(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
allure
allure
noun
(dated) Gait; bearing.
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.
verb
(transitive) To entice; to attract.
almuce
almuce
noun
A hood or cape.
almude
almude
noun
(historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume, equal to 14–26 liters.
(historical, measure) Alternative form of almud, similar units of liquid volume in Spain and Turkey.
aloeus
alpieu
alrune
alture
aludel
aludel
noun
A pear-shaped pot with an opening at each end, formerly used, especially by alchemists, for sublimation.
alulae
alulae
noun
plural of alula
alulet
alumel
alumen
alveus
alveus
noun
(construction, law) The bed or channel of a river, specifically that followed by the river flowing in its natural or ordinary course.
(neuroanatomy) A thin layer of medullary nerve fibers on the ventricular surface of the hippocampus.
amelus
amelus
noun
(pathology) A foetus born without limbs.
ampule
ampule
noun
Alternative spelling of ampoule
amulae
amulet
amulet
noun
A kind of protective charm or ornament, often bearing magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences, or evil spirits.
angule
annule
annule
noun
(zoology) A circular band formed by two transverse grooves in the cuticle of some nematodes with consequent apparent segmentation; annulus.
apulse
apulse
adj
Pulsing.
arelus
audile
audile
adj
Pertaining to hearing.
noun
A person whose mental imagery consists of sounds.
audley
auklet
auklet
noun
Any of several small seabirds in the genera Aethia, Cerorhinca and Ptychoramphus of the auk family Alcidae.
aulder
aulder
adj
comparative form of auld: more auld
aulete
aulete
noun
(historical) An aulos player.
Synonym of flautist
auncel
auncel
noun
A crude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.
aureal
aurlie
avulse
avulse
verb
(medicine) To tear off forcibly.
azuela
bacule
bacule
noun
(palynology) A rod-like element on the surface of some pollen.
(rare, dated) Alternative form of bascule
batule
batule
noun
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium.
bauble
bauble
noun
(figurative, by extension) Anything trivial and worthless.
A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
baulea
becurl
becurl
verb
(transitive) To cover or deck out with curls.
(transitive, archaic) To curl; make curly.
bedull
beflum
befoul
befoul
verb
(figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
(specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
begluc
beglue
beglue
verb
(transitive, rare) To smear with glue; (by extension) to stick,
begulf
behlau
beilul
belaud
belaud
verb
(transitive, rare) To load with praise; praise greatly; extol.
bellum
belout
belout
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To address or speak of with contemptuous language.
(transitive, obsolete) To call (someone) a lout.
beluga
beluga
noun
A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean.
A fish found in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea (Huso huso), that is a source of caviar.
belute
belute
verb
(transitive) To bespatter, as with mud.
belvue
bemaul
bemaul
verb
(transitive) To maul thoroughly or completely.
beslur
besoul
besoul
verb
(transitive) To imbue or endow with a soul.
betula
beulah
blaeuw
blague
blague
noun
mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug
blouse
blouse
noun
(India) A short garment worn under a sari.
(fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
(fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
(military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
Alternative form of blouze
Alternative form of blowess
Alternative form of blowze
verb
(military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
To hang a garment in loose folds.
bludge
bludge
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
(Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
bluely
bluely
adv
In a blue manner; bluishly.
noun
(UK dialectal, Sussex, obsolete) Porpoise.
bluest
bluest
adj
superlative form of blue: most blue
bluesy
bluesy
adj
(music, informal) Characteristic of, or similar to, the blues (a genre of music).
blueth
blueth
noun
(rare) The state of being blue; blueness.
bluets
bluets
noun
plural of bluet
blueys
blueys
noun
plural of bluey
blumea
blumed
blumes
blunge
blunge
verb
(pottery) To mix clay and water.
boelus
boucle
boucle
noun
Alternative spelling of bouclé
boules
boules
noun
bowls; a game played with metal balls.
plural of boule
bouley
boulez
boulle
boutel
bruell
brulee
brules
brunel
bubale
bubale
noun
Any of several African buffalos of the genus Bubalus.
Any of several North African antelopes of the genus Alcelaphus.
bubble
bubble
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
(computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
(economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
(figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
(figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
(poker) The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
(television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
A group of people who are in quarantine together.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
Short for travel bubble.
The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
verb
(computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
(intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
(intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
(intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
(intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
(intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
(transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
(transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
(transitive) To cover with bubbles.
(transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
(transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
(transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
(transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
Rage bubbled inside him.
