(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.
abrasive
abrasive
adj
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
noun
(geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
absolver
absolver
noun
Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
arbovale
bavarian
bavarian
noun
A type of custard-like food, made with fruit.
bavarois
bavarois
noun
A pudding similar to pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or cornstarch, and flavoured with liqueur.
beauvoir
beavered
beavered
adj
(historical) Having or wearing a beaver (part of a helmet covering the lower face).
Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
Synonym of bearded.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beaver
bedravel
beetrave
beetrave
noun
(archaic) The common beet, Beta vulgaris.
befavour
behavers
behavers
noun
plural of behaver
behavior
behavior
noun
(countable) An instance of the way a living creature behaves.
(countable, uncountable, biology, psychology) Observable response produced by an organism.
(uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.
(uncountable) The way a device or system operates.
(uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
(uncountable, informal) A state of probation about one's conduct.
berdyaev
bereaved
bereaved
adj
having suffered the death of a loved one
bereaven
bereaven
adj
(obsolete) bereft
bereaver
bereaver
noun
Someone who bereaves.
bereaves
bereaves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bereave
berreave
beslaver
beslaver
verb
(transitive) To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
(transitive, figuratively) To cover with fulsome flattery.
bestarve
betravel
betravel
verb
(transitive) To travel over; overrun with travellers.
bevaring
bevatron
bevatron
noun
A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
beverage
beverage
noun
(Britain, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.
(chiefly Canada, US) A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks, usually excluding water.
bhairava
bhairavi
biovular
biovular
adj
(of twins) derived from two separate ova; non-identical or fraternal
biverbal
biverbal
adj
Of or pertaining to two verbs
Of or pertaining to two words
punning
bolivars
borislav
boshvark
bovarism
bovarism
noun
Alternative spelling of bovarysm
bovarist
bovarysm
bovarysm
noun
(psychology) An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality.
An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself.
bratstva
bratstva
noun
plural of bratstvo
bratstvo
bratstvo
noun
(historical) A union of Eastern Orthodox citizens or lay brothers affiliated with individual churches in cities throughout the Ruthenian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
bravados
bravoing
bravoing
verb
present participle of bravo
bravoite
bravuras
breviary
breviary
noun
(obsolete) A brief statement or summary.
A book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours.
breviate
breviate
noun
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
A lawyer's brief.
A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
burgrave
burgrave
noun
(historical) The military governor of a town or castle in the Middle Ages, especially in German-speaking Europe; a nobleman of the same status.
One who holds a hereditary title, with an associated domain, descended from an ancestor who commanded a burg, especially in German-speaking Europe.
cabreuva
cabreuva
noun
The flowering plant Myrocarpus frondosus.
deverbal
deverbal
adj
(grammar, linguistics) Derived from a verb.
noun
(grammar, linguistics) A word, especially a substantive, that is derived from a verb.
drivable
drivable
adj
Capable of being driven (as a vehicle).
Capable of being driven on safely or successfully (as a road or other surface).
ebervale
evibrate
evibrate
verb
(obsolete) To vibrate.
obviator
obviator
noun
One who obviates.
outbrave
outbrave
verb
To be more brave than.
To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
To surpass or outrival.
overable
overably
overbade
overbait
overbake
overbake
verb
(transitive) To bake for too long.
overbalm
overbank
overbank
adj
(geology) Describing sediments deposited on a floodplain from suspensions in floodwaters
verb
(of an aircraft) To bank excessively
overbark
overbase
overbear
overbear
verb
(intransitive) To produce an overabundance of fruit.
(obsolete, transitive) To carry over.
(transitive) To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.
(transitive) To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.
overbeat
overbeat
verb
(transitive) To beat (eggs, cream, etc.) for too long, impairing the texture.
overbias
overbias
noun
The use of more bias current in an analog magnetic recorder than is required for maximum sensitivity.
verb
To use more bias current in an analog magnetic recorder than is required for maximum sensitivity.
overbrag
overbray
provable
provable
adj
Of a statement or hypothesis that can be proven.
provably
provably
adv
With proof; in a provable manner.
roberval
servable
servable
adj
(obsolete) Capable of being preserved.
Capable (as a meal, lawsuit, etc.) of being served.
servolab
servotab
subvicar
subviral
subviral
adj
Pertaining to a structural part of a virus.
svalbard
unbraved
unbraved
adj
Not braved.
unverbal
vambrace
vambrace
noun
(historical) The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
(historical) The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist.
vambrash
vanbrace
vanbrace
noun
Alternative form of vambrace
vanbrugh
variable
variable
adj
(biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
(mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.
Able to vary or be varied.
Likely to vary.
Marked by diversity or difference.
noun
(astronomy) A variable star.
(mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
(mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.
(nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
(nautical, in the plural) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
Something that is variable.
Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
variably
variably
adv
In a variable manner.
vartabed
vartabed
noun
Alternative form of vardapet
veerable
verbally
verbally
adv
In a verbal manner; with words; by speaking.
verbasco
verbatim
verbatim
adj
(of a document) Corresponding with the original word for word.
(of a person) Able to take down a speech word for word, especially in shorthand.
adv
(obsolete) Orally; verbally.
Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.
noun
A word-for-word report of a speech.
verbenas
verbenas
noun
plural of verbena
verbenia
verbiage
verbiage
noun
Overabundance of words.
The manner in which something is expressed in words.
versable
versable
Adjective
Capable of being turned.
vertebra
vertebra
noun
(anatomy) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.
vibrance
vibrance
noun
Synonym of vibrancy
vibrancy
vibrancy
noun
The quality of being vibrant.
vibrants
vibrants
noun
plural of vibrant
vibrated
vibrated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vibrate
vibrates
vibrates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vibrate
vibrator
vibrator
noun
(historical) A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
(weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
A trembler, as of an electric bell.
A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.
An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
An oscillator.
vibratos
vibratos
noun
plural of vibrato
vibrissa
vibrissa
noun
(anatomy, in the plural) The thick hairs found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals.
Any of the tactile whiskers on the nose of an animal such as a cat.