(transitive) To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
(transitive) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
(transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
abuser
abuser
noun
(obsolete) One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use.
One who abuses someone or something.
accrue
accrue
noun
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
verb
(intransitive) To increase, to rise
(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
(intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
(intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
(transitive) To accumulate.
acture
acture
noun
(obsolete) Action.
acuter
acuter
adj
comparative form of acute: more acute
adjure
adjure
verb
(transitive) To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
(transitive, often law) To issue a formal command.
aequor
aerugo
aerugo
noun
metallic rust, particularly of brass or copper; verdigris
agrufe
ajoure
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.
alrune
alture
amuser
amuser
noun
(historical, early 19ᵗʰ century) One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them.
(obsolete) One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief.
Someone who amuses.
anoure
apercu
apercu
noun
Alternative spelling of aperçu
arbute
arbute
noun
(archaic, countable) The strawberry tree.
(archaic, uncountable) The wood of the strawberry tree.
ardure
areius
arelus
aretus
argued
argued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of argue
arguer
arguer
noun
One who argues.
argues
argues
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of argue
argute
argute
adj
(literary) Sharp; perceptive; shrewd.
(literary) Shrill in sound.
arigue
armure
armure
noun
A fabric woven with a raised pattern similar to chain mail.
arouse
arouse
verb
(transitive) To sexually stimulate.
(transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings).
(transitive) To wake from sleep or stupor; to rouse.
(transitive, euphemistic) To cause an erection of the penis or other physical signs of sexual arousal, such as fluid secretion.
assure
assure
verb
(obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
(transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
(transitive) To reassure.
(transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
atreus
aubert
aubree
aubrey
aubrey
Proper noun
An English patronymic surname.
name from the same source, or transferred from the surname.
name of American usage since the 1970s.
aubrie
audres
audrey
audrie
audrye
augers
augers
noun
plural of auger
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of auger
augier
augres
augres
noun
plural of augre
augure
aulder
aulder
adj
comparative form of auld: more auld
aumery
aumery
noun
(obsolete) An ambry or closet.
aumrie
aunter
aunter
noun
(obsolete) adventure
auntre
aurate
aurate
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Any salt of auric acid.
aureal
aurene
aureus
aureus
noun
A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii.
auride
auride
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Any anion of gold; any salt containing such an anion.
aurine
aurine
noun
Dated form of aurin.
aurite
aurlie
aurore
aurure
auster
auster
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Auster (“the south wind”)
autere
auteur
auteur
noun
A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of his works.
autrey
auwers
auxier
avoure
azuero
azured
azured
adj
Of an azure color; sky-blue.
azures
azures
noun
plural of azure
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of azure
barque
barque
noun
(archaic) Any small sailing vessel.
A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
bauera
becurl
becurl
verb
(transitive) To cover or deck out with curls.
(transitive, archaic) To curl; make curly.
bedrug
bedrug
verb
(transitive) To drug abundantly or excessively.
beirut
beirut
Proper noun
The capital city of Lebanon.
The drinking game of beer pong.
benhur
bergut
beroun
berust
beslur
besour
besour
Verb
To make sour.
beurre
biurea
biuret
biuret
noun
(organic chemistry) The compound formed by condensation of two molecules of urea with the loss of a molecule of ammonia, (NH₂-CO)₂NH or any of its derivatives.
Chemical compound with the chemical formula C₂H₅N₃O₂ that is also known as carbamylurea and is an impurity in urea-based fertilizers.
boreum
boreus
bourke
bourne
bourne
noun
(archaic) A goal or destination.
(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
(countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.
bourre
bourse
bourse
noun
(botany) The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.
(figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
(philately) A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
A stock exchange.
bouser
bouser
noun
Obsolete form of boozer.
boutre
braque
brause
breuer
brieux
brigue
brigue
noun
(obsolete) Intrigue; secretive machinations.
verb
(obsolete) To achieve or obtain by underhand methods.
brique
brogue
brogue
noun
(dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.
verb
(dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.
(intransitive) To walk.
(transitive) To kick.
(transitive) To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
(transitive, intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
brouze
brouze
noun
Obsolete form of browse.
brucie
bruell
bruges
brugge
bruise
bruise
noun
A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
verb
(intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
(intransitive) To become bruised.
(intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
(transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
(transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
(transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
(transitive, figurative) To harm or injure.
brulee
brules
brumes
brumes
noun
plural of brume
brunei
brunel
bruner
brunet
brunet
adj
(rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or black hair.
(rare) Of a man's or boy's hair: brown or black.
noun
(rare) A man or boy with brown or black hair.
bruted
bruted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brute
brutes
brutes
noun
plural of brute
bubber
bubber
noun
(obsolete) A drinking bowl.
(obsolete) A person who drinks a lot of alcohol.
(obsolete) A person who steals plate from public houses.
bucare
bucher
bucker
bucker
noun
(mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
(mining) One who bucks ore.
A horse or other animal that bucks.
bucure
budder
budder
noun
(horticulture) A person who practices budding (a form of grafting).
(horticulture) A tool used for budding.
(slang) Synonym of honey oil (“form of cannabis”)
A plant that buds.
budger
budger
noun
One who budges.
buffer
buffer
adj
Comparative form of buff: more buff.
noun
(UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
(colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
(figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
(mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
(politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
(rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
(rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
(telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
verb
(chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
(computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
bugger
bugger
intj
(slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
noun
(Britain law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
(obsolete) A heretic.
(slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Someone who is very fond of something
(slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa) A situation that causes dismay.
(slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
(slang, US) A whippersnapper, a tyke.
(slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.
(slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
verb
(slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
(slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To be fatigued.
(slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To be surprised.
(slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To feel contempt for some person or thing.
(slang, vulgar in, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To break or ruin.
(vulgar, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To have anal sex with, sodomize.
bugler
bugler
noun
Someone who plays a bugle.
buhler
bulder
bulder
noun
Obsolete form of boulder.
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.
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.
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.
bulmer
bulter
bulwer
bummer
bummer
adj
comparative form of bum: more bum
intj
(colloquial) Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
noun
(UK, slang, derogatory, offensive) A gay man.
(US, slang, dated) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
(colloquial) A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
(obsolete, historical) A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
bumper
bumper
adj
(colloquial) Large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.
noun
(Australia, slang) A cigarette butt.
(automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
(billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
(broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
(colloquial, now chiefly attributive) Anything large or successful.
(cricket) A bouncer.
(music) An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra.
(obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
(pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
(slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
(slang, dated) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
Someone or something that bumps.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To drink from the vessels called bumpers.
bunder
bunder
noun
A type of surf boat used in India.
A unit of measurement for land area used in the Low Countries.
bunger
bunger
noun
(Australia) A cigarette.
(Australia) A firecracker.
bunker
bunker
noun
(Britain, chiefly historical) A large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.
(Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
(US, regional) The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.
(golf) A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.
(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
(nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine; (by extension) the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.
(paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
(rail transport) The coal compartment on a tank engine.
(slang) A kitchen worktop.
A sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.
verb
(Nigeria) To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
(by extension, Britain, informal) To place (someone) in a position that is difficult to get out of; to hinder.
(golf) To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
(nautical) Of a vessel: to take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
(paintball) To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.
Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.
To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.
bunter
bunter
noun
(archaic) A female prostitute.
(archaic) A woman who picks up rags in the streets.
(archaic, by extension) A low, vulgar woman.
(baseball) One who bunts.
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.
burden
burden
noun
(medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
(metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
(mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
(music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
(obsolete, rare) A birth.
A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
A heavy load.
A responsibility, onus.
The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
The drone of a bagpipe.
Theme, core idea.
verb
(transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
(transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
burdie
bureau
bureau
noun
(US) A chest of drawers for clothes.
(chiefly Britain) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.
An administrative unit of government; office.
An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).
An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news.
burele
burely
burets
burets
noun
plural of buret
burgee
burgee
noun
A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club.
burger
burger
noun
(Internet slang, 4chan, derogatory) An American.
(Pakistan, usually derogatory) A stereotypical well-off Pakistani aspiring to a westernized lifestyle.
(chiefly as a combining form) A similar sandwich or patty.
(informal) A hamburger.
Alternative form of burgher
burget
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.
buried
buried
adj
Concealed, hidden.
Placed in a grave at a burial.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bury
burier
burier
noun
One who buries
buries
buries
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bury
burked
burked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of burke
burkei
burker
burker
noun
(UK, slang, historical) One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc.