(archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
(nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
(obsolete or rare) In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
Near; in the vicinity.
Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
On all sides; around.
To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
prep
(Chester) Have you much hay about? = Have you much in the process of making?
(figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
(with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
(with present participle, obsolete or dialect) On the point or verge of.
Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
On one's person; nearby the person.
Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
acoup
afoul
afoul
adv
(archaic, principally nautical) In a state of collision or entanglement.
(with of) In a state of entanglement or conflict (with).
ahouh
aloud
aloud
adj
Spoken out loud.
adv
Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.
With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
alout
aluco
amour
amour
noun
(obsolete) Love, affection.
A love affair.
Courtship; flirtation.
anjou
ankou
ankou
Proper noun
The personification of death in Breton mythology.
anour
anous
aotus
aouad
apout
apout
adj
(especially of the lips or mouth) Protruding to form a pout.
artou
arulo
atour
audio
audio
adj
Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
noun
A sound, or a sound signal
aueto
auloi
auloi
noun
plural of aulos
aulos
aulos
noun
(music) Any of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or flutes.
autor
autos
autos
noun
plural of auto
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of auto
avoue
avour
ayous
baubo
bauno
bauno
noun
Mangifera caesia; a wild mango found in the Philippines.
bayou
bayou
noun
A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
bejou
bijou
bijou
adj
(Polari) small, little (often implying affection)
(of a residence) small and elegant
intricate; finely made
noun
A jewel.
A piece of jewelry; a trinket.
A small intricate piece of metalwork.
blout
bogue
bogue
noun
A bayou or waterway.
A species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic, Boops boops.
verb
(nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.
bogum
bogus
bogus
adj
(computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
(philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
Undesirable or harmful.
noun
(US, dialect) A liquor made of rum and molasses.
bohun
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.
bonum
bonus
bonus
noun
(basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
(video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
verb
(transitive) To pay a bonus, premium
bornu
bornu
Proper noun
An independent kingdom, descended from the that covered much of modern Chad and parts of Libya, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon.
borup
bosun
bosun
noun
Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”)
bottu
bouak
bouar
bouch
boucl
bouet
bouge
bouge
noun
(now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
verb
To bilge.
To swell out.
bough
bough
noun
(obsolete, figuratively, poetic) A gallows.
A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.
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”)
bound
bound
adj
(dated) Constipated; costive.
(linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
(mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
(obsolete) Ready, prepared.
(with infinitive) Obliged (to).
(with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
noun
(dated) A bounce; a rebound.
(mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
(often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
A sizeable jump, great leap.
A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
verb
(intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
(intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
(transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
(transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of.
I bound the splint to my leg.
The rabbit bounded down the lane.
To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
simple past tense and past participle of bind
bourd
bourd
noun
(obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
verb
(obsolete) To jest.
bourg
bourg
noun
Obsolete form of borough.
Obsolete form of burgh.
bourn
bourn
noun
Alternative form of bourne (“destination; limit”)
Alternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”)
bourr
bouse
bouse
noun
(obsolete) a carouse; a booze
(obsolete) drink, especially alcoholic drink
verb
(obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.
bousy
bousy
adj
Obsolete form of boozy.
bouto
bouts
bouts
noun
plural of bout
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bout
boyau
boyau
noun
(military) A small trench or ditch, typically built in a zigzag pattern, serving to connect or provide communication between two trenches, particularly the rear and front lines.
A line, drawn winding about, in order to enclose several tracts of land, or to attack some works.
broun
brout
brujo
bruno
bubos
bucco
bucko
bucko
noun
Buckaroo.
Young lad, friend, pal (used in addressing someone).
bueno
buffo
buffo
noun
(music) A comic singer, particularly in comic opera
bulow
bumbo
bumbo
noun
A drink made from rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg.
bunco
bunco
noun
(US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
(uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
A brigand.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).
bungo
bungo
noun
A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.
A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.
A large sailboat once used in Mexico.
bunko
bunko
noun
Alternative spelling of bunco
bunow
buote
buoys
buoys
noun
plural of buoy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buoy
burao
burao
noun
A tropical flowering tree, cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), found in the South Pacific.
buroo
buroo
noun
(Scotland, slang) The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.
burro
burro
noun
A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.
busto
busto
noun
(art, now rare) A bust.
buteo
buteo
noun
Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.
buxom
buxom
adj
(dated) Full of health, vigour, and good temper.
(obsolete) Physically flexible or unresisting.
(obsolete, by extension) Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.
