(literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
(literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
(now uncommon) Depth.
(uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
hyperbole: excessiveness
immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
bathyl
batiks
batiks
noun
plural of batik
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of batik
bating
bating
adj
(Cornwall, Devon, dialect) Of the moon, when it is waning.
prep
(now rare) Apart from; except.
verb
present participle of bate
batino
batino
noun
Alstonia macrophylla, Southeast Asian tree of the dogbane family
batish
batlan
batler
batlet
batlet
noun
A short bat for beating clothes when washing them.
batley
batlon
batman
batman
noun
(Turkish units of measure) A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg.
(by extension, informal) A personal assistant or supporter.
(historical units of measure) A Turkish unit of weight varying by location, time, and item from 2–8 okas (about 2.5–10 kg).
(military) A servant or valet to a military officer.
verb
(slang, mountaineering) To climb up or down a rope free hand (i.e. as Batman does).
To act as a batman, wait on an officer.
batmen
batmen
noun
plural of batman
batoid
batoid
noun
Any ray or skate of the superorder Batoidea.
batoka
batons
batons
noun
plural of baton
batoon
batoon
noun
(archaic) A baton.
verb
Archaic form of baton.
batory
batruk
batson
battak
battat
batted
batted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bat
battel
battel
adj
(obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive
noun
(UK, Eton College, obsolete) A small allowance of food collegers receive from their dames (matrons) in addition to their college allowance
(UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural) Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses.
(UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Provisions ordered from the kitchen and buttery.
(UK, law, obsolete) A single combat.
Archaic spelling of battle.
verb
(intransitive, Oxford University) To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.
(intransitive, Yeshivish) To waste, especially time.
(transitive) To make fertile.
(transitive, Yeshivish) To nullify.
(transitive, intransitive, Oxford University) To supply with provisions from the buttery.
batten
batten
noun
(nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
(theater) In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
verb
(intransitive) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
(intransitive) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
(intransitive) To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
(intransitive) To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
(intransitive, figurative) To feed (on); to revel (in).
(nautical) To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
(transitive) To fertilize or enrich, as land.
(transitive) To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
To furnish with battens.
batter
batter
noun
(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
(cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
(countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
(countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
(cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
(cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
(cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
A paste of clay or loam.
An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
verb
(UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
(cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
(military, clipping of) battle buddy
(military, now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
(military, obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
A contest, a struggle.
verb
(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
(transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
To feed or nourish (someone or something).
To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
batton
batton
noun
Archaic form of batten.
battue
battue
noun
(countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.
(uncountable, hunting, often attributively) A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc.
battus
batule
batule
noun
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium.
batumi
batumi
Proper noun
A seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia.
batzen
batzen
noun
(historical) A silver coin minted in Bern, Switzerland from the 15th century until the mid-19th century, equal to 10 rappen.
bautta
bawtie
bawtie
noun
Alternative form of bawty
baxter
baxter
noun
(obsolete, UK, Scotland) A baker; originally, a female baker.
bayeta
bayete
baylet
baylet
noun
A little bay.
beasts
beasts
noun
plural of beast
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beast
beatae
beatas
beatee
beatee
noun
One who receives a beating.
beaten
beaten
adj
(cooking, of a liquid) Mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement.
(dated) Trite; hackneyed.
Defeated.
Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows.
verb
past participle of beat
beater
beater
noun
(Canada) A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult.
(US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.
(US, informal) An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.
(informal) A shoe suitable for everyday wear, during which they may get dirty or scuffed, as opposed to more valuable shoes that one wishes to keep in good condition.
A kitchen implement for mixing.
A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom.
In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.
Someone or something that beats.
beaton
beatty
beatus
beatus
noun
(religion) A person who has been beatified.
beauti
beauts
beauts
noun
plural of beaut
beauty
beauty
adj
(Canada) Of high quality, well done.
intj
(Canada) Cool!
(Canada) Thanks!
noun
(archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
(physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
(with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
An excellent or egregious example of something.
Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
Someone who is beautiful.
Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.
bebait
bebite
beblot
beblot
verb
(transitive) To blot all over; stain.
bechet
becket
becket
noun
(England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
(nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
(nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
(nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.
(obsolete) chough (the bird)
(sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
An eye in the end of a rope.
becost
bedebt
bedirt
bedirt
verb
(transitive) To cover or defile with dirt.
bedolt
bedote
bedsit
bedsit
noun
(Britain, Ireland) A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but these amenities are more commonly outside the room and shared by several tenants.
bedust
bedust
verb
(archaic) To cover with dust.
beento
beetle
beetle
adj
Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
noun
(uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”)
Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
verb
To beat with a heavy mallet.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
To loom over; to extend or jut.
To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
befist
befits
befits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befit
befret
begats
begats
noun
(nonstandard) plural of begat
begets
begets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beget
begift
begift
verb
(transitive) To entrust; endow.
