(South Africa) An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address.
plural of baa
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baa
babs
babs
noun
plural of bab
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bab
bads
bads
noun
plural of bad
bags
bags
intj
Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
noun
(often in the phrase 'bags of') A large quantity.
(slang) Loose-fitting trousers.
plural of bag
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To reserve for oneself.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bag
bais
bais
noun
plural of bai
bals
bams
bams
noun
plural of bam
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bam
bans
bans
noun
Misspelling of banns.
plural of ban
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ban
bars
bars
noun
(gymnastics) Ellipsis of parallel bars.
(gymnastics) Ellipsis of uneven bars.
(slang) Well-constructed rap lyrics.
(sports) An event in gymnastics using bars.
plural of bar
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bar
basc
base
base
adj
(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
(law) Not held by honourable service.
(now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
(obsolete) Low in height; short.
(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
(obsolete) Of low value or degree.
(of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
Low in place or position.
Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
Not classical or correct.
Obsolete form of bass.
noun
(Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
(acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
(archaic) The housing of a horse.
(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
(aviation) Short for base leg.
(baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
(biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
(cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
(geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
(group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
(historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
(mathematics) Synonym of radix.
(military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
(music) Dated form of bass.
(now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
(obsolete) An apron.
(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
(politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
(slang) freebase cocaine
(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
Alternative form of BASE
Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
verb
(acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
(slang) To freebase.
(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
bash
bash
noun
(UK, informal) An attempt at doing something.
(informal) A forceful blow or impact.
(informal) A large party; a gala event.
verb
(informal) To collide; used with into or together.
(informal) To strike heavily.
(obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
(transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.
bask
bask
verb
(figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
bass
bass
adj
Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
noun
(music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
A low spectrum of sound tones.
A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
One who sings in the bass range.
The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
verb
To sound in a deep tone.
bast
bast
noun
Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
bats
bats
adj
(informal) Mad, insane.
noun
plural of bat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bat
bays
bays
noun
(obsolete) Baize.
plural of bay
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bay
bbls
bbls
noun
plural of bbl
bcbs
bchs
bcws
bdes
bdls
bdsa
beds
beds
noun
plural of bed
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bed
bees
bees
noun
plural of bee
begs
begs
noun
plural of beg
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beg
bels
bels
noun
plural of bel
bens
bens
noun
(job advertisements) benefits
plural of ben
besa
bess
best
best
adj
Most superior; most favorable.
Most; largest.
superlative form of good: most good.
adv
To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
superlative form of well: most well
noun
(countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
(uncountable) One's best behavior.
(uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
verb
(modal verb, colloquial) Had best.
(transitive) To beat in a contest.
To surpass in skill or achievement.
bets
bets
noun
plural of bet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bet
beys
beys
noun
plural of bey
bias
bias
adj
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
adv
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
noun
(South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
(countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
(countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
(sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
(statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
verb
(electronics) To give a bias to.
(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
bibs
bibs
noun
another name for overalls
plural of bib
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bib
bics
bids
bids
noun
plural of bid
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bid
bins
bins
noun
(birding, slang) Binoculars.
(slang) Eyeglasses or spectacles.
plural of bin
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bin
bios
bios
noun
(obsolete) A vitamin essential for the growth of yeast, since found to be several B vitamins.
In the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, a particular mode of life; "qualified life", as opposed to the bare life or zoe.
plural of bio
bise
bise
noun
A cold, dry, northerly wind in France, Switzerland, etc.
Alternative form of bice (blue pigment)
bish
bish
noun
(Britain, slang) Clipping of bishop.
(Britain, slang, dated) A mistake.
(chess) Abbreviation of bishop.
(slang) A minced oath, a euphemism by phonetic modification of "bitch" (as a term of abuse).
bisk
bisk
noun
(sports) Alternative form of bisque (“extra turn”)
Alternative form of bisque (“kind of soup”)
bisp
bist
bist
verb
(UK dialectal, Black Country, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Originally used to form the second person singular of be, but can denote other present tense forms, such as: are, am, is
How bist?
I bist goin' 'ome.
Where bist goin'.
bits
bits
noun
(MLE) neighbourhood; hood; manor; ends.
plural of bit
blas
blds
blus
bmus
bnsc
boas
boas
noun
plural of boa
bobs
bobs
noun
plural of bob
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bob
bods
bods
noun
plural of bod
bogs
bogs
noun
plural of bog
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bog
bohs
bois
bois
noun
plural of boi
bons
boos
boos
noun
plural of boo
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of boo
bops
bops
noun
plural of bop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bop
bors
bors
noun
plural of bor
bosc
bose
bose
verb
(usually archaeology) To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
bosh
bosh
intj
(Britain) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.
(chiefly Britain) An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
noun
(Britain, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure.
(chiefly Britain) Nonsense.
A fiddle (musical instrument).
The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
verb
(UK, slang, transitive) To consume (illicit drugs).
bosk
bosk
noun
(archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
(obsolete except dialectal) A bush.
bosn
boss
boss
adj
(slang, US, Canada, Liverpudlian) Of excellent quality, first-rate.
noun
(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
(architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
(humorous) Wife.
(informal, especially India and MLE) A term of address to a man.
(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.
(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
A head or reservoir of water.
A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
A person in charge of a business or company.
A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
The head of a political party in a given region or district.
verb
(transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.
(transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.
bots
bots
noun
plural of bot
bows
bows
noun
plural of bow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bow
boys
boys
noun
(slang) The testicles.
plural of boy
bpps
bpss
bras
bras
noun
plural of bra
brcs
bres
bris
bris
noun
(Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
bros
bros
noun
plural of bro
bsaa
bsae
bsba
bsbh
bsce
bsch
bscm
bscp
bsec
bsed
bsee
bsem
bsep
bses
bsfm
bsfs
bsft
bsge
bsha
bshe
bsie
bsir
bsit
bskt
bslm
bsls
bsme
bsmt
bsna
bsoc
bsot
bspa
bspe
bsph
bspt
bsrt
bssa
bssc
bsse
bsss
bstj
bubs
bubs
noun
plural of bub
buds
buds
noun
plural of bud
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bud
bugs
bugs
adj
(slang) Crazy; unstable.
noun
plural of bug
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bug
bums
bums
noun
plural of bum
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bum
buns
buns
noun
(euphemistic) The buttocks.
plural of bun
burs
burs
noun
plural of bur
bush
bush
adj
(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
adv
(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
noun
(Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
(Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
(Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
(New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
(historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
(often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
(slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
verb
(intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
(transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
To become bushy (often used with up).
To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
busk
busk
noun
(by extension) A corset.
(obsolete) A kind of linen.
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
verb
(intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
(intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
(nautical) To tack, cruise about.
(obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.
(obsolete, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
buss
buss
noun
(archaic) A kiss.
A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
verb
(intransitive) To kiss.
(transitive, now often poetic or dialectal) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
bust
bust
adj
(slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
noun
(chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
(economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
(slang) A disappointment.
(slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
(slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
(slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
(sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
verb
(US, informal) To reduce in rank.
(blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
(chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
(finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
(intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.
(journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
(poker) To lose all of one's chips.
(snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
(transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
(transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
(transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
(transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
(transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
busy
busy
adj
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
Engaged in activity or by someone else.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Officious; meddling.
noun
(slang, UK, Liverpudlian, derogatory) A police officer.
verb
(transitive) To rush somebody.
(transitive, usually reflexive) To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.
buts
buts
noun
plural of but
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of but
buys
buys
noun
plural of buy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buy
bvds
bvds
Noun
A type of men's long underwear.
bwts
byes
byes
noun
plural of bye
byss
cabs
cabs
noun
plural of cab
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cab
cbds
cobs
cobs
noun
plural of cob
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cob
csab
cubs
cubs
noun
plural of cub
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cub
dabs
dabs
noun
plural of dab
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dab
dbas
dbas
noun
plural of dba
dbms
debs
debs
noun
plural of deb
dibs
dibs
intj
(informal) Used to claim this right
noun
(dated) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.
(informal) The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else.
(obsolete) A child's game, played with dib bones or stones, throwing them up from one's palm and catching them on the back of the hand.
plural of dib
verb
(informal) To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve.