(British) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
The church of a monastery.
The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
abbye
absey
absey
noun
(obsolete) ABC; alphabet.
(obsolete) Absey book; abecedary.
(obsolete) An alphabetical acrostic list.
abyed
abyed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abye
abyes
abyes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abye
acedy
acedy
noun
Alternative form of acedia
ackey
ackey
noun
A silver coin once used in the Gold Coast (in Africa)
adley
adley
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
adyge
afley
agley
agley
adj
(Scotland) Wrong; askew.
adv
(chiefly Scotland) Wrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly.
aguey
aguey
adj
Conditions associated with catching ague.
In the state of having a high fever accompanied by shaking or shivering.
aiery
aiery
adj
Obsolete form of aery.
ailey
alley
alley
noun
(baseball) The area between the outfielders.
(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
(bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
(tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
A glass marble or taw.
A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
alsey
alyce
alyse
amery
apery
apery
noun
A place where apes are kept.
The practice of aping; an apish action.
arefy
arefy
verb
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To dry, or make dry; wither.
arley
arney
arrey
arrey
intj
(India) Expressing surprise or alarm; hey.
asyle
ately
athey
aveny
avery
avery
Proper noun
name, today often transferred back from the surname.
name of modern usage.
ayden
ayden
Proper noun
name, a new American spelling variant of Aidan.
A town in North Carolina.
ayelp
ayelp
adv
yelping.
ayens
ayers
aylet
aylet
noun
(heraldry) A black bird with red feet and beak.
aymer
ayres
ayres
noun
plural of ayre
azyme
azyme
noun
(archaic) unleavened bread used in Jewish or Christian religious context
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.
basye
bayed
bayed
adj
Having a bay or bays.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bay
bayer
bayer
adj
comparative form of bay: more bay
bayle
beady
beady
adj
(of eyes or a look) Bright and penetrating.
Characterized by beads.
Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
beaky
beaky
adj
(of a gesture) Made using a beak; (of a sound) produced through a beak.
Showing or emitting rays of light; beaming; radiant; shining.
beany
beany
adj
Resembling or characteristic of beans.
bebay
bebay
verb
(rare, transitive) To bay around or about; embay; hem in; surround.
becky
becky
Noun
A placeholder name used to refer to a (usually white) woman held in contempt by the speaker.
becry
becry
verb
(transitive) To cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn.
beday
bedye
bedye
verb
(transitive) To dye or stain.
beefy
beefy
adj
(informal) Strong or muscular.
(informal) Sturdy; robust.
Containing beef.
Large; overweight; fat.
Similar to, or tasting like beef.
beery
beery
adj
Smelling or tasting of beer.
Under the influence of beer.
beety
beety
adj
Resembling or characteristic of beets.
begay
begay
verb
(transitive) To make cheerful or merry.
beigy
beigy
adj
Alternative spelling of beigey
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”)
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.
bendy
bendy
adj
(heraldry) Divided into diagonal bands of colour.
(informal) Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily; resilient.
(of a vehicle) Articulated.
Containing many bends and twists.
Having the ability to be bent easily.
noun
(UK, slang) A bendy bus.
(heraldry) A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
benjy
benjy
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.
benny
benny
noun
(UK, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“tantrum”)
(US, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“one-hundred-dollar bill”)
(US, slang, obsolete) A straw hat. [early 20th century]
(informal) A benefit.
(informal) Synonym of eggs Benedict
(slang, dated) An overcoat.
(slang, usually in the plural) An amphetamine tablet.
verb
(slang, usually with "up") To take amphetamines.
benty
benty
adj
Abounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass.
Resembling bent.
beray
beray
verb
To make foul; befoul; soil.
bercy
berey
bergy
bergy
adj
containing icebergs
of or related to icebergs
berky
berny
berry
berry
noun
(US, slang, dated) A dollar.
(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.
berty
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
bespy
bespy
verb
(transitive) To send spies to; beset with espionage.
bessy
bessy
Proper noun
name; today more often spelled Bessie.
betsy
betsy
Proper noun
A diminutive form of the female given name Elizabeth.
betty
betty
noun
(US, archaic) A pear-shaped bottle covered with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; a Florence flask.
