(chemistry) A compound of nitrogen and boron which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.
agaphite
agathaea
alberghi
alberghi
noun
plural of albergo
alighted
alighted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of alight
alighten
alighten
verb
To alight, to dismount or get down from.
To alight; to land, to descend and rest.
To lighten; to reduce in weight or heaviness.
To make light; to illuminate or brighten.
amphigen
amphigen
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; applied by Jöns Jacob Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
apophyge
apophyge
noun
(architecture) A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns.
apothegm
apothegm
noun
A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
archegay
ashleigh
ashleigh
Proper noun
name; variant of Ashley.
atheling
atheling
noun
A prince, especially an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir.
bagheera
bagheera
Proper noun
A fictional panther character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Noun
The deputy leader of a pack of Cub Scouts.
baghouse
baghouse
noun
A fabric filter; an air pollution control device that removes particulates out of air or gas released from commercial processes or combustion for electricity generation.
barghest
barghest
noun
(mythology, Britain) A legendary monstrous black dog, said to possess large teeth and claws, and (sometimes) to be capable of changing form.
(mythology, Britain) Any ghost, wraith, hobgoblin, elf, or spirit.
beaching
beaching
noun
An event in which a marine animal beaches itself.
verb
present participle of beach
bearhugs
bearhugs
noun
plural of bearhug
bedights
bedights
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight
bedlight
bedlight
noun
A bedside light.
bedright
bedright
noun
Alternative form of bedrite
begorrah
begorrah
intj
(Ireland) Alternative spelling of begorra
begrutch
begrutch
verb
Obsolete form of begrudge.
behaving
behaving
noun
Behaviour.
verb
present participle of behave
behoving
behoving
verb
present participle of behove
beknight
beknight
verb
(transitive, rare) To make a knight of.
belching
belching
noun
The act of producing a belch.
verb
present participle of belch
bellaghy
benching
benching
noun
An instance of a person being removed temporarily from an active role in a group or team activity.
verb
present participle of bench
benghazi
benghazi
Proper noun
A Mediterranean sea port in Libya.
berghaan
berghaan
noun
(South Africa) Verreaux's eagle (Aquila verreauxii)
berghoff
bergholz
berthage
berthage
noun
A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
berthing
berthing
noun
(nautical) An instance of a ship being brought to be berthed, to rest at some docking facility.
(obsolete, nautical) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.
A berth, especially figuratively, a place to sleep.
verb
present participle of berth
besought
besought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beseech
simple past tense and past participle of beseek
bethpage
betrough
bigheads
bigheads
noun
plural of bighead
blighted
blighted
adj
Having caused to suffer a blight.
Having suffered a blight.
Ruined, spoiled.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blight
blighter
blighter
noun
(Britain, often disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.
A man or child, especially an annoying one.
One who blights.
boothage
borghese
botteghe
botteghe
noun
plural of bottega
boughten
boughten
adj
(archaic or regional, West Country, Cornwall, Canada, US) Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade).
verb
(archaic or regional, chiefly US) past participle of buy
breughel
brighten
brighten
verb
(intransitive) To become brighter or more cheerful in mood
(intransitive) To grow bright, or more bright in color; to clear up
(transitive) To make bright or brighter in color.
(transitive) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to
(transitive, figuratively) To make more cheerful and pleasant; to enliven
brighter
brighter
adj
comparative form of bright: more bright
bringeth
bringeth
verb
(archaic) third-person singular simple present form of bring
brueghel
bughouse
bughouse
adj
(US, slang) Crazy, insane.
noun
(South Africa, slang) A cheap and dirty cinema.
(US, slang) A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc.
(US, slang) A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.
bunghole
bunghole
noun
Alternative spelling of bung-hole
burghers
burghers
noun
plural of burgher
burghley
burleigh
burleigh
Proper noun
Any of various towns in the English-speaking world.
caneghem
carthage
carthage
Proper noun
An ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia
Any of several cities in Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota, Texas, USA:
a city in Illinois
a city in Mississippi
a city in Missouri
a city in Texas
Any of several towns in Arkansas, Indiana, Maine, North Carolina, Tennessee, USA:
a town in North Carolina
a town in Tennessee
chainage
chainage
noun
(surveying) A distance measured along such a line.
(surveying) An imaginary line used to measure distance, often corresponding to the centre of a straight road.
changers
changers
noun
plural of changer
changteh
chantage
chantage
noun
blackmail; the extortion of money by threats of scandalous revelations
chargers
chargers
noun
plural of charger
cheaping
cheaping
noun
(obsolete) A market.
