(archaic) Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.
antibug
antibug
adj
Serving to counteract bugs (surveillance devices).
Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
baignet
baiting
baiting
noun
A bloodsport involving the act of worrying or tormenting a chained or confined animal by setting dogs upon it.
The act of luring, as into a trap.
verb
present participle of bait
banting
banting
noun
(Britain, informal, archaic) A diet aimed at losing weight, mostly accomplished by avoiding carbohydrates and sweet foods.
basting
basting
noun
(archaic) A (physical) beating.
The act by which a food item is basted.
verb
present participle of baste
bathing
bathing
noun
The act of swimming.
The act of taking a bath.
verb
present participle of bath
present participle of bathe
batling
batling
noun
A young, small, or baby bat.
batting
batting
noun
(cricket, baseball) The action of using a bat.
(sewing) Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc.
Special cotton for surgery.
The act of someone who bats.
verb
present participle of bat
batwing
batwing
noun
(often attributive) An exercise or posture on the stomach wherein a dumbbell row or lateral raise is performed.
A long sleeve with a deep armhole, tapering toward the wrist.
An area of flabby fat under a person's arms.
One of a pair of swinging doors which typically do not lock nor cover the full vertical range of the doorway (leaving a large gap at the top and bottom), common especially in saloons.
Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura.
The wing of a bat, or its shape.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, Internet slang) To kill or murder; to cause the untimely demise of someone.
beating
beating
noun
A heavy defeat or setback.
The action by which someone or something is beaten.
The pulsation of the heart.
verb
present participle and gerund of beat
bedight
bedight
adj
(archaic) That has been equipped or bedecked.
verb
(archaic) To equip or bedeck.
behight
behight
verb
(dialectal, Northern England) To be designated.
(obsolete) To call; to name; to address.
(obsolete) To command; to order.
(obsolete) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
(obsolete) To mean, or intend.
(obsolete, transitive) To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
(obsolete, transitive) To vow, promise (someone).
beignet
beignet
noun
(UK) A fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling).
(US) A Louisiana-style fried doughnut or fritter covered in powdered sugar.
belight
belight
verb
(intransitive, rare, dialectal) To become lit up; shine up; dawn.
(transitive, rare, dialectal) To light up; illuminate.
belting
belting
adj
(Northern English dialect) Very good; exceptional (can also be used adverbially)
noun
(figuratively) A thorough defeat; a thrashing.
(music, uncountable) The act of singing in chest voice above one's vocal break in a higher range typically sung in head voice.
A beating with a belt.
A system of beltwork, as in a conveyor or other mechanical device.
The material from which belts for machinery are made.
verb
present participle of belt
benight
benight
verb
(chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
To darken; to shroud or obscure.
To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
benting
besting
besting
verb
present participle of best
betinge
betting
betting
adj
Describing one who bets or gambles.
noun
The act of placing a bet.
verb
present participle of bet
bigfeet
bigfeet
noun
(plural only) snowblades; a smaller version of skis.
bigfoot
bigfoot
verb
(intransitive, informal, sometimes capitalized) To behave in an authoritative, commanding manner.
(transitive, informal, sometimes capitalized) To control or manage forcefully; to exercise authority over.
Having the characteristics of a bigot; strongly prejudiced; forming opinions without just cause.
bigotry
bigotry
noun
(dated) Obstinate prejudice or opinionatedness.
Characteristic qualities of a bigot: (especially religious, anti-religious or racial) intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
bigotty
bigroot
bigroot
adj
Applied to various kinds of plant characterized by a large root.
noun
Either of the plants Marah fabacea and Marah macrocarpa.
biltong
biltong
noun
(South Africa, Zimbabwe) A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky.
bitburg
bitting
bitting
noun
the part of a key that engages the tumblers to activate the lock
verb
present participle of bit
present participle of bitt
blights
blights
noun
plural of blight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blight
blighty
blighty
noun
Alternative form of Blighty
boating
boating
noun
(historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
verb
present participle of boat
bolting
bolting
noun
(law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
A sifting, as of flour or meal.
An act of bolting or running away.
verb
present participle of bolt
booting
booting
noun
(MLE, criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire.
(computing) The act by which a computer is booted.
(obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
A kicking, as with a booted foot.
verb
present participle of boot
botling
bragite
bridget
bridget
Noun
An Irish housemaid.
brights
brights
noun
(US, road transport) The high-beam intensity setting of motor vehicle headlamps.
(colloquial, dated) Household utensils (such as cutlery, ornaments, and plate) made of shiny metal.
Bold or vivid colours; also, clothes, cosmetics, etc., with such colours.
plural of bright
bruting
bruting
verb
present participle of brute
bugbite
bunting
bunting
noun
(nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
(obsolete) An old boys' game, played with sticks and a small piece of wood.
A pushing action.
A strong timber; a stout prop.
A warm, hooded infant garment, as outerwear or sleepwear, similar to a sleeper or sleepsack; especially as baby bunting or bunting bag.
Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
Flags considered as a group.
Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
verb
present participle of bunt
busting
busting
noun
(colloquial) The process of something being broken or exploded.
verb
present participle of bust
butling
butling
verb
present participle of butle
butting
butting
noun
An abuttal; a boundary.
verb
present participle of but
present participle of butt
dibatag
dibatag
noun
A medium-sized slender antelope endemic to Ethiopia and Somalia, Ammodorcas clarkei.
dingbat
dingbat
noun
(architecture) An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.
(informal) A silly, crazy or stupid person.
(slang) Anything that can be thrown or swung with force against something else.
(typography) A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.
A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution.
A small device or gadget, the correct term for which is forgotten or unknown.
dogbite
frogbit
frogbit
noun
A South American plant, Limnobium laevigatum.
An American plant, Limnobium spongia, with similar propagation.
Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, with roundish leaves and small white flowers, that floats on still water and propagates itself by runners.
gabarit
gambist
gambist
noun
(music) Someone who plays the viola da gamba
gambits
gambits
noun
plural of gambit
gibbert
gibbets
gibbets
noun
plural of gibbet
giblets
giblets
noun
The internal organs of poultry birds, used as food.
gigabit
gigabit
noun
10⁹ bits, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) bits.
2³⁰ (1,073,741,824) bits.
gilbart
gilbert
gilbert
noun
The CGS unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
gilburt
gimblet
gimblet
noun
Alternative form of gimlet
grisbet
guibert
megabit
megabit
noun
(computing) 10⁶ = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)
(computing) 2²⁰ = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit
(computing, informal) one megabit per second
pigboat
pigboat
noun
(slang, archaic) submarine
tabagie
tabbing
tabbing
verb
present participle of tab
tabling
tabling
noun
(carpentry) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
(nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
(obsolete) board; support
A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
verb
present participle of table
tabuing
tabuing
verb
present participle of tabu
tilburg
tilburg
Proper noun
A city in the Netherlands.
timbang
tombing
tombing
verb
present participle of tomb
tubbing
tubbing
noun
A bath taken in a tub.
A hazing ritual in which the victim's head is held underwater.
A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine, especially a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.