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn.
beday
bedye
bedye
verb
(transitive) To dye or stain.
beefy
beefy
adj
(informal) Strong or muscular.
(informal) Sturdy; robust.
Containing beef.
Large; overweight; fat.
Similar to, or tasting like beef.
beery
beery
adj
Smelling or tasting of beer.
Under the influence of beer.
beety
beety
adj
Resembling or characteristic of beets.
begay
begay
verb
(transitive) To make cheerful or merry.
beigy
beigy
adj
Alternative spelling of beigey
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.
bendy
bendy
adj
(heraldry) Divided into diagonal bands of colour.
(informal) Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily; resilient.
(of a vehicle) Articulated.
Containing many bends and twists.
Having the ability to be bent easily.
noun
(UK, slang) A bendy bus.
(heraldry) A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
benjy
benjy
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.
benny
benny
noun
(UK, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“tantrum”)
(US, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“one-hundred-dollar bill”)
(US, slang, obsolete) A straw hat. [early 20th century]
(informal) A benefit.
(informal) Synonym of eggs Benedict
(slang, dated) An overcoat.
(slang, usually in the plural) An amphetamine tablet.
verb
(slang, usually with "up") To take amphetamines.
benty
benty
adj
Abounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass.
Resembling bent.
beray
beray
verb
To make foul; befoul; soil.
bercy
berey
bergy
bergy
adj
containing icebergs
of or related to icebergs
berky
berny
berry
berry
noun
(US, slang, dated) A dollar.
(botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
(dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
(now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.
(slang, US, African-American English) A police car.
A coffee bean.
A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
An excavation; a military mine.
One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
verb
(transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
(transitive) To thresh (grain).
To bear or produce berries.
To pick berries.
berty
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.
beryx
bespy
bespy
verb
(transitive) To send spies to; beset with espionage.
bessy
bessy
Proper noun
name; today more often spelled Bessie.
betsy
betsy
Proper noun
A diminutive form of the female given name Elizabeth.
betty
betty
noun
(US, archaic) A pear-shaped bottle covered with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; a Florence flask.
(archaic, derogatory) A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman.
(slang, slightly pejorative) An attractive woman; a babe.
A baked dessert made with alternating layers of sweetened fruit and buttered bread crumbs.
A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open; a jimmy.
bevvy
bevvy
noun
(Britain, Ireland, slang) Alcoholic beverage.
verb
(Britain, Ireland, slang, intransitive) To get drunk
bewry
beyer
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.
bibby
bichy
biddy
biddy
noun
(US) Alternative spelling of bitty.
(archaic, colloquial) An Irish maidservant.
(by extension, derogatory) An Irishwoman.
(derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.
(uncommon) An attractive girl.
A name used in calling a hen or chicken, often as "biddy-biddy-biddy".
breasts (when used in the phrase "tig biddies" derived from "big tiddies")
bidry
biffy
biffy
noun
(US) A toilet
(US) An outhouse
biggy
biggy
noun
(colloquial) Something impressive in comparison to similar things.
(colloquial) Something large in size in comparison to similar things.
(colloquial, chiefly in the negative) Big deal.
(originally US, colloquial) A person of importance or power, especially in the entertainment industry.
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.
bingy
bingy
adj
(dialectal) Of milk or butter: ropy; having gone bad or soured.
binky
binky
noun
(US, informal, childish) A baby's pacifier.
(informal, childish) A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more attached to than any other, and often sleeps with.
A high hop that a rabbit may perform when happy.
verb
(intransitive, rabbit behavior) To perform a high hop, as when happy.
binny
binny
noun
Niger barb (Labeobarbus bynni or Barbus bynni), a species of yellowfish found in the Nile.
birdy
birdy
adj
(Canada, colloquial) Alternative form of bird (“easy to pass”).
(of a gun dog) Excited due to having encountered a bird or its scent.
Resembling or characteristic of a bird.
noun
(rare) Alternative spelling of birdie
birky
birny
birsy
birsy
adj
(Scotland) bristling, bristly (of an animal such as a wolf or a bear).
bitsy
bitsy
adj
Fragmented.
Very small, tiny.
bitty
bitty
adj
Containing bits; fragmented.
noun
Alternative form of bittie
bivvy
bivvy
noun
(UK, slang, obsolete) Beer.
(colloquial) A small tent or shelter.
verb
To erect, or to stay in, such a tent or shelter.
bixby
biysk
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.
bobby
bobby
noun
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A police officer.
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A railway signaller.
(MLE) Cocaine.
(Scotland, slang) A penis.
A banana that is extra small in size.
A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.
bocoy
bogey
bogey
noun
(Australia) A swim or bathe; a bath.
(UK) Alternative form of booger: a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.
(UK, engineering) A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
(archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
(engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
(figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
(golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
(military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
(military, aviation, slang) Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle”)
verb
(Australia) To swim; to bathe.
(golf) To make a bogey.
boggy
boggy
adj
Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.
bogys
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).
bondy
boney
boney
adj
Alternative spelling of bony
bonny
bonny
adj
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of bonnie
noun
(mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
booby
booby
adj
(informal) Having large breasts.
(informal, of clothing or a person) Displaying breasts prominently.
noun
(colloquial) A woman’s breast.
Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
verb
(rare, intransitive) To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
(transitive) To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.
boody
boody
verb
(intransitive, dated) To sulk or mope.
boogy
booky
booky
adj
(MLE) treacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy
(dated) bookish
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.