One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.
balcer
barche
bareca
bearce
becard
becard
noun
A South American flycatcher of the genus Pachyramphus
becher
becker
becker
noun
(archaic) A European fish, Pagrus pagrus
becram
becurl
becurl
verb
(transitive) To cover or deck out with curls.
(transitive, archaic) To curl; make curly.
bicker
bicker
noun
(Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
(Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
A skirmish; an encounter.
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
verb
(of rain) To patter.
To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
bierce
blcher
bocher
bracae
braced
braced
adj
(heraldry, of multiple figures of the same form) Interlaced.
Having braces or similar supports.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brace
bracer
bracer
noun
(archery) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string.
A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
Armor for the forearm; a brassard.
Something bracing; a stimulant.
That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
braces
braces
noun
(Britain) A pair of straps crossing one's shoulders and extending down to one's trousers, where a clip or button arrangement allows them to affix to the trousers, ensuring that they will not fall off.
(dated) Handcuffs.
(orthodontics) A device worn on the teeth to straighten them.
plural of brace
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brace
bracey
brache
breach
breach
noun
(archaic) A bruise; a wound.
(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
(law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
A breaking out upon; an assault.
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
verb
(intransitive, of a whale) To leap out of the water.
(law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.
(transitive) To make a breach in.
(transitive) To violate or break.
(transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
brecht
brecia
brecon
brecon
Proper noun
A town in Powys, Wales.
breech
breech
adj
(obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.
adv
(obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.
noun
(firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
(historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
(nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
(now rare) The buttocks or backside.
(obstetrics) A breech birth.
verb
(dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
(dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
(poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
(transitive) To fasten with breeching.
(transitive) To fit or furnish with a breech.
brince
broche
broche
noun
Obsolete form of brooch.
verb
Obsolete form of broach.
brucie
bucare
bucher
bucker
bucker
noun
(mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
(mining) One who bucks ore.
A horse or other animal that bucks.
bucure
cabber
cabber
noun
A horse that draws a cab.
cabers
cabers
noun
plural of caber
cabery
cabler
cabler
noun
(entertainment) A cable television network or system operator.
Someone who cables, who puts together or fixes cables.
cabree
cabree
noun
Archaic form of cabri (“pronghorn”).
cabret
cabrie
cabrie
noun
Obsolete form of cabri (“pronghorn”).
camber
camber
noun
(architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
(automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
(aviation) The curvature of an airfoil.
(nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
verb
To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
To curve upwards in the middle.
caribe
caribe
noun
piranha fish
chaber
cherub
cherub
noun
(biblical) A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
(figuratively) A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.
An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body.
cibber
cobber
cobber
noun
(Australia) A pal, buddy, mate, friend; often used in direct address by one male to another.
(Australia) A sweet consisting of a small block of hard caramel covered in chocolate.
comber
comber
noun
A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
A machine that combs wool, etc.
A person who combs wool, etc.
Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters.
combre
corbed
corbel
corbel
noun
(architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
verb
(transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
corbet
corbie
corbie
noun
A raven or crow (typically Corvus corax).
Either of two moth species of genus Oncopera, whose larvae feed on grasses, especially Oncopera intricata.
courbe
crabbe
craber
craber
noun
(archaic) The water rat.
crambe
crible
cubera
cubero
cubers
cubers
noun
plural of cuber
cumber
cumber
verb
(transitive, dated) To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
cumbre
cumbre
verb
Archaic form of cumber.
curbed
curbed
adj
restrained
verb
simple past tense and past participle of curb
curber
curber
noun
(historical slang) A type of thief who used a ‘curb’ or hooked pole to steal things through open windows.
Someone or something which curbs.
cymbre
iberic
reback
reback
verb
(transitive) To repair (a book) by replacing the spine.
rebeca
rebeck
rebeck
noun
Alternative spelling of rebec
rebecs
rebecs
noun
plural of rebec
rebuck
recomb
recomb
verb
(transitive) To comb again.
recumb
recumb
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To lean; to recline; to repose.
rehboc
rubace
rubace
noun
Alternative form of rubasse (“form of quartz”)
scrabe
scribe
scribe
noun
(archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
(informal) A journalist.
A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.ᵂ
A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
verb
(carpentry) To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
To record, as a scribe.
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
To write or draw with a scribe.
To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
To write.
scrobe
scrobe
noun
A groove in the rostrum of weevils, or on the outer side of the mandible.
terbic
terbic
adj
(chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium.