A unit of electromagnetic charge equal to ten coulombs.
abdicator
abdicator
noun
(obsolete) A person supporting the abdication of another.
abduction
abduction
noun
(anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
(law) The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
Leading away; a carrying away.
abductors
abductors
noun
plural of abductor
abiotical
abjection
abjection
noun
(biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
(obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
abococket
abococket
noun
Alternative form of bycoket
abondance
abondance
noun
(card games) Alternative form of abundance
abovedeck
abovedeck
adj
(nautical) Located on deck.
adv
(nautical) On deck.
noun
The area on a boat that is abovedeck.
abscision
abscision
noun
A cutting away.
absconded
absconded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abscond
absconder
absconder
noun
A person who absconds.
acockbill
acockbill
adv
(nautical) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
(nautical) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.
acrobates
acrobatic
acrobatic
adj
Of or pertaining to an acrobat.
vigorously active
acroblast
acroblast
noun
(medicine) Material derived from the Golgi apparatus from which the acrosome develops during spermatogenesis.
(medicine, archaic) A type of embryonic cell forming a layer external to the mesoblast.
aerobatic
aerobatic
adj
Having to do with acrobatic maneuvers, such as spins, twirls, and flips, performed by an airplane.
aitchbone
aitchbone
noun
A cut of beef lying above the rump bone.
The rump bone itself.
albacores
albacores
noun
plural of albacore
albicores
albicores
noun
plural of albicore
albinotic
albinotic
adj
Affected with albinism.
albocracy
albocracy
noun
Governance by white people, especially Europeans.
allobaric
allobaric
adj
Concerning changes in atmospheric pressure.
allocable
allocable
adj
Able to be allocated.
almocrebe
amblyopic
amblyopic
adj
of, relating to, or suffering from amblyopia
ambrosiac
ambrosiac
adj
Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
ambuscado
ambuscado
noun
(obsolete) ambush.
amebocyte
amebocyte
noun
Alternative spelling of amoebocyte
amicrobic
amicrobic
adj
Not caused by microbes
anabiotic
anabiotic
adj
(medicine, archaic) Serving to resuscitate; restorative.
Relating to, or recovering from, anabiosis.
noun
(medicine, archaic) A restorative remedy; a powerful stimulant.
anabrotic
anaerobic
anaerobic
adj
Of exercise, involving glycolysis (the conversion of glucose to adenosine triphosphate) rather than using oxygen to supply bodily energy needs.
Of or relating to an anaerobe.
Without oxygen; especially of an environment or organism.
antiblock
apobiotic
arborical
arborical
adj
(obsolete) Relating to trees; arboreal.
archibold
ascorbate
ascorbate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of ascorbic acid.
asymbolic
avicebron
azobacter
babacoote
babacoote
noun
Alternative form of babakoto
babylonic
babylonic
Adjective
Pertaining to Babylon, or made there.
Tumultuous; disorderly.
baccheion
bacciform
bacciform
adj
Having the form of a berry.
bachelors
bachelors
noun
plural of bachelor
backarrow
backboard
backboard
noun
(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
(medicine) A spine board.
(nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
(tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.
verb
(medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.
backboned
backboned
adj
Having a spine.
backbones
backbones
noun
plural of backbone
backcloth
backcloth
noun
The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.
backcourt
backcourt
noun
(basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
(chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
backcross
backcross
noun
(genetics) An organism produced by such a crossing.
(genetics) The act of crossing a hybrid with one of its parents.
(juggling) Alternative form of back cross
verb
(genetics) To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.
backdrops
backdrops
noun
plural of backdrop
backhouse
backhouse
noun
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
backjoint
backjoint
noun
(architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
backorder
backorder
noun
An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.
verb
To place such an order
backropes
backstone
backstops
backstops
noun
plural of backstop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstop
backsword
backsword
noun
(UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
(UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
A sword with one sharp edge.
backwoods
backwoods
adj
Pertaining to the backwoods.
Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.
noun
A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
baconweed
baconweed
noun
Synonym of pigweed (“the plant Chenopodium album”)
bacteriol
bacteroid
bacteroid
adj
(biology) Resembling bacteria.
noun
(dated) A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.
A bacterium of the species Bacteroides.
A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobia, or the root nodule that it produces.
balachong
balachong
noun
(cooking) A Malaysian and Singaporean form of ngapi, a Southeast Asian condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp.
balconied
balconied
adj
That has a balcony attached.
balconies
balconies
noun
plural of balcony
baldcrown
baldicoot
baldicoot
noun
(slang, archaic, derogatory) A monk with a shaven head.
