HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Boldness, courage; confidence; a feeling of security, assurance.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) Resource, help, relief; a means of help or relief; support; sustenance.
3. (obsolete or dialectal) Shelter, refuge or protection.
4. A place of shelter, a refuge.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To defend, protect or shelter.
2. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To make bold, give courage or confidence to.

adj

1. (Scotland, now obsolete elsewhere) Habitable, liveable; hence delightful, pleasant, pleasing.

adv

1. (now rare) In a big way, greatly; to a great extent, on a large scale.
2. (now rare) In a blustering or boastful manner; haughtily, pompously.
3. (now rare) Strongly, with great force.

noun

1. (historical) A kind of sword with well-tempered and flexible blade, originally produced in Bilbao.
2. A device for punishment. See bilboes.

noun

1. An Australian desert marsupial (Macrotis lagotis), with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.

noun

1. plural of bile

noun

1. (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
2. (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
3. (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
4. (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
5. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
6. talk bilge

verb

1. (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
2. (nautical, intransitive) To spring a leak in the bilge.
3. (nautical, transitive) To break open the bilge(s) of.

adj

1. Containing, or resembling, bilge.

noun

1. (biochemistry) Any of various biological pigments formed in many organisms as a metabolic product of certain porphyrins.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bilk

Proper noun

1. name derived from Bill, the diminutive of William.

noun

1. plural of bill

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bill

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.
2. (Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.
3. (Tyneside) A good friend.
4. (UK, slang, obsolete) A silk handkerchief.
5. A billy club.
6. A billy goat.
7. A male goat; a ram.
8. A slubbing or roving machine.

noun

1. plural of bilo

adj

1. (obsolete) twofold; double

verb

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) To pour a drink (for).

noun

1. plural of birl

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blab

adj

1. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
2. (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
3. (US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
4. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
5. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
6. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
7. (of a place, etc) Without light.
8. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
9. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
10. (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
11. (politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
12. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
13. (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
14. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
15. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
16. Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
17. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
18. Foul; dirty, soiled.
19. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
20. Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

noun

1. (Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
2. (US, slang) Marijuana.
3. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
4. (billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
5. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
6. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
7. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
8. (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
9. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
10. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
11. (informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
12. (informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
13. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
14. (sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
15. A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

verb

1. (Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. (transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
3. (transitive) To make black; to blacken.

noun

1. (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
2. (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
3. (athletics, disability sports, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
4. (biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
5. (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
6. (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
7. (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade
8. (computing) A blade server.
9. (dated) A dashing young man.
10. (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
11. (metonymically) A sword or knife.
12. (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
13. (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
14. (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
15. (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
16. A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
17. A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
18. A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
19. Short for razor blade.
20. The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
21. The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
22. The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
23. The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
24. Thin plate, foil.

verb

1. (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
2. (intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
3. (transitive) To furnish with a blade.
4. (transitive) To stab with a blade
5. (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.

adj

1. Consisting of blades.

verb

1. (obsolete) to bark

noun

1. (with the) A feeling of boredom and no motivation; depression.
2. plural of blah

noun

1. A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch.

adj

1. Bleak, cold; bare, naked.
2. Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue.
3. Yellow, as butter or cheese.

noun

1. (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
2. Censure.
3. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
4. Responsibility for something meriting censure.

verb

1. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
2. (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
3. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

noun

1. plural of blam

noun

1. A white cosmetic.
2. A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.

adj

1. (figurative) Lacking interest; boring; dull.
2. (now rare) Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
3. Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
4. Lacking in taste or flavor.
5. Lacking in vigor.
6. bland comment

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Mixture; union.
2. A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.

verb

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To connect; associate.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To mix; blend; mingle.

adj

1. (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
2. (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
3. (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
4. Absolute; downright; sheer.
5. Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
6. Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
7. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
8. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
9. Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.

noun

1. (archaic, historical, obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .
2. (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
3. (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
4. (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
5. (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
6. (firearms) Short for blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].
7. (literature) Blank verse .
8. (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
9. (obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].
10. (slang) Infertile semen.
11. A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
12. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
13. A space to be filled in on a form or template.
14. An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
15. An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
16. An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
17. Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
18. Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
19. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
20. The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
21. The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].

