A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
abondance
abondance
noun
(card games) Alternative form of abundance
absconded
absconded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abscond
absconder
absconder
noun
A person who absconds.
abundance
abundance
noun
(Scotland) enough, sufficiency.
(card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
A large quantity; many.
An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
accumbent
accumbent
adj
(botany) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
noun
One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.
aitchbone
aitchbone
noun
A cut of beef lying above the rump bone.
The rump bone itself.
albescent
albescent
adj
Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
ambiances
ambiances
noun
plural of ambiance
ambiences
ambiences
noun
plural of ambience
ambulance
ambulance
noun
(military) A mobile field hospital.
(obsolete, US) A prairie wagon.
An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
verb
(transitive) To transport by ambulance.
anaerobic
anaerobic
adj
Of exercise, involving glycolysis (the conversion of glucose to adenosine triphosphate) rather than using oxygen to supply bodily energy needs.
Of or relating to an anaerobe.
Without oxygen; especially of an environment or organism.
archebanc
avicebron
bacchante
bacchante
noun
a female bacchanal
a priestess of Bacchus
baccheion
backbends
backbends
noun
plural of backbend
backboned
backboned
adj
Having a spine.
backbones
backbones
noun
plural of backbone
backening
backplane
backplane
noun
(electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.
backstein
backstone
baconweed
baconweed
noun
Synonym of pigweed (“the plant Chenopodium album”)
bacterian
bacterian
adj
(archaic) bacterial
bacterins
bacterins
noun
plural of bacterin
balancers
balancers
noun
plural of balancer
balconied
balconied
adj
That has a balcony attached.
balconies
balconies
noun
plural of balcony
banecroft
barcelona
barnacled
barnacled
adj
(figurative, by extension) Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles.
(figuratively) Encumbered with something unnecessary or undesirable, especially through a slow, gradual process of accumulation.
(figuratively) Marked by personal experiences; worldly.
Crusted with barnacles.
Familiar with the ocean and/or seafaring.
Old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barnacle
barnacles
barnacles
noun
plural of barnacle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barnacle
baronetcy
baronetcy
noun
The rank of a baronet.
basigenic
beaconage
beaconage
noun
(uncountable) Beacons collectively.
Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon.
beaconing
beaconing
noun
(computing, telecommunications) A continuous signaling of error conditions on a LAN, or small packets on a wireless LAN (WLAN).
(computing, telecommunications) In a token ring network, the process of isolating a fault domain with signals, so that recovery actions can take place.
verb
present participle of beacon (The emitting of signals from a beacon).
becalming
becalming
verb
present participle of becalm
becapping
becassine
bechained
bechained
adj
(rare) in chains
bechanced
bechanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bechance
bechances
bechances
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bechance
bechuanas
beckerman
beckoners
beckoners
noun
plural of beckoner
beckoning
beckoning
adj
That beckons.
noun
Such a wave or similar action.
verb
present participle of beckon
beclowned
beclowned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beclown
becomings
becomings
noun
plural of becoming
becrampon
becriming
becrimson
becrimson
verb
(transitive, poetic) To turn crimson; to redden.
becursing
becursing
verb
present participle of becurse
bedecking
bedecking
noun
An ornament.
verb
present participle of bedeck
beduncing
beduncing
verb
present participle of bedunce
beechmont
beechnuts
beechnuts
noun
plural of beechnut
beflounce
befrounce
belection
belomancy
belomancy
noun
Studying the flight of arrows, an ancient form of divination used by the Greeks and Arabs.
bemocking
bemocking
verb
present participle of bemock
benchland
benchland
noun
(geology) bench (thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by slopes)
benchless
benchless
adj
Without a bench or benches.
benchmark
benchmark
noun
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
verb
(intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
(transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
benedicks
benedicks
noun
plural of benedick
benedicta
benedicto
benedicts
benedicts
noun
plural of benedict
beneficed
beneficed
adj
(Christianity) Having a benefice
verb
simple past tense and past participle of benefice
benefices
benefices
noun
plural of benefice
benincasa
benthamic
benthamic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to or Benthamism.
benthonic
benthonic
adj
Synonym of benthic
bentincks
berenices
bermensch
bernicles
bernicles
noun
plural of bernicle
berrichon
bescreens
bescreens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bescreen
betacaine
betulinic
betulinic
adj
(organic chemistry) Relating to betulinic acid or its derivatives
bianchite
bicentral
bicentral
adj
Having, or affecting two centres
bicentric
bicentric
adj
(comparable, LGBT) Having a bisexual bias or basis.