The coot (bird), with its pure white wide frontal plate.
ballstock
ballstock
noun
(printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.
bandicoot
bandicoot
noun
A small Australian marsupial with a distinctive long snout, of the family Peramelidae (with the exception of genus Macrotis, called bilbies).
Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia.
verb
(Australia, informal) To steal growing vegetables from a garden
banecroft
barbacoan
barbascos
barbascos
noun
plural of barbasco
barcarole
barcarole
noun
(music) A Venetian folk song traditionally sung by gondoliers, often in ⁶⁄₈ or ¹²⁄₈ time with alternating strong and weak beats imitating a rowing motion.
(music) A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
barcelona
bariloche
barmcloth
barmcloth
Noun
An apron.
barnstock
barocchio
baronetcy
baronetcy
noun
The rank of a baronet.
baroscope
baroscope
noun
barometer
barouches
barouches
noun
plural of barouche
barouchet
barouchet
noun
Alternative spelling of barouchette
barracoon
barracoon
noun
A temporary cage for holding slaves, indentured servants or prisoners in the Louisiana Territory and French colonial Africa.
barrancos
barrancos
noun
plural of barranco
barricado
barricado
noun
(archaic) barricade
verb
(archaic) To barricade
barricoes
baryecoia
bascology
basecourt
basecourt
noun
Alternative form of base court
basilicon
basilicon
noun
(archaic, medicine) Any of various ointments believed to have “sovereign” virtues.
batchelor
batchelor
noun
(Britain) Archaic spelling of bachelor.
batchtown
beachboys
beachboys
noun
plural of beachboy
beachcomb
beachcomb
noun
An instance of beachcombing.
verb
To go beachcombing.
beachwood
beaconage
beaconage
noun
(uncountable) Beacons collectively.
Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon.
beaconing
beaconing
noun
(computing, telecommunications) A continuous signaling of error conditions on a LAN, or small packets on a wireless LAN (WLAN).
(computing, telecommunications) In a token ring network, the process of isolating a fault domain with signals, so that recovery actions can take place.
verb
present participle of beacon (The emitting of signals from a beacon).
beccafico
beccafico
noun
A small bird, Sylvia hortensis, the figpecker.
beckoners
beckoners
noun
plural of beckoner
beckoning
beckoning
adj
That beckons.
noun
Such a wave or similar action.
verb
present participle of beckon
beclamors
beclamors
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beclamor
beclamour
beclamour
verb
Alternative form of beclamor
becloaked
becloaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of becloak
beclogged
beclogged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beclog
beclothed
beclothed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beclothe
beclothes
beclothes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beclothe
beclouded
beclouded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of becloud
beclowned
beclowned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beclown
becoiffed
becoiffed
adj
Having the hair arranged in a coif.
becollier
becomings
becomings
noun
plural of becoming
becompass
becowards
becrampon
becrimson
becrimson
verb
(transitive, poetic) To turn crimson; to redden.
becrowded
becrowded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of becrowd
bedcovers
bedcovers
noun
plural of bedcover
beechmont
beechwood
beechwood
noun
A wood largely populated with beech trees.
The wood of beech trees (Fagus spp.).
beflounce
befrocked
befrocked
adj
Wearing a frock.
befrounce
belection
bellicose
bellicose
adj
Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
bellovaci
belomancy
belomancy
noun
Studying the flight of arrows, an ancient form of divination used by the Greeks and Arabs.
bemocking
bemocking
verb
present participle of bemock
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
benedicto
benthonic
benthonic
adj
Synonym of benthic
bercovici
berrichon
bescoured
bescourge
bewelcome
bewelcome
verb
(transitive, intensive) To welcome; greet or bestow with a welcome; welcome fully or completely.
bezoardic
bezoardic
adj
Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar.
noun
A medicine containing bezoar.
bibacious
bibacious
adj
Addicted to drinking alcohol.
bibliotic
bibliotic
adj
Of or pertaining to bibliotics
bicalvous
bichromic
bichromic
adj
(inorganic chemistry) Related to bichromate
bicirrose
bickleton
bicolored
bicolored
adj
Alternative form of bicoloured
bicolours
bicolours
noun
plural of bicolour
bicompact
biconcave
biconcave
adj
(optics, anatomy) Having both sides concave
biconical
biconical
adj
consisting of two cones placed together apex to apex