(transitive, obsolete) To consume gradually; to waste away.
abused
abused
adj
(obsolete) Deluded, deceived.
Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.
Overused; used profligately or in excess.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abuse
abusee
abusee
noun
A person who is the victim of abuse (by an abuser).
abuser
abuser
noun
(obsolete) One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use.
One who abuses someone or something.
abuses
abuses
noun
plural of abuse
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abuse
basque
basque
noun
A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.
The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist.
bauske
beatus
beatus
noun
(religion) A person who has been beatified.
beauts
beauts
noun
plural of beaut
bebusy
bebusy
verb
(intransitive or reflexive, rare) To make or be busy; occupy.
bedusk
bedust
bedust
verb
(archaic) To cover with dust.
begums
begums
noun
plural of begum
bemuse
bemuse
verb
(archaic, humorous) To devote to the Muses.
(obsolete, slang, transitive) To make drunk; to intoxicate.
(transitive) To confuse or bewilder.
(transitive, sometimes proscribed) To be amused, especially sardonically.
bemusk
berust
beslur
besmut
besmut
verb
(transitive) To blacken with smut; foul with soot.
besoul
besoul
verb
(transitive) To imbue or endow with a soul.
besour
besour
Verb
To make sour.
bestud
bestud
verb
(transitive) To set with or as with studs; adorn with bosses.
besugo
besuit
besuit
verb
(transitive) To be fitting or appropriate; befit; suit
bisque
bisque
adj
Of a pale pinkish brown colour.
noun
(British parliament) Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.
(ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
(chiefly BBC, historical) A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
(sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
A pale pinkish brown colour.
A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
verb
(transitive) To prepare ceramics in the bisque style.
blouse
blouse
noun
(India) A short garment worn under a sari.
(fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
(fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
(military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
Alternative form of blouze
Alternative form of blowess
Alternative form of blowze
verb
(military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
To hang a garment in loose folds.
bluest
bluest
adj
superlative form of blue: most blue
bluesy
bluesy
adj
(music, informal) Characteristic of, or similar to, the blues (a genre of music).
bluets
bluets
noun
plural of bluet
blueys
blueys
noun
plural of bluey
blumes
boelus
boreus
bosque
bosque
noun
(Southwestern US) A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
Rare spelling of bosk.
boules
boules
noun
bowls; a game played with metal balls.
plural of boule
bourse
bourse
noun
(botany) The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.
(figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
(philately) A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
A stock exchange.
boused
boused
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bouse
bouser
bouser
noun
Obsolete form of boozer.
bouses
bouses
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bouse
brause
bruges
bruise
bruise
noun
A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
verb
(intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
(intransitive) To become bruised.
(intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
(transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
(transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
(transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
(transitive, figurative) To harm or injure.
brules
brumes
brumes
noun
plural of brume
brutes
brutes
noun
plural of brute
buboes
buboes
noun
plural of bubo
budges
budges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of budge
buenas
buenos
bugles
bugles
noun
plural of bugle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bugle
bulges
bulges
noun
plural of bulge
bulies
bunsen
bunsen
Noun
Bunsen burner
burets
burets
noun
plural of buret
buries
buries
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bury
burkes
burkes
noun
plural of burke
bursae
bursae
noun
plural of bursa
burses
burses
noun
plural of burse
buseck
busera
bushed
bushed
adj
(Australia) Lost in the bush.
(Canada) Mentally unwell due to isolation, especially due to working in a remote mine or camp; experiencing cabin fever.
(informal) Very tired; exhausted.
Incorporating a bush, a mechanical part.
bushel
bushel
noun
(UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
(colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
(historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
verb
(US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
busher
busher
noun
(US, baseball, slang) A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.
bushes
bushes
noun
plural of bush
bushet
bushet
noun
A small bush.
bushey
bushie
bushie
noun
(Australia, colloquial) Someone who lives in or is familiar with the Australian outback; a bushman or bushwoman.
busied
busied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of busy
busiek
busier
busier
adj
comparative form of busy: more busy
busies
busies
noun
plural of busy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of busy
busine
busine
noun
Alternative form of buisine
busked
busked
adj
Wearing a busk.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of busk
busker
busker
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada, US) A person who makes money by passing the hat (soliciting donations) while entertaining the public (often by playing a musical instrument) on the streets or in other public area such as a park or market.
busket
busket
noun
(obsolete) A small bush.
(obsolete) A sprig or bouquet.