verb

1. (intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
2. (intransitive) To become blank.
3. (transitive) To make void; to erase.
4. (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
5. (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
6. (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.

noun

1. A loud sound.
2. Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a loud sound.
2. (transitive) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.

noun

1. (Northern England, Midlands, Scotland) A loud noise or cry.

verb

1. (Northern England, Midlands, Scotland) To sound loudly or harshly; to cry out, wail, lament.
2. (Northern England, Midlands, Scotland, of sheep or cattle) To bleat, bellow, low.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of blasé

intj

1. (chiefly British, informal) To show displeasure or disappointment: damn

noun

1. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
2. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
3. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
4. A flatulent disease of sheep.
5. A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
6. A hit from a pipe.
7. A loud, sudden sound.
8. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
9. A violent gust of wind.
10. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
11. An explosive charge for blasting.
12. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
13. The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

verb

1. (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
2. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
5. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
6. (transitive) To blight or wither.
7. (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
8. (transitive) To curse; to damn.
9. (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
10. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
11. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
12. (transitive, science fiction) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
13. The bud blasted in the blossom.
14. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.

adj

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
2. (Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.

verb

1. Archaic form of bleat.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blat

noun

1. (color) A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
2. (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
4. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
6. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
7. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report
8. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.

verb

1. (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
2. (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
3. (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
4. (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
5. (slang) To smoke marijuana.
6. (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet
7. (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
8. (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame
9. (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
10. (transitive) To publish; announce publicly
11. (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
12. (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
13. (transitive, heraldry) To blazon
14. (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
15. (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.

adj

1. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
2. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
3. Without color; pale; pallid.

noun

1. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

adj

1. (of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum.
2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.
2. (transitive, of an image) To blur, make blurry.
3. (transitive, of the eyes or eyesight) To make blurred or dim.

noun

1. The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.

verb

1. (informal, derogatory) Of a person, to complain.
2. Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.

noun

1. plural of bleb

intj

1. (rare) Alternative form of blech

noun

1. (dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
2. (obsolete) A black man.
3. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
4. Soot, smut.

verb

1. (obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
2. (obsolete, dialect) To defile.

noun

1. (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
2. (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
3. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
4. (uncountable, role-playing games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
5. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
6. The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.

verb

1. (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
2. (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
3. (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
4. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
6. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
7. (publishing, advertising, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
8. (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
9. (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
10. (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
11. (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
12. (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
13. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
14. To lose sap, gum, or juice.

noun

1. (euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
2. (music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
3. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

verb

1. (intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.
2. (transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

noun

1. (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.
2. A mixture of two or more things.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
2. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
3. (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

verb

1. (obsolete) To blink.
2. (obsolete) To look.

noun

1. (Cornwall, zoology) The bib or pout (Trisopterus, or Gadus, luscus), a common fish of the cod family, Gadidae.
2. (UK, dialectal, zoology) The common cod; codfish

verb

1. (archaic, poetic) simple past tense and past participle of blend

intj

1. (UK, Canada, informal) Used as an expression of endearment, gratitude, or (ironically) belittlement.

verb

1. (Perl programming, transitive, past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.
2. (archaic, with from) To secure, defend, or prevent from.
3. (obsolete) To wave; to brandish.
4. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
5. To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.
6. To invoke divine favor upon.
7. To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
8. To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify.

verb

1. Archaic spelling of blessed

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blet

noun

1. A sawed-off length of something.
2. The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of gold or silver: To exhibit blick.
2. (nonce word, transitive, intransitive) To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
3. (transitive) To shine, gleam.

noun

1. (aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
2. (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
3. (film, television) A soundproof cover for a video camera.
4. (slang) An obese person.
5. A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.

verb

1. (slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
2. (transitive) To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.

intj

1. Alternative spelling of blimey

adj

1. (LGBT, slang) Uncircumcised
2. (comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
3. (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
4. (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
5. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
6. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
7. (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
8. (not comparable) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
9. (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
10. (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
11. (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
12. Unintelligible or illegible.