(obsolete) Bargaining, haggling.
verb
present participle of cheap
cheating
cheating
adj
Unfaithful or adulterous.
Unsporting or underhand.
noun
(cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
verb
present participle of cheat
checkage
checkage
noun
The act of marking with a check mark.
The items or amount to which attention is called by a check mark.
checking
checking
noun
(ice hockey) The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.
(informal) A checking account.
verb
present participle of check
cheeking
cheeking
verb
present participle of cheek
cheeping
cheeping
noun
The sound of a cheep.
verb
present participle of cheep
cheering
cheering
noun
A cheer.
verb
present participle and gerund of cheer
cheesing
cheesing
verb
present participle of cheese
cheffing
cheffing
noun
The activity of a chef.
verb
present participle of chef
chekiang
chelinga
chelingo
chemurgy
chemurgy
noun
(chemistry) a branch of applied chemistry that is concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials.
chengteh
chevying
chevying
verb
present participle of chevy
chiefage
chiefage
noun
(obsolete) A tribute by the head; a poll tax.
chigetai
chigetai
noun
Alternative form of dziggetai
chiggers
chiggers
noun
plural of chigger
chigwell
childage
chippage
choregic
choregic
adj
Of or relating to a choregus.
choregus
choregus
noun
The leader of a chorus in Ancient Greece
The leader of a group (especially of performers)
chuggers
chuggers
noun
plural of chugger
chughole
chughole
noun
(US) pothole
chummage
chummage
noun
(obsolete, UK, slang) A fee paid by a prisoner to be able to lodge in shared rooms within a prison.
(obsolete, UK, slang) The lodging of several people in a single apartment.
cleghorn
cloghead
clougher
cogwheel
cogwheel
noun
(attributive) Something behaving in a jerky manner similar to a a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine.
A gear wheel.
cohering
cohering
verb
present participle of cohere
coughers
coughers
noun
plural of cougher
cowhages
craighle
croighle
dagenham
dagenham
Proper noun
A large suburb of east London, England.
dahlgren
danelagh
daughter
daughter
noun
(by extension) A female character of a creator.
(informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
(physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
(syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
A daughter language.
A female descendant.
One’s female offspring.
deashing
deashing
verb
present participle of deash
dedagach
deknight
delights
delights
noun
plural of delight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delight
demihigh
dephlegm
dephlegm
verb
(obsolete, chemistry) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.
depthing
dewlight
dinghies
dinghies
noun
plural of dinghy
dogeship
dogeship
Noun
The role or status of doge (chief magistrate).
doghouse
doghouse
noun
(informal) Any shabby or disreputable establishment.
(nautical) A difficult or demoralizing situation.
A structure of small size, similar to a doghouse, but offering useful shelter for a human.
A traffic signal with five sections: two on the bottom, two in the middle, and one on top.
Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog.
Mechanically, an equipment cover with an opening, with a shape resembling a doghouse.
dogshore
dogshore
noun
(nautical) One of several shores used to prevent a ship from moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.
(obsolete, often capitalized) The Lord; Lord God; Christ.
drogheda
earthing
earthing
noun
(holism) The process of connecting with the earth's energy, usually through bodily contact (e.g. walking barefoot), supposed to achieve health and vitality.
The act or process of placing (something) in the earth; planting; burying
verb
present participle of earth
echogram
echogram
noun
sonogram
edgehill
edgeshot
eggheads
eggheads
noun
plural of egghead
eggshell
eggshell
adj
(color) Of a pale yellowish-whitish colour, like that of the eggshell.
Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell.
Very matt, having a low reflexivity, like an eggshell.
noun
(color) A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell.
The shell around an egg.
eggwhisk
eggwhisk
noun
Alternative spelling of egg whisk.
egophony
egophony
noun
(medicine) A bleating sound sometimes observed in patients with various lung conditions
eighteen
eighteen
num
The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.
eighthes
eighthly
eighthly
adv
In the eighth place; eighth in a row.
eighties
eighties
adj
From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).
noun
(temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 80 and 89.
The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
plural of eighty
eightvos
embright
encharge
encharge
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
engraphy
enhunger
enhunger
verb
(transitive) To make hungry.
enlength
enthrong
entrough
epigraph
epigraph
noun
(mathematics, of a function) The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
An inscription, especially on a building.
verb
(transitive) To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.
erthling
escoheag
esophagi
esophagi
noun
plural of esophagus
esophago
etchings
etchings
noun
plural of etching
etheling
etherege
ethology
ethology
noun
(obsolete) The study of the human ethos.
(zoology) The scientific study of human and animal behaviour.