Third-person singular simple present indicative form of able
ablet
ablet
noun
A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.
albee
alben
alber
albie
amble
amble
noun
An easy gait, especially that of a horse.
An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.
verb
(intransitive) Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.
(intransitive) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely.
babel
babel
noun
Alternative form of Babel
bable
baerl
bagel
bagel
noun
(slang, ethnic slur, South Africa) An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
(tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
Alternative form of bagle
verb
(sports) To hold an opponent to a score of zero.
(tennis) To achieve a score of 6–0 in a tennis set.
bagle
bagle
noun
Synonym of bagle hound
baiel
baile
baile
noun
(usually "baile funk") A specific genre of dance music originating in Rio de Janeiro, also known as Funk Carioca
Archaic spelling of bail.
baled
baled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bale
balei
baler
baler
noun
A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton.
A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand.
bales
bales
noun
plural of bale
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bale
basel
basel
Proper noun
A city in Switzerland.
basle
basle
Proper noun
A city in Switzerland; spelling of
batel
bayle
beala
beale
beall
beals
beals
noun
plural of beal
bebel
bedel
bedel
noun
(historical) An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.
beele
beild
beild
noun
(Scotland, UK, dialect) A place of shelter; protection; refuge.
bejel
bejel
noun
Endemic syphilis, a chronic disease of skin and tissue caused by infection by a subspecies of the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
belah
belah
noun
beefwood
belak
belam
belam
verb
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To beat or bang.
belap
belap
verb
(transitive, chiefly passive, obsolete) To lap or wrap around (someone or something); to envelop, to surround.
belar
belar
noun
Alternative spelling of belah
belat
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”)
belch
belch
noun
(obsolete) Malt liquor.
The sound one makes when belching.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise.
(transitive, intransitive) To expel (gas) loudly from the stomach through the mouth.
belda
belee
belem
belen
belga
belia
belie
belie
verb
(obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
(transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false.
(transitive) To give a false representation of.
(transitive, archaic) To tell lies about.
(transitive, obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
(transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
(transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
(transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To show, evince or demonstrate (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
(transitive, rare) To call a liar; to accuse of falsehood.
(transitive, rare) To fill with lies; to lie to.
belis
belis
noun
plural of beli
bella
belle
belle
noun
A fellow gay man.
An attractive woman.
belli
bello
bello
noun
A young man; sweetheart.
bells
bells
noun
(nautical) Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half-hour, to mark the passage of time.
Short for bell-bottoms.
plural of bell
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bell
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.
below
below
adv
(nautical) On or to a lower deck, especially as relative to the main deck.
(of a temperature) Below zero.
In or to a lower place.
Later in the same text.
On or to a lower storey.
prep
(stage directions) Downstage of.
Downstream of.
Lower in spatial position than.
Lower than in value, price, rank, concentration, etc.
South of.
Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; beneath.
belts
belts
noun
plural of belt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of belt
beltu
belue
belus
belva
belve
bemol
bemol
noun
(music, obsolete) The flat symbol (♭), or a flattened note.
benil
benld
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.
betel
betel
noun
A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan.
Either of two plants often used in combination:
an evergreen Indian creeping shrub, Piper betle, whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut: the betel pepper
the seed of the betel palm, Areca catechu: the betel nut
bevel
bevel
adj
(obsolete, figurative) Morally distorted; not upright.
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
noun
(gambling) A die used for cheating, having some sides slightly rounded instead of flat.
An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.
An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square.
verb
(transitive) To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.
bevil
beyle
bezel
bezel
noun
(computing) The area on the front of a computing device surrounding the display.
(computing) The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel.
The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
bezil
bezil
noun
Alternative form of bezel
bible
bible
noun
(at certain US universities) A compilation of problems and solutions from previous years of a given course, used by some students to cheat on tests or assignments.
(by extension) A comprehensive manual that describes something, or a publication with a loyal readership.
(locksmithing) The upper part of a pin-tumbler lock, containing the driver pins and springs.
(nautical) Synonym of holystone: a piece of sandstone used for scouring wooden decks on ships.
Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the Christian religious text”)
Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“the analogous holy book of another religion”)
Omasum, the third compartment of the stomach of ruminants
bidle
biela
bield
bield
noun
(obsolete or dialectal) Boldness, courage; confidence; a feeling of security, assurance.
(obsolete or dialectal) Resource, help, relief; a means of help or relief; support; sustenance.
(obsolete or dialectal) Shelter, refuge or protection.
A place of shelter, a refuge.
verb
(transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To defend, protect or shelter.
(transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To make bold, give courage or confidence to.
bilbe
bilek
biles
biles
noun
plural of bile
bilge
bilge
noun
(nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
(nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
(slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
(uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
talk bilge
verb
(intransitive) To bulge or swell.
(nautical, intransitive) To spring a leak in the bilge.
(nautical, transitive) To break open the bilge(s) of.
bille
birle
birle
verb
(Scotland, obsolete) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
(Scotland, obsolete) To pour a drink (for).
bizel
blade
blade
noun
(archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
(architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
(athletics, disability sports, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
(biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
(chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
(climbing) Synonym of knifeblade
(computing) A blade server.
(dated) A dashing young man.
(mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
(metonymically) A sword or knife.
(photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
(sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
(slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
Short for razor blade.
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
Thin plate, foil.
verb
(informal) To skate on rollerblades.
(intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
(transitive) To furnish with a blade.
