(historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
A collection, especially of literary items
A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
albur
albus
babul
babul
noun
A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.
balau
balun
balun
noun
An electronic device for connecting a balanced transmission line to an unbalanced one.
balut
balut
noun
A dice game similar to Yahtzee
Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell
bauld
baulk
baulk
noun
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk
beltu
belue
belus
bhalu
blaeu
blout
blued
blued
adj
Having the property of having been chemically passivated.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blue
bluer
bluer
adj
comparative form of blue: more blue
noun
(UK, school slang) A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School.
(rare) Synonym of blue (“blue liquid added to laundry to prevent yellowing”)
blues
blues
noun
(Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club.
(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).
(music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
(music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
(rugby league) New South Wales.
(singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
(singular or plural, informal) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea.
(soccer, Birmingham) Birmingham City FC.
(soccer, Liverpudlian) Everton FC.
(soccer, London) Chelsea FC.
(soccer, Manchester) Manchester City FC.
(usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
plural of blue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue
bluet
bluet
noun
Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
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.
bluff
bluff
adj
Having a broad, flattened front.
Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
Roughly frank and hearty in one's manners.
Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
noun
(Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
(US, dated) The card game poker.
(poker) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
(slang, dated) An excuse.
A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio.
One who bluffs; a bluffer.
verb
(Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally; to lie; to deceive
(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.
(poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is.
To fluff, puff or swell up.
To take advantage by bluffing.
bluhm
bluma
blume
blunk
blunk
verb
(dialect, colloquial, informal) simple past tense of blink
(intransitive) To blench, blink; turn aside.
(transitive, Scotland) To spoil, mismanage.
blunt
blunt
adj
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
Hard to impress or penetrate.
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
noun
(UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
(smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.
A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
A short needle with a strong point.
verb
(figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
blurb
blurb
noun
A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes.
verb
(transitive) To supply with a blurb.
(transitive) To write or quote in a blurb.
blurs
blurs
noun
plural of blur
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blur
blurt
blurt
noun
An abrupt outburst.
verb
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out.
blush
blush
noun
(chiefly US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
(figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.
(uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
A color between pink and cream.
A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.
The collective noun for a group of boys.
verb
(aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
(copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
(intransitive) To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
(intransitive) To become red.
(intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
(intransitive, figuratively) To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).
(intransitive, obsolete) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
(transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
(transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.
boldu
boldu
noun
Alternative form of boldo
bolus
bolus
noun
A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
verb
(intransitive) To take a bolus (dose) of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes.
(transitive) To administer (a drug) in bolus dosing, that is, dosing in (one or more) boluses.
boucl
boule
boule
noun
(historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
(woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl
A round loaf of bread.
A round piece of dough.
A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
verb
(transitive, cooking, rare, nonstandard) To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
boult
boult
noun
Obsolete form of bolt.
verb
Alternative form of bolt (“to sift”)
brule
bubal
bubal
noun
An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus, which was formerly native to northern Africa.
buell
bugle
bugle
adj
(obsolete) jet-black
noun
A horn used by hunters.
A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
The sound of something that bugles.
verb
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
buhls
buhls
noun
plural of buhl
build
build
noun
(computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
(countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
(gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.
verb
(intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
(intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
(intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
(transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
(transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
(transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
built
built
adj
(informal) well-built, muscular or toned.
noun
(obsolete) Shape; build; form of structure.
verb
past participle of build
simple past tense of build
bulak
bulak
noun
An Indian nose ring usually worn by married women.
bulan
bulbs
bulbs
noun
plural of bulb
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bulb
bulby
bulge
bulge
noun
(colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
(figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
(nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
verb
(intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
(intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).
bulgy
bulgy
adj
Having one or more bulges; bulging
bulks
bulks
noun
plural of bulk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bulk
bulky
bulky
adj
(bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Being large in size, mass, or volume.
Unwieldy.
bulla
bulla
noun
(archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
(biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.
(biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
(historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.
Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance)
bulls
bulls
noun
plural of bull
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bull
bully
bully
adj
(US, slang) Very good.
(slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
intj
(often followed by for) Well done!
noun
(dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
(field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
(mining) A miner's hammer.
(obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
(obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
(obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
(uncountable) Bully beef.
A hired thug.
A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
A sex worker’s minder.
The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
Various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper goby. , Gobiomorphus cotidianus]]
verb
(transitive) To act aggressively towards.
(transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
bulow
bulse
bulse
noun
(now rare) A bag or package of diamonds, gold dust or other precious materials.
burel
burel
noun
A coarse woolen cloth.
burls
burls
noun
plural of burl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of burl
burly
burly
adj
(Britain, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
(US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
(usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
Full of burls or knots; knotty.
butle
butle
verb
(rare) Alternative form of buttle.
butyl
butyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₄H₉, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene.
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
cubla
flubs
flubs
noun
plural of flub
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flub
golub
holub
hubli
jabul
jubal
kabul
libau
limbu
limbu
Noun
A tribal people of Nepal (and to a lesser extent India and Bhutan).
Proper noun
Their Tibeto-Burman language, written in a unique script.
lobus
lobus
noun
(medicine, anatomy) A lobe.
lubba
lubbi
lubec
luben
lubes
lubes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lube
lubet
lubet
noun
(countable) pleasure.
lubin
lubke
lubow
lubra
lubra
noun
(Australia, now racially offensive) A female Aboriginal Australian.
lulab
lulab
noun
Alternative form of lulav
lusby
obulg
plumb
plumb
adj
(cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
(nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
Obsolete form of plum (“the fruit”).
The perpendicular direction or position.
verb
(US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
(dated) To seal something with lead.
(intransitive) To work as a plumber.
(nautical) To position vertically above or below.
(rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
(transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
To attach to a water supply and drain.
To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
pubal
rubel
ruble
ruble
noun
The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка (kopéjka), Belarusian: капе́йка (kapjéjka)). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽.
salbu
slubs
slubs
noun
plural of slub
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slub
slurb
slurb
noun
A homogeneous sprawl of urban and suburban developments.
tubal
tubal
adj
Of or pertaining to a tube, especially an anatomical one
ubald
uball
umbel
umbel
noun
(botany) A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.