(biology) Any organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive.
amober
amober
noun
(historical, law) In Wales, a maiden-fee paid to a lord on the marriage of a maiden in his manor.
bedrop
bedrop
verb
(archaic) To cover with drops; to splash or spatter.
before
before
adv
At an earlier time.
At the front end.
In advance.
conj
(informal) Rather or sooner than.
In advance of the time when.
prep
At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.
Earlier than (in time).
In front of in space.
In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
In store for, in the future of (someone).
In the presence of.
Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).
behorn
behorn
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To put horns on; cuckold.
belord
belord
verb
(transitive) To address by the phrase "my lord".
(transitive) To apply the title Lord to.
(transitive, rare) To domineer over; lord over.
bergoo
berkow
berlon
bernoo
beroll
beroll
verb
(intransitive) To roll about; roll around; roll over.
beroun
berton
besort
besort
noun
(obsolete) Something fitting or appropriate; suitable company, associates, or attendants.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To suit; fit; become.
besour
besour
Verb
To make sour.
betorn
betorn
adj
(archaic) Torn in pieces; tattered.
bettor
bettor
noun
A person who makes a bet, such as a wager on the outcome of a game of chance or a sporting event.
bevors
bevors
noun
plural of bevor
bework
bework
verb
(transitive) To work around or about; surround.
(transitive) To work over; rework; edit.
(transitive) To work, as with thread; embroider.
beworm
beworn
bezoar
bezoar
noun
A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
An enterolith.
birome
bitore
blower
blower
noun
(dated) A braggart, or loud talker.
(slang, UK, Ireland, historical) A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.
(slang, chiefly Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, usually preceded by the) Telephone.
A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
A person who blows.
A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.
Any device that blows.
The whale; so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
boarer
boater
boater
noun
(nautical) One who works on a boat, especially as captain.
(nautical) Someone who travels by boat.
A straw hat, very stiff, with a flat brim and crown.
bobber
bobber
noun
(fishing) A buoyant device (frequently made of cork) attached to a line so as to suspend the end of the line with the hook (and bait or lure) above the bottom.
A person who rides a bobsleigh; a bobsleigher.
A style of custom motorcycle with stripped-down bodywork and a shortened (or "bobbed") rear fender.
One who takes part in apple bobbing.
bobker
bocher
bodger
bodger
noun
A woodworker in the traditional style characterised by the use of hand tools, a pole lathe and use of green timber.
One who works in a rough and ready, slipshod manner.
bodier
boerne
bogier
bohner
bohrer
boiler
boiler
noun
(UK, Australia, slang, derogatory) An old woman.
(rare, informal) Boilerplate.
A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating, domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.
A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.
A person who boils something.
A steam boiler.
A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.
A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.
bolder
bolder
adj
comparative form of bold: more bold
bolero
bolero
noun
(dance) A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time.
(fashion) A type of short, buttonless jacket or blouse, open or tied in front and ending at the diaphragm.
verb
(intransitive) To dance the bolero.
bolger
boller
bolter
bolter
noun
(Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.
(Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
(New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
(US, politics) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
(botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
(flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
(military, aviation) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
(petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
A person who sifts flour or meal.
verb
(dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
(military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
(of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.
To fish using a bolter.
To pound rapidly.
To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
bomber
bomber
adj
(climbing, slang) Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear.
noun
(US, slang) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
(aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
(clothing) Ellipsis of bomber jacket..
A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
Short for graffiti bomber.
bonder
bonder
noun
A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
A machine or substance used to make a bond, or a person who uses such.
One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
boners
boners
noun
plural of boner
bonier
bonier
adj
comparative form of bony: more bony
bonner
bonser
bonzer
bonzer
adj
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Remarkable; wonderful; excellent; terrific.
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, informal, obsolete) An excellent person or thing.
booger
booger
noun
(US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
(US, slang) A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
(US, slang) Something suggestive of this material.
(surfing, slang, mildly derogatory) A bodyboarder.
booker
booker
noun
(obsolete) A scholar; a scribe.
One who makes a reservation.
One who records transactions, such as reservations.
boomer
boomer
noun
(Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
(UK) A bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).
(US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
(US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
(by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.
(by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.
(informal) Ellipsis of baby boomer.
A device used to bind or tighten chain.
A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
An adult male kangaroo.
Something that makes a booming sound.
boorer
booter
booter
noun
(computing) A program or process that boots.
(computing, video games) A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standard operating system.
(sports) A person who plays association football.
The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.
boozer
boozer
noun
(Africa) A vehicle equipped with tanks for supplying water to remote locations.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A public house, pub.
(UK, military, obsolete) A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.
(colloquial) One who drinks habitually; a drunkard.
bopper
bopper
noun
(informal, dated) A person who dances the bop.
borage
borage
noun
Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked.
borane
borane
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Any binary compound of boron and hydrogen.
borate
borate
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion BO₃³⁻ or any of several more complex derivatives
A salt or ester formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical
bordel
bordel
noun
(now rare) A brothel.
borden
border
border
noun
(Britain, uncountable) border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
(computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
A decorative strip around the edge of something.
A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
The outer edge of something.
verb
(intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
(intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
(transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
(transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
(transitive) To put a border on something.
bordet
bordie
boread
boreal
boreal
adj
Of, relating to, or coming from the north.
borean
boreas
boreas
noun
(obsolete, poetic) The north wind.
boreen
boreen
noun
(Ireland) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.
borele
borele
noun
(dated) The black rhinoceros; (Diceros bicornis).
borers
borers
noun
plural of borer
boreum
boreus
borger
borges
boride
boride
noun
(chemistry) any binary compound of boron and a more electropositive element
(chemistry) the B³⁻ anion
borine
borine
noun
(chemistry) A compound of one atom of boron and three atoms or molecules of a univalent radical
(organic chemistry) An unsaturated heterocycle that has five carbon atoms, one boron atom and two double bonds
borize
borley
borneo
bornie
borrel
borrel
adj
(obsolete) ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity, a mean fellow.
noun
A sort of pear with a smooth soft pulp; the red butter pear.
(intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
(intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
bourke
bourne
bourne
noun
(archaic) A goal or destination.
(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
(countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.
bourre
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.
bouser
bouser
noun
Obsolete form of boozer.
boutre
bovver
bovver
noun
(Britain, slang) Violence, especially that associated with youth gangs.
Pronunciation spelling of bother.
bowers
bowers
noun
plural of bower
bowery
bowery
adj
Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
noun
(archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
bowker
bowler
bowler
noun
(baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.
(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.
(cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability.
(cricket) The player currently bowling.
A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
bowser
bowser
noun
(Britain) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
(Ireland, slang, used in the vocative) A buffoon or imbecile.
(now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
bowyer
bowyer
noun
(archaic) A person who uses the bow, an archer.
A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).
boxers
boxers
noun
(informal) Boxer shorts.
plural of boxer
boxier
boxier
adj
comparative form of boxy: more boxy
boyers
boyers
noun
plural of boyer
brecon
brecon
Proper noun
A town in Powys, Wales.
brehon
brehon
noun
(Ireland, historical) A judge or lawgiver in ancient Celtic Ireland.
breton
broche
broche
noun
Obsolete form of brooch.
verb
Obsolete form of broach.
brodee
broder
brodie
brodie
noun
(Internet slang) A close male friend, or a man deserving of admiration; a bro.
(rare) Alternative spelling of brody (“automobile stunt”)
Alternative spelling of Brodie (“a suicidal leap, or risky chance taken”)
brogle
brogue
brogue
noun
(dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.
verb
(dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.
(intransitive) To walk.
(transitive) To kick.
(transitive) To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
(transitive, intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
broken
broken
adj
(colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
(meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
(of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
(of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
(of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
(of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
(of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
(of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
(of land) Uneven.
(of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
(of skin) Split or ruptured.
(of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
(software, informal) Badly designed or implemented.
(sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
verb
past participle of break
broker
broker
adj
comparative form of broke: more broke
noun
(computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
A mediator between a buyer and seller.
A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
A stockbroker.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
(transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.
brokes
brokes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of broke
bromes
bromes
noun
plural of brome
bronez
bronte
bronze
bronze
adj
(of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
Having a reddish-brown colour.
Made of bronze metal.
noun
(countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
(countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
(uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
A bronze medal.
Boldness; impudence.
verb
(intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
(transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
(transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
(transitive) To plate with bronze.
brooke
brooke
noun
Obsolete spelling of brook
verb
Obsolete spelling of broke
broome
broose
broose
noun
(Scotland, historical) A race from the church to the bridegroom's house, part of wedding festivities.
broses
broses
noun
plural of brose
brosse
brotel
brothe
brouze
brouze
noun
Obsolete form of browse.
browed
browed
adj
(in combination) Having a brow.
brower
browet
browne
browne
Proper noun
a spelling variant of Brown.
browse
browse
noun
(countable) That which one browses through; something to read.
(uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
(uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
(intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
(transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
cobber
cobber
noun
(Australia) A pal, buddy, mate, friend; often used in direct address by one male to another.
(Australia) A sweet consisting of a small block of hard caramel covered in chocolate.
comber
comber
noun
A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
A machine that combs wool, etc.
A person who combs wool, etc.
Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters.
combre
corbed
corbel
corbel
noun
(architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
verb
(transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
corbet
corbie
corbie
noun
A raven or crow (typically Corvus corax).
Either of two moth species of genus Oncopera, whose larvae feed on grasses, especially Oncopera intricata.
courbe
cubero
debora
debord
debtor
debtor
noun
(economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.
(law) One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.
derobe
derobe
verb
(transitive, intransitive, sometimes figurative) To disrobe; undress; divest of clothing or status.
desorb
desorb
verb
(of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed
dobber
dobber
noun
(Australia, UK, derogatory) One who dobs (informs against or implicates to authority).
(Britain, Ireland, chiefly dialect) A large marble.
(Britain, informal) Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.
(UK, derogatory) A member of the working class in Scotland or Ireland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills; closely connected to chav.
(US, regional) A float (as used by an angler).
A dabchick.
Alternative form of dauber (“marker pen used for bingo cards”)
dorbel
dorbie
earbob
earbob
noun
earring
eberto
elabor
embryo
embryo
noun
(botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
(figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
enrobe
enrobe
verb
To coat or cover.
To invest or adorn with a robe or vestment; to attire.