(transitive) To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
(transitive) To give as a gift.
begirt
begirt
verb
simple past tense and past participle of begird
behest
behest
noun
(obsolete) A vow; a promise.
A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of.
verb
(obsolete) To promise; vow.
behint
behoot
beirut
beirut
Proper noun
The capital city of Lebanon.
The drinking game of beer pong.
beitch
bejant
bejant
noun
A first-year male student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
beknit
beknit
verb
(transitive) To girdle or encircle.
(transitive) To knit.
beknot
belait
belast
belast
adj
(obsolete) burdened, charged, bound.
belate
belate
verb
(transitive) To impede; cause something to be late; delay; benight.
beleft
beleft
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beleave
belita
belite
bellot
beloit
beloit
Proper noun
A city in Kansas, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
A village in Ohio
A city and town in Wisconsin
belout
belout
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To address or speak of with contemptuous language.
(transitive, obsolete) To call (someone) a lout.
belted
belted
adj
(of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
(of animals etc.) Characterized by a white band around the body.
Wearing a belt.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of belt
belter
belter
noun
(Britain, informal) A very good-looking person.
(Britain, informal) Anything that is particularly good of its class.
(science fiction) A person who mines asteroids for minerals or lives in the vicinity of an asteroid belt.
A song suitable for forceful singing.
One who sings forcefully.
One who uses the specific vocal technique of belting.
beltie
beltir
beltis
belton
belton
Proper noun
an unincorporated community in Kentucky, USA.
a city in Missouri, USA.
a city in South Carolina, USA.
a city in Texas, USA
a community in Ontario, Canada.
a village in England
a village in Lincolnshire, England
a village in England
belute
belute
verb
(transitive) To bespatter, as with mud.
bemata
bemeet
bemeet
verb
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To meet with.
bement
bemete
bemete
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To measure.
bemist
bemist
verb
(transitive) To cover or envelop with mist, or as with mist.
bemixt
bemixt
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bemix; archaic spelling of bemixed.
bemoat
bemolt
benita
benito
bennet
bennet
noun
The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet.
hemlock
valerian
benoit
benote
benote
verb
(transitive, obsolete, rare) To annotate or make notes upon, especially excessively.
bently
benton
bepart
bepelt
bepelt
verb
(transitive) To pelt soundly.
bepity
bepity
verb
(archaic) To pity greatly.
berapt
berate
berate
verb
(transitive) to chide or scold vehemently
bereft
bereft
adj
(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.
Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bereave
berets
berets
noun
plural of beret
berget
bergut
berith
bernat
bernet
berret
berret
noun
Archaic form of beret.
bertat
bertha
bertha
noun
A lace collar that covers the shoulders of a dress
berthe
berths
berths
noun
plural of berth
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of berth
bertie
bertie
Proper noun
A diminutive of Bertram, Albert or of any male given names ending in -bert.
bertin
bertle
berton
berust
besant
besets
besets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beset
besmut
besmut
verb
(transitive) To blacken with smut; foul with soot.
besoot
besoot
verb
(transitive) To soil with soot; blacken with soot; besmut.
besort
besort
noun
(obsolete) Something fitting or appropriate; suitable company, associates, or attendants.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To suit; fit; become.
besots
besots
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of besot
bespit
bespit
verb
(transitive) To spit upon (someone or something); to soil with spittle.
bespot
bespot
verb
(transitive) To make spots on; mark with spots; cover with or as with blots or blemishes.
bestab
bestad
bestar
bestar
verb
(transitive, archaic) To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to adorn or decorate with, or as with, stars.
bestay
bestay
verb
(transitive) To secure or steady; cause to come to a fixed position or state; bring to a halt or stop.
bested
bested
verb
Alternative form of bestead
simple past tense and past participle of best
bester
bester
adj
(nonstandard, informal, humorous or childish) comparative form of best: more best
noun
(UK, slang, archaic) A fraudulent bookmaker.
bestir
bestir
verb
(reflexive) To make active; to rouse oneself.
(transitive) To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor.
bestow
bestow
verb
(transitive) To apply; make use of; use; employ.
(transitive) To dispose of.
(transitive) To give in marriage.
(transitive) To give; confer; impart gratuitously; present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or honour.
(transitive) To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put (something) somewhere.
(transitive) To lodge, or find quarters for; to provide with accommodation.
(transitive, obsolete) To behave or deport.
bestud
bestud
verb
(transitive) To set with or as with studs; adorn with bosses.
besuit
besuit
verb
(transitive) To be fitting or appropriate; befit; suit
betail
betail
verb
(transitive) To furnish with a tail.
(transitive, humorous) To take the tail off.
betain
betake
betake
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To take oneself.
(reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action.
(reflexive, archaic) To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse.
(transitive) To beteach.
(transitive, archaic) To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
(transitive, obsolete) To seize; lay hold of; take.
(transitive, obsolete) To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
betalk
betalk
verb
(intransitive, dialectal) To talk repeatedly.
(transitive, chiefly dialectal, sometimes reflexive) To talk about; discuss; tell; count; give an account (of).