(decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abate
abater
abater
noun
One who, or that which, abates.
abates
abates
noun
plural of abate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abate
abbate
abbate
noun
Alternative form of abate (“Italian abbot”)
An Italian abbot, or similar clergyman in minor orders
abbest
abdest
abdest
noun
(Islam) The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.
abient
abient
adj
(psychology) Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.
abject
abject
adj
(chiefly with a negative connotation) Complete; downright; utter.
(rare) Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
noun
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
verb
(mycology) Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).
To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
ablate
ablate
verb
(intransitive) To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.
(transitive) To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
ablest
ablest
adj
superlative form of able: most able
ablute
ablute
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To wash oneself.
(transitive, colloquial) To wash.
absent
absent
adj
(comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
(not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
(not comparable) Not existing; lacking.
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) An absentee; a person who is not there.
(with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.
prep
In the absence of; without; except.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
(reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.
(transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.
(transitive, rare) Leave.
albeit
albeit
conj
Although, despite (it) being.
albert
albite
albite
noun
(mineralogy) A plagioclase feldspar, the first member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series.
ambert
antebi
arbute
arbute
noun
(archaic, countable) The strawberry tree.
(archaic, uncountable) The wood of the strawberry tree.
artabe
asbest
atabeg
atabeg
noun
(historical) A high medieval Turkish feudal title, originally charged with the caretaking and mentoring of the realm's crown prince.
atabek
aubert
babite
backet
backet
noun
(Scotland) A shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes, coals, etc.
baetyl
baetyl
noun
(historical) A meteorite or similar-looking rough stone thought to be of divine origin and worshipped as sacred.
bagnet
bagnet
noun
(Philippines) crispy pork belly
baguet
baguet
noun
(architecture, zoology) Alternative form of baguette
baited
baited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bait
baiter
baiter
noun
(Internet, slang) A troll who deliberately posts aggravating messages on a message board to elicit responses.
Agent noun of bait; one who baits, as a fishhook.
balate
balete
ballet
ballet
noun
(figurative) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
(heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
(music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
A classical form of dance.
A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
The company of persons who perform this dance.
verb
To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
baltei
baltei
noun
plural of balteus
balter
balter
verb
(intransitive) To tumble; dance clumsily.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To become tangled or matted.
(transitive) To tread down in a clumsy manner.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To tangle; clot; mat (as in the hair).
banate
banate
noun
Synonym of banat
banket
banket
noun
A sweet almond dessert pastry that originated in the Netherlands.
bannet
banter
banter
noun
Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
verb
(UK, dialect) To haggle; cheapen the price.
(intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
(intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
(transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
(transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
(transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
(transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
barbet
barbet
noun
A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.
Any larva of an indefinite number of species of the beetle family Coccinellidae, that is covered in waxy threads and feeds on aphids and similar small prey.
Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.
barest
barest
adj
superlative form of bare: most bare
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of bear
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of bare
barite
barite
noun
(mineralogy) A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO₄.
barnet
barnet
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) hair (on one's head)
barret
barret
noun
A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers.
The flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.
bartel
barter
barter
noun
An exchange of goods or services without the use of money.
The goods or services used in such an exchange.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money.
bartie
bartle
baryte
baryte
noun
Alternative form of barite
basest
basest
adj
superlative form of base: most base
basket
basket
noun
(Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
(LGBT, slang) The male genitalia and region surrounding it.
(archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
(architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
(ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
(basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
(basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
(figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
(informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
(military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
(obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
(slang) The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
(uncountable) The game of basketball.
A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
A singlestick with a basket hilt.
A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
verb
(transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
(transitive, publishing) To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.
basnet
basote
basset
basset
noun
(geology) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
(uncountable, card games) A card game resembling faro.
A basset hound.
verb
(geology, intransitive) To incline upward so as to appear at the surface.
basted
basted
adj
Having been cooked by basting.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of baste
basten
baster
baster
noun
A tool for basting meat with fat or gravy.