(of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
byous
cajou
caupo
chiou
choup
chous
chous
noun
A squat, rounded form of oenochoe with a trefoil mouth.
chout
chout
noun
(British India, history) An assessment equal to a quarter of the revenue, levied by the Marathas from other Indian kingdoms as compensation for being exempted from plunder.
choux
choux
noun
plural of chou
chyou
cloud
cloud
noun
(computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
(figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
(figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
verb
(intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
(intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
(transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
(transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
(transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
(transitive) To make obscure.
(transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
(transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
clour
clour
noun
(Scotland) A blow or impingement.
verb
(Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
(Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.
clout
clout
noun
(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
(baseball, informal) A home run.
(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
A clout nail.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
verb
Dated form of clot.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To hit, especially with the fist.
To join or patch clumsily.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
cobus
cocus
cocus
noun
Brya ebenus, a Caribbean flowering tree.
coeus
coeus
Proper noun
The Titan of intelligence; the father of Leto and Asteria.
cogue
cogue
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.
cohue
colum
comus
connu
conus
conus
noun
(obsolete, geometry) A cone.
copus
copus
noun
A drink of ale mixed with spices, and varied by spirits, wines, etc.
coque
coque
noun
A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.
corfu
cornu
cornu
noun
A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
corum
couac
couch
couch
noun
(art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
(brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
(metonymically, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.
A bed, a resting-place.
An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
The den of an otter.
verb
(archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
(ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
(paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
(sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
(transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
(transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
(transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
(transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
coude
cough
cough
noun
A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame.
verb
(intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.
(intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
(transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.
could
could
noun
Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
verb
(obsolete except Tyneside) past participle of can
Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
Used to suggest something.
simple past tense of can
couma
count
count
adj
(linguistics, grammar) Countable.
noun
(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
(law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
A countdown.
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
The male ruler of a county.
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
verb
(intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.
(intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
(intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
(intransitive, UK, law, obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
(intransitive, obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
(transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
(transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
(transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
(transitive, obsolete) To recount, to tell.
coupe
coupe
noun
(US, Canada, automotive) A car with two doors (variant of coupé).
A shallow glass or glass dish, usually with a stem, in which sparkling wine or desserts are served.
A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupé)
An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.
An ice cream dessert served in a coupe glass; the glass it is served in.
coups
coups
noun
plural of coup
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coup
courb
courb
verb
(obsolete) To bend; to bow.
cours
cours
noun
Obsolete form of course.
court
court
noun
(Australia, US) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
(Hong Kong, only used in names) A housing estate under the House Ownership Scheme.
(Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
(often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
(sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
The session of a judicial assembly.
one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
verb
(intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
(intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.
(transitive) To attempt to attract.
(transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
(transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.
(transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
(transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
(transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
(transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
cousy
couth
couth
adj
(obsolete) Familiar, known; well-known, renowned.
Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
Comfortable; cosy, snug.
Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured, refined.
noun
(rare) A person with social graces; a refined or sophisticated person.
Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners.
couve
coypu
coypu
noun
A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America and introduced to Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere.
croup
croup
noun
(pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
verb
(obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.
crout
crout
noun
(archaic) sauerkraut
cruor
cruor
noun
The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore.
The colouring matter of the blood.
cuero
cukor
culot
cumol
cuneo
curio
curio
noun
A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
cusco
cusso
cusso
noun
Alternative form of kousso
cuzco
cuzco
Proper noun
A city in Peru, the former capital of the
deuno
dhoul
dogue
dolus
dolus
noun
(law) Evil intent: malice or fraud.
domus
domus
noun
(anthropology, archaeology) A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
(dated) In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.
donau
donum
donum
noun
Alternative form of dunam
donus
donut
donut
noun
(Canada, US) A spare tire, smaller and less durable than a full-sized tire, only intended for temporary use.
(Canada, US, automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a donut; a 360-degree skid.
(Canada, US, slang) An idiot.
(chiefly Canada, US) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard, or cream.
(chiefly Canada, US) Anything in the shape of a circle or torus.
A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
dorus
dorus
noun
plural of doru
douai
douar
douar
noun
A camp or village of tents in an Arabic country.
douay
doubs
doubs
Proper noun
A river running through Switzerland and France, a tributary of the Saône.
A department of France in the region of Franche-Comté.
doubt
doubt
noun
(countable, obsolete or India) A point of uncertainty; a query.
(uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
(transitive, archaic) To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
(transitive, intransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread, to fear.
(transitive, obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.