(transitive, now rare, dialectal) To put up with; to endure; to bear.
(transitive, obsolete) To bear; to carry.
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To behave; to comport oneself.
aberr
aberr
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To go astray; to err.
(transitive, rare) Distort; aberrate.
abert
abler
abler
adj
comparative form of able: more able
abner
abret
acerb
acerb
adj
(archaic) Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, such as unripe fruit.
(archaic, figurative) Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself.
alber
amber
amber
adj
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
noun
(Britain) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection when safe to do so.
(biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
(uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
A yellow-orange colour.
verb
(intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.
(transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
(transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.
(transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
arber
arber
noun
(finance, gambling, informal) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
ardeb
ardeb
noun
A Middle Eastern unit of volume used for agricultural crops.
arneb
auber
awber
baber
baerl
bagre
bajer
baker
baker
noun
A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
A portable oven for baking.
An apple suitable for baking.
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.
barbe
barce
barde
barea
bared
bared
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bare
barer
barer
adj
comparative form of bare: more bare
noun
One who bares or exposes something.
bares
bares
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bare
baret
barge
barge
noun
(US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
(US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.
A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
verb
(transitive) To push someone.
To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
barie
barre
barre
noun
(ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
(music) Short for barre chord.
verb
(music) To form a barre chord on an instrument.
barse
barse
noun
(UK, vulgar, slang) The perineum of a man.
The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.
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.
baser
baser
adj
comparative form of base: more base
bater
bauer
baure
bayer
bayer
adj
comparative form of bay: more bay
bcere
beard
beard
noun
(LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
verb
(LGBT, slang, transitive, intransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
(intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
(intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
(transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
(transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
(transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
beare
beare
verb
Obsolete form of bear.
bearm
bears
bears
noun
plural of bear
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bear
bebar
bebar
verb
(transitive) To put a bar around; bar about; debar.
becry
becry
verb
(transitive) To cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn.
bedur
beera
beers
beers
noun
plural of beer
beery
beery
adj
Smelling or tasting of beer.
Under the influence of beer.
befur
befur
verb
(transitive) To cover or clothe with fur.
begar
begar
noun
A system of forced labour in parts of India.
behar
behre
beira
beira
noun
A small antelope, Dorcatragus megalotis, found in the Horn of Africa
beker
belar
belar
noun
Alternative spelling of belah
bemar
bemar
verb
(transitive) To mar about or all over; injure seriously.
beora
beore
berar
berat
beray
beray
verb
To make foul; befoul; soil.
berck
bercy
berea
beret
beret
noun
A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.
berey
berga
bergh
bergh
noun
(UK dialectal) A hill.
bergs
bergs
noun
plural of berg
bergy
bergy
adj
containing icebergs
of or related to icebergs
beria
berio
berit
berke
berks
berks
noun
plural of berk
berky
berme
berme
noun
Alternative spelling of berm
berms
berms
noun
plural of berm
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of berm
berna
berne
berni
bernj
berns
bernt
berny
berob
berob
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To rob; to plunder.
beroe
beroe
noun
(zoology) A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.
(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.
berta
berte
berth
berth
noun
(nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
(sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
(sports) position on the field of play
A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc).
A job or position, especially on a ship.
A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.)
verb
(astronautics) To use a device to bring a spaceship into its berth/dock
(transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to
(transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth/berthing
berti
berty
berun
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
besra
besra
noun
A bird of prey of southern Asia, Accipiter virgatus.
betrs
bever
bever
noun
(now rare, archaic) A snack or light refreshment between meals.
A drink.
A mixture of cider and water.
A time for drinking.
Alternative spelling of bevor
Obsolete form of beaver.
verb
(intransitive) To tremble; shake; quiver; shiver.
(obsolete) To take a light repast between meals.
bevor
bevor
noun
(historical) A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.
bewry
bexar
beyer
bider
bider
noun
One who bides.
biers
biers
noun
plural of bier
bifer
biker
biker
noun
(cycling) A cyclist.