(not comparable) Having two centres.
bickering
bickering
noun
Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.
verb
present participle of bicker
bickleton
biconcave
biconcave
adj
(optics, anatomy) Having both sides concave
bicornate
bicornate
adj
Alternative form of bicornuate
bicornute
bicornute
adj
Synonym of bicornuate
bicrenate
bicrenate
adj
(botany) Crenate, with the teeth themselves crenate; twice crenate.
bicyanide
bicyanide
noun
(chemistry) dicyanide
bigeneric
bigeneric
adj
(botany) Describing an (infertile) cross between plants belonging to different genera.
(taxonomy) Describing a taxonomic group containing only two genera.
bijection
bijection
noun
(set theory) A one-to-one correspondence, a function which is both a surjection and an injection.
bilection
bilection
noun
Alternative form of bolection
binnacles
binnacles
noun
plural of binnacle
binuclear
binuclear
adj
having two nuclei; binucleate
biscayner
bisecting
bisecting
verb
present participle of bisect
bisection
bisection
noun
(computing) The act of bisecting.
A division into two parts, especially into two equal parts.
bivalence
bivalence
noun
The state or quality of being bivalent (in any sense)
bivalency
bivalency
noun
The quality of being bivalent.
blackbine
blackened
blackened
adj
(food) Synonym of charred.
(steel) Synonym of blued.
Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blacken
blackener
blackener
noun
One who blackens.
blackneck
blackneck
noun
A redneck of black ethnicity.
blackness
blackness
noun
The experiences and culture of African-American people.
The quality of being evil or dismal.
The state of being of African descent.
The state or quality of being black in colour.
blanchers
blanchers
noun
plural of blancher
bleaching
bleaching
noun
The loss or removal of part of the (semantic, grammatical, etc) content or a word or morpheme.
The process of removing stains or of whitening fabrics, especially by the use of chemical agents.
verb
present participle of bleach
bleachman
blechnoid
blenchers
blenchers
noun
plural of blencher
blenching
blenching
noun
The act of one who blenches.
verb
present participle of blench
blendcorn
bleomycin
bleomycin
noun
(pharmacology) Any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.
blockline
bockstein
bolection
bolection
noun
(architecture) A moulding that covers a joint, especially between joints between surfaces on different levels.
bombycine
bombycine
adj
Pertaining to silkworms; bombic.
boneblack
boneblack
noun
Alternative form of bone black
bonifaces
bonifaces
noun
plural of boniface
bonsecour
bontebuck
bontebuck
noun
Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)
borocaine
bounciest
bounciest
adj
superlative form of bouncy: most bouncy
brackened
bracknell
bracknell
Proper noun
a town in Berkshire, England.
brainache
braincase
braincase
noun
The part of the skull that contains the brain; the neurocranium.
branchage
branchage
noun
The law in Jersey and Guernsey that requires the trimming of such where it overhangs public roads.
branches, vegetation
branchery
branchery
noun
A system of branches.
branchiae
branchiae
noun
plural of branchia
branchier
branchier
adj
comparative form of branchy: more branchy
branchlet
branchlet
noun
A small branch; a twig or sprig.
breaching
breaching
noun
The act by which something is breached.
verb
present participle of breach
breakneck
breakneck
adj
Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
noun
A dangerous steep place from which one could fall badly.
A fall that breaks the neck.
brechtian
brechtian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to (1898–1956), German poet and playwright, or his works.
breeching
breeching
noun
(equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
(historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
(nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
(slang) A beating or flogging.
A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
brisances
brisances
noun
plural of brisance
brucetown
bryceland
bsarcheng
buccaneer
buccaneer
noun
(nautical) Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century, who were similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation.
A pirate.
verb
To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships.
buccanned
bucentaur
bucentaur
noun
A Venetian barge modelled on the state barge (called Bucentaur) used annually on Ascension Day in the ancient ceremony of the marriage of the state with the Adriatic.