A Eurasian tree, Populus alba, that is widely cultivated in North America.
abettals
abettals
noun
plural of abettal
abjectly
abjectly
adv
In an abject fashion; with great shame; desperately.
ablative
ablative
adj
(archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
(engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
(geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
(grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
(medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
noun
(grammar) The ablative case.
An ablative material.
ablegate
ablegate
noun
(Roman Catholicism) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
(historical) An elected representative of a Hungarian royal free city, charged to be a speaker at the Diet of Hungary and to express the opinion of the city.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To send abroad.
abluents
abluents
noun
plural of abluent
abristle
abristle
adj
Bristling.
absently
absently
adv
In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.
absolent
absolute
absolute
adj
(archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).
(art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
(education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
(especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
(law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
(mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
(mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
(obsolete) Absolved; free.
(of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
(of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
(of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
(of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
(of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
(of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
(very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
noun
(chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
(geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
(philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
(philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
abulyeit
acetable
acetable
noun
An acetabulum.
An ancient Roman measure, equivalent to about one eighth of a pint.
adalbert
adelbert
agitable
agitable
adj
Easily agitated or moved
albacete
albacete
Proper noun
A province in south-central Spain, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha
The capital city of the province of Albacete
albanite
albertin
alberton
alberton
Proper noun
A town in Montana
A township in Ontario
A town in Prince Edward Island, Canada
A town in Gauteng Province, South Africa
A town in Victoria, Australia
albeston
albitite
albitite
noun
(geology) Any rock composed mostly of albite
albolite
albolite
noun
Alternative form of albolith
albrecht
alembert
alphabet
alphabet
noun
(India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
(Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
The set of letters used when writing in a language.
The simplest rudiments; elements.
verb
(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
ambulate
ambulate
verb
(intransitive) To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.
antiblue
antiblue
adj
(US, colloquial) Anti-police.
(particle physics) Describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark.
arbalest
arbalest
noun
A crossbow.
A crossbowman.
arbelest
asbolite
atonable
atonable
adj
Capable of being atoned for.
atrabile
atremble
atremble
adj
Trembling.
baculite
baculite
noun
(paleontology) Any of the extinct genus Baculites of cephalopod heteromorph ammonites.
baetulus
baetulus
noun
A meteorite or similar stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshipped as of divine origin.
baetylic
baetylic
adj
Of or relating to a baetyl.
baetylus
baetylus
noun
Alternative form of baetyl (“sacred stone”)
bailment
bailment
noun
(law) The handing over of control over, or possession of, personal property by one person, the bailor, to another, the bailee, for a specific purpose upon which the parties have agreed.
(obsolete) Bail.
bajulate
bakelite
bakelite
noun
Alternative form of Bakelite
balanite
balconet
balconet
noun
Alternative form of balconette (“small balcony”)
baldpate
baldpate
noun
A bald-headed person.
A bird, the American wigeon (Anas americana).
balestra
balewort
balister
balister
noun
(obsolete) An arbalister or crossbowman.
balistes
balkiest
balkiest
adj
superlative form of balky: most balky
balletic
balletic
adj
Pertaining to or suitable for ballet.
balliett
ballonet
ballonet
noun
Any of several small balloons, inside a dirigible, that can be inflated or deflated to control buoyancy during flight.
balloted
balloted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ballot
balloter
balloter
noun
One who votes by ballot.
ballutes
ballutes
noun
plural of ballute
balmiest
balmiest
adj
superlative form of balmy: most balmy
balotade
balotade
noun
Alternative form of ballotade
baltetei
baltheus
baluster
baluster
noun
(architecture) A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway; a banister. [from 17th c.]
bandelet
bandelet
noun
(architecture) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat moulding, compassing a column, like a ring.
(computing theory) An orthonormal basis that is adapted to geometric boundaries, used in image processing.
barletta
barrelet
barrelet
noun
Alternative form of barrelette (“structure in mouse brainstem”)
barrulet
barrulet
noun
(heraldry) The smallest diminutive of the bar, one quarter as wide.
bartelso
bartlemy
bartlett
bartlett
Proper noun
From the pet form of Bartholomew.
A village in Illinois State.
A city in Kansas State.
A village in Nebraska State.
A town in New Hampshire State.
