Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor.
noun
(chemistry, biotechnology) A portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension.
verb
(chemistry, biotechnology, transitive, informal) To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
alloquy
alloquy
noun
(obsolete) Act of speaking to another; an address.
allouez
alluvio
alodium
alodium
noun
Alternative form of allodium
alumnol
alumnol
noun
(medicine, archaic) A naphthol-sulphonic-acid salt of aluminum, used to treat wounds, etc.
alysoun
amiloun
ampoule
ampoule
noun
A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection.
anguloa
anouilh
anuloma
apollus
apolune
apolune
noun
(astronomy) The point of an elliptical lunar orbit where the distance between the satellite and the Moon is at its maximum.
aquilon
arghoul
arnulfo
arolium
arolium
noun
(entomology) A median lobe into which the pretarsus expands, in an insect's leg.
arousal
arousal
noun
A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
Sexual arousal.
The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
arugola
augelot
aurelio
aureola
aureola
noun
Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.
aureole
aureole
noun
(astronomy) A corona.
(by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
(geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.
A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
auronal
auroral
auroral
adj
Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.
Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
Rosy in colour.
azulejo
azulejo
noun
A painted tin-glazed ceramic tile of a kind found in Spain and Portugal, often arranged to form geometric patterns.
bailout
bailout
noun
(underwater diving) A backup supply of air in scuba diving.
A rescue, especially a financial rescue.
The process of exiting an aircraft while in flight.
balfour
balfour
Proper noun
A town/village in New Zealand.
A in North Carolina.
A city/village in North Dakota.
One of two villages in Scotland.
One of two towns in South Africa.
balough
becloud
becloud
verb
(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
(transitive, figurative) To cast in a negative light, cast a pall over, darken.
(transitive, usually passive) To cover or surround with clouds.
beclout
beclout
verb
(transitive) To cover with a clout or cloth.
(transitive, figuratively) To dress up.
beflour
beflout
befouls
befouls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befoul
belouke
bemoult
beowulf
beowulf
Proper noun
An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of an Old English epic poem, or to the poem itself.
beyoglu
bilious
bilious
adj
(pathology) Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.
Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
Resembling bile, especially in color.
blaubok
blaubok
noun
(archaic) The bluebuck.
blautok
blockus
bloused
bloused
adj
Wearing a blouse.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blouse
blouses
blouses
noun
plural of blouse
blouson
blouson
noun
A garment drawn tight at the waist with blousing hanging over the waistband; a blouse jacket.
blowgun
blowgun
noun
A hollow tube through which a dart or similar missile may be blown.
blowout
blowout
noun
(Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
(geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
(slang) A large or extravagant meal.
(slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
(slang) An argument; an altercation.
(slang, sports) A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.
A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
blowups
blowups
noun
plural of blowup
bluetop
bluetop
noun
(US, construction) A stake or other marker set into the subgrade to indicate the desired grade elevation.
bluford
boatful
boatful
noun
Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
bodeful
bodeful
adj
Portentous; ominous; foreboding.
boileau
boletus
boletus
noun
An edible mushroom of genus Boletus.
boluses
bonduel
bookful
bookful
adj
(obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
noun
As much as a book holds.
bootful
bootful
noun
As much as a boot will hold.
borglum
botulin
botulin
noun
An extremely potent nerve toxin produced by the anaerobic bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Ingesting botulin results in the serious medical condition of botulism.
bouchal
boucles
boucles
noun
plural of boucle
bouilli
bouilli
noun
Meat stewed with juice.
boulder
boulder
noun
(climbing) A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.
(geology) A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
A large marble, in children's games.
A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
verb
(climbing, transitive, intransitive) To engage in bouldering.
bouldon
boulimy
boulles
boulles
noun
plural of boulle
boultel
boultel
noun
(architecture) A moulding with quarter-circle convexity, found just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
(architecture) One of the shafts of a clustered column.
boulter
boulter
noun
A long, stout fishing line with many hooks attached.
One who boults or sifts.
boundly
bourlaw
boutell
bowlful
bowlful
Noun
As much as is held by a bowl.
boxfuls
boxfuls
noun
plural of boxful
boxhaul
boxhaul
verb
(nautical, transitive, intransitive) To bring (a square-rigged ship) onto a new tack by hauling back the foresails whilst steering hard round.
brotula
brotula
noun
A family of ophidiiform fishes, of the taxonomic family Bythitidae, who bear live young.
brulots
buchloe
bucolic
bucolic
adj
Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants.