A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.
birde
birde
noun
Obsolete spelling of bird
birle
birle
verb
(Scotland, obsolete) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
(Scotland, obsolete) To pour a drink (for).
birne
birse
birse
noun
(Scotland) bristle
biter
biter
noun
(curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
(fiction) A zombie.
(fishing) A fish that tends to take bait.
(in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
(obsolete) A cheat or fraudster.
(slang) One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
Agent noun of bite; someone or something who tends to bite.
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.
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.
blere
blert
blier
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.
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”)
bmare
boder
boers
bojer
boner
boner
noun
(dated slang, especially baseball) A blunder; a silly mistake.
(literally) One who or that which bones (removes bones).
(vulgar, slang, figurative) An often perverse sense of enjoyment from or predilection towards something.
Why do guys get boners when they wake up in the morning?
bored
bored
adj
Perforated by a hole or holes.
Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bore
boree
boree
noun
(Australia) Any of various species of wattle tree (genus Acacia), especially Acacia pendula and Acacia glaucescens.
Obsolete form of bourrée.
borek
borek
noun
Alternative form of burek
borel
borer
borer
noun
(MLE, slang) A knife fit for a stabbing.
A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.
A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
A tedious person; a person who bores others; a bore.
A tool used for drilling.
An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
bores
bores
noun
plural of bore
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bore
borne
borne
adj
carried, supported.
verb
past participle of bear
boser
bower
bower
noun
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
(obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
(ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
A peasant; a farmer.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
One who bows or bends.
One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
verb
(obsolete) To lodge.
To embower; to enclose.
boxer
boxer
noun
A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
A letterboxer.
A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
One who packs boxes.
The person running a game of two-up.
boyer
boyer
noun
(nautical) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
brace
brace
noun
(UK, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
(UK, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
(nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
(obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
(obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
(plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
(soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
(typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
Harness; warlike preparation.
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
verb
(nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
(transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
To confront with questions, demands or requests.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
brade
braes
braes
noun
plural of brae
brage
brahe
brake
brake
noun
(chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
(engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
(figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
(military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
(now historical) A type of torture instrument.
(obsolete) A cage.
(obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.
A baker's kneading trough.
A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
A fern; bracken (Pteridium).
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
Any fern in the genus Pteris
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of break
(intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
(intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
(transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead
(transitive) To pulverise with a harrow
brale
brame
brame
noun
(obsolete) Intense passion or emotion; vexation.
brave
brave
adj
(UK, euphemistic) Foolish or unwise.
(obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
Making a fine show or display.
Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
noun
(dated) A Native American warrior.
(obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
(obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
verb
(transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
(transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.
braye
braze
braze
noun
A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
verb
(obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.
(transitive) To cover with brass, or as with brass.
To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
bread
bread
noun
(countable) Any variety of bread.
(obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
(slang, US) Money.
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
verb
(transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.
(transitive) To form in meshes; net.
(transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
break
break
noun
(Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
(UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
(billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
(computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
(computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
(dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
(equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
(finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
(geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
(golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
(horse racing) The start of a horse race.
(music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
(music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
(music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
(obsolete, slang) An error.
(programming) Short for breakpoint.
(snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
(soccer) The counter-attack.
(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
(tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
A short holiday.
A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
A temporary split with a romantic partner.
An act of escaping.
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
The beginning (of the morning).
verb
(computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
(computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
(copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
(finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
(intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
(intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
(intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
(intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
(intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
(intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
(intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
(intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
(intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
(intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
(intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
(intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
(intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
(intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
(intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
(intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
(intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
(intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
(music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
(programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
(specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
(specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
(specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
(transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
(transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
(transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
(transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
(transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
(transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
(transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
(transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
(transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
(transitive) To ruin financially.
(transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
(transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
(transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
(transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
(transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
(transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
(transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
(transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
(transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
(transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
(transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
(transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
bream
bream
noun
(Britain) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
verb
(nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
brear
breba
breba
noun
A fig that develops in the spring on the previous year's shoot growth.