(transitive, intransitive) To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise.
(transitive, intransitive) To expel (gas) loudly from the stomach through the mouth.
bicol
bicol
Proper noun
A region of the Philippines located at south-eastern Luzon.
The language of the native inhabitants of the region.
Noun
The inhabitants of the region.
bilac
bilch
bilic
black
black
adj
(Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
(Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
(US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
(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).
(card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
(of a place, etc) Without light.
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
(of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
(of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
(politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
(politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
(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.)
(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”).
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Foul; dirty, soiled.
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.
Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
noun
(Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
(US, slang) Marijuana.
(baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
(billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
(countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
(countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
(countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
(in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
(informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
(informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
(obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
(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.)
A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
verb
(Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
(transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
(transitive) To make black; to blacken.
blanc
blanc
noun
A white cosmetic.
A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.
bleck
bleck
intj
(rare) Alternative form of blech
noun
(dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
(obsolete) A black man.
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
Soot, smut.
verb
(obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
(obsolete, dialect) To defile.
blick
blick
noun
A sawed-off length of something.
The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
verb
(intransitive) Of gold or silver: To exhibit blick.
(nonce word, transitive, intransitive) To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
(transitive) To shine, gleam.
bloch
block
block
noun
(UK) Solitary confinement.
(chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
(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).
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
(cricket) A blockhole.
(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.
(cricket) The popping crease.
(cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
(cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
(falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
(obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
(philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
(printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
(programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
(rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
(slang) The human head.
(sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
(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.
(volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
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.
A cellblock.
A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
A roughly cuboid building.
A section of split logs used as fuel.
A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
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.
A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
Misspelling of bloc.
Something that prevents something from passing.
The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
verb
(intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
(programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
(transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
(transitive) To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
(transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
(transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
(transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
(transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
(transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
(transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To knock (a person's hat) down over their eyes.
(transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
(transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
blocs
blocs
noun
plural of bloc
bocal
bocal
noun
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.
A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.
boucl
cabal
cabal
noun
(derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
A secret plot.
A secret political clique or faction.
An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
verb
(intransitive) To engage in the activities of a cabal.
cable
cable
noun
(architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
(communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
(finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
(knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
(nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
(nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
(television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
(unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
verb
(architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.
(intransitive) To communicate by cable
(knitting) To create cable stitches.
(transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
(transitive) To provide with cable(s)
(transitive) To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable
(transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable
caleb
caleb
Proper noun
An Israelite who entered Canaan with Joshua.
name first used by Puritans.
cebil
cebil
noun
(uncommon) A South American tree (Anadenanthera colubrina), the bark of which contains tannin and is used in tanning hides.
celeb
celeb
noun
(informal) A celebrity; a famous person.
cibol
cibol
noun
(obsolete) A perennial onion plant, Allium fistulosum, commonly called Welsh onion.
clabo
clamb
climb
climb
noun
An act of climbing.
An upwards struggle
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
verb
(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
(intransitive) to jump high
(intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing
(transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
(transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
(transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
clomb
clomb
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of climb
clubb
clubs
clubs
noun
Alternative form of clumps (“game of asking questions”)
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.
plural of club
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of club
coble
coble
noun
(nautical) small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.
cobol
colby
colby
Proper noun
name, transferred from the surname.
One of two villages in England.
A village in the Isle of Man.
A city in Kansas, USA, and the county seat of Thomas County.
A city and town in Wisconsin.
Noun
A soft, moist, mild cheese made with a washed-curd process.