(architecture) An Ionic ornamental band encircling the pulvinus, or bolster of the capital.
(historical) A swordbelt worn by Roman legionaries.
(historical) The girdle of a biblical Jewish priest.
The subcinctorium, a papal garment.
baneful
baneful
adj
(archaic) Poisonous, deadly.
Harmful, injurious.
banlieu
barbule
barbule
noun
(botany) A small barb or beard.
(ornithology) Any of the secondary barbs that form a fringe of small projections on a feather.
bascule
bascule
noun
(firearms) The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber.
A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers.
bateful
bateful
adj
(obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
baubles
baubles
noun
plural of bauble
bauchle
bauchle
noun
(Scotland) A bungled or muddled situation; a mess.
(Scotland) A fool.
(Scotland, chiefly in the plural) An old shoe.
verb
(Scotland) To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
(Scotland) To misuse, to bungle.
bauleah
baulked
baulked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of baulk
bazluke
beakful
beakful
noun
As much (food) as a creature's beak will hold or carry.
beamful
beamful
adj
Beamy; radiant; luminous.
noun
A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)
becloud
becloud
verb
(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
(transitive, figurative) To cast in a negative light, cast a pall over, darken.
(transitive, usually passive) To cover or surround with clouds.
beclout
beclout
verb
(transitive) To cover with a clout or cloth.
(transitive, figuratively) To dress up.
beflour
beflout
befouls
befouls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befoul
beguile
beguile
verb
(transitive) To cause (time) to seem to pass quickly, by way of pleasant diversion.
(transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.
(transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).
begulfs
belauds
belauds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of belaud
belgaum
belgium
belgium
Proper noun
country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France.
bellvue
belouke
beluchi
belucki
belugas
belugas
noun
plural of beluga
bemoult
benelux
benelux
Proper noun
An economic and customs union made up of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg; one of the precursors of the European Union; the countries which constitute(d) this union.
beowulf
beowulf
Proper noun
An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of an Old English epic poem, or to the poem itself.
bequalm
besluit
besully
besully
verb
(transitive) To make sullied or soiled; defile
bethuel
betulin
betulin
noun
(biochemistry) A naturally-abundant triterpene, commonly isolated from the bark of birch trees, that can be converted to betulinic acid
beuthel
beutler
beyoglu
blanque
bleaunt
bleaunt
noun
(historical) A short tunic or blouse worn in the Middle Ages
blellum
bleuler
bloused
bloused
adj
Wearing a blouse.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blouse
blouses
blouses
noun
plural of blouse
blubbed
blubbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blub
blubber
blubber
noun
A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis.
Fatty tissue.
The thick coat of fat worn by many Arctic animals, such as sea lions, and Antarctic animals, such as penguins; used to insulate warmth in the animal's body.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
To make noises or broken words while crying.
blucher
blucher
noun
(historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
bludged
bludged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bludge
bludger
bludger
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A person who avoids working, or doing their share of work, a loafer, a hanger-on, one who does not pull their weight.
(Australia, slang) A pimp, a man living off the earnings of a harlot.
A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.
bluecap
bluecap
noun
(colloquial) A Scotsman.
A bird, the blue titmouse.
A fish of the salmon kind with blue spots on its head.
bluecup
blueeye
bluefin
bluefin
noun
bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
bluegum
bluegum
noun
Alternative form of blue gum
blueing
blueing
noun
An indigo material used as a laundry aid to counteract yellowing
blueish
blueish
adj
Alternative spelling of bluish
bluejay
bluejay
noun
Alternative spelling of blue jay
blueleg
bluetit
bluetit
noun
Alternative spelling of blue tit
bluetop
bluetop
noun
(US, construction) A stake or other marker set into the subgrade to indicate the desired grade elevation.
bluffed
bluffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bluff
bluffer
bluffer
adj
comparative form of bluff: more bluff
noun
one who bluffs
blufter
blunder
blunder
noun
(chess) A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.
A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
verb
(intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
(intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
(transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
(transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
blunged
blunged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blunge
blunger
blunger
noun
(ceramics) The apparatus used for blunging (mixing clay with water to make pottery).
blunges
blunges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blunge
blunker
blunket
blunket
adj
(obsolete) Gray; grayish or light blue.
noun
(obsolete) A cloth, or kind of cloth (blanket cloth), generally but not always of this color.
(obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet.
blunnen
blunted
blunted
adj
(slang) high on cannabis
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blunt
blunter
blunter
adj
comparative form of blunt: more blunt
bluntie
blurbed
blurbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blurb
blurred
blurred
adj
Out of focus; partially obscured; smudged.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blur
blurrer
blurrer
noun
One who or that which blurs.
blurted
blurted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blurt
blurter
blurter
noun
One who blurts.
blushed
blushed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blush
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.
blushes
blushes
noun
Embarrassment.
plural of blush
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blush
blushet
blushet
noun
(obsolete) A modest girl.
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.
bodeful
bodeful
adj
Portentous; ominous; foreboding.
boileau
boletus
boletus
noun
An edible mushroom of genus Boletus.
boluses
bonduel
boucles
boucles
noun
plural of boucle
boulder
boulder
noun
(climbing) A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.
(geology) A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
A large marble, in children's games.
A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
verb
(climbing, transitive, intransitive) To engage in bouldering.
boulles
boulles
noun
plural of boulle
boultel
boultel
noun
(architecture) A moulding with quarter-circle convexity, found just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
(architecture) One of the shafts of a clustered column.
boulter
boulter
noun
A long, stout fishing line with many hooks attached.
One who boults or sifts.
boutell
breslau
breslau
Proper noun
Wroclaw
breugel
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
bruegel
brulyie
brulzie
brulzie
noun
(Scotland) A loud argument or dispute.
brumley
brunell
brussel
brustle
brustle
noun
(obsolete or dialect) A bristle.
verb
To crackle; to rustle.
To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
brutely
brutely
adv
In a rude or violent manner.
bubales
bubales
noun
plural of bubale
bubbled
bubbled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bubble
bubbler
bubbler
noun
(US) A freshwater fish of central North America, the freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens; so called from the noise it makes.
(Wisconsin, New England, Australia) A drinking fountain.
(cannabis subculture) A device used for smoking marijuana, similar to a cannabis pipe but with a section that holds water, like a bong
(obsolete) One who cheats.
An airstone for an aquarium.
Something that emits bubbles.
bubbles
bubbles
noun
(slang) Sparkling wine; champagne.
plural of bubble
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bubble
bubukle
bubukle
noun
(obsolete, nonce word) A red pimple.
bucelas
bucella
buchloe
buchtel
buckels
buckled
buckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckle
buckler
buckler
noun
(nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
One who buckles something.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
buckles
buckles
noun
plural of buckle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buckle
buckley
buddled
buddled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buddle
buddler
buddler
noun
One who buddles.
buddles
buddles
noun
plural of buddle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buddle
budless
budless
adj
Without any buds.
budlike
budlike
adj
Resembling a bud (newly formed leaf or flower, not yet unfolded).
buehler
buglers
buglers
noun
plural of bugler
builded
builded
verb
(archaic or poetic, otherwise nonstandard) Alternative form of built; simple past tense and past participle of build
builder
builder
noun
(rare, bodybuilding) A bodybuilder.
(trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
A person who builds or constructs things.
Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of automated output.
bulbels
bulbels
noun
plural of bulbel
bulbier
bulbine
bulblet
bulblet
noun
(botany) A small bulb or tuber, either produced on a larger bulb or tuber or on some aerial part of a plant.