(India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
(Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
The set of letters used when writing in a language.
The simplest rudiments; elements.
verb
(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
amphibia
amphibia
noun
The amphibians.
aphlebia
aphlebia
noun
(botany) An imperfect or irregular leaf ending (commonly found on ferns)
babeship
babeship
noun
(archaic) Infancy; babyhood.
(archaic, with "my", "his", "her", or (plural) "their" or "our") A baby.
babyship
babyship
noun
The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.
bakeshop
bakeshop
noun
A shop where baked goods are made and sold.
balaphon
baphomet
baphomet
Proper noun
A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that pagans, the Knights Templar and (sometimes) Muslims worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.
bardolph
bardship
bardship
noun
The state of being a bard.
bardulph
basophil
basophil
noun
(cytology, immunology) A white blood cell responsible for inflammatory reactions during immune response.
One of the endocrine basophilic cells of the adenohypophysis, including gonadotrophs and thyrotrophs.
bawdship
bawdship
noun
The employment or office of a bawd
bearship
bearship
noun
The character or personality of a bear.
beauship
beauship
noun
(dated, humorous) The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
behooped
bellhops
bellhops
noun
plural of bellhop
bephrase
bepreach
bespeech
bespeech
verb
(transitive) To address in speech
besplash
besplash
verb
(transitive) To splash all over; to wet by splashing.
bethpage
bethumps
bethumps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bethump
bhatpara
bhojpuri
bimorphs
bimorphs
noun
plural of bimorph
biograph
biograph
noun
(rare) A biographical essay.
An early device to show moving pictures on a screen.
verb
(rare, transitive) To write a biography of.
biophagy
biophagy
noun
The property of being a biophage, a living organism that feeds on other living organisms.
biophore
biophore
noun
Alternative spelling of biophor
biophyte
biophyte
noun
(biology) Any plant that obtains nourishment from the bodies of insects (or other once-living organisms)
biphasic
biphasic
adj
Having two phases.
biphenol
biphenol
noun
(organic chemistry) Any compound that has two phenolic hydroxy groups; such a phenolic derivative of biphenyl
biphenyl
biphenyl
noun
(organic chemistry, countable) Any substituted or otherwise altered version of biphenyl, such as PCBs
(organic chemistry, uncountable) A colourless solid hydrocarbon, C₁₂H₁₀, consisting of two benzene rings linked together by a single bond
bishoped
bishoped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bishop
blephara
blephara
noun
plural of blepharon
blimpish
blimpish
adj
(often capitalized) Pompously reactionary, like Colonel Blimp.
Blimp-like in appearance or size.
boarship
boatshop
bondship
bookshop
bookshop
noun
A shop that sells books.
bossship
bothrops
boughpot
boughpot
noun
Alternative form of bough pot
brushups
brushups
noun
plural of brushup
bullwhip
bullwhip
noun
A whip made from plaited leather, often with a knotted end, for use with livestock.
verb
(transitive) To beat with a bullwhip.
buphagus
buphonia
bushrope
bushrope
noun
Synonym of liana
cephalob
chapbook
chapbook
noun
A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts
chopboat
chopboat
noun
(in China) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.
cobishop
cobishop
noun
A joint or coadjutant bishop.
deiphobe
ephebeia
ephebeia
noun
plural of ephebeion
ephebeum
ephebeum
noun
A hall, in an ancient Greek palaestra, used for gymnastic exercise
haphsiba
hapsburg
helpable
helpable
adj
Capable of being helped.
hempbush
hepsibah
hepzibah
hipberry
hipbones
hipbones
noun
plural of hipbone
hopthumb
humpback
humpback
noun
(by extension) A hump or protuberance on the shoulders or back of an animal.
(derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.
(figurative) A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.
A humpback salmon.
A humpback whale.
A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).
verb
To hunt humpback whales.
hypobole
hypobole
noun
(rhetoric) A rhetorical figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favour of the opposing side, and then they are refuted one by one.
lyophobe
lyophobe
adj
(chemistry) lyophobic
noun
(chemistry) a lyophobic substance
oxybapha
pebworth
philabeg
philbert
philibeg
philibeg
noun
A little kilt.
phleboid
phobetor
phobetor
Proper noun
The god and personification of nightmares; a son of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.
phoebads
phoebean
phoebean
Adjective
Of or relating to Phoebe or Phoebus
Of or relating to the Sun. Solar.
pibrochs
pibrochs
noun
plural of pibroch
pinchbug
pinebush
poblacht
polabish
pondbush
potherbs
potherbs
noun
plural of potherb
prohibit
prohibit
verb
(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
pushball
pushball
noun
(countable) The large ball used for this game.
(uncountable) A team game where players attempt to push a large inflatable lightweight ball into the opponent's goal.
shapable
shapable
adj
Capable of being shaped.
shopbook
shopbook
noun
(dated) A book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.
shopboys
shopboys
noun
plural of shopboy
sibships
sibships
noun
plural of sibship
soapbush
subepoch
subepoch
noun
(geology) A geochronologic unit comprising one or more ages, being a period of generally agreed significance within an epoch.
subgraph
subgraph
noun
(graph theory) A graph or network that makes up part of a larger graph or network.
subphase
subphase
noun
(chemistry) The liquid upon which a film or layer floats
A subsection of a phase
subphyla
subphyla
noun
plural of subphylum
subpunch
unbishop
unbishop
verb
(transitive) To deprive (a city etc.) of a bishop.
(transitive) To deprive (a clergyman) of episcopal dignity or rights.
upharbor
whipbird
whipbird
noun
Any of various Australian songbirds in the genus Psophodes.