(transitive) To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.
(transitive, obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
abject
abject
adj
(chiefly with a negative connotation) Complete; downright; utter.
(rare) Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
noun
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
verb
(mycology) Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).
To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
amebic
amebic
adj
Alternative form of amoebic
ascebc
baccae
bached
bached
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bach
bachel
baches
baches
noun
plural of bach
bacile
backed
backed
adj
(in combination) Having specified type of back.
(in combination) Having specified type of backing.
(obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of back
backen
backer
backer
adj
(phonetics) comparative form of back: more back
noun
One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.
backet
backet
noun
(Scotland) A shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes, coals, etc.
backie
backie
noun
(colloquial) A ride on the back of a bicycle or motorbike.
bacule
bacule
noun
(palynology) A rod-like element on the surface of some pollen.
(rare, dated) Alternative form of bascule
balcer
balche
balche
noun
Alternative form of balché
balcke
barche
bareca
beachy
beachy
adj
Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.
Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
beacon
beacon
noun
(Internet) Short for web beacon.
(figurative) That which gives notice of danger, or keeps people on the correct path.
(nautical) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
A high hill or other easily distinguishable object near the shore which can serve as guidance for seafarers.
A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to warn vessels of danger; also a signal mark on land. (FM 55-501)
A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
An electronic device that broadcasts a signal to nearby portable devices, enabling smartphones etc. to perform actions when in physical proximity to the beacon.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a beacon.
(transitive) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
(transitive) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
bearce
beback
becall
becall
verb
(transitive) To call names; insult.
(transitive, obsolete) To call upon; call forth; challenge.
(transitive, obsolete) To call; summon.
becalm
becalm
verb
(transitive, nautical) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).
(transitive, obsolete) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.
became
became
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of become
simple past tense of become
becaps
becard
becard
noun
A South American flycatcher of the genus Pachyramphus
becchi
becher
bechet
bechic
bechic
adj
(dated) Relating to, or relieving, a cough.
noun
(dated) A medicine for relieving coughs.
becked
becked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beck
becker
becker
noun
(archaic) A European fish, Pagrus pagrus
becket
becket
noun
(England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
(nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
(nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
(nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.
(obsolete) chough (the bird)
(sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
An eye in the end of a rope.
beckie
beckon
beckon
noun
A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
A sign made without words; a beck.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
(transitive, intransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
beclad
beclad
adj
Clothed about; clad.
beclap
beclap
verb
To clap for; to applaud.
To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.
beclaw
beclaw
verb
(transitive) To scratch or tear all over with claws or nails.
beclip
beclip
verb
(transitive) To clip around or about (the edges of); crop.
(transitive) To wrap around; enclose; encircle; surround.
(transitive, obsolete) To curdle (milk).
(transitive, obsolete) To fold in the arms; embrace; clasp.
(transitive, obsolete) To include; comprise; comprehend; contain.
(transitive, obsolete) To lay hold of; seize upon; grip; catch; overtake.
beclog
beclog
verb
(transitive) To encumber with a sticky substance; clog.
become
become
verb
(copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
(copulative) begin to be; turn into.
(intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
(transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
(transitive) To be proper for; to beseem.
becoom
becost
becram
becuna
becuna
noun
Sphyraena sphyraena, a Mediterranean fish.
becurl
becurl
verb
(transitive) To cover or deck out with curls.
(transitive, archaic) To curl; make curly.
bedcap
bedeck
bedeck
verb
(transitive) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
beduck
beduck
verb
(transitive) To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.
beechy
beechy
adj
Of or relating to beech trees.
begeck
begeck
noun
(transitive, UK dialectal) A disappointment; trick.
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; disappoint; jilt.
beglic
begluc
beitch
bejuco
bejuco
noun
Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liana; in the Philippines, especially any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.
bekick
belace
belace
verb
(transitive) To cover or adorn with lace.
(transitive) To fasten, as with a lace or cord.
(transitive, obsolete) To beat with a strap.
belgic
belgic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.
Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.
belick
belick
verb
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To lick or lick about.
bellic
bellic
adj
(obsolete) warlike; martial
belloc
belock
belock
verb
(archaic, transitive) To lock up or lock in place; hold tight; fasten.
bemock
bemock
verb
(archaic) To ridicule or mock.
(transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
(transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
(transitive, archaic) To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance
bemuck
benchy
bescab
bewick
beylic
beylic
noun
The territory under the jurisdiction of a bey.
biceps
biceps
noun
(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
(informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
(prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
bicker
bicker
noun
(Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
(Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
A skirmish; an encounter.
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
verb
(of rain) To patter.
To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
bicone
bicone
noun
(geometry) The three-dimensional shape swept by revolving an isosceles triangle around its edge of unequal length, or by joining two identical right circular cones, base to base.
bierce
biface
biface
noun
(archaeology) A double-sided stone tool
biscoe
bisect
bisect
noun
(geometry) A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
(philately) An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available.
verb
(computing) To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.
(transitive, geometry) To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
blcher
bleach
bleach
adj
(archaic) Pale; bleak.
noun
(countable) A variety of bleach.
(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
A disease of the skin.
An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
verb
(intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
(intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
(transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
blench
blench
noun
A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.
verb
(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
(obsolete) To blanch.
(transitive) To deceive; cheat.