(transitive) To stab with a blade
(transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
blaeu
blaew
blake
blake
adj
Bleak, cold; bare, naked.
Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue.
Yellow, as butter or cheese.
blame
blame
noun
(computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
Censure.
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
verb
(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
(transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
blane
blare
blare
noun
A loud sound.
Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
verb
(intransitive) To make a loud sound.
(transitive) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
blase
blase
adj
Alternative spelling of blasé
blate
blate
adj
(Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
(Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.
verb
Archaic form of bleat.
blaze
blaze
noun
(color) A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
(poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
Publication; the act of spreading widely by report
The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
verb
(figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
(intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
(intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
(intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
(transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet
(transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
(transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame
(transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
(transitive) To publish; announce publicly
(transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
(transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
(transitive, heraldry) To blazon
(transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
blear
blear
adj
(of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum.
Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
verb
(intransitive) To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.
(transitive, of an image) To blur, make blurry.
(transitive, of the eyes or eyesight) To make blurred or dim.
bleat
bleat
noun
The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.
verb
(informal, derogatory) Of a person, to complain.
Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.
blebs
blebs
noun
plural of bleb
bleck
bleck
intj
(rare) Alternative form of blech
noun
(dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
(obsolete) A black man.
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
Soot, smut.
verb
(obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
(obsolete, dialect) To defile.
bleed
bleed
noun
(aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
(printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
(uncountable, role-playing games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
verb
(finance, intransitive) To lose money.
(intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
(intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
(intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
(obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
(phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
(publishing, advertising, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
(transitive) To let or draw blood from.
(transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
(transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
(transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
(transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
To lose sap, gum, or juice.
bleep
bleep
noun
(euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
(music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
verb
(intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.
(transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
blend
blend
noun
(linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.
A mixture of two or more things.
verb
(intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
(transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
blenk
blenk
verb
(obsolete) To blink.
(obsolete) To look.
blens
blens
noun
(Cornwall, zoology) The bib or pout (Trisopterus, or Gadus, luscus), a common fish of the cod family, Gadidae.
(UK, dialectal, zoology) The common cod; codfish
blent
blent
verb
(archaic, poetic) simple past tense and past participle of blend
blere
blert
bless
bless
intj
(UK, Canada, informal) Used as an expression of endearment, gratitude, or (ironically) belittlement.
verb
(Perl programming, transitive, past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.
(archaic, with from) To secure, defend, or prevent from.
(obsolete) To wave; to brandish.
To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.
To invoke divine favor upon.
To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify.
blest
blest
verb
Archaic spelling of blessed
blets
blets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blet
blibe
blier
blite
blite
noun
Any of various plants in the genus Atriplex.
Any of various plants in the genus Chenopodium.
The plant Amaranthus blitum, purple amaranth.
bloem
bloke
bloke
noun
(Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
(Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
(chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.
blore
blore
noun
(obsolete) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
verb
(archaic, dialectal) To bray; bleat like an animal; bellow.
(archaic, dialectal) To cry; cry out; weep.
blote
blote
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
blued
blued
adj
Having the property of having been chemically passivated.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blue
bluer
bluer
adj
comparative form of blue: more blue
noun
(UK, school slang) A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School.
(rare) Synonym of blue (“blue liquid added to laundry to prevent yellowing”)
blues
blues
noun
(Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club.
(drug slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic).
(music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
(music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
(rugby league) New South Wales.
(singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
(singular or plural, informal) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea.
(soccer, Birmingham) Birmingham City FC.
(soccer, Liverpudlian) Everton FC.
(soccer, London) Chelsea FC.
(soccer, Manchester) Manchester City FC.
(usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
plural of blue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue
bluet
bluet
noun
Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
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.
blume
blype
blype
noun
(Scotland) A thin membrane or small piece of skin.
bodle
bodle
noun
(historical) A former Scottish copper coin of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny.
bogle
bogle
noun
(dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
boled
bolen
boles
boles
noun
plural of bole
boley
bolme
bolte
boole
borel
botel
botel
noun
a floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel
boule
boule
noun
(historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
(woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl
A round loaf of bread.
A round piece of dough.
A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
verb
(transitive, cooking, rare, nonstandard) To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
bowel
bowel
noun
(chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
(in the plural, figuratively) The (deep) interior of something.
(obsolete, in the plural) offspring
verb
(now rare) To disembowel.
bowle
bowle
noun
Obsolete form of bowl.
boyle
boyle
verb
Obsolete spelling of boil
brale
brule
bsele
buell
bugle
bugle
adj
(obsolete) jet-black
noun
A horn used by hunters.
A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
The sound of something that bugles.
verb
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
bulge
bulge
noun
(colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
(figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
(nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
verb
(intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
(intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).
bulse
bulse
noun
(now rare) A bag or package of diamonds, gold dust or other precious materials.
burel
burel
noun
A coarse woolen cloth.
butle
butle
verb
(rare) Alternative form of buttle.
byler
byrle
cable
cable
noun
(architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
(communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
(finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
(knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
(nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
(nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
(television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
(unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
verb
(architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.
(intransitive) To communicate by cable
(knitting) To create cable stitches.
(transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
(transitive) To provide with cable(s)
(transitive) To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable
(transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable
caleb
caleb
Proper noun
An Israelite who entered Canaan with Joshua.
name first used by Puritans.
cebil
cebil
noun
(uncommon) A South American tree (Anadenanthera colubrina), the bark of which contains tannin and is used in tanning hides.