adv

1. (colloquial) Absolutely, totally.
2. (cooking, especially in combination with 'bake') As a pastry case only, without any filling.
3. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
4. Without seeing; unseeingly.

noun

1. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
2. (military) A blindage.
3. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
4. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
5. (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
6. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
7. A hiding place.
8. A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
9. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
10. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

verb

1. (slang, obsolete) To curse.
2. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
3. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
4. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

noun

1. A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
2. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
3. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
4. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
5. (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
6. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
7. A glimpse or glance.
8. The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.

verb

1. (Tyneside, obsolete) To glance.
2. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
3. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
4. (science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
5. (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
6. (transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
7. To flash headlights on a car at.
8. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
9. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
10. To send a signal with a lighting device.
11. To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
12. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
13. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

noun

1. Alternative form of blini

noun

1. plural of blip

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blip

noun

1. (Scotland) A fit of crying.
2. (nautical) A gust, as of of wind and rain.

verb

1. (Scotland) To burst into tears.

noun

1. Perfect happiness.

noun

1. Any of various plants in the genus Atriplex.
2. Any of various plants in the genus Chenopodium.
3. The plant Amaranthus blitum, purple amaranth.

noun

1. (cooking) The act of blending or puréeing food using a blender or processor.
2. (countable) A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.
3. (countable) A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.
4. (countable, American football) A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.
5. (uncountable, chess) Short for blitz chess.

verb

1. (intransitive, American football) To perform a blitz.
2. (transitive) To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.
3. (transitive, cooking) To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.
4. (transitive, informal) To do something quickly or in one session.

adj

1. (obsolete) bloated.

noun

1. (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
2. (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
3. (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
4. Distention of the abdomen from death.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
2. (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
3. To cause to become distended.
4. To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
5. To fill with vanity or conceit.
6. To increase to an excessive amount.
7. To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.

noun

1. plural of blob

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blob

noun

1. (UK) Solitary confinement.
2. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
3. (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
4. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
5. (cricket) A blockhole.
6. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
7. (cricket) The popping crease.
8. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
9. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
10. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
11. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
12. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
13. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
14. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
15. (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
16. (slang) The human head.
17. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
18. (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
19. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
20. A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
21. A cellblock.
22. A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
23. A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
24. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
25. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
26. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
27. A roughly cuboid building.
28. A section of split logs used as fuel.
29. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
30. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
31. A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
32. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
33. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
34. Misspelling of bloc.
35. Something that prevents something from passing.
36. The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

verb

1. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
2. (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
3. (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
4. (transitive) To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
5. (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
6. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
7. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
8. (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
9. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
10. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
11. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To knock (a person's hat) down over their eyes.
12. (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
13. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).

noun

1. plural of bloc

noun

1. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
3. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
4. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
5. (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

adj

1. (of a person) Having blond hair.
2. Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”)
3. Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.

noun

1. (color) A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color.
2. A person with this hair color.

verb

1. (transitive) To color or dye blond.

noun

1. (UK, MLE, slang) Alternative form of blud (“Informal address to a male.”)
2. (especially African-American Vernacular) A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.
3. (figurative) Bloodshed.
4. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
5. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
6. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
7. (poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.
8. A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
9. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).
10. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
11. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
12. Temper of mind; disposition; mood
13. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

verb

1. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
2. (transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
3. (transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

noun

1. (collective) Flowers.
2. (cooking) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
3. (figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
4. (mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
5. (television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
6. (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
7. (video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
8. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
9. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
10. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
11. Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
12. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
13. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
14. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.

verb

1. (cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
2. (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
4. (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
5. (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

noun

1. (informal) A low-pitched beeping sound.
2. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.
3. (onomatopoeia) The sound of something, especially a fish, sloshing about in water.
4. (slang, baseball) Synonym of blooper
5. The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.

verb

1. (baseball) To make a hit just beyond the infield.
2. (informal) To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
3. (onomatopoeia, especially of a fish) To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
4. (television, transitive) To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.