(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
(transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
bocage
bocage
noun
Alternative spelling of boscage
bocces
bocces
noun
plural of bocce
boccie
boccie
noun
Alternative spelling of bocce
bocher
boches
boches
noun
plural of boche
bockey
bockey
noun
(US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints.
bodice
bodice
noun
A sleeveless shirt for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.
Blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or European folk costume.
The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt.
Underbodice: an undershirt for women, (archaic) particularly a corset or other undershirt stiffened with whalebone.
boesch
bonace
bouche
bouche
noun
(obsolete) An allowance of food and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
Alternative form of bush (a lining)
verb
Alternative form of bush (to line)
boucle
boucle
noun
Alternative spelling of bouclé
bounce
bounce
noun
(Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
(archaic) A drink based on brandyᵂ.
(archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
(archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
(slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A good beat in music.
(slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A talent for leaping.
(uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
A bang, boom.
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
The sack, dismissal.
verb
(US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
(archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
(intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
(intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
(intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
(intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
(intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
(intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
(intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
(intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
(slang, archaic) To boast; to bluster.
(slang, archaic) To bully; to scold.
(transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
(transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
(transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
(transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
(transitive, intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
(transitive, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
To move rapidly (between).
boycey
boycie
bracae
braced
braced
adj
(heraldry, of multiple figures of the same form) Interlaced.
Having braces or similar supports.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brace
bracer
bracer
noun
(archery) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string.
A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
Armor for the forearm; a brassard.
Something bracing; a stimulant.
That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
braces
braces
noun
(Britain) A pair of straps crossing one's shoulders and extending down to one's trousers, where a clip or button arrangement allows them to affix to the trousers, ensuring that they will not fall off.
(dated) Handcuffs.
(orthodontics) A device worn on the teeth to straighten them.
plural of brace
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brace
bracey
brache
breach
breach
noun
(archaic) A bruise; a wound.
(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
(law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
A breaking out upon; an assault.
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
verb
(intransitive, of a whale) To leap out of the water.
(law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.
(transitive) To make a breach in.
(transitive) To violate or break.
(transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
brecht
brecia
brecon
brecon
Proper noun
A town in Powys, Wales.
breech
breech
adj
(obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.
adv
(obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.
noun
(firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
(historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
(nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
(now rare) The buttocks or backside.
(obstetrics) A breech birth.
verb
(dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
(dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
(poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
(transitive) To fasten with breeching.
(transitive) To fit or furnish with a breech.
brince
broche
broche
noun
Obsolete form of brooch.
verb
Obsolete form of broach.
brucie
bucare
bucher
bucked
bucked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buck
bucker
bucker
noun
(mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
(mining) One who bucks ore.
A horse or other animal that bucks.
bucket
bucket
noun
(MTE, slang) an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
(UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
(aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
(basketball, informal) A field goal.
(basketball, informal) The basket.
(computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
(informal, chiefly in the plural) A great deal of anything.
(informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
(slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
(slang, humorous) A helmet.
(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
A bucket bag.
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
The amount held in this container.
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
The pitcher in certain orchids.
verb
(computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
(intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
(intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
(transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
(transitive) To place inside a bucket.
(transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
(transitive, Australia, slang) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
(transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
buckie
buckle
buckle
noun
(Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
(US, baking) A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
(countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
(roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
A contorted expression, as of the face.
A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
verb
(Scotland) To unite in marriage.
(intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
(intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
(intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
(obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
(transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
(transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
To buckle down; to apply oneself.
bucure
bueche
bunche
buseck
cabane
cabane
noun
(aviation) The tripod, pylon, or struts usually at the centre-section of a biplane or high-winged monoplane.
cabbed
cabbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cab
cabber
cabber
noun
A horse that draws a cab.
cabbie
cabbie
noun
(colloquial) A cabdriver, someone who drives a taxi.
cabble
cabell
cabers
cabers
noun
plural of caber
cabery
cabled
cabled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cable
cabler
cabler
noun
(entertainment) A cable television network or system operator.
Someone who cables, who puts together or fixes cables.
cables
cables
noun
plural of cable
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cable
cablet
cablet
noun
A slender cable.
cabmen
cabmen
noun
plural of cabman
cabree
cabree
noun
Archaic form of cabri (“pronghorn”).
cabret
cabrie
cabrie
noun
Obsolete form of cabri (“pronghorn”).
camber
camber
noun
(architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
(automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
(aviation) The curvature of an airfoil.
(nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
verb
To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
To curve upwards in the middle.
caribe
caribe
noun
piranha fish
casabe
cebell
cebian
cebids
cebids
noun
plural of cebid
cebine
cebine
adj
Of or pertaining to capuchins
noun
capuchin monkey, primate of the genus Cebus
ceboid
ceboid
adj
Of or relating to any member of the superfamily (Ceboidea) of monkeys, believed to have evolved from prosimians isolated in South America, and including the marmosets, capuchins, tamarins, sapajous, and spider monkeys.
noun
Any member of this superfamily.
ceibas
ceibas
noun
plural of ceiba
ceibos
ceibos
noun
plural of ceibo
celebe
celebs
celebs
noun
plural of celeb
cenobe
cenoby
chaber
chebec
chebec
noun
A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.