(obsolete) Part of a garden devoted to shrubs.
buskle
buskle
verb
(transitive, intransitive, often reflexive) To prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle
busmen
busmen
noun
plural of busman
bussed
bussed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bus
simple past tense and past participle of buss
busser
busser
noun
(US) Assistant waiter; one who busses.
(historical) A mid-sized horse used to pull a bus.
busses
busses
noun
plural of bus (alternative spelling of buses).
plural of buss
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bus, Alternative spelling of buses
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buss
bussey
busted
busted
adj
(often used in combination with an adjective) Having a certain type of bust (breasts; cleavage).
(slang) Broke; having no money.
(slang) Broken.
(slang) Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.
(slang) Extremely ugly.
(slang) Tired.
(video games, slang) Extremely overpowered.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bust
bustee
bustee
Noun
A slum.
buster
buster
noun
(Australia and New Zealand) A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
(US, in particular, dated, slang) A broncobuster.
(US, regional) A molting crab.
(chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
(chiefly law enforcement slang) Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.
(chiefly military slang) Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
(colloquial, variously expressing familiarity, admiration, or hostility) A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)
(dated, slang) A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.
(dated, slang) Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc..
(gambling, slang) A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.
(obsolete, slang) A drinking spree, a binge.
(obsolete, slang) A loaf of bread.
bustle
bustle
noun
(computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
(countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.
(historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
verb
(transitive) To push around, to importune.
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
buteos
buteos
noun
plural of buteo
butles
butles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butle
buttes
buttes
noun
plural of butte
buyers
buyers
noun
plural of buyer
buzzes
buzzes
noun
plural of buzz
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buzz
cubebs
cubebs
noun
plural of cubeb
cubers
cubers
noun
plural of cuber
daubes
daubes
noun
plural of daube
debugs
debugs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debug
debuts
debuts
noun
plural of debut
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debut
dubose
ebulus
elbrus
elbrus
Proper noun
An inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia. Mt. Elbrus's highest peak is the highest mountain in the Caucasus, in Russia.
embush
embush
verb
(obsolete) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
embusk
embusy
embusy
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To employ; keep busy.
erebus
erebus
Proper noun
One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
A volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.
exurbs
exurbs
noun
plural of exurb
hexsub
imbues
imbues
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbue
jebusi
libuse
mabuse
obelus
obelus
noun
(historical) A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant; an obelisk.
A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date; an obelisk.
obtuse
obtuse
adj
(botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
(geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
(geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
(now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
Indirect or circuitous.
Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.
rebush
rebush
verb
(transitive) To furnish with a new bush or lining.
rebusy
rebuts
rebuts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rebut
rebuys
rebuys
noun
plural of rebuy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rebuy
redubs
redubs
noun
plural of redub
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of redub
resnub
rubens
rubies
rubies
noun
plural of ruby
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ruby
rubles
rubles
noun
plural of ruble
sebums
stuber
suable
suable
adj
Alternative spelling of sueable
subage
subbed
subbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sub
subdeb
subdeb
noun
(informal) Clipping of subdebutante.
subdie
subdue
subdue
verb
To bring (a country) under control by force.
To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
subers
subeth
subeth
noun
(historical, rare) Abnormal, especially excessively deep, sleep.
subfeu
subfeu
noun
(Scotland law, historical) A feu sublet by a vassal to a subvassal: a right to hold subinfeudated land in perpetuity in exchange for rent.
verb
(transitive and intransitive, Scotland law, historical) To subinfeud: to grant land via a subfeu.
subget
subjee
sublet
sublet
noun
(property law, real estate, informal) Synonym of sublease.
verb
(transitive, property law) To grant a sublease out of property held under a lease.
submen
submen
noun
plural of subman
subnet
subnet
noun
(networking) A portion of a network that shares a network address in which each component is identified by a number.
(topology) The abstraction of a sequence.
verb
(transitive, networking) To break (a network) into subnets.
subnex
subsea
subsea
adj
Beneath the sea.
subset
subset
noun
(set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.
A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group.
verb
(transitive) To take a subset of.
(transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.
subtle
subtle
adj
(obsolete) Refined; exquisite.
(of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful.
(of a thing) Cleverly contrived.
Barely noticeable, not obvious, indistinct.
Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood.
Insidious.
Tenuous; rarefied; of low density or thin consistency.
superb
superb
adj
First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
surbed
surbed
verb
(transitive) To set (a stone) edgewise, in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.