A city in Tennessee State.
A city in Texas State.
Noun
A kind of English pear.
barylite
barylite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing barium, beryllium, oxygen, and silicon.
basaltes
basaltes
noun
plural of basalte
basilect
basilect
noun
(sociolinguistics) A variety of a language that has diverged greatly from the standard form, and is only considered suitable for very informal contexts by speakers.
bastiles
bastiles
noun
plural of bastile
bastille
bastille
noun
A prison or jail.
Confusion of bastille with bastion (bulwark).
verb
To confine as though in a bastille; to imprison.
bataleur
bateleur
bateleur
noun
A species of eagle, Terathopius ecaudatus, endemic to Africa and Arabia.
batetela
bathelda
bathless
bathless
adj
Without a bath (tub for bathing).
battable
battable
adj
(obsolete) Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive.
batteled
batteler
batteler
noun
(Oxford University, obsolete) A student who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for.
battelle
battlers
battlers
noun
plural of battler
baysmelt
bealeton
bealtine
beastily
beastily
adv
in a beasty manner
beatable
beatable
adj
Able to be beaten.
beatably
beatille
beatless
beatless
adj
(music) Having no beat.
bebelted
bebelted
adj
(archaic) Wearing a belt.
beblotch
bechtler
beclothe
beclothe
verb
(archaic, transitive) To clothe, to put clothes on someone or something.
bedlight
bedlight
noun
A bedside light.
bedplate
bedplate
noun
(engineering) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed.
bedquilt
bedquilt
noun
A quilt used for spreading over a bed, as the topmost layer of bedclothes.
beetlers
beetlers
noun
plural of beetler
beetlike
beetling
beetling
adj
Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows.
noun
The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
verb
present participle of beetle
begattal
begettal
begettal
noun
Act of begetting; conception of a child.
bekilted
bekilted
adj
Wearing a kilt.
belaites
belalton
belating
belating
verb
present participle of belate
belatrix
belcourt
beletter
beletter
verb
(rare) To add letters (indicating rank or education etc.) to one's name as little more than decoration
belitong
belitter
belitter
verb
(transitive) To bestrew with rubbish or things in disorder.
(transitive) To bring forth a litter; have young; litter.
(transitive) To strew with litter (for the floor).
belittle
belittle
verb
(transitive) To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation.
belitung
belleter
bellmont
bellotto
bellport
belltail
bellwort
bellwort
noun
Any of several perennial plants, of the genus Uvularia, that have yellow, bell-shaped flowers.
Any of various plants in the Campanulaceae family.
belmonte
belonite
belonite
noun
One of the minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
belostok
beltings
beltings
noun
plural of belting
beltless
beltless
adj
Not requiring a belt.
Not wearing a seatbelt.
Not wearing or not possessing a belt.
beltline
beltline
noun
(automotive) The imaginary line marking the upper end of the lower body of an automobile, running just below the bottoms of the windows
A beltway: a circular expressway around a city
beltrami
beltrami
Proper noun
a tiny "city" in Polk County, Minnesota, USA
a neighbourhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
beltways
beltways
noun
plural of beltway
beltwise
beltwise
adv
In the manner of a belt, looped around something.
belugite
bemantle
benchlet
benchlet
noun
(literally) A small bench
A stool
benettle
benettle
verb
(obsolete) To vex or provoke.
To whip or sting with nettles.
benfleet
berattle
berattle
verb
(transitive) To rattle; rattle vigorously.
(transitive, rare) To cry down; abuse; run down.
bercelet
berggylt
bertelli
berthold
berthold
Proper noun
A city in North Dakota.
bertilla
bertolde
berylate
bestials
bestowal
bestowal
noun
The act of bestowing.
betailor
betallow
betallow
verb
(transitive) To cover with tallow.
betangle
betangle
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To tangle around or about, entwine, encumber.
betassel
betassel
verb
(transitive) To hang round or decorate with, or as with, tassels.
betelnut
betelnut
noun
Alternative form of betel nut
bethalto
bethezel
bethrall
bethrall
verb
(transitive, rare) To enthrall; enslave.
bethylid
bethylid
noun
(zoology) Any wasp in the family Bethylidae.
betipple
betravel
betravel
verb
(transitive) To travel over; overrun with travellers.