(obsolete except historical) A wooden crossbow with a special drawing mechanism, used to fire bolts, stones etc.
arboles
bailers
bailers
noun
plural of bailer
bailors
bailors
noun
plural of bailor
balkers
balkers
noun
plural of balker
ballers
ballers
noun
plural of baller
barbels
barbels
noun
plural of barbel
barless
barless
adj
Lacking bars or a bar.
barleys
barleys
noun
plural of barley (varieties)
barlows
barrels
barrels
noun
plural of barrel
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barrel
baseler
basilar
basilar
adj
(anatomy, relational) Of, pertaining to, or located at a base, but especially at the base of the skull or an organ of Corti.
Lower, inferior, base.
basural
bawlers
bawlers
noun
plural of bawler
beliers
beliers
noun
plural of belier
belsire
belsire
noun
grandfather; old man.
berlins
berlins
noun
plural of berlin
berstel
bilders
bilkers
bilkers
noun
plural of bilker
billers
billers
noun
plural of biller
birlers
birlers
noun
plural of birler
blamers
blamers
noun
plural of blamer
blaster
blaster
noun
(golf, slang) A sand wedge.
(science fiction) An unspecified powerful hand weapon, usually one that fires an energy pulse or beam.
A device to detonate an explosive, often consisting of a box with a handle to be pressed down.
Anything that, or anyone who blasts.
blazers
blazers
noun
plural of blazer
blesser
blesser
noun
(slang, South Africa) A rich man who offers support (typically financial and material) to a younger female companion in exchange for sex, friendship, etc.
One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
blister
blister
noun
(medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
(roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
(uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
A cause of annoyance.
A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
A swelling on a plant.
A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula.
verb
(cooking, transitive) To sear after blaching.
(intransitive) To break out in blisters.
(intransitive) To have a blister form.
(transitive) To criticise severely.
(transitive) To raise blisters on.
blowers
blowers
noun
plural of blower
blusher
blusher
noun
(countable) Agent noun of blush; one who blushes.
(countable) Any of several closely related, edible species of the genus Amanita, including Amanita rubescens and Amanita novinupta.
(countable, uncountable) Face makeup that makes the cheeks rosier.
bluster
bluster
noun
Fitful noise and violence.
Pompous, officious talk.
verb
To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
To speak or protest loudly.
boilers
boilers
noun
plural of boiler
boleros
boleros
noun
plural of bolero
bolster
bolster
noun
(architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
(military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
(vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
A large cushion or pillow.
A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
verb
(transitive, often figurative) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
bolters
bolters
noun
plural of bolter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bolter
bordels
bordels
noun
plural of bordel
borlase
borstal
borstal
noun
(Britain, Ireland) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
(UK) A way up a hill in the South Downs.
(historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
bowlers
bowlers
noun
plural of bowler
braless
braless
adj
Not wearing a bra.
branles
branles
noun
plural of branle
bransle
bransle
noun
Obsolete form of branle.
brashly
brashly
adv
In a brash manner.
brasils
brawlis
brawlys
brazils
brazils
noun
plural of brazil
breslau
breslau
Proper noun
Wroclaw
bridals
bridals
noun
plural of bridal
bridles
bridles
noun
plural of bridle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bridle
briskly
briskly
adv
Fast, quickly, swiftly.
bristle
bristle
noun
A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
A stiff or coarse hair, usually and especially on a nonhuman mammal.
The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
verb
(with at) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
To abound, to have an abundance of something.
To fix a bristle to.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
bristly
bristly
adj
Covered with bristles.
Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.
bristol
bristol
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breast
bromals
bromals
noun
plural of bromal
brulots
bruskly
bruskly
adv
Alternative spelling of brusquely
brussel
brustle
brustle
noun
(obsolete or dialect) A bristle.
verb
To crackle; to rustle.
To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
bryales
bslarch
buglers
buglers
noun
plural of bugler
bulgers
bulgers
noun
plural of bulger
bulgurs
bulgurs
noun
plural of bulgur
bulrush
bulrush
noun
(Americas) Sedges in the genera Bolboschoenus or Schoenoplectus (formerly considered Scirpus), having clusters of spikelets.
(UK) Cattails or reedmace, in the genus Typha
(biblical) A plant referred to in the story of Moses as growing along the banks of the Nile, which is believed to be the papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).
burbles
burbles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of burble
burgles
burgles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of burgle
burials
burials
noun
plural of burial
buriels
burlaps
burlaps
noun
plural of burlap
burlers
burlers
noun
plural of burler
burlesk
burlesk
noun
Obsolete form of burlesque.
burleys
burleys
noun
plural of burley
burlies
bursula
buscarl
bustler
bustler
noun
One who bustles; an active, stirring person.
butlers
butlers
noun
plural of butler
corbels
corbels
noun
plural of corbel
fablers
fablers
noun
plural of fabler
fibrils
fibrils
noun
plural of fibril
garbles
garbles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of garble
gerbils
gerbils
noun
plural of gerbil
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gerbil
gorbals
herbals
herbals
noun
plural of herbal
labores
labours
labours
noun
plural of labour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of labour
labrets
labrets
noun
plural of labret
labrose
labrose
adj
Having thick lips.
labrums
lambers
lambers
noun
plural of lamber
libbers
libbers
noun
plural of libber
limbers
limbers
noun
plural of limber
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of limber
lobbers
lobbers
noun
plural of lobber
lobster
lobster
adj
red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
noun
(slang) An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
(slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.
A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
verb
To fish for lobsters.
lubbers
lubbers
noun
plural of lubber
lumbars
lumbars
noun
plural of lumbar
lumbers
lumbers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lumber
marbles
marbles
noun
(figurative, usually in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
(motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
plural of marble
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marble
olsburg
orbless
orbless
adj
Without an orb or orbs.
rabbles
rabbles
noun
plural of rabble
railbus
railbus
noun
(rail transport) A lightweight passenger railway vehicle, similar in appearance to a bus
rambles
rambles
noun
plural of ramble
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ramble
rebills
rebills
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rebill
reblast
reblast
verb
To blast again.
rebless
rebless
verb
(transitive) To bless again.
reboils
reboils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reboil