(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
absey
absey
noun
(obsolete) ABC; alphabet.
(obsolete) Absey book; abecedary.
(obsolete) An alphabetical acrostic list.
abyed
abyed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abye
abyes
abyes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abye
barye
barye
noun
(physics) A unit of pressure under the CGS system; symbol Ba; equal to 1 dyne per square centimeter. 1 Ba = 0.1 Pa = 0.1 N/m2 = 1x10⁻⁶ bar.
basye
bayed
bayed
adj
Having a bay or bays.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bay
bayer
bayer
adj
comparative form of bay: more bay
bayle
beady
beady
adj
(of eyes or a look) Bright and penetrating.
Characterized by beads.
Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
beaky
beaky
adj
(of a gesture) Made using a beak; (of a sound) produced through a beak.
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
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.
blype
blype
noun
(Scotland) A thin membrane or small piece of skin.
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.
boley
boney
boney
adj
Alternative spelling of bony
bosey
bosey
noun
(cricket, obsolete) A googly.
bovey
boyce
boyer
boyer
noun
(nautical) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
boyes
boyle
boyle
verb
Obsolete spelling of boil
boyne
boyne
Proper noun
A river in Ireland.
boyse
braye
bryce
busey
buyer
buyer
noun
(manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.
(retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
A person who makes one or more purchases.
buyse
bybee
byers
byler
byres
byres
noun
plural of byre
byrle
byrne
bysen
bytes
bytes
noun
plural of byte
debby
debby
adj
Like a debutante.
debye
debye
noun
(physics) The CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10⁻¹⁸ statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10⁻³⁰.
denby
derby
derby
noun
(US) A bowler hat.
(by extension) Any organized race.
(sports) A local derby.
(sports) A sports match between rival teams.
Any of several annual horse races.
eably
ebeye
ebeye
Proper noun
Ebeye, Kwajalein atoll
ebony
ebony
adj
A deep, dark black colour.
Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.
Made of ebony wood.
noun
(countable and uncountable) A deep, dark black colour.
(countable) A tree that yields such wood.
(slang, countable) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument.
(uncountable) A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
embay
embay
verb
(transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
(transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
embry
esbay
gabey
gabey
noun
Alternative form of gaby
gleby
gleby
adj
Relating to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
gybed
gybed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gybe
gyber
gybes
gybes
noun
plural of gybe
herby
herby
adj
(of food or drink) Full of herbal aroma or flavour.
Of or pertaining to herbs.
hobey
hubey
inbye
inbye
adv
(mining) pertaining to the direction towards the coal face.
When above ground, pertaining to the direction towards the house.
jobey
jobye
kebby
kebby
noun
Alternative form of kebbie
kelby
kerby
kerby
noun
(British) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.
maybe
maybe
adj
Possible; uncertain.
adv
(UK, meiosis) Certainly.
(as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).
Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty: it may be (that)...
noun
(informal) A future event that may or may not happen.
(informal) An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement.
(informal) Something that is possibly true.
nebby
nebby
adj
(Tyneside, Western Pennsylvania, Scotland) Overly inquiring; nosey.
newby
newby
Proper noun
The name of several places in northern England and elsewhere (meaning new settlement).
for someone from one of these places.
obeys
obeys
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obey
obley
obley
noun
(obsolete) A communion wafer.
rebuy
rebuy
noun
A type of poker tournament that allows players to purchase more chips during the course of the tournament.
verb
To buy again, especially to buy something previously sold (or pawned)
redby
rubye
selby
selby
Proper noun
a town in North Yorkshire, England, formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
a small city in South Dakota, USA
syble
tibey
tobey
tobye
tybie
uayeb
uayeb
noun
Alternative form of wayeb
upbye
verby
verby
adj
Having the characteristics of a verb.
webby
webby
adj
consisting of, resembling, or having webs or a web.
welby
werby
yerba
yerba
noun
Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage maté.