(archaic, derogatory) A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman.
(slang, slightly pejorative) An attractive woman; a babe.
A baked dessert made with alternating layers of sweetened fruit and buttered bread crumbs.
A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open; a jimmy.
bevvy
bevvy
noun
(Britain, Ireland, slang) Alcoholic beverage.
verb
(Britain, Ireland, slang, intransitive) To get drunk
bewry
beyer
beyle
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.
blype
blype
noun
(Scotland) A thin membrane or small piece of skin.
bogey
bogey
noun
(Australia) A swim or bathe; a bath.
(UK) Alternative form of booger: a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.
(UK, engineering) A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
(archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
(engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
(figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
(golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
(military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
(military, aviation, slang) Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle”)
verb
(Australia) To swim; to bathe.
(golf) To make a bogey.
boley
boney
boney
adj
Alternative spelling of bony
bosey
bosey
noun
(cricket, obsolete) A googly.
bovey
boyce
boyer
boyer
noun
(nautical) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
boyes
boyle
boyle
verb
Obsolete spelling of boil
boyne
boyne
Proper noun
A river in Ireland.
boyse
braye
bryce
busey
buyer
buyer
noun
(manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.
(retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
A person who makes one or more purchases.
buyse
bybee
byers
byler
byres
byres
noun
plural of byre
byrle
byrne
bysen
bytes
bytes
noun
plural of byte
cagey
cagey
adj
Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.
Wary, careful, shrewd.
cakey
cakey
adj
Alternative spelling of caky
camey
caney
carey
casey
cavey
cayce
cayce
Proper noun
A city in South Carolina
cayes
cayey
cechy
cedry
cedry
adj
Obsolete form of cedary.
certy
ceryl
ceryl
noun
(chemistry) A radical, C₂₇H₅₅, supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from waxes.
cerys
cerys
Proper noun
name of Welsh origin; a variant of Carys.
ceryx
cesya
cetyl
cetyl
noun
(organic chemistry) The univalent hexadecyl radical C₁₆H₃₃- present in many waxes.
chery
chevy
chevy
noun
(countable) A cry used in hunting.
(countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
(uncountable) The game of prisoners' bars.
verb
(intransitive) To scurry.
(transitive) Alternative spelling of chivvy
(transitive) To chase or hunt.
(transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
(transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
chewy
chewy
adj
Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed.
noun
(Australia, informal) Alternative form of chewie (“chewing gum”)
(US, informal) A type of soft and sticky cookie.
chyle
chyle
noun
A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
chyme
chyme
noun
The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
claye
claye
noun
Obsolete spelling of clay
clyde
clyde
Proper noun
name, named after the in
A major river in Scotland, serving the city of Glasgow.
A of the city of
A suburb of
A in
A in northern
A in
A in
An in
A in
An in the
A and in
A in
A in
A in
An in
A in
A in
A within the town of
A within the town of
clyer
clyer
noun
(medicine) A swelling of the lymph node of cattle
clype
clyte
clyte
verb
Synonym of cloit
clyve
cokey
coley
coley
noun
coalfish, Pollachius virens
coney
coney
noun
(Jamaica) the Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), a hutia endemic to Jamaica
Alternative spelling of cony (fish).
Alternative spelling of cony (rabbit).
cooey
cooey
intj
Alternative spelling of cooee
corey
cosey
cosey
adj
Archaic spelling of cosy.
covey
covey
noun
(Britain, slang, dated) A man.
A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.
A group of 8–12 (or more) quail.
A party or group (of persons or things).
Coordinate terms: flock, gaggle, host
verb
(intransitive) To brood; to incubate.
cowey
coxey
coyed
coyed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coy
coyer
coyer
adj
comparative form of coy: more coy
coyle
coyle
Proper noun
A town in Oklahoma, US.
cozey
craye
craye
noun
A type of vessel, which was notably used in Denmark and Sweden