noun

1. (obsolete) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

verb

1. (archaic, dialectal) To bray; bleat like an animal; bellow.
2. (archaic, dialectal) To cry; cry out; weep.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

noun

1. plural of blot

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blot

adj

1. (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
2. (obsolete) Stale; worthless.
3. (of glass) Formed by blowing.
4. Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
5. Distended, swollen, or inflated.
6. Having failed.
7. Panting and out of breath.
8. Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.

verb

1. past participle of blow

noun

1. plural of blow

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blow

adj

1. (of fabric, hair, etc.) Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind.
2. (of soil) Susceptible to drifting.
3. Windy or breezy.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of blowie

adj

1. Having the property of having been chemically passivated.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blue

adj

1. comparative form of blue: more blue

noun

1. (UK, school slang) A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School.
2. (rare) Synonym of blue (“blue liquid added to laundry to prevent yellowing”)

noun

1. (Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club.
2. (drug slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic).
3. (music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
4. (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
5. (rugby league) New South Wales.
6. (singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
7. (singular or plural, informal) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea.
8. (soccer, Birmingham) Birmingham City FC.
9. (soccer, Liverpudlian) Everton FC.
10. (soccer, London) Chelsea FC.
11. (soccer, Manchester) Manchester City FC.
12. (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
13. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
14. plural of blue

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue

noun

1. Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
2. Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
3. Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
4. Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.

adj

1. Having a colour similar to blue.

noun

1. (Australia) A bluebottle.
2. (Australia, medicine) A disposable underpad.
3. (Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
4. (Australian slang) A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
5. (Australian slang) A bushman's blanket.
6. (Australian slang) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
7. (Australian slang) A person with red hair.
8. (informal) A blue film.
9. (slang) The metal lead.

adj

1. Having a broad, flattened front.
2. Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
3. Roughly frank and hearty in one's manners.
4. Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

noun

1. (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
2. (US, dated) The card game poker.
3. (poker) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
4. (slang, dated) An excuse.
5. A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
6. An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio.
7. One who bluffs; a bluffer.

verb

1. (Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally; to lie; to deceive
2. (by analogy) To frighten or deter with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate and gain some advantage.
3. (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is.
4. To fluff, puff or swell up.
5. To take advantage by bluffing.

verb

1. (dialect, colloquial, informal) simple past tense of blink
2. (intransitive) To blench, blink; turn aside.
3. (transitive, Scotland) To spoil, mismanage.

adj

1. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
3. Hard to impress or penetrate.
4. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

noun

1. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
2. (smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.
3. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
4. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
5. A short needle with a strong point.

verb

1. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
2. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

noun

1. A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes.

verb

1. (transitive) To supply with a blurb.
2. (transitive) To write or quote in a blurb.

noun

1. plural of blur

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blur

noun

1. An abrupt outburst.

verb

1. To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out.

noun

1. (chiefly US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
2. (figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.
3. (uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
4. A color between pink and cream.
5. A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
6. An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.
7. The collective noun for a group of boys.

verb

1. (aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
2. (copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
3. (intransitive) To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
4. (intransitive) To become red.
5. (intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
6. (intransitive, figuratively) To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
8. (transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
9. (transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.

noun

1. (Scotland) A thin membrane or small piece of skin.

Proper noun

1. a town and river in Northumberland, England,
2. a village in Nottinghamshire, England.
3. a river in Suffolk, England.

noun

1. (Caribbean) organized fraud; corruption

noun

1. A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.
2. A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.

noun

1. (historical) A former Scottish copper coin of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny.

noun

1. (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
2. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.

Proper noun

1. The province of Bohol.
2. The island of Bohol.

noun

1. plural of boil

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of boil

adj

1. Of or relating to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.

noun

1. A sticky thread whirled around by certain spiders to catch prey.
2. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs.

noun

1. Peumus boldus, a monimiaceous tree.
2. The leaves of this tree, used in traditional medicine for hepatic troubles and genitourinary inflammation.

noun

1. Alternative form of boldo

noun

1. plural of bole

noun

1. (archaic) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.

noun

1. plural of boll

Proper noun

1. Bollinger champagne