Relating to the pleasant aspects of rustic country life.
Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
noun
A pastoral poem.
A rustic, peasant.
buffalo
buffalo
noun
(US slang) A nickel.
A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis.
Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
verb
(US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
(archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.
(transitive) To hunt buffalo.
bugloss
bugloss
noun
Any of several plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.
bulbose
bulbose
adj
Alternative form of bulbous
bulbous
bulbous
adj
(botany) Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
(of a person) Overweight and round in shape.
Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
bulldog
bulldog
noun
(UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
(US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
(professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
A stubborn or determined person.
The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
verb
(transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
bullion
bullion
noun
(obsolete) A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
(obsolete) Base or uncurrent coin.
(obsolete) Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
bullock
bullock
noun
(archaic) A young bull.
A castrated bull; an ox.
verb
To bully.
bullose
bullous
bullous
adj
Of, pertaining to or characterized by bullae
bultong
bultong
noun
Alternative form of biltong
bumaloe
bumbelo
bummalo
bummalo
noun
Bombay duck (flesh of the edible lizardfish)
bunuelo
burbolt
burbolt
noun
Obsolete form of birdbolt.
busload
busload
noun
The amount that can fit on a bus.
butanol
butanol
noun
1,1-dimethyl-ethanol or tert-butanol - (CH₃)₃C-OH
2-methyl-propan-1-ol or iso-butanol - (CH₃)₂CHCH₂-OH
butan-1-ol or n-butanol or butyl alcohol - CH₃(CH₂)₃-OH
butan-2-ol or sec-butanol - CH₃CH₂CH(CH₃)-OH
butoxyl
buxomly
buxomly
adv
In a buxom way.
byously
cagoule
cagoule
noun
(Britain) A lightweight waterproof parka.
calhoun
calhoun
Proper noun
An Irish surname, variant of the Scottish Colquhoun.
A city in that is the of
A village in
A city in that is the county seat of
A city in
The former name of until it was in 1943.
A town in
An in
callous
callous
adj
(figurative) Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
(literally) Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
noun
Alternative form of callus
callout
callout
noun
(US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
(communication) An outgoing telephone call.
(idiomatic) A form of verbal abuse with the intention to make the victim feel guilty.
(slang) An invitation to fight.
(typography, graphic layout) A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
A request for people to join or take part.
An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
calvous
calvous
adj
(botany, rare) Lacking bristles or pappuses.
(formal, medicine, rare) Lacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless.
canalou
carolus
carolus
Noun
An old English gold coin, worth 20 (or later 23) shillings.
caulome
caulome
noun
(botany) A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole.
caulote
cholula
chylous
chylous
adj
(physiology) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.
ciboule
ciboule
noun
Alternative form of cibol
cilurzo
clamour
clamour
noun
British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
(transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
(transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
claudio
cloques
cloques
noun
plural of cloque
cloquet
closeup
closeup
noun
(film) A video or film recording made with the camera positioned close to an actor, often so that only the head or face is visible.
closure
closure
noun
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The act of shutting; a closing.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
clotbur
clotbur
noun
(UK, dialect) The burdock.
The cocklebur.
cloture
cloture
noun
(law, politics, chiefly US) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
verb
To end legislative debate by this means.
clouded
clouded
adj
(figurative) Unclear; surrounded in mystery.
Filled with clouds.
Made dim or blurry.
Variegated with spots.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cloud
cloughs
cloughs
noun
plural of clough
cloured
cloured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clour
clouted
clouted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clout
clouter
clouter
noun
(obsolete) One who patches clothes.
One who clouts or strikes.
clubdom
clubdom
noun
The world or sphere of clubs (membership organisations).
coagula
coagula
noun
plural of coagulum
coagule
cocalus
coccule
cocullo
coequal
coequal
adj
Equal to each other in size, rank or position.
noun
An equal person or thing.
colauxe
colburn
colinus
collaud
collaud
verb
(obsolete) To join in praising.
collude
collude
verb
(intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire
colobus
colobus
noun
(zoology) Any of several large arboreal African monkeys of the genus Colobus.
colonus
colonus
noun
(historical) A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.
colorum
colorum
noun
(Philippines) A public transport vehicle operating without a franchise.
(Philippines) A rebel organization characterized by religious fanaticism or a member thereof.
colours
colours
noun
(nautical) Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern.
plural of colour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colour