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.
buddle
buddle
noun
An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed.
verb
(transitive) To wash (ore) in a buddle.
budlet
budlet
noun
A little bud springing from a parent bud.
buffle
buffle
noun
(obsolete) A buffalo.
verb
(intransitive) To puzzle; to be at a loss.
bugled
bugled
adj
Ornamented with bugles.
Played by a bugle.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bugle
bugler
bugler
noun
Someone who plays a bugle.
bugles
bugles
noun
plural of bugle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bugle
buglet
buglet
noun
(computing, informal) A minor bug in a program.
(music) A small bugle.
buhler
bulbed
bulbed
Adjective
Shaped like a bulb.
bulbel
bulbel
noun
(botany) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.
bulder
bulder
noun
Obsolete form of boulder.
bulged
bulged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bulge
bulger
bulger
noun
(dated, slang) Anything very large; a whopper.
(electronics) A capacitor with a bulging top.
(golf) A driver or a brassy with a convex face.
bulges
bulges
noun
plural of bulge
bulies
bulked
bulked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bulk
bulker
bulker
noun
(nautical) A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
(nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
A person who bulks (gains body mass).
Anything, such as a dietary supplement or an exercise, that helps a person to gain body mass.
bullae
bulled
bulled
adj
Swollen.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bull
bullen
buller
buller
noun
(Caribbean, Jamaica, derogatory) A homosexual man.
A steer that allows itself to be mounted by bulls when in the crowded conditions of a feedlot.
The bubbling or seething of a torrent.
verb
To boil or seethe.
To force one's way; to be pushy.
To make a lot of noise.
bullet
bullet
noun
(Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
(Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
(banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
(chess, Internet) chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)
(figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
(fishing) A plumb or sinker.
(in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).
(informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
(obsolete) A cannonball.
(obsolete) A small ball.
(obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.
(slang) An ace (the playing card).
(slang) One year of prison time.
(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
A young or little bull; a male calf.
Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
verb
(intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
(transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
(transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
bulley
bulmer
bulten
bulter
bultey
bulwer
bumble
bumble
noun
(UK, dialect) The Eurasian bittern.
A bumble-bee.
A confusion; a jumble.
verb
(intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
(intransitive) To buzz, as a fly.
To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
bummel
bummle
bummle
noun
(UK, dialect, dated) An idle fellow.
verb
(UK, dialect, dated) To blunder.
bundle
bundle
noun
(biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
(computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
(informal) A large amount, especially of money.
(law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
(mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
verb
(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
(dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
(intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
(intransitive) To hurry.
(intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
(slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
(transitive) To dress someone warmly.
(transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
(transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
(transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
bungle
bungle
noun
A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.
verb
(intransitive) To act or work incompetently; to fumble.
(transitive) To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.
bunuel
burble
burble
noun
A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
A gush of rapid speech.
The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.
Trouble; disorder.
verb
(transitive) To trouble or confuse.
To babble; to speak in an excited rush.
To bubble; to gurgle.
burele
burely
burgle
burgle
verb
(Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Ireland) To commit burglary.
(UK, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
burhel
burhel
noun
Archaic spelling of bharal.
burkle
burled
burled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of burl
burler
burler
noun
Alternative form of birler
One who burls or dresses cloth.
burlet
burley
burley
noun
(Australia) Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.
(US) A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes.
burlie
burrel
burrel
noun
Alternative form of borrel
Archaic form of bharal (“blue sheep”).
bushel
bushel
noun
(UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
(colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
(historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
verb
(US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
buskle
buskle
verb
(transitive, intransitive, often reflexive) To prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle
bustle
bustle
noun
(computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
(countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.
(historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
verb
(transitive) To push around, to importune.
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
butled
butled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of butle
butler
butler
noun
A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
A valet, a male personal attendant.
The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
verb
To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.
butles
butles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butle
buttle
buttle
verb
To serve as or perform the duties of a butler.
buzzle
buzzle
verb
(intransitive) To buzz repeatedly or continuously; whirr
(transitive) To cause to buzz; flurry
caelum
caelus
calque
calque
noun
(linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
verb
(linguistics, translation studies) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
casule
caudle
caudle
noun
A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.
verb
(transitive) To make into caudle.
(transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
caufle
caules
caules
noun
plural of caulis
cautel
cautel
noun
(Christianity) A traditional caution or written direction about the proper manner of administering the sacraments.
(obsolete) caution; prudence; wariness
(obsolete) deceit
cedula
cedula
noun
(Philippines) A community tax certificate, often used as a form of identification in the Philippines.
A South American promissory note or mortgage bond on lands.