One who bastes.
bastes
bastes
noun
plural of baste
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baste
bateau
bateau
noun
A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
batell
batete
bathed
bathed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bath
simple past tense and past participle of bathe
bather
bather
noun
A bathing costume
A sunbather
One who bathes (cleans oneself with water, for example in a bathtub).
One who gives a bath to another.
One who immerses oneself in water for pleasure or refreshment: one who swims (for example at a lake or beach).
bathes
bathes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bathe
batler
batlet
batlet
noun
A short bat for beating clothes when washing them.
batley
batmen
batmen
noun
plural of batman
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.
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.
batule
batule
noun
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium.
batzen
batzen
noun
(historical) A silver coin minted in Bern, Switzerland from the 15th century until the mid-19th century, equal to 10 rappen.
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
begats
begats
noun
(nonstandard) plural of begat
bejant
bejant
noun
A first-year male student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
belait
belast
belast
adj
(obsolete) burdened, charged, bound.
belate
belate
verb
(transitive) To impede; cause something to be late; delay; benight.
belita
bemata
bemoat
benita
bepart
berapt
berate
berate
verb
(transitive) to chide or scold vehemently
bernat
bertat
bertha
bertha
noun
A lace collar that covers the shoulders of a dress
besant
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.
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).
betask
betear
betear
verb
(transitive) To wet with tears.
(transitive, obsolete) To tear; tear around the sides of; tatter.
betoya
betrap
betrap
verb
(transitive) To catch in a trap; entrap; ensnare; enclose.
(transitive) To furnish (a horse) with trappings; deck; adorn.
betray
betray
verb
(transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
(transitive) To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
(transitive) To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
(transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
(transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
(transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
bettas
bettas
noun
plural of betta
betula
bezant
bezant
noun
(heraldry) The heraldic representation of a gold coin.
(history) A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
bigate
binate
binate
adj
(botany) Double; growing in pairs or couples.
verb
(Catholicism, intransitive) To perform bination; to hold Mass twice on the same day.
bitake
bleats
bleats
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bleat
bleaty
bleaty
adj
Having a bleating sound.
bletia
boated
boated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of boat
boatel
boatel
noun
(nautical) A ship, normally moored alongside a quay, used as a hotel
boaten
boater
boater
noun
(nautical) One who works on a boat, especially as captain.
(nautical) Someone who travels by boat.
A straw hat, very stiff, with a flat brim and crown.
boatie
boatie
noun
(childish, or endearing) A boat.
A boater (someone who travels by boat)
borate
borate
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion BO₃³⁻ or any of several more complex derivatives
A salt or ester formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical
bovate
bovate
noun
(historical) Synonym of oxgang
breast
breast
noun
(anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
(anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
(mining) The face of a coal working.
(mining) The front of a furnace.
(obsolete) The power of singing; a musical voice.
(swimming) The breaststroke.
A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
A section of clothing covering the breast area.
The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.
The front or forward part of anything.
The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.
verb
(transitive, cooking) To debreast.
(transitive, often figurative) To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
To reach the top (of a hill).
breath
breath
adj
(phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) voiceless, surd; contrasting with voice (breath sounds, voice sounds)
noun
(countable) A rest or pause.
(countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
(obsolete) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
(obsolete) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.
(uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs.
(uncountable) The act or process of breathing.
A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
verb
Misspelling of breathe.
bretta
brieta
butane
butane
noun
(organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C₄H₁₀ n-butane, and 2-methyl-propane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.
(organic chemistry, uncountable) The n-butane isomer only.
cablet
cablet
noun
A slender cable.
cabret
dablet
debate
debate
noun
(frequently in the French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
(obsolete) Strife, discord.
(uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To fight.
(obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
(transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
(transitive, intransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
eartab
ebarta
eberta
elbart
ethban
gabert
gabert
noun
(Scotland) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
gablet
gablet
noun
(architecture) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.