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ABA (5) [noun] A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair. | [noun] A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. | [noun] An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet. | [noun] An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water. | [noun] The electric fish Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa. ABO (5) [noun] An aborigine; aboriginal. ABS (5) [noun] Abdominal muscle. | [noun] An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin. | [verb] To abseil. ABY (8) [verb] To pay the penalty for; to suffer for; to atone for. ALB (5) [noun] A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments. ARB (5) [noun] The act of or potential for arbitrage. | [noun] One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur. | [noun] An arboretum. BAA (5) [noun] The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep. | [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. | [interjection] The characteristic cry of a sheep. | [noun] The letter ب in the Arabic script. BAD (6) [noun] Error, mistake. | [noun] An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good. | [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Fantastic. | [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To shell (a walnut). BAG (6) [noun] A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc. | [noun] A handbag | [noun] A suitcase. BAH (8) [interjection] (sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper. BAL (5) [noun] A festival or celebration, especially a masked ball. | [noun] In Indian English, a child or young person. BAM (7) [interjection] Representing a loud noise or heavy impact. | [interjection] Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence. | [noun] A ned; a bampot. | [noun] An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. | [noun] Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. BAN (5) [noun] Prohibition. | [noun] A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms. | [noun] The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu. | [noun] A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit. | [noun] A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century. BAP (7) [noun] A soft bread roll, originally from Scotland. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast. | [verb] To hit lightly. BAR (5) [noun] A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. | [noun] A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip. | [noun] A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. | [verb] To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). | [noun] A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level. BAS (5) [noun] (Egyptian mythology) A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food. | [noun] Father, baba. BAT (5) [noun] Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. | [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket. | [verb] To flutter | [noun] A packsaddle. | [noun] The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang. BAY (8) [noun] A berry. | [noun] Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries. | [noun] Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb. | [noun] A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land. | [noun] An opening in a wall, especially between two columns. | [noun] The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked. | [noun] A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses. BED (6) [noun] A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. | [noun] A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. | [noun] (heading) A layer or surface. BEE (5) [noun] A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. | [noun] A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee. | [noun] A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee. | [noun] A ring or torque; a bracelet. | [verb] Obsolete spelling of be | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter B. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through. BEG (6) [noun] The act of begging; an imploring request. | [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. | [noun] A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey. | [noun] The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. BEL (5) [noun] A measure of relative power, defined as log10(P 1/P 2), where P1 and P2 are the measured and reference power respectively. | [noun] A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple. BEN (5) [noun] A prayer; a petition. | [noun] Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but). | [adjective] Inner, interior. | [noun] A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben. | [noun] (usually capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames). | [noun] A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak. | [adjective] Good. BET (5) [noun] A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | [noun] A degree of certainty. | [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. | [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [preposition] Between BEY (8) [noun] A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions | [noun] In various other places, a prince or nobleman BIB (7) [noun] An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating. | [noun] Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem. | [noun] A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race. | [verb] To beep (e.g. a car horn). BID (6) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. | [verb] To issue a command; to tell. BIG (6) [noun] Someone or something that is large in stature | [noun] An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name. | [noun] (as plural) The big leagues, big time. | [verb] To inhabit; occupy | [noun] One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley. BIN (5) [noun] A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container. | [noun] A container for rubbish or waste. | [noun] Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc | [noun] (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן. | [noun] A thing which can have only (one or the other of) two values. BIO (5) [noun] Biographical sketch | [noun] Bioscope; cinema | [adjective] Biological. BIS (5) [noun] A bisexual person. | [adverb] Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts. BIT (5) [noun] A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | [noun] A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. | [noun] A coin of a specified value. | [adjective] Bitten. | [noun] A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0. BIZ (14) [noun] Business. BOA (5) [noun] Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru. | [noun] (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers. BOB (7) [noun] A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement. | [noun] A curtsy. | [noun] A bobber (buoyant fishing device). | [noun] A bob haircut. | [noun] (Kenya) A shilling. | [noun] A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire. | [noun] A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers. BOD (6) [noun] The body. | [noun] A person. BOG (6) [noun] An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp. | [noun] Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas. | [noun] The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland. | [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Puffery, boastfulness. | [verb] (usually with "off") To go away. BOO (5) [noun] A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval. | [verb] To shout extended boos derisively. | [verb] To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision. | [noun] A close acquaintance or significant other. | [noun] Cannabis. BOP (7) [noun] A very light smack, blow or punch. | [verb] To strike gently or playfully. | [noun] A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s. BOS (5) [noun] Plural of "bo," a long wooden staff used as a weapon in martial arts. BOT (5) [noun] The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses. | [verb] To bugger | [verb] To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes. | [noun] A physical robot. BOW (8) [noun] A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows. | [noun] A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow). | [noun] A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments. | [noun] A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence | [noun] The front of a boat or ship. | [noun] A firm branch of a tree. BOX (12) [noun] Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space. | [noun] Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space | [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. | [noun] Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary. | [noun] A blow with the fist. | [noun] A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye. BOY (8) [noun] A young male. | [noun] (diminutive) A male child: a son of any age. | [noun] (diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker. BRA (5) [noun] An item of underwear worn to support the breasts; now commonly shortened to bra. | [noun] One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket. | [noun] Friend BRO (5) [noun] Brother; a male sibling | [noun] Brother; a male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals. | [noun] Brother; usually used to address a male BRR (5) [interjection] An exclamation used to express cold or shivering. BUB (7) [noun] An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer. | [noun] A woman's breast. | [noun] A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby. | [noun] A baby. | [noun] Champagne; bubbly. BUD (6) [noun] A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. | [noun] Something that has begun to develop. | [noun] A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. | [noun] Buddy, friend. BUG (6) [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug. | [noun] Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest. BUM (7) [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The anus. | [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man. | [verb] To depress; to make unhappy. | [noun] A humming noise. | [noun] A bumbailiff. BUN (5) [noun] A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced. | [noun] A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head. | [noun] A cupcake. | [noun] A rabbit or sometimes a squirrel. | [noun] Marijuana cigarette, joint | [noun] A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm. BUR (5) [noun] A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants. | [noun] Any of several plants having such husks. | [noun] A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads. BUS (5) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. BUT (5) [noun] An instance or example of using the word "but". | [noun] The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | [noun] A limit; a boundary. BUY (8) [noun] Something which is bought; a purchase. | [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. BYE (8) [noun] The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team. | [noun] An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman. | [noun] A dwelling. | [interjection] Goodbye. | [noun] A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. BYS (8) [noun] Plural of by, used in phrases like "by the by" or in Scottish dialect meaning "side" or "beside." CAB (7) [noun] A taxi; a taxicab. | [noun] Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver | [noun] Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure. | [noun] Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing. COB (7) [noun] A male swan. | [noun] A corncob. | [noun] A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread. | [verb] To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle. | [noun] Initialism of contingency operating base. CUB (7) [noun] A young fox. | [noun] (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger. | [noun] A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy. | [noun] A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles. DAB (6) [noun] A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. | [noun] A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. | [noun] A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. | [noun] One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept. | [noun] A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder. | [adjective] (costers) Bad. DEB (6) [noun] Debutante ball or debut. | [noun] A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society. | [noun] A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment. DIB (6) [noun] A dibber (gardening tool) | [noun] One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints. | [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DUB (6) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. | [noun] A blow, thrust, or poke. | [noun] An unskillful, awkward person. | [noun] A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed. | [noun] A pool or puddle. | [noun] A twenty dollar sack of marijuana. | [noun] A lock. EBB (7) [noun] The receding movement of the tide. | [noun] A gradual decline. | [noun] A low state; a state of depression. FIB (8) [noun] A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. | [noun] A liar. | [verb] To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. | [noun] The fibula. | [verb] (thieves cant) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike. | [noun] A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number. FOB (8) [noun] A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold a pocketwatch; a watch pocket. | [noun] A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch. | [noun] A small ornament attached to such a chain. (See Usage Notes below) | [verb] To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone. FUB (8) GAB (6) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GIB (6) [noun] A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place. | [noun] A castrated male cat or ferret. | [noun] A male cat; a tomcat. | [noun] Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters. | [noun] Plasterboard. GOB (6) [noun] A lump of soft or sticky material. | [noun] The mouth. | [noun] Saliva or phlegm. HOB (8) [noun] A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear. | [noun] The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. | [noun] The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'. | [noun] A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey. HUB (8) [noun] The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. | [noun] A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted. | [noun] A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub JAB (12) [noun] A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion. | [noun] A short straight punch. | [noun] A medical injection. JIB (12) [noun] A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast. | [noun] (usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast. | [verb] To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking. | [noun] The projecting arm of a crane. | [noun] One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward. | [noun] Crystal meth. | [noun] The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth. JOB (12) [noun] A task. | [noun] An economic role for which a person is paid. | [noun] (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery. KAB (9) KOB (9) [noun] An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob. | [noun] Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (Dusky Kob or Great Kob), or perhaps the smaller Squaretail Kob. LAB (5) [noun] A laboratory. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result. | [noun] A Labrador retriever. | [noun] A telltale; a blabber. LIB (5) [noun] Liberal | [noun] Liberation | [noun] Library | [noun] A potion; magic potion; charm. | [verb] To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals). LOB (5) [noun] (ball sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air. | [verb] To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch. | [verb] To throw. | [noun] A lump. | [noun] A fish, the European pollock. | [verb] To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone). MIB (7) MOB (7) [noun] A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. | [noun] A group of animals such as horses or cattle. | [noun] A flock of emus. | [noun] A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. | [noun] Mobile phone NAB (5) [verb] To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive). | [verb] To grab or snatch something. | [noun] The summit of an eminence. NEB (5) [noun] A bird's beak or bill. | [noun] A person's mouth. | [noun] A person's nose. NIB (5) [noun] The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper. | [noun] The bill or beak of a bird; the neb. | [noun] Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces. NOB (5) [noun] The head. | [noun] A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.) | [noun] The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.) NUB (5) OBE (5) [noun] A particular subdivision of ancient Laconia. | [noun] A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean. | [noun] A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft. OBI (5) [noun] A sash worn with a kimono. | [noun] A strip of paper looped around a book or other product. | [noun] A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean. ORB (5) [noun] A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star | [noun] One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions | [noun] A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit | [noun] A blank window or panel. PUB (7) [noun] A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television. | [noun] A public server. | [verb] To go to one or more public houses. | [noun] The act of publishing printed or other matter. | [verb] To publish REB (5) [noun] A Confederate soldier. | [noun] Shortened form of Rebbe. | [noun] An honorific used by traditional Jews, much like sir and mister/Mr. RIB (5) [noun] Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum | [noun] A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something | [noun] A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones | [noun] Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale). ROB (5) [verb] To steal from, especially using force or violence. | [verb] To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. | [verb] (used with "of") To deprive (of). | [noun] The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. RUB (5) [noun] An act of rubbing. | [noun] A difficulty or problem. | [noun] A quip or sarcastic remark. SAB (5) [noun] A saboteur, especially of fox hunts. | [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SIB (5) [adjective] Having kinship or relationship; related by same-bloodedness; having affinity; being akin; kindred. | [noun] Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree. | [noun] A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion. | [verb] To bring into relation; establish a relationship between; make friendly; reconcile. | [verb] To engage in repetitive behaviors such as eye-poking, skin-picking, hand-biting, or head-banging. SOB (5) [noun] A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath. | [noun] Sound of sob | [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. | [verb] To soak. SUB (5) [noun] A submarine. | [noun] A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun. | [noun] A substitute, often in sports. | [verb] To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating. TAB (5) [noun] A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. | [noun] An ear. | [noun] (by extension) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. | [noun] A restaurant bill. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments. | [noun] (British slang) A student of Cambridge University. | [noun] A tabloid newspaper. | [noun] A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs. | [noun] A tableau curtain. TUB (5) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. | [noun] The contents or capacity of such a vessel. | [noun] A bathtub. URB (5) WAB (8) WEB (8) [proper noun] The World Wide Web. | [noun] The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb. | [noun] (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. YOB (8) [noun] (costers, backslang) A boy. | [noun] A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

ABAS (6) ABBA (8) [noun] Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period. | [noun] A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair. | [noun] A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. ABBE (8) [noun] A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey. | [noun] An honorific title for a member of the French clergy. ABED (7) [adverb] In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed. | [adverb] To childbed ABET (6) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABLE (6) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. | [verb] To make ready. | [noun] The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet. ABLY (9) [adverb] In an able manner; with great ability. ABOS (6) [noun] An aborigine; aboriginal. ABRI (6) ABUT (6) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ABYE (9) [verb] To pay the penalty for; to suffer for; to atone for (archaic past tense: abode or abought). ABYS (9) ALBA (6) [noun] A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn. | [noun] A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba. | [noun] A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba. | [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. ALBS (6) [noun] A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments. AMBO (8) [noun] A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches. | [noun] A stationary podium used for readings and homilies. | [noun] An ambulance driver. ARBS (6) [noun] The act of or potential for arbitrage. | [noun] One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur. | [noun] An arboretum. BAAL (6) [noun] A deity worshipped in ancient Phoenician and Hebrew cultures. | [noun] In Scrabble, a valid word referring to a false god or idol. BAAS (6) [noun] An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address. | [noun] The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep. | [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. BABA (8) [noun] A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup. | [noun] (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother. | [noun] An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture. BABE (8) [noun] A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. | [noun] An attractive person, especially a young woman. | [noun] Darling (term of endearment). BABU (8) [noun] (Indian English) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man | [noun] (Indian English) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. BABY (11) [noun] A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered. | [noun] Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chickens for the babies of birds. See for more. | [noun] Unborn young; a fetus. BACH (11) [noun] (northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction. | [verb] To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.) BACK (12) [noun] The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. | [noun] That which is farthest away from the front. | [noun] Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back. | [noun] A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. BADE (7) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. BADS (7) [noun] Plural of bad, used as a noun to refer to bad things or negative aspects. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of the verb "bad," meaning to make worse or to worsen. BAFF (12) [verb] To strike or hit. | [verb] To baffle or perplex. BAGS (7) [noun] A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc. | [noun] A handbag | [noun] A suitcase. | [verb] To reserve for oneself. BAHT (9) [noun] The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang. | [adverb] Without (Yorkshire dialect, famously part of the song title On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at) BAIL (6) [noun] Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. | [noun] Release from imprisonment on payment of such money. | [noun] The person providing such payment. | [verb] To exit quickly. | [noun] A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket). | [verb] To confine. BAIT (6) [noun] Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. | [noun] Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. | [noun] Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something | [verb] To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. | [verb] To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. | [adjective] Obvious; blatant. BAKE (10) [noun] The act of cooking food by baking. | [noun] Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. | [noun] A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. BALD (7) [noun] A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. | [verb] To become bald. | [adjective] Having no hair, fur or feathers. BALE (6) [noun] Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death. | [noun] Suffering, woe, torment. | [noun] A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire. | [noun] A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation. | [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. BALK (10) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". | [verb] To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring. BALL (6) [noun] A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. | [noun] A round or ellipsoidal object. | [noun] (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle. | [noun] A formal dance. BALM (8) [noun] Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America. | [noun] A plant or tree yielding such substance. | [noun] Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one. BALS (6) [noun] Plural of bal, a type of traditional Balinese dance or festival. | [noun] Plural of bal, an archaic or dialectal term for balls or dances. BAMS (8) [noun] Plural of bam, an exclamation or the sound of a loud impact. | [verb] Third person singular of bam, meaning to strike or shut forcefully. BAND (7) [noun] A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling. | [noun] A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area. | [noun] A strip of decoration. | [noun] A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist. | [verb] To tie; to confine by any ligature. BANE (6) [noun] A cause of misery or death. | [noun] Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants. | [noun] A killer, murderer, slayer. | [noun] Bone BANG (7) [noun] A sudden percussive noise. | [noun] A strike upon an object causing such a noise. | [noun] An explosion. | [noun] Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent. BANI (6) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu. BANK (10) [noun] An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. | [noun] A branch office of such an institution. | [noun] An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque. | [noun] An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse. | [noun] A row or panel of items stored or grouped together. | [noun] A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. BANS (6) [noun] Prohibition. | [noun] A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms. | [noun] The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word. BAPS (8) [noun] A soft bread roll, originally from Scotland. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast. BARB (8) [noun] The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. | [noun] A hurtful or disparaging remark. | [noun] A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. | [noun] The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. | [noun] A barbiturate. BARD (7) [noun] A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. | [noun] (by extension) A poet. | [noun] A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.) BARE (6) [noun] (‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin. | [noun] Surface; body; substance. | [noun] That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. | [verb] To uncover; to reveal. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. BARF (9) [noun] Vomit | [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARK (10) [noun] The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. | [noun] An abrupt loud vocal utterance. | [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). | [noun] The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree. | [noun] A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge. BARM (8) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) Bosom, lap. | [noun] Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. | [noun] A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread. | [verb] To spurge; foam BARN (6) [noun] A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. | [noun] A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres. | [noun] An arena. | [noun] A child. BARS (6) [noun] A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. | [noun] A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip. | [noun] A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. BASE (6) [noun] Something from which other things extend; a foundation. | [noun] The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. | [noun] A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. | [adjective] Low in height; short. | [noun] The game of prisoners' bars. | [noun] Acronym of building, antenna-tower, span, earth. BASH (9) [noun] A large party; gala event. | [noun] An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists. | [verb] To strike heavily. | [verb] To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. BASK (10) [verb] To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat. | [verb] To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in"). BASS (6) [noun] A low spectrum of sound tones. | [noun] A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor. | [noun] One who sings in the bass range. | [noun] The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes. | [noun] The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats. BAST (6) [noun] Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord. BATE (6) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. | [noun] Strife; contention. | [noun] An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning. | [verb] To hit; strike | [verb] To masturbate. BATH (9) [noun] A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. | [noun] A building or area where bathing occurs. | [noun] The act of bathing. | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons). BATS (6) [noun] Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. | [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket. BATT (6) [noun] Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation | [noun] (usually in the plural) A shoe. BAUD (7) [noun] A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second. | [noun] Bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol. BAWD (10) [noun] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame. | [noun] A lewd person. | [verb] To procure women for lewd purposes. BAWL (9) [noun] A loud, intense shouting or wailing. | [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BAYS (9) [noun] A berry. | [noun] Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries. | [noun] Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb. | [noun] Baize. BEAD (7) [noun] Prayer, later especially with a rosary. | [noun] Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. | [noun] A small, round object. BEAK (10) [noun] Anatomical uses. | [noun] Figurative uses. | [noun] Colloquial uses. BEAM (8) [noun] Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. | [noun] One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones. | [noun] The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam) BEAN (6) [noun] A reusable software component written in Java. | [noun] Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. | [noun] The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean). BEAR (6) [noun] A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae. | [noun] A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. | [noun] An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [noun] Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley. | [noun] A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow. BEAT (6) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. | [noun] A beatnik. BEAU (6) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BECK (12) [noun] A stream or small river. | [noun] A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command. | [verb] To nod or motion with the head. | [noun] A vat. | [noun] Anatomical uses. BEDS (7) [noun] A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. | [noun] A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. | [noun] (heading) A layer or surface. BEDU (7) [noun] A member of the nomadic Arab peoples of the desert regions of North Africa and the Middle East, also spelled Bedouin. BEEF (9) [noun] The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. | [noun] (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) | [verb] To complain. BEEN (6) [noun] A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. BEEP (8) [noun] The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. | [noun] A short, electronically produced tone. | [verb] To sound (something that makes a beep). BEER (6) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. | [noun] A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. | [noun] A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid. | [noun] One who is or exists. BEES (6) [noun] A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. | [noun] A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee. | [noun] A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee. BEET (6) [noun] Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. | [noun] A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant. | [verb] To improve; to mend. BEGS (7) [noun] The act of begging; an imploring request. | [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. BELL (6) [noun] A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck. | [noun] The sounding of a bell as a signal. | [noun] A telephone call. | [noun] The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut. BELS (6) [noun] A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos. | [noun] The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple. | [noun] A measure of relative power, defined as log10(P 1/P 2), where P1 and P2 are the measured and reference power respectively. BELT (6) [noun] A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. | [noun] A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. | [noun] A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. BEMA (8) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BEND (7) [noun] A curve. | [noun] Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines. | [noun] (in the plural, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness. BENE (6) BENS (6) [noun] A prayer; a petition. | [noun] Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but). | [noun] A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben. | [noun] (job advertisements) benefits BENT (6) [verb] To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. | [verb] To become curved. | [verb] To cause to change direction. | [noun] Any of various stiff or reedy grasses. BERG (7) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BERM (8) [noun] A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope | [noun] A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath | [noun] A terrace formed by wave action along a beach BEST (6) [noun] The supreme effort one can make, or has made. | [noun] One's best behavior. | [noun] The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. BETA (6) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BETH (9) [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [noun] The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב | [noun] The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ BETS (6) [noun] A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event). | [noun] A degree of certainty. | [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. BEVY (12) [noun] (collective) A group of animals, in particular quail. | [noun] (collective) A group of women. | [noun] (collective) A large group or collection. BEYS (9) [noun] A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions | [noun] In various other places, a prince or nobleman BHUT (9) [noun] A variety of extremely hot chili pepper, also known as the ghost pepper, native to India. BIAS (6) [noun] Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection. | [noun] The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric. | [noun] A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. BIBB (10) [noun] A bibcock. BIBS (8) [noun] An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating. | [noun] Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem. | [noun] A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race. BICE (8) [noun] A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt. | [noun] A cobalt blue pigment. BIDE (7) [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. | [verb] To dwell or reside in a location; to abide. | [verb] To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain. BIDS (7) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. BIER (6) [noun] A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person. | [noun] A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed. | [noun] A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth. BIFF (12) [noun] A sudden, sharp blow or punch. | [noun] A wipeout. | [verb] To punch or hit. BIGS (7) [noun] Someone or something that is large in stature | [noun] An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name. | [noun] (as plural) The big leagues, big time. BIKE (10) [noun] A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals. | [noun] A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs. | [noun] The best possible hand in lowball. | [noun] A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants. BILE (6) [noun] A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. | [noun] Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility. | [noun] Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology. | [noun] A boil (kind of swelling). BILK (10) [noun] The spoiling of someone's score in the crib. | [noun] A deception, a hoax. | [noun] A cheat or swindler. BILL (6) [noun] Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff. | [noun] A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. | [noun] Somebody armed with a bill; a billman. | [noun] The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal. | [noun] A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.) | [noun] The bell, or boom, of the bittern. BIMA (8) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BIND (7) [noun] That which binds or ties. | [noun] A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary. | [noun] Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine. BINE (6) [noun] A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers). | [noun] Cigarette BINS (6) [noun] A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container. | [noun] A container for rubbish or waste. | [noun] Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc | [noun] (birding) Binoculars. BINT (6) [noun] A woman, a girl. BIOS (6) [noun] Biographical sketch | [noun] Bioscope; cinema | [noun] A person's life story, especially one published. | [noun] In the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, a particular mode of life; "qualified life", as opposed to the bare life or zoe. BIRD (7) [noun] A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs. | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. | [noun] A prison sentence. | [noun] The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended. BIRK (10) BIRL (6) [verb] To pour a drink (for). | [verb] To drink deeply or excessively; carouse. | [noun] A girl of boyish appearance. BIRR (6) [noun] Force, vigor, energy | [noun] A strong wind. | [noun] The force of movement; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force | [noun] The currency of Ethiopia, divided into 100 santims. BISE (6) [noun] A cold northerly wind that blows down from the Alps and across Switzerland and neighboring regions. BISK (10) [noun] A rich soup made from shellfish or meat. | [noun] A type of hard, twice-baked biscuit or rusk. BITE (6) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. BITS (6) [noun] A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | [noun] A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. | [noun] A coin of a specified value. BITT (6) [noun] The bitts. | [noun] A bollard. | [verb] To put round the bitts. BIZE (15) [noun] A cold northwesterly wind that blows across Switzerland and neighboring regions. | [noun] A variant spelling of "bise," a similar cold wind in Alpine regions. BLAB (8) [noun] One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper. | [noun] Gossip; prattle. | [verb] To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion. BLAE (6) [noun] A dark blue or blue-black color, particularly used in Scottish dialect to describe the color of blackberries or bilberries. BLAH (9) [noun] Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk. | [noun] (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc. | [verb] To utter idle, meaningless talk. BLAM (8) [noun] A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot | [verb] To shoot, to let gunfire pass. | [verb] To shoot, to kill by gunshot. | [noun] Spam posted to a blog BLAT (6) [verb] To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat. | [verb] To make a senseless noise. | [verb] To talk inconsiderately. | [noun] Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society). BLAW (9) BLEB (8) [noun] A bubble, such as in paint or glass. | [noun] A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid. | [noun] An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis. BLED (7) [verb] (of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel. | [verb] To let or draw blood from. | [verb] To take large amounts of money from. | [noun] (in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field. BLET (6) [verb] To overripen or decay, as fruit does when it becomes soft and brown. | [noun] The process of fruit becoming overripe. BLEW (9) [verb] To produce an air current. | [verb] To propel by an air current. | [verb] To be propelled by an air current. BLIN (6) [noun] Cessation; end. | [verb] To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up. | [noun] A blintz. BLIP (8) [verb] To emit one or more bleeps. | [verb] To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps. | [noun] A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen. BLOB (8) [noun] A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape. | [noun] In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy. | [noun] A bubble; a bleb. | [noun] Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length). BLOC (8) [noun] A group of voters or politicians who share common goals. | [noun] A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union. BLOT (6) [noun] A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance. | [noun] (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace. | [noun] A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier. BLOW (9) [noun] A strong wind. | [noun] A chance to catch one’s breath. | [noun] Cocaine. | [adjective] Blue. | [noun] The act of striking or hitting. | [noun] A mass or display of flowers; a yield. BLUB (8) [noun] The act of blubbing. | [verb] To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval). | [verb] To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. BLUE (6) [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. | [noun] A blue dye or pigment. | [noun] Any of several processes to protect metal against rust. | [adjective] (entertainment) Pornographic or profane. BLUR (6) [noun] A smear, smudge or blot | [noun] Something that appears hazy or indistinct | [noun] A moral stain or blot. BOAR (6) [noun] A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. | [noun] A male pig. | [noun] A male boar (sense 1). BOAS (6) [noun] Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru. | [noun] (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers. BOAT (6) [noun] A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. | [noun] A full house. | [noun] A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape. BOBS (8) [noun] A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement. | [noun] A curtsy. | [noun] A bobber (buoyant fishing device). BOCK (12) [noun] A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption. BODE (7) [noun] An omen; a foreshadowing. | [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. | [noun] A bid; an offer. | [noun] A messenger; a herald. | [noun] A stop; a halting; delay. | [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. BODS (7) [noun] The body. | [noun] A person. BODY (10) [noun] Physical frame. | [noun] Main section. | [noun] Coherent group. BOFF (12) [noun] (entertainment) A big laugh. | [noun] (entertainment) A line in a film etc that elicits such a laugh. | [noun] (entertainment) A great success; a hit. | [noun] A pupil who works hard; a swot. | [noun] A hit or smack. BOGS (7) [noun] An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp. | [noun] Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas. | [noun] The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland. BOGY (10) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BOIL (6) [noun] A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection. | [noun] The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour. | [noun] A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood. BOLA (6) [noun] A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord. BOLD (7) [noun] A dwelling; habitation; building. | [adjective] Courageous, daring. | [adjective] Visually striking; conspicuous. | [verb] To make (a font or some text) bold. BOLE (6) [noun] The trunk or stem of a tree. | [noun] Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. | [noun] (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay. | [noun] The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant. | [noun] An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light. BOLL (6) [noun] The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant. | [noun] An old dry measure equal to six bushels. | [verb] To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed. BOLO (6) [noun] A long, heavy, single-edged machete. | [noun] A type of punch; an uppercut. | [verb] To attack or despatch with a bolo knife. | [noun] A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship. | [noun] A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide. | [noun] A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect. BOLT (6) [noun] A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw. | [noun] A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism. | [noun] A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open. | [noun] A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. BOMB (10) [noun] An explosive device used or intended as a weapon. | [noun] A failure; an unpopular commercial product. | [noun] A large amount of money. BOND (7) [noun] Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds. | [noun] A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture. | [noun] A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond. | [noun] A peasant; churl. BONE (6) [noun] A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. | [noun] Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. | [noun] A bone of a fish; a fishbone. | [verb] To apprehend, steal. | [verb] To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line. | [noun] A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭). BONG (7) [noun] The clang of a large bell. | [noun] Doorbell chimes. | [verb] To pull a bell. | [noun] A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot. | [noun] A very wide piton. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A purse. | [noun] An Australian Aboriginal person. BONK (10) [noun] A bump on the head. | [noun] Any minor collision or random meeting. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. BONY (9) [adjective] Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous. | [adjective] Full of bones | [adjective] With little flesh; skinny, thin BOOB (8) [noun] Idiot, fool. | [verb] To behave stupidly; to act like a boob. | [verb] To make a mistake | [noun] A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female. | [noun] A prison; jail. BOOK (10) [noun] A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. | [noun] A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book. | [noun] A major division of a long work. | [verb] To reserve (something) for future use. | [verb] (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven. BOOM (8) [noun] A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion. | [noun] A rapid expansion or increase. | [noun] One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds. | [noun] A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour. | [noun] A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity. BOON (6) [noun] A prayer; petition. | [noun] That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction. | [noun] A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for. | [adjective] Good; prosperous. | [noun] The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching. BOOR (6) [noun] A peasant. | [noun] A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent. | [noun] A yokel, country bumpkin. BOOS (6) [noun] A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval. | [verb] To shout extended boos derisively. | [verb] To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision. BOOT (6) [noun] A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. | [noun] A blow with the foot; a kick. | [noun] A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc. | [noun] Remedy, amends. | [noun] The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device. | [noun] A bootleg recording. BOPS (8) [noun] A very light smack, blow or punch. | [verb] To strike gently or playfully. | [noun] A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s. BORA (6) [noun] A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. | [noun] A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world. BORE (6) [noun] A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. | [noun] A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. BORN (6) [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To support, sustain, or endure. | [verb] To support, keep up, or maintain. | [noun] A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. BORT (6) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BOSH (9) [noun] Nonsense. | [interjection] An expression of disbelief or annoyance. | [noun] The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack. | [noun] A figure. | [verb] To consume (illicit drugs). BOSK (10) [noun] A small wooded area or thicket. | [noun] A small bush or shrub. BOSS (6) [noun] A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor. | [noun] A person in charge of a business or company. | [noun] A leader, the head of an organized group or team. | [noun] A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object. | [noun] A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw. BOTA (6) [noun] A leather bottle or bag, typically made from a goatskin, used for storing and carrying liquids such as wine or water. BOTH (9) [pronoun] Each of the two, or of the two kinds. | [conjunction] Including both of (used with and). | [conjunction] Including all of (used with and). BOTS (6) [noun] The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses. | [noun] A physical robot. | [noun] A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account. BOTT (6) [noun] The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses. BOUT (6) [noun] A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant. | [noun] A boxing match. | [noun] An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. | [preposition] In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of. BOWL (9) [noun] A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. | [noun] As much as is held by a bowl. | [noun] A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl. | [noun] The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls. BOWS (9) [noun] A firm branch of a tree. | [noun] The gallows. | [noun] A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows. BOXY (16) [adjective] Box-like or box-shaped. BOYO (9) [noun] A boy or lad. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A stereotypically Welsh form of address for a man, usually younger than the speaker. BOYS (9) [noun] A young male. | [noun] (diminutive) A male child: a son of any age. | [noun] (diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker. BOZO (15) [noun] A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man. BRAD (7) [noun] A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin. | [noun] (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet. | [verb] To attach using a brad. BRAE (6) [noun] The sloping bank of a river valley. | [noun] Any hillside or slope. BRAG (7) [noun] A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. | [noun] The thing which is boasted of. | [noun] (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag. BRAN (6) [noun] The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain. | [noun] The European carrion crow. BRAS (6) [noun] One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket. | [noun] Friend | [noun] Female version of bro BRAT (6) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish | [noun] Bratwurst | [noun] A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime. | [noun] Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred. BRAW (9) [adjective] Fine or good; excellent (Scottish English). BRAY (9) [noun] The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel. | [noun] (by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound. | [verb] Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. | [verb] To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar. BRED (7) [verb] To produce offspring sexually; to bear young. | [verb] To give birth to; to be the native place of. | [verb] Of animals, to mate. BREE (6) [noun] A type of soft cheese, typically French, with a white rind and creamy interior. | [noun] The sound of wind or a breeze (Scottish/archaic). BREN (6) [verb] To burn (to set ablaze). BREW (9) [noun] The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer. | [noun] A beer. | [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [noun] A hill or overhanging cliff. BRIE (6) [noun] A variety of soft, mild French cheese made from cow's milk. BRIG (7) [noun] A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast | [noun] A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft. | [noun] Bridge. | [noun] Brigadier. BRIM (8) [noun] The sea; ocean; water; flood. | [noun] An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water). | [noun] The topmost rim or lip of a container. | [verb] Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut. | [adjective] Fierce; sharp; cold. BRIN (6) [noun] A single stalk or blade of grass. | [noun] A single strand or fiber. BRIO (6) [noun] Vigour or vivacity. BRIS (6) [noun] Ritual male circumcision. BRIT (6) [verb] To break in pieces; divide. | [verb] To bruise; indent. | [verb] To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain). | [noun] One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc. | [noun] Brit milah BROO (6) BROS (6) [noun] Brother; a male sibling | [noun] Brother; a male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals. | [noun] Brother; usually used to address a male BROW (9) [noun] The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow. | [noun] The first tine of an antler's beam. | [noun] The forehead. BRRR (6) [interjection] Used to express being cold, to show shivering. | [interjection] An expression of disgust or aversion, as if shuddering. BRUT (6) [adjective] (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet BUBO (8) [noun] An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis or syphilis. BUBS (8) [noun] Plural of bub, an informal term for brother or a friendly form of address for a man or boy. BUCK (12) [noun] A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad. | [noun] An uncastrated sheep, a ram. | [noun] A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man. | [verb] To bend; buckle. | [noun] The beech tree. | [noun] Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. BUDS (7) [noun] A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. | [noun] Something that has begun to develop. | [noun] A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. BUFF (12) [noun] Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. | [noun] A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing. | [noun] A brownish yellow colour. | [noun] A buffet; a blow. | [noun] A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo. BUGS (7) [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug. | [noun] Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest. BUHL (9) [noun] A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works. | [noun] Furniture having ornamentation of this kind. BUHR (9) [noun] A hard, siliceous rock used for millstones. | [noun] A millstone made from such rock. BULB (8) [noun] Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end. | [noun] A light bulb. | [noun] The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown. BULK (10) [noun] Size, specifically, volume. | [noun] Any huge body or structure. | [noun] The major part of something. BULL (6) [noun] An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. | [noun] A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. | [noun] Any adult male bovine. | [verb] To force oneself (in a particular direction). | [noun] A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope. | [noun] A lie. | [noun] (16th century) A bubble. BUMF (11) [noun] Toilet paper. | [noun] Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc. BUMP (10) [noun] A light blow or jolting collision. | [noun] The sound of such a collision. | [noun] A protuberance on a level surface. BUMS (8) [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The anus. | [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. BUND (7) [noun] A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states. | [noun] A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks. | [noun] A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding. BUNG (7) [noun] A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. | [noun] A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. | [noun] A bribe. | [adjective] Broken, not in working order. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A purse. BUNK (10) [noun] One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. | [noun] A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other. | [noun] A cot. | [noun] Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. | [verb] To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). BUNN (6) [noun] A small bread roll, typically slightly sweet. | [noun] Hair arranged in a coil or knot at the back of the head. BUNS (6) [noun] A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced. | [noun] A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head. | [noun] A cupcake. BUNT (6) [noun] The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. | [noun] A push or shove; a butt. | [noun] A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved. BUOY (9) [noun] A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel. | [noun] A life-buoy; a life preserver. | [verb] To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. BURA (6) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across Central Asia and southeastern Europe. BURD (7) BURG (7) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger BURL (6) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURN (6) [noun] A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. | [noun] A sensation resembling such an injury. | [noun] The act of burning something with fire. | [noun] A stream. BURP (8) [noun] A belch. | [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURR (6) [noun] A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter. | [noun] A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing. | [noun] A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation. | [noun] A rough humming sound. | [noun] A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear. | [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. BURS (6) [noun] A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants. | [noun] Any of several plants having such husks. | [noun] A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads. BURY (9) [noun] A burrow. | [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. | [verb] To place in the ground. | [noun] A borough; a manor BUSH (9) [noun] A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category. | [noun] A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree. | [noun] A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. | [noun] A tavern or wine merchant. | [noun] (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated. | [noun] Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior" | [noun] A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal. BUSK (10) [noun] A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. | [noun] (by extension) A corset. | [noun] A kind of linen. | [verb] To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. | [verb] To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport BUSS (6) [noun] A kiss. | [verb] To kiss. BUST (6) [noun] A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders. | [noun] The breasts and upper thorax of a woman. | [noun] The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession. | [noun] The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation. BUSY (9) [noun] A police officer. | [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. BUTE (6) [noun] Phenylbutazone. BUTS (6) [noun] An instance or example of using the word "but". | [noun] The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | [noun] A limit; a boundary. BUTT (6) [noun] The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end | [noun] The waste end of anything | [noun] (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end. | [noun] A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt. | [noun] (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe. | [noun] Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot | [noun] A heavy two-wheeled cart. BUYS (9) [noun] Something which is bought; a purchase. | [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. BUZZ (24) [noun] A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones. | [noun] A whisper. | [noun] The audible friction of voice consonants. BYES (9) [noun] The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team. | [noun] An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman. | [noun] A dwelling. BYRE (9) [noun] A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in. BYRL (9) BYTE (9) [noun] A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word. | [noun] (most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values. CABS (8) [noun] Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing. | [noun] Initialism of caffeinated alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A taxi; a taxicab. CARB (8) [noun] Clipping of carburettor / carburetor. | [noun] (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant. | [noun] (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates. CHUB (11) [noun] One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially: | [noun] (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes. | [noun] A chubby, plump person. CLUB (8) [noun] An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation. | [noun] A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything. | [noun] A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. COBB (10) COBS (8) [noun] A male swan. | [noun] A corncob. | [noun] A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread. COMB (10) [noun] A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. | [noun] A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [noun] A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest. | [noun] (abbreviation) Combination. | [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river CRAB (8) [noun] A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. | [noun] The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat | [noun] A bad-tempered person. | [noun] The crab apple or wild apple. | [noun] The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America. | [noun] Short for carabiner. CRIB (8) [noun] A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet. | [noun] A bed for a child older than a baby. | [noun] A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel CUBE (8) [noun] A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. | [noun] Any object more or less in the form of a cube. | [noun] The third power of a number, value, term or expression. | [noun] A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices. CUBS (8) [noun] A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles. | [noun] A young fox. | [noun] (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger. CURB (8) [noun] A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening. | [noun] Something that checks or restrains; a restraint. DABS (7) [noun] A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. | [noun] A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. | [noun] A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. DARB (7) DAUB (7) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DEBS (7) [noun] Debutante ball or debut. | [noun] A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society. | [noun] A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment. DEBT (7) [noun] An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. | [noun] The state or condition of owing something to another. | [noun] Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction. DIBS (7) [noun] The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else. | [verb] To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve. | [interjection] Used to claim this right | [noun] A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. | [noun] A dibber (gardening tool) DOBY (10) DRAB (7) DRIB (7) DRUB (7) [noun] Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal. | [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. DUBS (7) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUMB (9) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. | [verb] To silence. EBBS (8) [noun] The receding movement of the tide. | [noun] A gradual decline. | [noun] A low state; a state of depression. EBON (6) [noun] (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree. | [adjective] Made of ebony. | [adjective] Black in colour. FIBS (9) [noun] A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. | [noun] A liar. | [noun] The fibula. FLAB (9) [noun] Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat. FLUB (9) [noun] An error; a mistake in the performance of an action. | [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FOBS (9) [noun] A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold a pocketwatch; a watch pocket. | [noun] A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch. | [noun] A small ornament attached to such a chain. (See Usage Notes below) FORB (9) [noun] Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush). FUBS (9) GABS (7) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GABY (10) GAMB (9) GARB (7) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. | [noun] A wheat sheaf. GIBE (7) [noun] Alternative spelling of gybe | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe | [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe GIBS (7) [noun] A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place. | [noun] A castrated male cat or ferret. | [noun] A male cat; a tomcat. | [noun] The internal organs of certain computer game characters after being splattered to death. GLIB (7) [verb] To make glib. | [adjective] Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow. | [adjective] Smooth or slippery. | [noun] A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland. | [verb] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. GLOB (7) [noun] A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. | [noun] A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression. | [noun] A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. GOBO (7) [noun] A disc placed between a light and the illuminated object or actor in order to diffuse the glare. | [noun] A template inserted over a light source in order to control the shape of the thrown light. | [noun] A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds. | [noun] The taproot of young burdock plants, eaten as a root vegetable. GOBS (7) [noun] A lump of soft or sticky material. | [noun] The mouth. | [noun] Saliva or phlegm. GOBY (10) [noun] Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. | [noun] A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio. GRAB (7) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. | [noun] A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast. GRUB (7) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GYBE (10) [noun] The act of gybing. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation. | [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe HABU (9) HEBE (9) [noun] A Jew. HERB (9) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. HOBO (9) [noun] A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum. | [noun] Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not. | [noun] A kind of large handbag. HOBS (9) [noun] A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear. | [noun] The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. | [noun] The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'. HUBS (9) [noun] The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. | [noun] A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted. | [noun] A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub IAMB (8) [noun] A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. IBEX (13) [noun] A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex. IBIS (6) [noun] Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans. INBY (9) ISBA (6) JABS (13) [noun] A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion. | [noun] A short straight punch. | [noun] A medical injection. JAMB (15) [noun] (interior decorating) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace. | [noun] Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein. | [verb] To fix or attach a jamb to. JIBB (15) JIBE (13) [noun] A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt. | [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To accord or agree. | [noun] Alternative spelling of gybe JIBS (13) [noun] A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast. | [noun] (usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast. | [noun] The projecting arm of a crane. JOBS (13) [noun] A task. | [noun] An economic role for which a person is paid. | [noun] (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery. JUBA (13) [noun] The mane of an animal. | [noun] A loose panicle whose axis falls to pieces, as in certain grasses. | [noun] An American dance of West African origin that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks. JUBE (13) [noun] A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries. | [noun] A rood screen. | [noun] An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran. KABS (10) KBAR (10) KERB (10) [noun] The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones. | [noun] A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. | [verb] To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb. KIBE (10) [noun] A chilblain or ulcer, especially on the heel of the foot. KNOB (10) [noun] A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle. | [noun] A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers. | [noun] A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand. KOBO (10) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Nigerian naira. KOBS (10) LABS (6) [noun] A laboratory. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result. | [noun] A Labrador retriever. LAMB (8) [noun] A young sheep. | [noun] The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food. | [noun] A person who is meek, docile and easily led. LIBS (6) [noun] Liberal | [noun] Liberation | [noun] Library LIMB (8) [noun] A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing). | [noun] A branch of a tree. | [noun] The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip. | [noun] The apparent visual edge of a celestial body. LOBE (6) [noun] Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. | [noun] A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. | [noun] A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. LOBO (6) [noun] A wolf. LOBS (6) [noun] (ball sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air. | [noun] A lump. | [noun] A country bumpkin; a yokel. LUBE (6) [noun] Lubricant | [verb] To lubricate MABE (8) MIBS (8) MOBS (8) [noun] A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. | [noun] A group of animals such as horses or cattle. | [noun] A flock of emus. NABE (6) [noun] Neighborhood. | [noun] (frequently plural) Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema. NABS (6) [verb] To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive). | [verb] To grab or snatch something. | [noun] A single-serving package of crackers, usually filled with peanut butter. Snack crackers. NEBS (6) [noun] A bird's beak or bill. | [noun] A person's mouth. | [noun] A person's nose. NIBS (6) [noun] The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper. | [noun] The bill or beak of a bird; the neb. | [noun] Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces. | [noun] (after possessive pronoun) An important or self-important person. NOBS (6) [noun] The head. | [noun] A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.) | [noun] The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.) NUBS (6) NUMB (8) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. OBES (6) OBEY (9) [verb] To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of. | [verb] To do as one is told. | [verb] To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.). OBIA (6) OBIS (6) [noun] A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean. | [noun] A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft. | [noun] A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell. OBIT (6) [noun] Death of a person. | [noun] A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. | [noun] A record of a person's death. | [noun] An obituary. OBOE (6) [noun] A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family. OBOL (6) [noun] A silver coin of Ancient Greece. | [noun] A weight, equivalent to one sixth of a drachma. ORBS (6) [noun] A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star | [noun] One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions | [noun] A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit ORBY (9) PLEB (8) [noun] A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society. | [noun] A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy. PUBS (8) [noun] A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television. | [noun] A public server. | [verb] To go to one or more public houses. REBS (6) [noun] A Confederate soldier. RIBS (6) [noun] Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum | [noun] A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something | [noun] A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones ROBE (6) [noun] A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature. | [noun] The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap. | [noun] A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom. ROBS (6) [verb] To steal from, especially using force or violence. | [verb] To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. | [verb] (used with "of") To deprive (of). RUBE (6) [noun] A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | [noun] An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. RUBS (6) [noun] An act of rubbing. | [noun] A difficulty or problem. | [noun] A quip or sarcastic remark. RUBY (9) [noun] A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone. | [noun] A red spinel. | [noun] A deep red colour. | [noun] A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters. SABE (6) SABS (6) [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SCAB (8) [noun] An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | [noun] The scabies. | [noun] The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. SIBB (8) SIBS (6) [noun] Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree. | [noun] A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion. | [noun] A sibling, brother or sister (irrespective of gender) SLAB (6) [noun] A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. | [noun] A paving stone; a flagstone. | [noun] A carton containing 24 cans of beer. | [noun] Mud, sludge. | [noun] A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories. SLOB (6) [noun] A lazy and slovenly person. | [noun] A lazy and obese person. SLUB (6) [noun] A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects. | [noun] Fabric fiber produced by slubbing. | [verb] To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning. SNIB (6) [noun] A latch or fastening for a door, window etc. | [noun] A reprimand; a snub. | [verb] To latch (a door, window etc.). SNOB (6) [noun] A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. | [noun] A cobbler or shoemaker. | [noun] A member of the lower classes; a commoner. SNUB (6) [noun] A deliberate affront or slight. | [noun] A sudden checking of a cable or rope. | [noun] A knot; a protuberance; a snag. | [verb] To sob with convulsions. SOBS (6) [noun] A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath. | [noun] Sound of sob | [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. SORB (6) [noun] The service tree, Sorbus domestica. | [noun] Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia. | [noun] The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree. | [verb] To absorb or adsorb. STAB (6) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STOB (6) [noun] A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting. | [noun] A small post for supporting paling. | [noun] A wedge in coal-mining. STUB (6) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. SUBA (6) SUBS (6) [noun] A submarine. | [noun] A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun. | [noun] A substitute, often in sports. SWAB (9) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWOB (9) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SYBO (9) TABS (6) [noun] A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. | [noun] An ear. | [noun] (by extension) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. TABU (6) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. | [verb] To mark as taboo. TOBY (9) [noun] A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop. | [noun] The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing. | [noun] The road or highway. TOMB (8) [noun] A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. | [noun] A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave. | [noun] One who keeps secrets. TUBA (6) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. | [noun] A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis. | [noun] A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap. | [noun] A tube or tubular organ. TUBE (6) [noun] Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. | [noun] An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. | [noun] (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.) TUBS (6) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. | [noun] The contents or capacity of such a vessel. | [noun] A bathtub. UMBO (8) [noun] A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane. For example the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. | [noun] One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. | [noun] A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap. UNBE (6) UPBY (11) URBS (6) [noun] A walled city in Ancient Rome. VERB (9) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. VIBE (9) [noun] A vibraphone. | [noun] Vibration. | [noun] A vibrator (sex toy). WABS (9) WEBS (9) [noun] The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb. | [noun] (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. | [noun] (sometimes capitalized) Specifically, the World Wide Web. WOMB (11) [noun] In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. | [noun] The abdomen or stomach. | [noun] The stomach of a person or creature. YOBS (9) [noun] (costers, backslang) A boy. | [noun] A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness. ZEBU (15) [noun] A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus).

ABACA (9) [noun] Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre. | [noun] The fiber of this plant, used in rope. ABACI (9) ABACK (13) [adverb] Towards the back or rear; backwards. | [adverb] In the rear; a distance behind. | [adverb] By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage) | [noun] An abacus. ABAFT (10) [adverb] On the aft side; in the stern. | [adverb] Backwards. | [preposition] Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. ABAKA (11) ABAMP (11) ABASE (7) [verb] To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. | [verb] To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. | [verb] To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. ABASH (10) [verb] To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. | [verb] To lose self-possession; to become ashamed. ABATE (7) [noun] Abatement. | [verb] (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. | [verb] To become null and void. | [verb] To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession. | [noun] An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy. ABBAS (9) ABBES (9) [noun] A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey. | [noun] An honorific title for a member of the French clergy. ABBEY (12) [noun] The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess. | [noun] A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. | [noun] The church of a monastery. ABBOT (9) [noun] The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. | [noun] The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter. | [noun] A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries. ABEAM (9) [adjective] Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. | [adverb] On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative. | [adverb] Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. ABELE (7) [noun] The white poplar (Populus alba). ABETS (7) [noun] Fraud or cunning. | [noun] An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. | [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. ABHOR (10) [verb] To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. | [verb] To fill with horror or disgust. | [verb] To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. ABIDE (8) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. ABLER (7) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. ABLES (7) ABMHO (12) ABODE (8) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. | [noun] An omen; a foretelling. ABOHM (12) ABOIL (7) ABOMA (9) ABOON (7) ABORT (7) [noun] A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. | [noun] The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. | [noun] An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. | [verb] (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. ABOUT (7) [adjective] Moving around; astir. | [adjective] In existence; being in evidence; apparent. | [adjective] Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood. ABOVE (10) [noun] Heaven. | [noun] Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page. | [noun] Higher authority. ABRIS (7) ABUSE (7) [noun] Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. | [noun] Misuse; improper use; perversion. | [noun] A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. | [verb] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert ABUTS (7) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ABUZZ (25) [adjective] Characterized by a high level of activity or gossip; in a buzz, buzzing. ABYES (10) ABYSM (12) [noun] Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos. | [noun] An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole. ABYSS (10) [noun] Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. | [noun] (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space. | [noun] Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound. ACERB (9) [adjective] Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit. | [adjective] Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself. ADOBE (8) [noun] An unburnt brick dried in the sun. | [noun] The earth from which such bricks are made. | [noun] A house made of adobe brick. ADOBO (8) [noun] A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic. | [noun] A marinade. ALBAS (7) [noun] A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn. | [noun] A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba. | [noun] A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba. ALBUM (9) [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. | [noun] A collection, especially of literary items | [noun] A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks ALIBI (7) [noun] The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed | [verb] To provide an alibi for. | [verb] To provide an excuse for. AMBER (9) [noun] Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. | [noun] A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. | [noun] A yellow-orange colour. AMBIT (9) [noun] The sphere or area of control and influence of something. | [noun] A circuit, or a boundary around a property. | [noun] The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. AMBLE (9) [noun] An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll. | [noun] An easy gait, especially that of a horse. | [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. AMBOS (9) [noun] A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches. | [noun] A stationary podium used for readings and homilies. | [noun] An ambulance driver. AMBRY (12) [noun] A bookcase; a library or archive. | [noun] A storehouse, especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage. | [noun] A pantry, or place to store food. AMEBA (9) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. ARBOR (7) [noun] A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation. | [noun] A grove of trees. | [noun] An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe. ARDEB (8) [noun] An Egyptian unit of dry measure, equal to about 5.6 bushels. BAAED (8) [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. BAALS (7) [noun] Plural of baal, referring to false gods or idols in ancient Semitic religions, or used more broadly to mean any false god or object of worship. BABAS (9) [noun] A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup. | [noun] (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother. | [noun] An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture. BABEL (9) [noun] A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages. | [noun] A place or scene of noise and confusion. | [noun] A tall, looming structure. BABES (9) [noun] A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. | [noun] An attractive person, especially a young woman. | [noun] Darling (term of endearment). BABKA (13) [noun] A sweet braided or swirled yeast bread of Jewish origin, typically filled with cinnamon, chocolate, or fruit. BABOO (9) [noun] A Hindu clerk or official; also spelled babu. | [noun] In India, a term of respect for a man, similar to "Mr." BABUL (9) [noun] A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica. BABUS (9) [noun] (Indian English) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man | [noun] (Indian English) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. BACCA (11) [noun] A berry or berry-like fruit. | [noun] In anatomy, a small rounded structure or protuberance. BACKS (13) [noun] The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. | [noun] That which is farthest away from the front. | [noun] Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back. BACON (9) [noun] Cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig. | [noun] Thin slices of the above in long strips. | [noun] The police or spies. BADDY (12) [noun] A person of bad character in a work of fiction. BADGE (9) [noun] A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization. | [noun] A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information. | [noun] A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area. BADLY (11) [adjective] Ill, unwell. | [adverb] In a bad manner. | [adverb] Very much; to a great degree. BAFFS (13) [verb] Third person singular of "baff," meaning to strike a golf ball with the sole of the club. | [noun] Plural of "baff," a golf club with a broad sole used for striking the ground. BAFFY (16) [noun] A wooden golf club with a short shaft and steep face, used for short approach shots. | [adjective] Silly or foolish. BAGEL (8) [noun] A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked. | [noun] A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero). | [noun] An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man. BAGGY (12) [adjective] Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body. | [adjective] Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing. | [adjective] Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding. | [noun] A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches. BAHTS (10) [noun] Plural of baht, the basic monetary unit of Thailand. BAILS (7) [noun] Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. | [noun] Release from imprisonment on payment of such money. | [noun] The person providing such payment. BAIRN (7) [noun] A child or baby. BAITH (10) [noun] A Scottish word meaning both or the two of something. BAITS (7) [noun] Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. | [noun] Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. | [noun] Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something BAIZA (16) [noun] A monetary unit of Oman, equal to one thousandth of a rial. BAIZE (16) [noun] A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc. | [noun] A coarse woolen material with a long nap; usually dyed in plain colors. | [verb] To cover or line with baize. BAKED (12) [verb] (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven. | [verb] (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven. | [verb] To be warmed to drying and hardening. BAKER (11) [noun] A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items. | [noun] A portable oven for baking. BAKES (11) [noun] The act of cooking food by baking. | [noun] Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. | [noun] A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. BALAS (7) [noun] A type of spinel gemstone, typically red or pink in color, valued as a precious stone. BALDS (8) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "bald," meaning to become bald or to make bald. | [noun] Plural of "bald," referring to bald people or things. BALDY (11) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) Someone who is bald. BALED (8) [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. BALER (7) [noun] A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton. | [noun] A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand. BALES (7) [noun] A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire. | [noun] A funeral pyre. | [noun] A beacon-fire. BALKS (11) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". BALKY (14) [adjective] Refusing to proceed or cooperate. BALLS (7) [noun] A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. | [noun] A round or ellipsoidal object. | [noun] (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle. BALLY (10) [adjective] Bloody (used as a mild intensifier). | [adverb] Very. | [noun] A balaclava. BALMS (9) [noun] Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America. | [noun] A plant or tree yielding such substance. | [noun] Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one. BALMY (12) [adjective] Producing balm. | [adjective] Soothing or fragrant. | [adjective] Mild and pleasant. BALSA (7) [noun] A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight. | [noun] The wood of this tree. | [noun] A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America. BANAL (7) [adjective] Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh. | [adjective] (history) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service. BANCO (9) [noun] A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated. | [adjective] Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court. BANDS (8) [noun] A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling. | [noun] A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area. | [noun] A strip of decoration. BANDY (11) [verb] To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. | [verb] To use or pass about casually. | [verb] To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports. | [adjective] Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy-legged. | [noun] A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed. | [noun] A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks. BANED (8) [verb] Past tense of bane, meaning to cause harm, ruin, or distress to something or someone. BANES (7) [noun] A cause of misery or death. | [noun] Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants. | [noun] A killer, murderer, slayer. BANGS (8) [noun] A sudden percussive noise. | [noun] A strike upon an object causing such a noise. | [noun] An explosion. | [noun] Brucellosis, a bacterial disease. BANJO (14) [noun] A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings. | [noun] Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard. | [noun] An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel. BANKS (11) [noun] An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. | [noun] A branch office of such an institution. | [noun] An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque. BANNS (7) [noun] The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage). | [noun] Historically, any public announcement of a coming event. BANTY (10) [noun] A small domestic chicken or other animal of diminutive size. | [adjective] Small or undersized. BARBE (9) BARBS (9) [noun] The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. | [noun] A hurtful or disparaging remark. | [noun] A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. BARDE (8) [noun] A piece of armor for a horse. | [verb] To cover a horse with armor. BARDS (8) [noun] A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. | [noun] (by extension) A poet. | [noun] A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.) BARED (8) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. BARER (7) [adjective] Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. | [adjective] Naked, uncovered. | [adjective] Having no supplies. BARES (7) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. BARFS (10) [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARGE (8) [noun] A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. | [noun] A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. | [noun] A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. BARIC (9) [adjective] Relating to or containing barium, or relating to atmospheric pressure. BARKS (11) [noun] The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. | [noun] An abrupt loud vocal utterance. | [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). BARKY (14) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of bark; having a rough texture like tree bark. | [adjective] Inclined to bark; prone to making barking sounds (used of dogs). BARMS (9) [noun] The froth or foam that rises on fermenting beer or other liquids. | [noun] Plural of barm, a fungus used in baking and brewing. BARMY (12) [adjective] Odd, strange, or crazy. | [adjective] Containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast. BARNS (7) [noun] A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. | [noun] A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres. | [noun] An arena. BARNY (10) BARON (7) [noun] The male ruler of a barony. | [noun] A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord). | [noun] A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin. BARRE (7) [noun] A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. | [noun] Short for barre chord. BARYE (10) [noun] A unit of pressure in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to one dyne per square centimeter. BASAL (7) [noun] Base, bottom, minimum | [noun] Any basal structure or part | [adjective] Basic, elementary; relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin. BASED (8) [verb] To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. | [verb] To be located (at a particular place). | [verb] (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. | [adjective] (of a person) Not caring what others think about one's personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality. BASER (7) [adjective] Low in height; short. | [adjective] Low in place or position. | [adjective] Of low value or degree. BASES (7) [noun] Something from which other things extend; a foundation. | [noun] The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. | [noun] A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. | [noun] A physical base or foundation. BASIC (9) [noun] A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. | [noun] An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. | [noun] Basic training. BASIL (7) [noun] A plant (Ocimum basilicum). | [noun] The leaves of this plant used as a herb. | [noun] Any other species in the genus Ocimum. | [noun] The angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away. | [noun] The skin of a sheep tanned with bark. BASIN (7) [noun] A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall | [noun] A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food | [noun] A depression, natural or artificial, containing water BASIS (7) [noun] A physical base or foundation. | [noun] A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis. | [noun] An underlying condition or circumstance. BASKS (11) [verb] To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat. | [verb] To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in"). BASSI (7) [noun] A bass singer, especially in opera. | [noun] An instrumental part written for a bass instrument. | [noun] The double bass, or contrabasso. BASSO (7) [noun] A bass singer, especially in opera. | [noun] An instrumental part written for a bass instrument. | [noun] The double bass, or contrabasso. BASSY (10) [adjective] Containing or resembling bass; having deep, low tones or qualities. | [adjective] Full of or abounding in bass fish. BASTE (7) [verb] To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. | [noun] A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking. | [verb] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. | [verb] To beat with a stick; to cudgel. BASTS (7) [verb] Third person singular present of "bast," meaning to sew loosely with long stitches in preparation for final sewing. | [noun] Plural of "bast," the fibrous material from plants used for rope or matting. BATCH (12) [noun] The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. | [noun] (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation. | [noun] A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. | [noun] A bank; a sandbank. | [verb] To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married. BATED (8) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATES (7) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATHE (10) [noun] The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. | [verb] To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. | [verb] To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. BATHS (10) [noun] A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. | [noun] A building or area where bathing occurs. | [noun] The act of bathing. BATIK (11) [noun] A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric. | [verb] To dye fabric using the wax-resist method. BATON (7) [noun] A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes | [noun] The stick of a conductor in musical performances. | [noun] An object transferred by runners in a relay race. BATTS (7) [noun] Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation | [noun] (usually in the plural) A shoe. BATTU (7) [adjective] Beaten or struck, used in ballet to describe a movement where the legs are beaten together in the air. | [verb] Past tense of "bat" in some contexts, particularly in ballet terminology. BATTY (10) [adjective] Mad, crazy, silly. | [adjective] Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal). | [noun] (West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus. BAUDS (8) [noun] A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second. | [noun] Bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol. BAULK (11) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". BAWDS (11) [noun] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame. | [noun] A lewd person. BAWDY (14) [adjective] Soiled, dirty. | [adjective] Obscene; filthy; unchaste. | [adjective] (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude. BAWLS (10) [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BAWTY (13) BAYED (11) [verb] To howl. | [verb] To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay. | [verb] To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds. BAYOU (10) [noun] A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river. | [noun] A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water. BAZAR (16) [noun] A marketplace or shopping area, especially in Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sale of goods, typically for charity. BAZOO (16) [noun] A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn. | [noun] A person's mouth. BEACH (12) [noun] The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly. | [noun] A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water. | [noun] The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle. BEADS (8) [noun] Prayer, later especially with a rosary. | [noun] Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. | [noun] A small, round object. BEADY (11) [adjective] Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming. | [adjective] (of eyes or a look) Bright and penetrating. | [adjective] Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads. BEAKS (11) [noun] Anatomical uses. | [noun] Figurative uses. | [noun] Colloquial uses. BEAKY (14) [adjective] Beaked: having a beak. | [adjective] Beak-like: resembling a beak. | [adjective] Having a nose which resembles a beak. BEAMS (9) [noun] Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. | [noun] One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones. | [noun] The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam) BEAMY (12) [adjective] Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. | [adjective] Having horns or antlers. | [adjective] Having much beam or breadth; wide. BEANO (7) [noun] A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party. | [noun] Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy. BEANS (7) [noun] A reusable software component written in Java. | [noun] Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. | [noun] The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean). BEARD (8) [noun] Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. | [noun] The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds. | [noun] The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. BEARS (7) [noun] A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae. | [noun] A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. | [noun] An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. BEAST (7) [noun] Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. | [noun] (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. | [noun] A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. BEATS (7) [noun] A stroke; a blow. | [noun] A pulsation or throb. | [noun] A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. BEAUS (7) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BEAUT (7) [noun] Something or someone that is physically attractive. | [noun] Something that is a remarkable example of its type. | [adjective] Beautiful, splendid. BEAUX (14) [noun] A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop. | [noun] A male lover; a boyfriend. | [noun] A male escort. BEBOP (11) [noun] An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies. | [verb] To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre. | [verb] (usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner. BECAP (11) BECKS (13) [noun] Anatomical uses. | [noun] Figurative uses. | [noun] Colloquial uses. BEDEL (8) [noun] An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students. BEDEW (11) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. BEDIM (10) [verb] To make dim; to obscure or darken. BEECH (12) [noun] A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves and many branches. | [noun] The wood of the beech tree. BEEFS (10) [noun] The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. | [noun] (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) | [verb] To complain. BEEFY (13) [adjective] Similar to, or tasting like beef. | [adjective] Containing beef. | [adjective] Strong or muscular. BEEPS (9) [noun] The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. | [noun] A short, electronically produced tone. | [verb] To sound (something that makes a beep). BEERS (7) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. | [noun] A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. | [noun] A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid. BEERY (10) [adjective] Smelling or tasting of beer. | [adjective] Under the influence of beer. BEETS (7) [noun] Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. | [noun] A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant. BEFIT (10) [verb] To be fit for BEFOG (11) [verb] To envelop in fog or smoke. | [verb] To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). | [verb] To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.). BEGAN (8) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEGAT (8) [noun] An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible | [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. BEGET (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGIN (8) [noun] Beginning; start. | [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation BEGOT (8) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGUM (10) [verb] To daub or cover with gum. | [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BEGUN (8) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEIGE (8) [noun] A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. | [noun] Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. | [adjective] Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. BEIGY (11) BEING (8) [noun] A living creature. | [noun] The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state. | [noun] That which has actuality (materially or in concept). BELAY (10) [noun] The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection. | [noun] The object to which a rope is secured. | [noun] A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner. BELCH (12) [noun] The sound one makes when belching. | [noun] Malt liquor. | [verb] To expel (gas) loudly from the stomach through the mouth. BELGA (8) [noun] A monetary unit of Belgium, equal to one hundredth of a franc. BELIE (7) [verb] To lie around; encompass. | [verb] (of an army) To surround; beleaguer. | [verb] To tell lies about. BELLE (7) [noun] An attractive woman. BELLS (7) [noun] A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck. | [noun] The sounding of a bell as a signal. | [noun] A telephone call. BELLY (10) [noun] The abdomen, especially a fat one. | [noun] The stomach. | [noun] The womb. BELOW (10) [adverb] In a lower place. | [adverb] On a lower storey. | [adverb] Further down. BELTS (7) [noun] A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. | [noun] A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. | [noun] A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. BEMAS (9) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BEMIX (16) BENCH (12) [noun] A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools. | [noun] The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary. | [noun] The place where the judges sit. | [noun] The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed. | [verb] To recite the Birkat Hamazon. BENDS (8) [noun] A curve. | [noun] Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines. | [noun] (in the plural, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness. BENDY (11) [noun] A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour. | [noun] A bendy bus. | [adjective] Having the ability to be bent easily. BENES (7) BENNE (7) [noun] Sesame. BENNI (7) BENNY (10) [noun] An amphetamine tablet. | [noun] A tantrum; a fit of furious or erratic behaviour. | [verb] (usually with "up") To take amphetamines. | [noun] A benefit. | [noun] An overcoat. | [noun] (originally United States) A dish consisting of slices of English muffins with poached eggs, ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce. BENTS (7) [noun] An inclination or talent. | [noun] A predisposition to act or react in a particular way. | [noun] The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity. BERET (7) [noun] A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France. BERGS (8) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BERME (9) BERMS (9) [noun] A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope | [noun] A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath | [noun] A terrace formed by wave action along a beach BERRY (10) [noun] A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties. | [noun] A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits. | [noun] A coffee bean. | [noun] A mound; a barrow. | [noun] A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow. | [verb] To beat; give a beating to; thrash. BERTH (10) [noun] A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc). | [noun] Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.) | [noun] A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. BERYL (10) [noun] A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone. | [noun] An example (a stone) of the mineral beryl. | [noun] A dull blueish green colour. BESET (7) [verb] To surround or hem in. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides. | [verb] To decorate something with jewels etc. BESOM (9) [noun] A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft. | [noun] A troublesome woman. | [noun] Any cleansing or purifying agent. BESOT (7) [verb] To make drunk or foolish; to stupefy or infatuate. | [verb] To soil or stain. BESTS (7) [noun] The supreme effort one can make, or has made. | [noun] One's best behavior. | [noun] The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. BETAS (7) [noun] The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase. | [noun] Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. | [noun] Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. BETEL (7) [noun] Either of two plants often used in combination: | [noun] A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan. BETHS (10) [noun] The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁 | [noun] The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב | [noun] The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ BETON (7) [noun] Concrete, especially reinforced concrete used in construction. BETTA (7) [noun] A small colorful freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, popular in aquariums. | [noun] A variant spelling of "beta," the second letter of the Greek alphabet. BEVEL (10) [noun] An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer. | [noun] An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square. | [verb] To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer. BEVOR (10) [noun] A piece of armor that protects the lower face and chin, often hinged to the visor of a helmet. BEWIG (11) [verb] To put a wig on; to cover with a wig. BEZEL (16) [noun] The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool. | [noun] The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting. | [noun] The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set; the collet. BEZIL (16) [noun] The slanted edge or face of a gem or precious stone, typically at the sides or back of a stone in a setting. | [noun] A groove or channel cut into a surface at an angle. BHANG (11) [noun] Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent. BHOOT (10) [noun] A ghost or spirit in Indian folklore and mythology. BHUTS (10) BIALI (7) [noun] A roll of bread similar to a bagel but flatter and with a depression in the center instead of a hole, typically topped with onions and poppy seeds. BIALY (10) [noun] A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle. BIBBS (11) [noun] A bibcock. BIBLE (9) [noun] An exemplar of the Bible. | [noun] A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible). | [noun] (at certain US universities) A compilation of problems and solutions from previous years of a given course, used by some students to cheat on tests or assignments. BICES (9) BIDDY (12) [noun] A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody. | [noun] An attractive girl. | [noun] An Irish maidservant. | [noun] (often in the plural) bitch, girl, woman, especially one that is promiscuous BIDED (9) [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. | [verb] To dwell or reside in a location; to abide. | [verb] To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain. BIDER (8) [noun] One who bides; a person who waits or remains in a place. | [noun] In Scottish usage, a resident or inhabitant. BIDES (8) [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. | [verb] To dwell or reside in a location; to abide. | [verb] To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain. BIDET (8) [noun] A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus. | [noun] A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. BIELD (8) [noun] Shelter or protection from wind or weather. | [verb] To shelter or protect from the elements. BIERS (7) [noun] A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person. | [noun] A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed. | [noun] A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth. BIFFS (13) [noun] A sudden, sharp blow or punch. | [noun] A wipeout. | [verb] To punch or hit. BIFFY (16) [noun] A toilet | [noun] An outhouse BIFID (11) [adjective] Cleft; divided into two lobes. BIGHT (11) [noun] A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow | [noun] An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf | [noun] A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. BIGLY (11) [adverb] In a big way, greatly; to a great extent, on a large scale. | [adverb] Strongly, with great force. | [adverb] In a blustering or boastful manner; haughtily, pompously. | [adjective] Habitable, liveable; hence delightful, pleasant, pleasing. BIGOT (8) [noun] One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to one's own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc. | [noun] One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so. BIJOU (14) [noun] A jewel. | [noun] A piece of jewelry; a trinket. | [noun] A small intricate piece of metalwork. | [adjective] Small, little (often implying affection) BIKED (12) [verb] To ride a bike. | [verb] To travel by bike. | [verb] To transport by bicycle BIKER (11) [noun] A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club. | [noun] Cyclist BIKES (11) [noun] A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals. | [noun] A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs. | [noun] The best possible hand in lowball. BIKIE (11) [noun] A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker. BILBO (9) [noun] A device for punishment. See bilboes. | [noun] A kind of sword with well-tempered and flexible blade, originally produced in Bilbao. BILES (7) [noun] Plural of bile, a bitter yellowish-green fluid secreted by the liver. | [verb] Third person singular of "bile," though rarely used as a verb in standard English. BILGE (8) [noun] The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides. | [noun] The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates. | [noun] The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water. BILGY (11) BILKS (11) [verb] To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage. | [verb] To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). | [verb] To evade, elude. BILLS (7) [noun] Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff. | [noun] A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. | [noun] Somebody armed with a bill; a billman. BILLY (10) [noun] A billy club. | [noun] A billy goat. | [noun] A good friend. BIMAH (12) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BIMAS (9) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BIMBO (11) [noun] A physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence. | [noun] A stupid or foolish person. BINAL (7) BINDI (8) [noun] The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of married Hindu women. | [noun] Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot. | [noun] The common lawn weed, Soliva sessilis, introduced to Australia from South America. BINDS (8) [noun] That which binds or ties. | [noun] A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary. | [noun] Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine. BINES (7) [noun] A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers). | [noun] Cigarette BINGE (8) [noun] A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A short period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show. | [verb] To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption. BINGO (8) [noun] A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid. | [noun] A win in such a game. | [noun] (Scrabble) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played. | [noun] Brandy. BINIT (7) BINTS (7) [noun] A woman, a girl. BIOME (9) [noun] Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert | [noun] All the genomes of such a community BIONT (7) BIOTA (7) [noun] The living organisms of a region. | [noun] Platycladus orientalis (syn. Biota orientalis, Oriental arborvitae). BIPED (10) [noun] An animal, being or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs). BIPOD (10) [noun] A two-legged stand. BIRCH (12) [noun] Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere. | [noun] A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture. | [noun] A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment. BIRDS (8) [noun] A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs. | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. BIRKS (11) [noun] Plural of birk, a variant spelling of birch, a type of tree. | [noun] Plural of birk, meaning to move quickly or to run. BIRLE (7) [verb] To spin or rotate a log in water. | [verb] To pour drinks, especially whiskey. BIRLS (7) [noun] A girl of boyish appearance. BIRRS (7) [noun] Force, vigor, energy | [noun] A strong wind. | [noun] The force of movement; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force BIRSE (7) [noun] A bristle or stiff hair, especially on an animal or plant. BIRTH (10) [noun] The process of childbearing; the beginning of life. | [noun] An instance of childbirth. | [noun] A beginning or start; a point of origin. BISES (7) [noun] Plural of bise, a cold northerly wind that blows down from the mountains in Switzerland and adjacent regions. | [noun] Plural of bis, meaning plural of an encore or repetition. BISKS (11) [noun] Plural of bisk, a type of thick creamy soup made from shellfish or vegetables. | [noun] In croquet or golf, plural of bisque, which is an extra turn or stroke allowed as a handicap. BISON (7) [noun] A wild ox, Bison bonasus. | [noun] A similar North American animal, Bison bison. BITCH (12) [noun] (dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. | [noun] A promiscuous woman, slut, whore. | [noun] A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. BITER (7) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits. BITES (7) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. BITSY (10) [adjective] Very small; tiny. BITTS (7) [noun] A frame composed of two strong oak timbers (bitt-heads) fixed vertically in the fore part of a ship, bolted to the deck beams to which are secured the cables when the ship rides to anchor BITTY (10) [noun] (often in the plural) bitch, girl, woman, especially one that is promiscuous | [adjective] Containing bits; fragmented. | [adjective] Very small. BIZES (16) [noun] Plural of bize, a cold northwesterly wind that blows down from the Alps into Switzerland and nearby regions. BLABS (9) [verb] To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion. BLACK (13) [noun] The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed. | [noun] A black dye or pigment. | [noun] A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. BLADE (8) [noun] The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword. | [noun] The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc. | [noun] The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal. BLAHS (10) [noun] Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk. | [noun] (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc. BLAIN (7) [noun] A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch. BLAME (9) [noun] Censure. | [noun] Culpability for something negative or undesirable. | [noun] Responsibility for something meriting censure. | [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. BLAMS (9) [noun] Plural of blam, an onomatopoeia representing a loud explosive sound. | [verb] Third person singular of blam, meaning to make a loud explosive sound or to strike forcefully. BLAND (8) [adjective] Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating. | [adjective] Lacking in taste, flavor, or vigor. | [adjective] Lacking interest; boring; dull. | [verb] To mix; blend; mingle. | [noun] Mixture; union. BLANK (11) [noun] A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence . | [noun] A nonplus . | [noun] The white spot in the centre of a target; hence the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim . BLARE (7) [noun] A loud sound. | [noun] Dazzling, often garish, brilliance. | [verb] To make a loud sound. BLASE (7) [adjective] Unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity. BLAST (7) [noun] A violent gust of wind. | [noun] A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc. | [noun] A hit from a pipe. | [verb] To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din. | [noun] An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast). | [verb] To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). BLATE (7) [verb] To bleat or cry out like a sheep or goat. | [verb] To expose or reveal something. BLATS (7) [verb] To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat. | [verb] To make a senseless noise. | [verb] To talk inconsiderately. BLAWN (10) [verb] Past participle of blow, especially in Scottish or dialectal English. | [adjective] Blown or swollen. BLAWS (10) [noun] Plural of blaw, a Scottish word meaning to blow or blast. | [verb] Third person singular of blaw, meaning to blow or blast in Scottish dialect. BLAZE (16) [noun] A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light. | [noun] Intense, direct light accompanied with heat. | [noun] The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face. | [verb] To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. | [noun] Publication; the act of spreading widely by report BLEAK (11) [adjective] Without color; pale; pallid. | [adjective] Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. | [adjective] Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate. | [noun] A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae. BLEAR (7) [adjective] (of eyes or vision) Dim, unclear from water or rheum. | [adjective] Causing or caused by dimness of sight. | [verb] To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes. BLEAT (7) [noun] The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat. | [verb] Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. | [verb] Of a person, to complain. BLEBS (9) [noun] A bubble, such as in paint or glass. | [noun] A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid. | [noun] An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis. BLEED (8) [noun] An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia. | [noun] A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet). | [noun] (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended. BLEEP (9) [noun] A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device. | [noun] Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence. | [noun] A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock. BLEND (8) [noun] A mixture of two or more things. | [noun] A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word. | [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. BLENT (7) [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. | [verb] To be mingled or mixed. | [verb] To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. BLESS (7) [verb] To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify. | [verb] To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify. | [verb] To invoke divine favor upon. | [interjection] Used as an expression of endearment, gratitude, or (ironically) belittlement. BLEST (7) [adjective] Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. | [adjective] A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs. | [adjective] Held in veneration; revered. BLETS (7) [verb] To undergo the process of overripening or decay, especially of fruit like medlars, to become soft and edible. BLIMP (11) [noun] An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container. | [noun] (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable. | [noun] An obese person. BLIMY (12) BLIND (8) [noun] A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass. | [noun] A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc. | [noun] Any device intended to conceal or hide. BLINI (7) [noun] A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon. BLINK (11) [noun] The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again. | [noun] The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes. | [noun] A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis. BLIPS (9) [verb] To emit one or more bleeps. | [verb] To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps. | [noun] A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen. BLISS (7) [noun] Perfect happiness BLITE (7) [noun] A plant of the amaranth family, also called strawberry blite, having small red berries. | [noun] Any of various plants with edible leaves, such as orache or spinach. BLITZ (16) [noun] A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz. | [noun] A swift and overwhelming attack or effort. | [noun] A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer. BLOAT (7) [noun] Distention of the abdomen from death. | [noun] Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant. | [noun] Wasteful use of space or other resources. BLOBS (9) [noun] Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length). | [noun] A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape. | [noun] In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy. BLOCK (13) [noun] A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. | [noun] A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading. | [noun] A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets. BLOCS (9) [noun] A group of voters or politicians who share common goals. | [noun] A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union. BLOKE (11) [noun] A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street. | [noun] A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner. | [noun] (A lower deck term for) the Captain or Executive Officer of a warship, with particular reference to discipline and punishment. BLOND (8) [noun] A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. | [noun] A person with this hair color. | [verb] To color or dye blond BLOOD (8) [noun] A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods. | [noun] A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow. | [noun] A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood). BLOOM (9) [noun] A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. | [noun] Flowers, collectively. | [noun] The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. | [verb] To cause to blossom; to make flourish. | [noun] The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process. BLOOP (9) [noun] A low-pitched beeping sound. | [verb] To make a hit just beyond the infield. | [verb] To produce a low-pitched beeping sound. BLOTS (7) [noun] A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance. | [noun] (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace. | [noun] A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier. BLOWN (10) [verb] To produce an air current. | [verb] To propel by an air current. | [verb] To be propelled by an air current. BLOWS (10) [noun] A strong wind. | [noun] A chance to catch one’s breath. | [noun] Cocaine. BLOWY (13) [noun] (sex) A blow job. | [noun] A blowfly, Lucilia cuprina. | [noun] The common toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni. BLUBS (9) [verb] To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval). | [verb] To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. BLUED (8) [verb] To make or become blue. | [verb] To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust. | [verb] (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid) BLUER (7) [adjective] Of the colour blue. | [adjective] Depressed, melancholic, sad. | [adjective] Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame. | [noun] A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School. | [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. BLUES (7) [noun] The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this. | [noun] A blue dye or pigment. | [noun] Any of several processes to protect metal against rust. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A feeling of sadness or depression. | [verb] To make or become blue. BLUET (7) [noun] Any of several different plants having blue flowers from several genera. | [noun] Common name for several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma. BLUEY (10) [noun] The metal lead. | [noun] A bushman's blanket. | [noun] A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag. BLUFF (13) [noun] An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio. | [noun] An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does. | [noun] The card game poker. | [noun] A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face. | [verb] To fluff, puff or swell up. BLUME (9) BLUNT (7) [noun] A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. | [noun] A short needle with a strong point. | [noun] (smoking) A marijuana cigar. | [verb] To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. BLURB (9) [noun] A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. | [verb] To write or quote in a blurb. | [verb] To supply with a blurb. BLURS (7) [noun] A smear, smudge or blot | [noun] Something that appears hazy or indistinct | [noun] A moral stain or blot. BLURT (7) [noun] An abrupt outburst. | [verb] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. BLUSH (10) [noun] An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc. | [noun] A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red. | [noun] Feeling or appearance of optimism. | [noun] The collective noun for a group of boys. BLYPE (12) [noun] A thin layer or shred of skin that peels off, especially from sunburn. | [verb] To peel off in thin layers or shreds. BOARD (8) [noun] A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making. | [noun] A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc. | [noun] A flat surface with markings for playing a board game. | [noun] A rebound. BOARS (7) [noun] A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. | [noun] A male pig. | [noun] A male boar (sense 1). BOART (7) [noun] Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond. BOAST (7) [noun] A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. | [noun] Something that one brags about. | [noun] A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall. | [verb] To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. BOATS (7) [noun] A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. | [noun] A full house. | [noun] A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape. BOBBY (14) [noun] A police officer. | [noun] A railway signaller. | [noun] A penis. BOCCE (11) [noun] A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court | [noun] One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce. BOCCI (11) [noun] A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court | [noun] One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce. BOCHE (12) [noun] A German. BOCKS (13) [noun] A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption. BODED (9) [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. BODES (8) [noun] An omen; a foreshadowing. | [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. BOFFO (13) [noun] (chiefly in the world of entertainment) A great success; a hit. | [adjective] Outstanding; very good or successful. BOFFS (13) [verb] To have sexual intercourse (with someone) | [verb] To hit; to strike. BOGAN (8) [noun] (derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background. | [noun] An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts. | [noun] A petrolhead. | [noun] Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater. BOGEY (11) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. | [noun] A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production. | [noun] A swim or bathe; a bath. BOGGY (12) [adjective] Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. BOGIE (8) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. | [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog. BOGLE (8) [noun] A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. BOGUS (8) [noun] A liquor made of rum and molasses. | [adjective] Counterfeit or fake; not genuine. | [adjective] Undesirable or harmful. BOHEA (10) [noun] A black tea from China. BOILS (7) [noun] A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection. | [noun] The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour. | [noun] A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood. BOING (8) [noun] The sound made by an elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce. | [verb] To make a boing sound or bouncing motion. BOITE (7) [noun] A nightclub or small theater, especially in France; a box or case. BOLAR (7) [adjective] Of or relating to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey. BOLAS (7) [noun] A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs. | [noun] A sticky thread whirled around by certain spiders to catch prey. BOLDS (8) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "bold," meaning to make something bold or to embolden. | [noun] Plural of "bold," referring to typeface styling that is darker and thicker than regular text. BOLES (7) [noun] The trunk or stem of a tree. | [noun] Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. | [noun] (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay. BOLLS (7) [noun] The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant. | [noun] An old dry measure equal to six bushels. BOLOS (7) [noun] A long, heavy, single-edged machete. | [noun] A type of punch; an uppercut. | [noun] A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship. BOLTS (7) [noun] A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw. | [noun] A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism. | [noun] A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open. BOLUS (7) [noun] A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal. | [noun] A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form. | [verb] To take a dose of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes. BOMBE (11) [noun] A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold. | [noun] (chiefly in German cooking) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.) | [noun] An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis. BOMBS (11) [noun] An explosive device used or intended as a weapon. | [noun] A failure; an unpopular commercial product. | [noun] A large amount of money. BONDS (8) [noun] Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds. | [noun] A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture. | [noun] A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond. BONED (8) [verb] To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. | [verb] To fertilize with bone. | [verb] To put whalebone into. BONER (7) [noun] An erect penis. | [noun] One who or that which bones (removes bones). | [noun] A blunder; a silly mistake. BONES (7) [noun] A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. | [noun] Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. | [noun] A bone of a fish; a fishbone. BONEY (10) [adjective] Resembling or containing bones; having prominent bones. | [adjective] Thin or skinny in appearance. BONGO (8) [noun] A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus. | [noun] Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands. | [verb] To play the bongo drums. BONGS (8) [noun] The clang of a large bell. | [noun] Doorbell chimes. | [verb] To pull a bell. BONKS (11) [noun] A bump on the head. | [noun] Any minor collision or random meeting. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. BONNE (7) [noun] A French nursemaid. BONNY (10) [adjective] Merry; happy. | [adjective] Beautiful; pretty; attractive. | [adjective] Fine, good (often used ironically). | [noun] A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein. BONUS (7) [noun] Something extra that is good; an added benefit. | [noun] An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder. | [noun] An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining. BONZE (16) [noun] A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia. BOOBS (9) [noun] Idiot, fool. | [verb] To behave stupidly; to act like a boob. | [verb] To make a mistake BOOBY (12) [noun] A stupid person. | [noun] Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid. | [noun] In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket. | [noun] A woman’s breast. BOOED (8) [verb] To shout extended boos derisively. | [verb] To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision. BOOGY (11) BOOKS (11) [noun] A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. | [noun] A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book. | [noun] A major division of a long work. BOOMS (9) [noun] A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion. | [noun] A rapid expansion or increase. | [noun] One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds. BOOMY (12) [adjective] Characterized by heavy bass sounds. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc. BOONS (7) [noun] A prayer; petition. | [noun] That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction. | [noun] A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for. BOORS (7) [noun] A peasant. | [noun] A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent. | [noun] A yokel, country bumpkin. BOOST (7) [noun] A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb. | [noun] Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance. | [noun] (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers. BOOTH (10) [noun] A small stall for the display and sale of goods. | [noun] An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person. | [noun] An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café. BOOTS (7) [noun] A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. | [noun] A blow with the foot; a kick. | [noun] A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc. BOOTY (10) [noun] A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once. | [noun] Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy. | [noun] Something that has been stolen or illegally obtained from elsewhere. | [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet. BOOZE (16) [noun] Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party. | [verb] To drink alcohol. BOOZY (19) [adjective] (of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol. | [adjective] (of a person) Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol. | [adjective] (of an event) Involving a large consumption of alcohol. BORAL (7) BORAS (7) [noun] A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. BORAX (14) [noun] A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc. | [noun] The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate. | [noun] (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design. BORED (8) [verb] To inspire boredom in somebody. | [verb] To make a hole through something. | [verb] To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. BORER (7) [noun] A tedious person. | [noun] A person who bores, who drills. | [noun] A tool used for drilling. BORES (7) [noun] A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter. | [noun] A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. BORIC (9) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron. BORNE (7) [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To support, sustain, or endure. | [verb] To support, keep up, or maintain. BORON (7) [noun] The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder. | [noun] A single atom of this element. BORTS (7) [noun] Industrial-grade diamonds used for cutting, grinding, and polishing tools. | [noun] Plural of bort, a poorly crystallized or imperfectly formed diamond. BORTY (10) BORTZ (16) [noun] Industrial-grade diamond used as an abrasive in cutting tools and grinding wheels. BOSKS (11) [noun] Plural of bosk; small wooded areas or thickets. | [verb] Third person singular of bosk; to hide or conceal in woods. BOSKY (14) [adjective] Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees. | [adjective] Caused by trees or shrubs. | [adjective] Bushy, bristling. BOSOM (9) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). | [noun] The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings etc.; one's secret feelings; desire. | [noun] The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace. BOSON (7) [noun] A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion. | [noun] A boatswain. BOSSY (10) [adjective] Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering. | [noun] A cow or calf. | [adjective] Ornamented with bosses; studded. BOSUN (7) [noun] A warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship. BOTAS (7) [noun] Plural of bota, a leather bottle or wineskin used for holding and dispensing wine or other beverages. | [noun] Plural of bota, a type of soft leather boot. BOTCH (12) [noun] An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work. | [noun] A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. | [noun] A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing. | [noun] A tumour or other malignant swelling. BOTEL (7) [noun] A floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel BOTHY (13) [noun] A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands. BOTTS (7) [noun] Plural of bott, a parasitic larva of a botfly that infects mammals. | [noun] Small raised markers or reflectors embedded in road surfaces to indicate lane boundaries. BOUGH (11) [noun] A firm branch of a tree. | [noun] The gallows. BOULE (7) [noun] One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. | [noun] A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. | [noun] A round loaf of bread. | [noun] A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works. | [noun] A council of citizens in Ancient Greece BOUND (8) [verb] To tie; to confine by any ligature. | [verb] To cohere or stick together in a mass. | [verb] To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. | [adjective] Ready, prepared. | [noun] (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. | [verb] To surround a territory or other geographical entity. | [noun] A sizeable jump, great leap. BOURG (8) [noun] A market town or borough, especially in France or other European countries. BOURN (7) [noun] A small stream or brook. | [noun] Destination. | [noun] Limit. BOUSE (7) [verb] To drink heavily or excessively. | [verb] To haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. BOUSY (10) BOUTS (7) [noun] A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant. | [noun] A boxing match. | [noun] An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. BOVID (11) [noun] An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep). BOWED (11) [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. | [verb] To become bent or curved. | [verb] To make something bend or curve. | [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. BOWEL (10) [noun] A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. | [noun] (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach. | [noun] (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something. BOWER (10) [noun] A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. | [noun] A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. | [noun] A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods. | [noun] A peasant; a farmer. | [noun] Either of the two highest trumps in euchre. | [noun] A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow. | [noun] One who bows or bends. | [noun] One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow. | [noun] A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. BOWLS (10) [noun] A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. | [noun] As much as is held by a bowl. | [noun] A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl. BOWSE (10) [verb] To haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [verb] To drink heavily or carouse. BOXED (15) [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. | [verb] Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in. | [verb] To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical. BOXER (14) [noun] A participant (fighter) in a boxing match. | [noun] A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle. | [noun] A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft. BOXES (14) [noun] Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space. | [noun] Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space | [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. BOYAR (10) [noun] A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. BOYLA (10) BOYOS (10) [noun] A boy or lad. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A stereotypically Welsh form of address for a man, usually younger than the speaker. BOZOS (16) [noun] A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man. BRACE (9) [noun] Armor for the arm; vambrace. | [noun] A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms. | [noun] A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. BRACH (12) [noun] A female hunting dog, especially a pointer or setter. | [noun] A woman or girl (archaic or dialectal). BRACT (9) [noun] A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. BRADS (8) [noun] A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin. | [noun] (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet. BRAES (7) [noun] The sloping bank of a river valley. | [noun] Any hillside or slope. BRAGS (8) [verb] To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. | [verb] To boast of. BRAID (8) [noun] A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. | [noun] A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. | [noun] A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together | [adjective] Deceitful. BRAIL (7) [noun] A small rope used to truss up sails. | [noun] A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. | [noun] A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. BRAIN (7) [noun] The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action. | [noun] An intelligent person. | [noun] (in the plural) Intellect. BRAKE (11) [noun] A fern; bracken. | [noun] A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. | [noun] A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. | [noun] An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. | [noun] A cage. | [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. BRAKY (14) BRAND (8) [noun] A conflagration; a flame. | [noun] A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder. | [noun] A torch used for signaling. BRANK (11) [noun] A scold's bridle; an iron framework fitted over the head as a punishment for gossip or slander. | [verb] To restrain or silence with a brank. BRANS (7) [noun] The hard outer layers of cereal grains that are separated during milling. | [noun] Plural of bran, referring to multiple types or quantities of bran. BRANT (7) [noun] Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla. | [adjective] Steep, precipitous. | [adjective] Smooth; unwrinkled BRASH (10) [noun] A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. | [noun] A sudden burst of rain. | [noun] An attack or assault. | [noun] Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge. BRASS (7) [noun] A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. | [noun] A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments | [noun] Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired. | [noun] Brass in pocket; money. BRATS (7) [noun] A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. | [noun] A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member. | [noun] A turbot or flatfish BRAVA (10) [interjection] An exclamation of approval or praise, typically used to express appreciation for a performance. | [noun] A shout of "brava" as an expression of acclaim. BRAVE (10) [noun] A Native American warrior. | [noun] A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. | [noun] A challenge; a defiance; bravado. BRAVI (10) BRAVO (10) [noun] A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado. | [noun] A shout of "bravo!" | [noun] The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet. BRAWL (10) [noun] A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved. | [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. | [verb] To create a disturbance; to complain loudly. | [verb] To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake. | [noun] A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance. BRAWN (10) [noun] Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb. | [noun] Physical strength; muscularity. | [noun] Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat. BRAWS (10) [noun] Plural of braw, a Scottish word meaning fine, good, or excellent. | [noun] Plural of braw, Scottish dialect for braws meaning clothes or trousers. BRAXY (17) [noun] An inflammatory disease of sheep. | [noun] Meat from sheep that have died from this disease, or that have died from accident or disease in general. | [adjective] Sick with braxy BRAYS (10) [noun] The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel. | [noun] (by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound. BRAZA (16) [noun] A unit of length used in Spanish-speaking countries, approximately equivalent to a fathom or about 1.67 meters. BRAZE (16) [noun] A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. | [verb] To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. | [verb] To burn or temper in fire. BREAD (8) [noun] A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. | [noun] Any variety of bread. | [noun] Money. | [noun] Breadth. | [verb] To make broad; spread. | [noun] A piece of embroidery; a braid. BREAK (11) [noun] An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. | [noun] A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. | [noun] A rest or pause, usually from work. | [noun] A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music. BREAM (9) [noun] A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. | [noun] A species in that genus, Abramis brama. | [noun] An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. | [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. BREDE (8) [noun] A broad piece of cloth or embroidery. | [noun] Breadth or width. BREED (8) [noun] All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies. | [noun] A race or lineage; offspring or issue. | [noun] A group of people with shared characteristics. BREES (7) [noun] Plural of bree, a Scottish word for broth or soup. | [verb] Third person singular of bree, meaning to brew or ferment. BRENS (7) [verb] To burn (to set ablaze). BRENT (7) [noun] A type of goose with a dark plumage, found in northern regions. | [noun] A crude oil variety from the North Sea. BREVE (10) [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. | [noun] A double whole note. | [noun] Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court. BREWS (10) [noun] The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer. | [noun] A beer. | [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. BRIAR (7) [noun] Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. | [noun] Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. | [noun] The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub. BRIBE (9) [noun] Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty. | [noun] That which seduces; seduction; allurement. | [verb] To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble. BRICK (13) [noun] A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. | [noun] Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material. | [noun] Something shaped like a brick. BRIDE (8) [noun] A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. | [noun] An object ardently loved. | [verb] To make a bride of | [noun] An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework BRIEF (10) [noun] A writ summoning one to answer to any action. | [noun] An answer to any action. | [noun] A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case. BRIER (7) [noun] Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. | [noun] Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. | [noun] The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub. BRIES (7) [noun] Plural of brie, a soft creamy cheese with a white rind. BRIGS (8) [noun] A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast | [noun] A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft. | [noun] Bridge. BRILL (7) [noun] A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus. | [adjective] Wonderful, amusing. Denotes approval of the noun it is applied to, comparable to "cool". BRIMS (9) [noun] The sea; ocean; water; flood. | [noun] An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water). | [noun] The topmost rim or lip of a container. BRINE (7) [noun] Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. | [noun] The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. | [verb] To preserve food in a salt solution. BRING (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | [verb] To supply or contribute. | [verb] To occasion or bring about. | [interjection] The sound of a telephone ringing. BRINK (11) [noun] The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge. | [noun] The edge or border BRINS (7) [noun] Plural of brin; individual stalks or blades of grass. | [noun] Single strands or fibers, as of flax or hemp. BRINY (10) [noun] The sea. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty. BRIOS (7) [noun] Plural of brio, meaning vigor, vivacity, or enthusiastic energy, especially in musical performance or artistic expression. BRISK (11) [verb] (often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate. | [adjective] Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action | [adjective] Full of spirit of life; effervescing BRITS (7) [noun] Brit milah BRITT (7) BROAD (8) [noun] A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. | [noun] A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. | [noun] A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. | [noun] A prostitute, a woman of loose morals. BROCK (13) [noun] A male badger. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old. | [noun] A dirty, stinking fellow. BROIL (7) [noun] Food prepared by broiling. | [verb] To cook by direct, radiant heat. | [verb] To expose to great heat. | [noun] A brawl; a rowdy disturbance. BROKE (11) [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. | [verb] To divide (something, often money) into smaller units. | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. | [noun] (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process. | [verb] To act as a broker; to transact business for another. | [adjective] Broke off, rich, wealthy BROME (9) [noun] Any grass of the genus Bromus. | [noun] Bromine BROMO (9) [noun] A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer) BRONC (9) [noun] A bronco. BROOD (8) [noun] The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. | [noun] The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. | [noun] The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. BROOK (11) [verb] To use; enjoy; have the full employment of. | [verb] To earn; deserve. | [verb] To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object). | [noun] A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. BROOM (9) [noun] A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. | [noun] An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper. | [noun] Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves. | [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. BROOS (7) [noun] Plural of broo, a Scottish word for broth or soup. BROSE (7) [noun] Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk. BROSY (10) BROTH (10) [noun] Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled. | [noun] A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat. BROWN (10) [noun] A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. | [noun] One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. | [noun] Black tar heroin. BROWS (10) [noun] The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow. | [noun] The first tine of an antler's beam. | [noun] The forehead. BRUGH (11) [noun] A fairy mound or underground dwelling in Irish mythology. BRUIN (7) [noun] A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos. BRUIT (7) [noun] Hearsay, rumour; talk; an instance of this. | [noun] A clamour, an outcry; a noise. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. | [noun] An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur. BRUME (9) [noun] Mist, fog, vapour. BRUNT (7) [noun] The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event. | [noun] The major part of something; the bulk. | [verb] To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand. BRUSH (10) [noun] An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair. | [noun] The act of brushing something. | [noun] A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine. BRUSK (11) BRUTE (7) [noun] An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. | [noun] A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. BUBAL (9) [noun] An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus, which was formerly native to northern Africa. BUBBY (14) [noun] A brother, especially an older brother. | [noun] A term of endearment or informal address for a male friend or relative. BUCKO (13) [noun] Buckaroo. | [noun] Young lad, friend, pal (used in addressing someone). BUCKS (13) [noun] A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad. | [noun] An uncastrated sheep, a ram. | [noun] A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man. BUDDY (12) [noun] A friend or casual acquaintance. | [noun] A partner for a particular activity. | [noun] An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know. | [adjective] Resembling a bud. BUDGE (9) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. | [noun] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits. BUFFI (13) BUFFO (13) [noun] A comic singer, particularly in comic opera BUFFS (13) [noun] Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. | [noun] A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing. | [noun] A brownish yellow colour. BUFFY (16) [verb] To polish or make smooth by rubbing with a soft material. | [noun] A soft cloth or wheel used for polishing. BUGGY (12) [noun] A small horse-drawn cart. | [noun] A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy. | [noun] A hearse. BUGLE (8) [noun] A horn used by hunters. | [noun] A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series | [noun] A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga. | [noun] A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim | [noun] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. BUHLS (10) [noun] Plural of buhl, a style of decorative inlaid woodwork using tortoiseshell and brass, popular in European furniture. BUHRS (10) BUILD (8) [noun] The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body. | [noun] Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users. | [noun] Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by the player. BUILT (7) [verb] To form (something) by combining materials or parts. | [verb] To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process. | [verb] To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to. BULBS (9) [noun] Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end. | [noun] A light bulb. | [noun] The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown. BULGE (8) [noun] Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure. | [noun] The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. | [noun] The bilge of a vessel. BULGY (11) [adjective] Having one or more bulges; bulging BULKS (11) [noun] Size, specifically, volume. | [noun] Any huge body or structure. | [noun] The major part of something. BULKY (14) [adjective] Being large in size, mass, or volume. | [adjective] Unwieldy. | [adjective] Having excess body mass, especially muscle. BULLA (7) [noun] A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion. | [noun] A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. | [noun] A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg. BULLS (7) [noun] An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. | [noun] A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. | [noun] Any adult male bovine. BULLY (10) [noun] A person who is intentionally, physically, or emotionally cruel to others; especially to those who are weaker or have less power or privilege. | [noun] A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. | [noun] A hired thug. BUMFS (12) [noun] Plural of bumf; useless printed material or documents. | [noun] Toilet paper or similar material. BUMPH (14) [noun] Toilet paper. | [noun] Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc. BUMPS (11) [noun] A light blow or jolting collision. | [noun] The sound of such a collision. | [noun] A protuberance on a level surface. BUMPY (14) [adjective] Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | [adjective] Covered with or full of bumps BUNCH (12) [noun] A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together. | [noun] The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race. | [noun] An informal body of friends. BUNCO (9) [noun] A swindle or confidence trick. | [noun] A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. | [noun] A brigand. BUNDS (8) [verb] To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within. BUNDT (8) [noun] A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle. BUNGS (8) [noun] A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. | [noun] A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. | [noun] A bribe. BUNKO (11) [noun] A swindle or confidence trick. | [noun] A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. | [noun] A brigand. BUNKS (11) [noun] One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. | [noun] A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other. | [noun] A cot. BUNNS (7) BUNNY (10) [noun] A rabbit, especially a juvenile. | [noun] A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail. | [noun] In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed. | [noun] A swelling from a blow; a bump. | [noun] A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches. | [noun] Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry. | [adjective] Resembling a bun (small bread roll). BUNTS (7) [noun] The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. | [noun] A push or shove; a butt. | [noun] A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved. | [noun] Money BUNYA (10) [noun] The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. | [noun] A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste. BUOYS (10) [noun] A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel. | [noun] A life-buoy; a life preserver. | [verb] To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. BURAN (7) [noun] A violent cold northeasterly wind that blows across central Asia and Russia. BURAS (7) BURBS (9) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A suburb. BURDS (8) BURET (7) [noun] A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration. | [noun] An altar cruet. BURGH (11) [noun] A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). | [noun] A borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). BURGS (8) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger BURIN (7) [noun] A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver. | [noun] A prehistoric flint tool BURKE (11) [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A fool, prat, twit. | [noun] Cunt. | [verb] To murder by suffocation BURLS (7) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURLY (10) [adjective] (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular. | [adjective] (East End of London) Great, amazing, unbelievable. | [adjective] (surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both. | [adjective] Full of burls or knots; knotty. BURNS (7) [noun] A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. | [noun] A sensation resembling such an injury. | [noun] The act of burning something with fire. BURNT (7) [verb] To cause to be consumed by fire. | [verb] To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | [verb] To overheat so as to make unusable. BURPS (9) [noun] A belch. | [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURRO (7) [noun] A small donkey BURRS (7) [noun] A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. | [noun] Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. | [noun] A knot or lump in thread or cloth. BURRY (10) [adjective] Prickly or covered with burrs. | [verb] To remove burrs from something. BURSA (7) [noun] Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces. BURSE (7) [noun] A purse. | [noun] A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies. | [noun] An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use. BURST (7) [noun] An act or instance of bursting. | [noun] A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display. | [noun] A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm. BUSBY (12) [noun] A fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands. BUSED (8) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUSES (7) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. BUSHY (13) [adjective] Like a bush in having many widely spread branches. | [adjective] Growing thickly. | [adjective] (Racial slur) Derogatory word used to refer to Afro-textured Hair. BUSKS (11) [noun] A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. | [noun] (by extension) A corset. | [verb] To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. BUSTS (7) [noun] A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders. | [noun] The breasts and upper thorax of a woman. | [noun] The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession. BUSTY (10) [adjective] Having large breasts. BUTCH (12) [noun] A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner. | [adjective] (originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude. BUTEO (7) [noun] Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo. BUTLE (7) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTTE (7) [noun] An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. BUTTS (7) [noun] The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end | [noun] The waste end of anything | [noun] (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end. BUTTY (10) [noun] A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg. | [noun] Friend. | [noun] A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore. | [adjective] Resembling a heavy cart. BUTUT (7) [noun] A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi BUTYL (10) [noun] Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C4H9, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. | [noun] A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene. BUXOM (16) [adjective] Pliant, obedient, tractable (to) (i.e. easily moved or bent, morally). | [adjective] Submissive, humble, meek (as subsense of 4). | [adjective] Gracious, indulgent, favourable; obliging, amiable, courteous, affable, kindly (as subsense of 1). BUYER (10) [noun] A person who makes one or more purchases. | [noun] (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment. | [noun] A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products. BWANA (10) [noun] Big boss, important person. BYLAW (13) [noun] A local custom or law of a settlement or district. | [noun] A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs. | [noun] A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business). BYRES (10) [noun] A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in. BYRLS (10) [noun] Plural of byrl; a drinking custom where participants pass a drink around while standing on one leg, or a festive drinking bout. | [verb] Third person singular of byrl; to participate in such a drinking custom. BYSSI (10) [noun] An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, the word was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk. | [noun] The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured. | [noun] The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like. BYTES (10) [noun] A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word. | [noun] (most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values. BYWAY (16) [noun] A road that is not frequently travelled | [noun] (by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study CABAL (9) [noun] # A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose. | [noun] A secret plot. | [noun] An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism. CABBY (14) [noun] A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi. CABER (9) [noun] A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games. CABIN (9) [noun] A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it. | [noun] A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people. | [noun] A private room on a ship. CABLE (9) [noun] (material) A long object used to make a physical connection. | [noun] (communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. | [noun] A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable. CABOB (11) [noun] Pieces of meat and vegetables cooked on a skewer; a kebab. CARBO (9) [noun] Carbohydrate CARBS (9) [noun] Clipping of carburettor / carburetor. | [noun] (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant. | [noun] (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates. CAROB (9) [noun] An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region. | [noun] The fruit of that tree. | [noun] A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit. CEBID (10) [noun] Any member of the Cebidae. CEIBA (9) [noun] Any tree of the species in genus Ceiba | [noun] The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba). CELEB (9) [noun] A celebrity; a famous person. CHIMB (14) [noun] The top of a ridge. | [noun] The spine of an animal. | [noun] A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. CHUBS (12) [noun] One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially: | [noun] (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes. | [noun] A chubby, plump person. CIBOL (9) CLIMB (11) [noun] An act of climbing. | [noun] The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. | [noun] An upwards struggle CLOMB (11) [verb] To ascend; rise; to go up. | [verb] To mount; to move upwards on. | [verb] To scale; to get to the top of something. CLUBS (9) [noun] An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation. | [noun] A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything. | [noun] A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. COBBS (11) [noun] Plural of cobb, which refers to a rounded lump or mass, or a male swan. | [noun] Plural of cobb, a type of building material made from clay, straw, and gravel. COBBY (14) [adjective] Stocky | [adjective] Stout; hearty; lively | [adjective] Obstinate; headstrong COBIA (9) [noun] Rachycentron canadum, a perciform marine fish. COBLE (9) [noun] Small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland. COBRA (9) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae. COMBE (11) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. COMBO (11) [noun] A small musical group. | [noun] A combination. | [noun] An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game. COMBS (11) [noun] A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. | [noun] A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [noun] A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest. COOMB (11) [noun] An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels. | [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. CORBY (12) [noun] A raven or crow, particularly used in Scottish and Northern English dialect. CRABS (9) [noun] A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. | [noun] The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat | [noun] A bad-tempered person. CRIBS (9) [noun] A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet. | [noun] A bed for a child older than a baby. | [noun] A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel CRUMB (11) [noun] A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). | [noun] A small piece of other material, such as rubber. | [noun] A bit, small amount. CUBBY (14) [noun] A small, confined space. | [noun] In a school classroom, a cell of a shelf for students to place belongings in. CUBEB (11) [noun] The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil. CUBED (10) [verb] To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. | [verb] To form into the shape of a cube. | [verb] To cut into cubes. CUBER (9) CUBES (9) [noun] A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. | [noun] Any object more or less in the form of a cube. | [noun] The third power of a number, value, term or expression. CUBIC (11) [noun] A cubic curve. | [adjective] Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice. | [adjective] Of a class of polynomial of the form ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d CUBIT (9) [noun] Various former units of length notionally based on the distance from a grown man's elbow to his fingertips, standardized in different places and times at values between 35 and 60 cm. | [noun] The ulna. CURBS (9) [noun] A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening. | [noun] Something that checks or restrains; a restraint. DARBS (8) DAUBE (8) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAUBS (8) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DAUBY (11) DEBAR (8) [verb] To exclude or shut out; to bar. | [verb] To hinder or prevent. | [verb] To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program. DEBIT (8) [noun] In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account. | [noun] A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer. | [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. DEBTS (8) [noun] An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. | [noun] The state or condition of owing something to another. | [noun] Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction. DEBUG (9) [noun] The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors. | [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). DEBUT (8) [noun] A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area. | [noun] The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece. | [noun] The first appearance of a debutante in society. DEBYE (11) [noun] The CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10-18 statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10-30. DEMOB (10) [noun] Demobilization; release from military service. | [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DERBY (11) [noun] Any of several annual horse races. | [noun] (by extension) Any organized race. | [noun] A bowler hat. DHOBI (11) [noun] A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman, in India and Pakistan. DOBBY (13) [noun] A device in some looms that allows the weaving of small geometric patterns. | [noun] The patterns so woven, or the fabric containing the patterns. | [noun] An evil or mischievous fairy or ghost sometimes said to haunt a building or household. DOBIE (8) DOBLA (8) DOBRA (8) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. DOUBT (8) [noun] Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty. | [noun] A point of uncertainty; a query. | [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. DRABS (8) DRIBS (8) DRUBS (8) [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. | [verb] To forcefully teach something. DUMBS (10) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DWEEB (11) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. EBBED (10) [verb] To flow back or recede | [verb] To fall away or decline | [verb] To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb EBBET (9) EBONS (7) EBONY (10) [noun] A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros. | [noun] A tree that yields such wood. | [noun] A deep, dark black colour. ELBOW (10) [noun] The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. | [noun] (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. | [noun] A detective. EMBAR (9) EMBAY (12) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBED (10) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMBER (9) [noun] A glowing piece of coal or wood. | [noun] Smoldering ash. | [adjective] Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer. EMBOW (12) EXURB (14) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. FABLE (10) [noun] A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. | [noun] Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. | [noun] Fiction; untruth; falsehood. FIBER (10) [noun] A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. | [noun] A material in the form of fibers. | [noun] A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. FIBRE (10) [noun] A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. | [noun] Material in the form of fibres. | [noun] Dietary fibre. FLABS (10) FLUBS (10) [noun] An error; a mistake in the performance of an action. | [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FLYBY (16) [noun] A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations. | [noun] A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade. | [noun] A brief visit. FORBS (10) [noun] Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush). FORBY (13) [adjective] Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior. | [adverb] Past; by; beyond. | [adverb] Uncommonly; exceptionally. FUBSY (13) [adjective] Short and stout; low and wide GABBY (13) [adjective] Inclined to talk too much, especially about trivia. GABLE (8) [noun] The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches). | [noun] A cable. GAMBA (10) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. | [noun] The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc. GAMBE (10) GAMBS (10) GARBS (8) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. GIBED (9) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GIBER (8) GIBES (8) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GLEBA (8) GLEBE (8) [noun] Turf; soil; ground; sod. | [noun] In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. | [noun] A meadow, land or fields GLOBE (8) [noun] Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. | [noun] The planet Earth. | [noun] A spherical model of Earth or any planet. GLOBS (8) [noun] A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. | [noun] A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression. | [noun] A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. GOBAN (8) GOBOS (8) [noun] A disc placed between a light and the illuminated object or actor in order to diffuse the glare. | [noun] A template inserted over a light source in order to control the shape of the thrown light. | [noun] A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds. GOMBO (10) GRABS (8) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. GREBE (8) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. GRUBS (8) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GUMBO (10) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GYBED (12) [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [verb] Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other. | [verb] Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel. GYBES (11) [noun] The act of gybing. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation. | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe HABIT (10) [noun] An action performed on a regular basis. | [noun] An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. | [noun] A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. | [verb] To clothe. HABUS (10) HEBES (10) [noun] A Jew. HERBS (10) [noun] Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food. | [noun] A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine. | [noun] Marijuana. HERBY (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to herbs HOBBY (15) [noun] An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. | [noun] An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby | [noun] Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco, especially Falco subbuteo. HOBOS (10) [noun] A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum. | [noun] Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not. | [noun] A kind of large handbag. HUBBY (15) [noun] (term of endearment) Husband. | [adjective] Full of hubs or protuberances. IAMBI (9) [noun] An iamb IAMBS (9) [noun] A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. IMBED (10) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. IMBUE (9) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. INBYE (10) ISBAS (7) JABOT (14) [noun] A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc. JAMBE (16) JAMBS (16) [noun] (interior decorating) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace. | [noun] Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein. JEBEL (14) [noun] A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa). JIBBS (16) JIBED (15) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JIBER (14) JIBES (14) [noun] A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt. | [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. JUBAS (14) JUBES (14) [noun] A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries. | [noun] An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran. | [noun] A rood screen. JUMBO (16) [noun] An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing. | [noun] A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock. | [adjective] Especially large or powerful. | [noun] Short for mumbo jumbo. KABAB (13) KABAR (11) KABOB (13) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KBARS (11) KEBAB (13) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KEBAR (11) KEBOB (13) KERBS (11) [noun] The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones. | [noun] A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. KIBBE (13) KIBBI (13) KIBEI (11) KIBES (11) [noun] A chilblain or ulcer, especially on the heel of the foot. KIBLA (11) [noun] The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca. KNOBS (11) [noun] A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle. | [noun] A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers. | [noun] A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand. KRUBI (11) LABEL (7) [noun] A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached. | [noun] A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group. | [noun] A company that sells records. LABIA (7) [noun] The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina. | [noun] A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva. | [noun] The lip of a labiate corolla. LABOR (7) [noun] Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work. | [noun] That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. | [noun] Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour. LABRA (7) [noun] The uppermost of the mouthparts (trophi) of a typical insect, such as a cockroach. Typically resembles an upper lip and forms part of the roof of the mouth in such insects. | [noun] Any of several lip-like projections. | [noun] A large basin of warm water, with an overhanging lip, in a Roman bath. LAMBS (9) [noun] A young sheep. | [noun] The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food. | [noun] A person who is meek, docile and easily led. LAMBY (12) LEBEN (7) LIBEL (7) [noun] A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation. | [noun] The act or crime of displaying such a statement publicly. | [noun] Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire. LIBER (7) LIBRA (7) [noun] A Roman unit of weight equal to about 327 grams. | [noun] Any of various units of weight in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries approximately equal to 460 grams or a little more than a US or UK pound. | [noun] Alternative spelling of libbra, an Italian unit of weight. LIBRI (7) LIMBA (9) [noun] A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments. LIMBI (9) [noun] A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea. LIMBO (9) [noun] (Roman Catholic theology, since circa 400 A.D.) The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum) and those of unbaptized but innocent children (limbus infantum). | [noun] (by extension, since the 16th century) Any in-between place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock. | [noun] A dance played by taking turns crossing under a horizontal bar or stick. The stick is lowered with each round, and the game is won by the player who passes under the bar in the lowest position. LIMBS (9) [noun] A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing). | [noun] A branch of a tree. | [noun] The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip. LIMBY (12) LOBAR (7) [adjective] Of or relating to a lobe. LOBBY (12) [noun] An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor. | [noun] That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly. | [noun] A class or group of people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists. | [noun] Scouse (from lobscouse) LOBED (8) LOBES (7) [noun] Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. | [noun] A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. | [noun] A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. LOBOS (7) [noun] A wolf. LOOBY (10) LUBES (7) [verb] To lubricate MABES (9) MAMBA (11) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees. MAMBO (11) [noun] A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) | [noun] A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. | [verb] To perform this dance. MAYBE (12) [noun] Something that is possibly true. | [noun] An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | [noun] A future event that may or may not happen. MBIRA (9) [noun] A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument. NABES (7) [noun] Neighborhood. | [noun] (frequently plural) Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema. NABIS (7) NABOB (9) [noun] An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire. | [noun] (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance. | [noun] (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner. NAWAB (10) [noun] A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura. NIMBI (9) [noun] A circle of light; a halo. | [noun] A gray rain cloud. NOBBY (12) NOBLE (7) [noun] An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. | [noun] A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d. | [adjective] Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character. NOBLY (10) [adverb] In a noble manner. NUBBY (12) [adjective] Knobbly; covered with small knobs. | [adjective] Nub-like, resembling a small bump or protrusion; stubby. NUBIA (7) NUMBS (9) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. OBEAH (10) [noun] A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean. | [noun] A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft. | [noun] A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell. OBELI (7) [noun] A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant; an obelisk. | [noun] A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date; an obelisk. OBESE (7) [adjective] Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2. OBEYS (10) [verb] To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of. | [verb] To do as one is told. | [verb] To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.). OBIAS (7) OBITS (7) [noun] Death of a person. | [noun] A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. | [noun] A record of a person's death. OBJET (14) OBOES (7) [noun] A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family. OBOLE (7) OBOLI (7) OBOLS (7) [noun] A silver coin of Ancient Greece. | [noun] A weight, equivalent to one sixth of a drachma. OMBER (9) OMBRE (9) [noun] A large Mediterranean food fish Umbrina cirrosa | [noun] (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark. ORBED (8) ORBIT (7) [noun] A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object, particularly in astronomy and space travel. | [noun] A sphere of influence; an area of control. | [noun] The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range. ORIBI (7) [noun] Ourebia ourebi, a species of antelope. OUTBY (10) OXBOW (17) [noun] A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts fastened to its yoke | [noun] A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop PIBAL (9) PLEBE (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens. | [noun] The plebs, the plebeian class. | [noun] The similar lower class of any area. PLEBS (9) [noun] A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society. | [noun] A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy. PLUMB (11) [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. | [noun] A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water. | [noun] The perpendicular direction or position. | [noun] The fruit and its tree. PROBE (9) [noun] Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. | [noun] Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. | [noun] An act of probing; a prod, a poke. PUBES (9) [noun] The pubic hair. | [noun] The pubic region. | [noun] The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis | [noun] A single pubic hair. PUBIC (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the pubes. PUBIS (9) [noun] The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis RABAT (7) RABBI (9) [noun] A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions. | [noun] A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation. | [noun] (police) A senior officer who acts as a mentor. RABIC (9) RABID (8) [noun] A human or animal infected with rabies. | [noun] Someone who is fanatical in opinion. | [adjective] Affected with rabies. REBAR (7) [noun] A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure. | [noun] A grid-shaped system of such bars. | [verb] To reinforce with bars of this kind. | [verb] To bar again. REBBE (9) [noun] The spiritual leader of a Chassidic Jewish community. REBEC (9) [noun] An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras. REBEL (7) [noun] A person who resists an established authority, often violently | [noun] A person from the Confederate States of America | [verb] To resist or become defiant toward an authority. REBID (8) [noun] A second or subsequent (normally higher) bid. | [verb] To bid again on something. | [verb] To require a new set of bids for. REBOP (9) REBUS (7) [noun] A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. | [noun] A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. | [verb] To mark or indicate by a rebus. REBUT (7) [verb] To drive back or beat back; to repulse. | [verb] To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. REBUY (10) REDUB (8) REHAB (10) [noun] Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs. | [noun] An institution for rehabilitation. | [verb] To rehabilitate. RHOMB (12) [noun] A rhombus. | [noun] A rhombohedron. RHUMB (12) [noun] A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle | [noun] One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) | [noun] A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25° RIBBY (12) [adjective] Pertaining to or having ribs; ribbed. | [adjective] Specifically, thin so as to have prominent ribs; emaciated. | [adjective] Shabby, in poor condition. RIBES (7) ROBED (8) [verb] To clothe; to dress. | [verb] To put on official vestments. | [adjective] Wearing a robe. ROBES (7) [noun] A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature. | [noun] The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap. | [noun] A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom. ROBIN (7) [noun] Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast. | [noun] A trimming in front of a dress. ROBLE (7) ROBOT (7) [noun] A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed. | [noun] An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. | [noun] A person who does not seem to have any emotions. RUBES (7) [noun] A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | [noun] An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. RUBLE (7) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. RUBUS (7) RUGBY (11) [noun] (usually uncountable) A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar. | [noun] A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players. | [noun] Rubber cement, contact cement. RUMBA (9) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba SABED (8) SABER (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SABES (7) SABIN (7) SABIR (7) SABLE (7) [noun] A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia). | [noun] The marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana). | [noun] The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur. SABOT (7) [noun] A wooden shoe. | [noun] A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel SABRA (7) [noun] A native-born Israeli. SABRE (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SAHIB (10) [noun] A term of respect for a white European or other person of rank in colonial India. SAMBA (9) [noun] A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. | [noun] A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. | [verb] To dance the samba. SAMBO (9) [noun] A sandwich. SCABS (9) [noun] An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | [noun] The scabies. | [noun] The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. SCRUB (9) [noun] One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | [noun] One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. | [noun] A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant | [noun] An instance of scrubbing. SCUBA (9) [noun] (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater. | [verb] To perform scuba diving. SEBUM (9) [noun] A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris. SHRUB (10) [noun] A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | [verb] To lop; to prune. | [verb] (Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation. | [noun] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. SIBBS (9) SIBYL (10) [noun] A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl. SLABS (7) [noun] A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. | [noun] A paving stone; a flagstone. | [noun] A carton containing 24 cans of beer. SLOBS (7) [noun] A lazy and slovenly person. | [noun] A lazy and obese person. SLUBS (7) [noun] A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects. | [noun] Fabric fiber produced by slubbing. | [verb] To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning. SLURB (7) SNIBS (7) [noun] A latch or fastening for a door, window etc. | [noun] A reprimand; a snub. SNOBS (7) [noun] A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. | [noun] A cobbler or shoemaker. | [noun] A member of the lower classes; a commoner. SNUBS (7) [noun] A deliberate affront or slight. | [noun] A sudden checking of a cable or rope. | [noun] A knot; a protuberance; a snag. SOBER (7) [verb] (often with up) To make or become sober. | [verb] (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. | [verb] To moderate one's feelings SORBS (7) [noun] The service tree, Sorbus domestica. | [noun] Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia. | [noun] The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree. SQUAB (16) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUIB (16) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. STABS (7) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STOBS (7) [noun] A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting. | [noun] A small post for supporting paling. | [noun] A wedge in coal-mining. STUBS (7) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. SUBAH (10) SUBAS (7) SUBER (7) SWABS (10) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWOBS (10) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. TABBY (12) [noun] A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. | [noun] A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock. | [noun] A brindled cat. TABER (7) TABES (7) [noun] A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease. TABID (8) TABLA (7) [noun] A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos. TABLE (7) [noun] Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. | [noun] A two-dimensional presentation of data. | [noun] The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate. TABOO (7) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. | [verb] To mark as taboo. TABOR (7) [noun] A small drum. | [verb] To make (a sound) with a tabor. | [verb] To strike lightly and frequently. | [noun] A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources. TABUN (7) [noun] An extremely toxic nerve agent; a clear, tasteless liquid, molecular formula C5H11N2O2P. | [noun] A clay oven, shaped like a truncated cone, with an opening at the bottom for stoking the fire. TABUS (7) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. THEBE (10) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Botswanan pula. THROB (10) [noun] A beating, vibration or palpitation. | [verb] To pound or beat rapidly or violently. | [verb] To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm. THUMB (12) [noun] The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. | [noun] The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. | [noun] A thumbnail picture. TIBIA (7) [noun] The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone | [noun] The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. | [noun] The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus. TOMBS (9) [noun] A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. | [noun] A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave. | [noun] One who keeps secrets. TRIBE (7) [noun] A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people. | [noun] A society larger than a band but smaller than a state. | [noun] A group of apes who live and work together. TSUBA (7) [noun] The guard at the end of the grip of a sword. TUBAE (7) TUBAL (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a tube, especially an anatomical one TUBAS (7) [noun] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | [noun] A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba. | [noun] A large reed stop in organs. TUBBY (12) [noun] (often used teasingly) An overweight person. | [adjective] Stout, rotund | [adjective] Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound. TUBED (8) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUBER (7) [noun] A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. | [noun] A thickened rootstock. | [noun] A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body. TUBES (7) [noun] Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. | [noun] An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. | [noun] (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.) TURBO (7) [noun] Turbocharger. | [noun] Turbojet. | [noun] Turbomolecular pump. | [noun] A turban shell. UMBEL (9) [noun] A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre. UMBER (9) [noun] A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. | [noun] A grayling. | [noun] A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. UMBOS (9) [noun] A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane. For example the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. | [noun] One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. | [noun] A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap. UMBRA (9) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UNBAN (7) [verb] To lift a ban against. UNBAR (7) [verb] To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To remove a prohibition. | [verb] To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar. UNBID (8) UNBOX (14) [verb] To remove from a box. | [verb] To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed. UPBOW (12) UPBYE (12) URBAN (7) [adjective] Related to the (or any) city. | [adjective] Characteristic of city life. | [adjective] Relating to contemporary African American culture. URBIA (7) VERBS (10) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. VIBES (10) [noun] A vibraphone. | [noun] Vibration. | [noun] A vibrator (sex toy). WEBBY (15) WEBER (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb. WOMBS (12) [noun] In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. | [noun] The abdomen or stomach. | [noun] The stomach of a person or creature. WOMBY (15) XEBEC (16) [noun] A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern. YERBA (10) [noun] Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate. YOBBO (12) [noun] A yob. ZEBEC (18) [noun] A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern. ZEBRA (16) [noun] Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa. | [noun] A referee. | [noun] An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".) ZEBUS (16) [noun] A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus). ZIBET (16) ZINEB (16) [noun] An organic fungicide and insecticide sprayed on cereal grasses, fruit trees, etc. ZOMBI (18)

ABACAS (10) [noun] Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre. | [noun] The fiber of this plant, used in rope. ABACUS (10) [noun] A table or tray scattered with sand which was used for calculating or drawing. | [noun] A device used for performing arithmetical calculations; a table on which loose counters are placed, or (more commonly) an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc. | [noun] The uppermost portion of the capital of a column immediately under the architrave, in some cases a flat oblong or square slab, in others more decorated. ABAKAS (12) ABAMPS (12) ABASED (9) [verb] To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. | [verb] To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. | [verb] To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. ABASER (8) ABASES (8) [verb] To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. | [verb] To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. | [verb] To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. ABASIA (8) ABATED (9) [verb] (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. | [verb] To become null and void. | [verb] To nullify; make void. ABATER (8) ABATES (8) [noun] Abatement. | [verb] (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. | [verb] To become null and void. ABATIS (8) [noun] A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire. | [noun] In the middle ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor. | [noun] In fortification, a barricade made of felled trees denuded of their smaller branches, with the butt-ends of the trunks embedded in the earth or secured by pickets, and the sharpened ends of the branches directed upward and outward toward an advancing enemy, for the purpose of obstructing his progress. In field-fortifications the abatis is usually constructed in front of the ditch. See fortification. ABATOR (8) ABBACY (15) [noun] The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess. ABBESS (10) [noun] A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. | [noun] (British slang) A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients. ABBEYS (13) [noun] The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess. | [noun] A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. | [noun] The church of a monastery. ABBOTS (10) [noun] The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. | [noun] The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter. | [noun] A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries. ABDUCE (11) ABDUCT (11) [verb] To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. | [verb] To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body. ABELES (8) [noun] The white poplar (Populus alba). ABELIA (8) [noun] Any of the various honeysuckles of the genus Abelia. ABHORS (11) [verb] To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. | [verb] To fill with horror or disgust. | [verb] To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. ABIDED (10) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. ABIDER (9) ABIDES (9) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. ABJECT (17) [noun] A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast. | [adjective] Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position. | [adjective] Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit. | [verb] To cast off or out; to reject. ABJURE (15) [verb] To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. | [verb] To cause one to renounce or recant. | [verb] To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim. ABLATE (8) [verb] To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization. | [verb] To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature. ABLAUT (8) [noun] The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get and got; sing and song; hang and hung, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel. | [verb] (of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel. | [verb] To cause to change a vowel. ABLAZE (17) [adjective] Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire. | [adjective] Radiant with bright light and color. | [adjective] In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. ABLEST (8) [adjective] Easy to use. | [adjective] Suitable; competent. | [adjective] Liable to. ABLINS (8) ABLOOM (10) [adjective] Blooming; covered in flowers. | [adjective] Having something growing or grown. | [adjective] Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty. ABLUSH (11) [adjective] Blushing; ruddy. | [adverb] Blushing; ruddy. ABMHOS (13) ABOARD (9) [adverb] On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. | [adverb] On or onto a horse, a camel, etc. | [adverb] On base. ABODED (10) ABODES (9) [noun] Act of waiting; delay. | [noun] Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. | [noun] A residence, dwelling or habitation. ABOHMS (13) ABOLLA (8) ABOMAS (10) ABORAL (8) [adjective] Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth. ABORTS (8) [noun] A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. | [noun] The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. | [noun] An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. ABOUND (9) [verb] To be full to overflowing. | [verb] To be wealthy. | [verb] To be highly productive. ABOVES (11) ABRADE (9) [verb] To rub or wear off; erode. | [verb] To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. | [verb] To irritate by rubbing; chafe. | [verb] To wrench (something) out. ABROAD (9) [noun] Countries or lands abroad. | [adverb] Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. | [adverb] At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. ABRUPT (10) [noun] Something which is abrupt; an abyss. | [verb] To tear off or asunder. | [verb] To interrupt suddenly. ABSEIL (8) [noun] A descent in mountaineering using a rope looped at the top and a friction device. | [verb] To descend a steep or vertical drop using a rope with a mechanical friction device or (classic abseil) by wrapping the rope around the body; to rappel. ABSENT (8) [noun] (with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there. | [noun] An absentee; a person who is not there. | [adjective] Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing. | [verb] To keep (oneself) away. ABSORB (10) [verb] To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. | [verb] To engulf, as in water; to swallow up. | [verb] To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in. ABSURD (9) [noun] An absurdity. | [noun] (often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence. | [adjective] Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. ABULIA (8) [noun] Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness. ABULIC (10) [adjective] Lacking willpower or the ability to make decisions; characterized by aboulia or absence of will. ABUSED (9) [verb] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert | [verb] To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly. | [verb] To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. ABUSER (8) [noun] One who abuses someone or something. | [noun] One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use. ABUSES (8) [noun] Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. | [noun] Misuse; improper use; perversion. | [noun] A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. ABVOLT (11) [noun] A unit of electrical potential difference equal to one billionth of a volt, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units. ABWATT (11) [noun] A unit of electrical power equal to one billionth of a watt, used in measuring very small amounts of power. ABYING (12) ABYSMS (13) [noun] Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos. | [noun] An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole. ADOBES (9) [noun] An unburnt brick dried in the sun. | [noun] The earth from which such bricks are made. | [noun] A house made of adobe brick. ADOBOS (9) [noun] A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic. | [noun] A marinade. ADSORB (9) [verb] To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption ADVERB (12) [noun] (grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. | [verb] To make into or become an adverb. AEROBE (8) [noun] Any organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive. AIRBUS (8) [noun] A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one. AKIMBO (14) [adjective] With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. | [adverb] Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo. ALBATA (8) [noun] An alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc, used as a substitute for silver. ALBEDO (9) [noun] The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage. | [noun] The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith. | [noun] One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia. ALBEIT (8) [conjunction] Although, despite (it) being. ALBINO (8) [noun] A person or animal congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born with albinism. | [adjective] Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism. ALBITE (8) [noun] A plagioclase feldspar, the first member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series. ALBUMS (10) [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. | [noun] A collection, especially of literary items | [noun] A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks ALIBIS (8) [noun] The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed | [verb] To provide an alibi for. | [verb] To provide an excuse for. ALIBLE (8) AMBAGE (11) AMBARI (10) AMBARY (13) AMBEER (10) AMBERS (10) [noun] Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. | [noun] A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. | [noun] A yellow-orange colour. AMBERY (13) AMBITS (10) [noun] The sphere or area of control and influence of something. | [noun] A circuit, or a boundary around a property. | [noun] The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. AMBLED (11) [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. | [verb] Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other. AMBLER (10) AMBLES (10) [noun] An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll. | [noun] An easy gait, especially that of a horse. | [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. AMBUSH (13) [noun] The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise. | [noun] An attack launched from a concealed position. | [noun] The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait. AMEBAE (10) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMEBAN (10) AMEBAS (10) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMEBIC (12) AMOEBA (10) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. ANABAS (8) [noun] A freshwater fish of Southeast Asia that can breathe air and travel short distances over land. APLOMB (12) [noun] Self-confidence; poise; composure. | [noun] The apparent elegance and precision exhibited by a confident, accomplished dancer. | [noun] The perpendicular; perpendicularity. ARABIC (10) [adjective] Relating to Arabia, the Arabic language, or Arab people. | [noun] The Semitic language spoken in Arab countries. ARABLE (8) [adjective] (of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths). | [adjective] (NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards). ARBORS (8) [noun] A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation. | [noun] A grove of trees. | [noun] An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe. ARBOUR (8) [noun] A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation. | [noun] A shady walk. ARBUTE (8) [noun] A Mediterranean evergreen shrub or small tree bearing strawberry-like fruits. ARDEBS (9) [noun] A unit of dry measure used in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries, equal to about 5.6 bushels or roughly 198 liters. ARROBA (8) [noun] A unit of weight used in Spanish-speaking countries, equal to approximately 25 pounds. | [noun] The @ symbol used in email addresses. ATABAL (8) [noun] A large drum used in Turkish and Arabic music, typically played with the hands. AUBADE (9) [noun] A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn. | [noun] A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning. AUBURN (8) [noun] A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour. | [adjective] Of a reddish-brown colour. AUCUBA (10) [noun] Any of several decorative evergreen shrubs of the genus Aucuba. AUSUBO (8) BAAING (9) [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. | [noun] The bleating of a sheep. BAALIM (10) [noun] Plural of baal, referring to false gods or idols in biblical and historical contexts. BAASES (8) [noun] An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address. BABBLE (12) [noun] Idle talk; senseless prattle | [noun] Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. | [noun] A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions. BABELS (10) [noun] A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages. | [noun] A place or scene of noise and confusion. | [noun] A tall, looming structure. BABIED (11) [adjective] Spoiled or coddled. | [verb] To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant. | [verb] To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over. BABIES (10) [noun] A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered. | [noun] Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chickens for the babies of birds. See for more. | [noun] Unborn young; a fetus. BABKAS (14) [noun] Plural of babka, a sweet braided or swirled bread of Jewish origin, typically filled with cinnamon, chocolate, or other ingredients. BABOOL (10) [noun] A spiny tree native to India and Africa, also known as the acacia tree, valued for its gum and timber. BABOON (10) [noun] An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. | [noun] A foolish or boorish person. BABOOS (10) [noun] Plural of baboo, a Hindu clerk or official in British India; also, a Hindu title of respect equivalent to "Mr." BABULS (10) [noun] A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica. BACCAE (12) BACHED (14) [verb] To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.) BACHES (13) [noun] (northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction. BACKED (15) [verb] To go in the reverse direction. | [verb] To support. | [verb] (of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere. | [adjective] Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead. BACKER (14) [noun] One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it. BACKUP (16) [noun] A reserve or substitute. | [noun] A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged. | [noun] An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow. BACONS (10) [noun] Cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig. | [noun] Thin slices of the above in long strips. | [noun] The police or spies. BACULA (10) [noun] A bone found in the penis of some mammals | [noun] A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen BADASS (9) [noun] (negative connotation) A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior. | [noun] (youth slang, positive connotation) A person considered impressive due to courage, skill, and/or toughness. | [adjective] (negative connotation) Belligerent and troublesome. BADDER (10) [adjective] Fantastic. BADDIE (10) [noun] A person of bad character in a work of fiction. BADGED (11) [verb] To mark or distinguish with a badge. | [verb] To show a badge to. | [verb] To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge. BADGER (10) [noun] Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger). | [noun] A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin. | [noun] A brush made of badger hair. | [noun] An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. BADGES (10) [noun] A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization. | [noun] A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information. | [noun] A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area. BADMAN (11) [noun] A criminal or violent person, especially in Jamaican English or dancehall culture. | [noun] In gaming contexts, a skilled or formidable player or character. BADMEN (11) [noun] Plural of badman; criminals, gangsters, or tough individuals, particularly in Caribbean English and reggae culture. BAFFED (15) [verb] Past tense of baff, to strike a golf ball with the sole of the club. | [verb] Past tense of baff, to strike or hit something. BAFFLE (14) [noun] A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether. | [noun] An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable. | [noun] (coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. BAGASS (9) [noun] The fibrous residue left after the extraction of juice from sugar cane or similar plants, used as fuel or in paper production. BAGELS (9) [noun] A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked. | [noun] A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero). | [noun] An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man. BAGFUL (12) [noun] The amount that a bag can hold or contain. BAGGED (11) [verb] To put into a bag. | [verb] To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. | [verb] To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. BAGGER (10) [noun] A person or machine that bags things, such as groceries or harvested crops. | [noun] In golf, a player who wins a specified number of holes or matches. | [noun] A large excavating machine used in mining and construction. BAGGIE (10) [noun] A small bag, especially a small, clear, plastic bag. BAGMAN (11) [noun] A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments. | [noun] An assistant to a police detective, most commonly in the British police force. | [noun] A bookmaker. BAGMEN (11) [noun] A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments. | [noun] An assistant to a police detective, most commonly in the British police force. | [noun] A bookmaker. BAGNIO (9) [noun] A brothel. | [noun] A building for bathing, sweating. | [noun] In Turkey, a prison for slaves. BAGUET (9) BAGWIG (13) [noun] A type of wig with the back hair gathered into a bag or pouch, popular in the 18th century. BAILED (9) [verb] To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail. | [verb] To release a person under such guarantee. | [verb] To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment. BAILEE (8) [noun] One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other. BAILER (8) [noun] One who bails, such as a person who provides bail for a prisoner or one who removes water from a boat. | [noun] A device or tool used for bailing water out of a boat. BAILEY (11) [noun] The outer wall of a feudal castle. | [noun] The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. | [noun] (in certain proper names) A prison or court of justice. BAILIE (8) [noun] A bailiff. | [noun] The chief magistrate of a Scottish barony or part of a county, with functions like a sheriff's. | [noun] A municipal officer in Scotland corresponding to an English alderman. BAILOR (8) [noun] One who bails property; one who places property in the hands of another (called a bailee) for safekeeping. BAIRNS (8) [noun] A child or baby. BAITED (9) [verb] To attract with bait; to entice. | [verb] To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line. | [verb] To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. BAITER (8) [noun] One who baits; a person who sets bait for fish or traps. | [noun] One who harasses or taunts another person. BAIZAS (17) [noun] Plural of baiza, a monetary unit of Oman equal to one thousandth of a rial. BAIZES (17) [noun] A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc. | [noun] A coarse woolen material with a long nap; usually dyed in plain colors. BAKERS (12) [noun] A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items. | [noun] A portable oven for baking. BAKERY (15) [noun] A shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold. | [noun] The trade of a baker. | [noun] The actual goods produced in a bakery such as doughnuts, long johns, bismarcks, sugar and glazed twisters, cinnamon rolls, eclairs, etc. BAKING (13) [verb] (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven. | [verb] (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven. | [verb] To be warmed to drying and hardening. BALATA (8) [noun] Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries. | [noun] The latex obtained from this tree. BALBOA (10) [noun] The currency of Panama, divided into 100 centésimos BALDED (10) [verb] Past tense of bald; to make bald or to become bald. | [adjective] Having become bald or made bald. BALDER (9) [adjective] Having no hair, fur or feathers. | [adjective] (by extension) Denuded of any hair- or fur-like covering. | [adjective] Of tyres: whose surface is worn away. BALDLY (12) [adverb] In a bald manner. BALEEN (8) [noun] The bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry | [noun] A baleen whale BALERS (8) [noun] A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton. | [noun] A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand. BALING (9) [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. | [noun] A collection of material packaged into a bale. BALKED (13) [verb] To pass over or by. | [verb] To omit, miss or overlook by chance. | [verb] To miss intentionally; to avoid. BALKER (12) [noun] One who balks; a person or animal that refuses to proceed or comply. | [noun] In baseball, a pitcher who makes an illegal motion on the mound. BALLAD (9) [noun] A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas. | [noun] A slow romantic song. | [verb] To make mention of in ballads. BALLED (9) [verb] To form or wind into a ball. | [verb] To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. BALLER (8) [noun] A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out. | [noun] One who plays basketball; a basketballer. | [noun] One who has swag and lives an extravagant lifestyle. BALLET (8) [noun] A classical form of dance. | [noun] A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story. | [noun] The company of persons who perform this dance. BALLON (8) [noun] The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair BALLOT (8) [noun] Originally, a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote. | [noun] The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting. | [noun] The total of all the votes cast in an election. BALLSY (11) [adjective] Tough and courageous; having balls. BALSAM (10) [noun] A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants. | [noun] A plant or tree yielding such substance. | [noun] A soothing ointment. BALSAS (8) [noun] Plural of balsa, lightweight wood from a tropical tree, or rafts made from bundled logs. BAMBOO (12) [noun] A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe. | [noun] The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane. | [noun] A didgeridoo. BAMMED (13) BANANA (8) [noun] An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. | [noun] The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain. | [noun] A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin. BANCOS (10) BANDED (10) [verb] To fasten with a band. | [verb] To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird). | [verb] To group together for a common purpose; to confederate. BANDER (9) [noun] One who bands together with others. | [verb] Third person singular of "band," meaning to unite or gather together. BANDIT (9) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BANDOG (10) [noun] A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog. | [noun] (specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs. | [noun] A bailiff or prison guard. BANGED (10) [verb] To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. | [verb] To hit hard. | [verb] To engage in sexual intercourse. BANGER (9) [noun] A thing or person which bangs, in any sense. | [noun] : A firework that makes a bang. | [noun] A woman's breast. BANGLE (9) [noun] A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp. | [verb] To beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind. | [verb] To waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away). | [noun] The cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs BANIAN (8) [noun] An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. | [noun] A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots. | [noun] A type of loose gown worn in India. BANING (9) BANISH (11) [verb] (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning. | [verb] To expel, especially from the mind. BANJAX (22) [noun] A mess or undesirable situation made as a result of incompetence. | [verb] (originally Ireland) To ruin or destroy. BANJOS (15) [noun] A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings. | [noun] Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard. | [noun] An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel. BANKED (13) [verb] To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. | [verb] To put into a bank. | [verb] To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. BANKER (12) [noun] One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc. | [noun] A money changer. | [noun] The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. | [noun] A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. | [noun] A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline. BANNED (9) [verb] To summon; to call out. | [verb] To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban. | [verb] To curse; to execrate. BANNER (8) [noun] A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation. | [noun] (by extension) The military unit under such a flag or standard. | [noun] (by extension) A military or administrative subdivision. | [noun] One who bans something. BANNET (8) [noun] A Scottish flat cap or bonnet. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting hat. BANTAM (10) [noun] Any of several small chickens, especially of a breed that is a miniature version of another breed. | [noun] A competitor in an age division between peewee and midget. | [adjective] Small or miniature. BANTER (8) [noun] Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation. | [verb] To engage in banter or playful conversation. | [verb] To play or do something amusing. BANYAN (11) [noun] An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. | [noun] A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots. | [noun] A type of loose gown worn in India. BANZAI (17) [noun] A cry or cheer of "banzai", to express enthusiasm or celebrate victory. | [noun] A short form of banzai attack or banzai charge. | [adjective] Thrill-seeking; wild. BAOBAB (12) [noun] A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits. BARBAL (10) BARBED (11) [verb] To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. | [verb] To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard. | [verb] To cut (hair). BARBEL (10) [noun] A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera. | [noun] Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark. | [noun] A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle. BARBER (10) [noun] A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards. | [noun] A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries. | [noun] A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules. BARBES (10) [noun] Plural of barbe, a type of armor piece that protects the lower face and neck. | [noun] Plural of barb, sharp projections or cutting remarks. BARBET (10) [noun] Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes. | [noun] A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair. | [noun] A larva that feeds on aphids. BARBUT (10) [noun] A type of close helmet or visor used in medieval times, characterized by a flat face plate with only a narrow horizontal opening for vision. BARDED (10) [adjective] (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor | [adjective] Wearing rich caparisons. BARDES (9) [noun] Plural of barde, a piece of armor for a horse. | [verb] Third person singular of barde, to cover a horse with armor. BARDIC (11) [adjective] Of or relating to bards or bardic poetry; characteristic of or suitable for a bard or minstrel. BAREGE (9) [noun] A type of gauzy fabric used for making dresses, originally made in Barèges. BARELY (11) [adverb] (degree) By a small margin. | [adverb] (degree) Almost not at all. | [adverb] Merely. BAREST (8) [adjective] Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. | [adjective] Naked, uncovered. | [adjective] Having no supplies. BARFED (12) [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARFLY (14) [noun] A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment BARGED (10) [verb] To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner. | [verb] To push someone. BARGEE (9) [noun] A crewman of a working barge. BARGES (9) [noun] A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. | [noun] A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. | [noun] A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. BARHOP (13) [verb] To drink at a number of bars during a single day or evening. BARING (9) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. | [noun] The act by which something is laid bare. BARITE (8) [noun] A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO4. BARIUM (10) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal. | [noun] A single atom of this element. | [noun] Barium sulfate suspension. BARKED (13) [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). | [verb] To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. | [verb] To speak sharply. BARKER (12) [noun] Someone or something who barks. | [noun] A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival. | [noun] A shelf-talker. | [noun] A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation. BARLEY (11) [noun] A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks. | [noun] Seed of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) BARLOW (11) BARMAN (10) [noun] A man who works in a bar. BARMEN (10) [noun] A man who works in a bar. BARMIE (10) [adjective] Infested with barm or yeast; fermenting. | [adjective] British slang for foolish or crazy. BARONG (9) [noun] A cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razor-like edge, used by the Moros of the Philippines. BARONS (8) [noun] The male ruler of a barony. | [noun] A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord). | [noun] A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin. BARONY (11) [noun] The domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire. | [noun] The baronage: the body of barons in a realm. | [noun] Baronship, the rank or position of a baron. BARQUE (17) [noun] A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged | [noun] Any small sailing vessel | [noun] A sailing vessel or boat of any kind BARRED (9) [verb] To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To prohibit. | [verb] To lock or bolt with a bar. BARREL (8) [noun] A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum. | [noun] The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom. | [noun] A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case BARREN (8) [noun] An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place. | [adjective] Unable to bear children; sterile. | [adjective] Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation. BARRES (8) [noun] A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. | [noun] Short for barre chord. BARRET (8) [noun] A flat cap without a stiff brim, typically worn by artists or in certain military contexts. | [noun] A type of medieval armor piece protecting the neck and shoulders. BARRIO (8) [noun] (in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city. | [noun] (in some Spanish-speaking countries) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality. | [noun] (in the Philippines) A barangay. BARROW (11) [noun] A mountain. | [noun] A hill. | [noun] A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. | [noun] A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand. | [noun] A castrated boar. | [noun] A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants. BARTER (8) [noun] An exchange of goods or services without the use of money. | [noun] The goods or services used in such an exchange. | [verb] To exchange goods or services without involving money. BARYES (11) [noun] Plural of barye, a unit of pressure in the centimeter-gram-second system of units, equal to one dyne per square centimeter. BARYON (11) [noun] A heavy subatomic particle created by the binding of quarks by gluons; a hadron containing three quarks. Baryons have half-odd integral spin and are thus fermions. This category includes the common proton and neutron of the atomic nucleus. BARYTA (11) [noun] Any of several compounds of barium, especially barium sulphate and barium hydroxide. BARYTE (11) [noun] A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO4. BASALT (8) [noun] A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust. | [noun] A type of unglazed pottery. BASELY (11) [adverb] In a base, dishonorable, or morally low manner; in a contemptible way. BASEST (8) [adjective] Low in height; short. | [adjective] Low in place or position. | [adjective] Of low value or degree. BASHAW (14) [noun] A Turkish title of high rank; a pasha. | [noun] A man of great power or importance; a person of consequence. BASHED (12) [verb] To strike heavily. | [verb] To collide. | [verb] To criticize harshly. BASHER (11) [noun] One who bashes something, figuratively or literally. | [noun] One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people. | [noun] A trainspotter. http//groups.google.co.uk/groups/search?q=%22bashers%22+uk+railway&btnG=Search&sitesearch=groups.google.com BASHES (11) [noun] A large party; gala event. | [noun] An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists. | [verb] To strike heavily. BASICS (10) [noun] A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. | [noun] An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. | [noun] Basic training. BASIFY (14) [verb] To make basic or alkaline in chemical composition; to convert into a base. BASILS (8) [noun] Plural of basil, an aromatic herb commonly used in cooking. BASING (9) [verb] To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. | [verb] To be located (at a particular place). | [verb] (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. BASINS (8) [noun] A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall | [noun] A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food | [noun] A depression, natural or artificial, containing water BASION (8) [noun] The midpoint of the anterior margin of the foramen magnum in the skull, used as a reference point in anthropology and anatomy. BASKED (13) [verb] To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat. | [verb] To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in"). BASKET (12) [noun] A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. | [noun] A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop. | [noun] In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them. BASQUE (17) [noun] The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature. BASSES (8) [noun] A low spectrum of sound tones. | [noun] A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor. | [noun] One who sings in the bass range. BASSET (8) [noun] The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop. | [noun] A basset hound. | [noun] A card game resembling faro. BASSLY (11) BASSOS (8) [noun] A bass singer, especially in opera. | [noun] An instrumental part written for a bass instrument. | [noun] The double bass, or contrabasso. BASTED (9) [verb] To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. | [verb] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. | [verb] (by extension) To coat over something. BASTER (8) [noun] A kitchen utensil consisting of a tube with a rubber bulb at one end, used for basting meat with cooking juices. | [noun] One who bastes. BASTES (8) [verb] To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. | [noun] A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking. | [verb] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. BATBOY (13) [noun] A boy or man who retrieves bats and performs other duties for a baseball team during games and practice. BATEAU (8) [noun] A small, flat-bottomed type of boat. BATHED (12) [verb] To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. | [verb] To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. | [verb] To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. | [verb] To wash a person or animal in a bath BATHER (11) [noun] One who bathes or swims. | [noun] One who gives a bath to another. BATHES (11) [verb] To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. | [verb] To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. | [verb] To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. BATHOS (11) [noun] Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. | [noun] Depth. | [noun] (the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to BATIKS (12) [noun] A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric. | [verb] To dye fabric using the wax-resist method. BATING (9) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BATMAN (10) [noun] A servant or valet to an army officer. | [noun] (by extension) A personal assistant or supporter. | [verb] To act as a batman. | [noun] A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg. | [verb] (mountaineering) To climb up or down a rope free hand (i.e. as Batman does). BATMEN (10) [noun] A servant or valet to an army officer. | [noun] (by extension) A personal assistant or supporter. BATONS (8) [noun] A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes | [noun] The stick of a conductor in musical performances. | [noun] An object transferred by runners in a relay race. BATTED (9) [verb] To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat. | [verb] To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding. | [verb] To strike or swipe as though with a bat. BATTEN (8) [verb] To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding. | [verb] To feed (on); to revel (in). | [verb] To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously. | [noun] A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point. BATTER (8) [verb] To hit or strike violently and repeatedly. | [verb] To coat with batter (the food ingredient). | [verb] To defeat soundly; to thrash. | [noun] A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying | [noun] An incline on the outer face of a built wall. | [noun] The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat. BATTIK (12) BATTLE (8) [noun] A contest, a struggle. | [noun] A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement. | [noun] A division of an army; a battalion. | [verb] To nourish; feed. BATTUE (8) [noun] A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc. | [noun] A hunt performed in this manner. BAUBEE (10) BAUBLE (10) [noun] A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw. | [noun] A club or sceptre carried by a jester. | [noun] A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees. BAULKS (12) [noun] An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. | [noun] The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. | [noun] Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks". BAULKY (15) [adjective] Refusing to proceed or cooperate. BAWBEE (13) [noun] A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny. | [noun] A copper; a small amount of money. BAWDRY (15) [noun] The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. | [noun] Illicit intercourse; fornication. | [noun] Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. BAWLED (12) [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BAWLER (11) [noun] One who bawls; a person who cries loudly or wails. | [noun] A loud speaker or announcer. BAWTIE (11) BAYAMO (13) BAYARD (12) [noun] A horse, especially a bay-colored horse. | [noun] A man of courage and integrity; a knight or gallant person. BAYING (12) [verb] To howl. | [verb] To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay. | [verb] To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds. BAYMAN (13) BAYMEN (13) [noun] Plural of bayman; men who work in or around bays, particularly those engaged in fishing or oystering in coastal bay areas. BAYOUS (11) [noun] A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river. | [noun] A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water. BAZAAR (17) [noun] A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls. | [noun] A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic. | [noun] A fair or temporary market, often for charity. BAZARS (17) [noun] Plural of bazar, a marketplace or shopping area, typically in Middle Eastern or South Asian countries. | [noun] A sale of goods, often for charity purposes. BAZOOS (17) [noun] A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn. | [noun] A person's mouth. BEACHY (16) [adjective] Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand. | [adjective] Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like. BEACON (10) [noun] A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. | [noun] A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners. | [noun] A high hill or other easily distinguishable object near the shore which can serve as guidance for seafarers. BEADED (10) [verb] To form into a bead. | [verb] To apply beads to. | [verb] To form into a bead. BEADLE (9) [noun] A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order | [noun] (ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister | [noun] A warrant officer BEAGLE (9) [noun] A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet. | [noun] A person who snoops on others; a detective. | [noun] A bailiff. BEAKED (13) [adjective] Having a beak or beak-like projection. | [verb] Past tense of beak, to strike or peck with a beak. BEAKER (12) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel, with a lip, used as a laboratory container. | [noun] A drinking vessel without a handle, sometimes for the use of children. | [noun] A mug. BEAMED (11) [verb] To emit beams of light; shine; radiate. | [verb] To smile broadly or especially cheerfully. | [verb] To furnish or supply with beams BEANED (9) [verb] To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head. BEANIE (8) [noun] A cap that fits the head closely, usually knitted from wool. | [noun] A head-hugging brimless cap, with or without a visor, made from triangular sections of cloth, leather, or silk joined by a button at the crown and seamed together around the sides. | [noun] A Beanie Baby, a small soft toy filled with beans or similar stuffing. BEANOS (8) [noun] A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party. | [noun] Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy. BEARDS (9) [noun] Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. | [noun] The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds. | [noun] The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. BEARER (8) [noun] One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. | [noun] Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession. | [noun] One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment. BEASTS (8) [noun] Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. | [noun] (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. | [noun] A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. BEATEN (8) [verb] To hit; strike | [verb] To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm. | [verb] To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. BEATER (8) [noun] Someone or something that beats. | [noun] A kitchen implement for mixing. | [noun] A stick used to play a percussion instrument. | [noun] A sleeveless undershirt. BEAUTS (8) [noun] Something or someone that is physically attractive. | [noun] Something that is a remarkable example of its type. BEAUTY (11) [noun] The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. | [noun] Someone who is beautiful. | [noun] Something that is particularly good or pleasing. BEAVER (11) [noun] A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet. | [noun] A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850. | [noun] The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman. | [noun] A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor. BEBOPS (12) [verb] Third person singular of "bebop," meaning to play or dance to bebop jazz music. | [noun] Plural of "bebop," referring to instances or styles of bebop jazz. BECALM (12) [verb] To make calm or still; make quiet; calm. | [verb] To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive). BECAME (12) [verb] To arrive, come (to a place). | [verb] To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | [verb] Begin to be; turn into. BECAPS (12) BECKED (15) BECKET (14) [noun] A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle | [noun] A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place. | [noun] A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it. BECKON (14) [noun] A sign made without words; a beck. | [noun] A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them. | [verb] To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer. BECLOG (11) BECOME (12) [verb] To arrive, come (to a place). | [verb] To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | [verb] Begin to be; turn into. BEDAMN (11) [verb] To curse or damn; to condemn or express anger at. BEDAUB (11) [verb] To smear upon; to soil. | [verb] To ornament garishly; to overdecorate. BEDBUG (12) [noun] A small nocturnal insect (Cimex lectularius), of the family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts. BEDDED (11) [verb] Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping. | [verb] Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid. BEDDER (10) [noun] Agent noun of bed; one who beds. | [noun] (Cambridge University) A bedmaker; a maid; a college servant, generally female, cleaning rooms in Cambridge University (compare: college porter and gyp), somewhat similar to an Oxford University scout. BEDECK (15) [verb] To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. BEDELL (9) [noun] A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order | [noun] (ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister | [noun] A warrant officer BEDELS (9) [noun] An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students. BEDEWS (12) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. BEDIMS (11) [verb] To make dim; to obscure or darken. BEDLAM (11) [noun] A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails. | [noun] An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. | [noun] A lunatic asylum; a madhouse. BEDPAN (11) [noun] A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience. BEDRID (10) [adjective] Confined to bed by illness or infirmity; bedridden. BEDRUG (10) [verb] To drug again or excessively. BEDSIT (9) [noun] A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but these amenities are more commonly outside the room and shared by several tenants. BEDUIN (9) [noun] A member of a nomadic Arab people of the desert regions of North Africa and Southwest Asia; also spelled Bedouin. BEDUMB (13) BEEBEE (10) BEECHY (16) BEEFED (12) [verb] To complain. | [verb] To add weight or strength to; to beef up. | [verb] To fart; break wind. BEEPED (11) [verb] To sound (something that makes a beep). | [verb] To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts | [verb] To produce a beep. BEEPER (10) [noun] Something that makes a beeping sound, especially a simple computer speaker. | [noun] A pager (device). BEETLE (8) [noun] A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011) | [noun] Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest. | [noun] A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts. | [verb] To loom over; to extend or jut. | [noun] A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. BEEVES (11) [noun] The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. | [noun] (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) BEEZER (17) [noun] Nose. | [adjective] Excellent, super BEFALL (11) [noun] Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident. | [verb] To fall upon; fall all over; overtake | [verb] To happen. BEFELL (11) [verb] To fall upon; fall all over; overtake | [verb] To happen. | [verb] To happen to. BEFITS (11) [verb] To be fit for BEFLAG (12) [verb] To mark or decorate with flags. BEFLEA (11) BEFOGS (12) [verb] To envelop in fog or smoke. | [verb] To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). | [verb] To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.). BEFOOL (11) [verb] To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone). BEFORE (11) [adverb] At an earlier time. | [adverb] In advance. | [adverb] At the front end. BEFOUL (11) [verb] To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute. | [verb] (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement. | [verb] To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace). BEFRET (11) [verb] To fret or worry excessively. | [verb] To ornament with frets (decorative designs). BEGALL (9) BEGAZE (18) [verb] To gaze at; to look steadily or intently upon. BEGETS (9) [verb] To father; to sire; to produce (a child). | [verb] To cause; to produce. | [verb] To bring forth. BEGGAR (10) [noun] A person who begs. | [noun] A person suffering from extreme poverty. | [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel. BEGGED (11) [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. | [verb] In the phrase beg the question: to assume. BEGINS (9) [verb] To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | [verb] To be in the first stage of some situation | [verb] To come into existence. BEGIRD (10) [verb] To encircle or gird about; to surround or bind with a belt or band. BEGIRT (9) [verb] To gird about; to encircle or surround. | [verb] Past tense of begird, meaning to have encircled or girt about. BEGLAD (10) BEGONE (9) [interjection] Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away. | [verb] To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun. | [verb] To clothe, dress. BEGRIM (11) [verb] To make dirty or grimy; to soil or smudge. BEGULF (12) BEGUMS (11) [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BEHALF (14) [noun] The interest or benefit of a person or group, as in "on behalf of" meaning in the interest of or as a representative of. BEHAVE (14) [verb] To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. | [verb] To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. | [verb] To conduct, manage, regulate (something). BEHEAD (12) [verb] To remove the head of; to cut someone's head off. BEHELD (12) [verb] To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon. | [verb] To look. | [verb] To contemplate. BEHEST (11) [noun] A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of. | [noun] A vow; a promise. | [verb] To promise; vow. BEHIND (12) [noun] The rear, back-end | [noun] Butt, the buttocks, bottom | [noun] A one-point score. BEHOLD (12) [verb] To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon. | [verb] To look. | [verb] To contemplate. BEHOOF (14) [noun] That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit. BEHOVE (14) [verb] To befit, to suit. | [verb] To be necessary for (someone). | [verb] To be in the best interest of; to benefit. BEHOWL (14) BEIGES (9) [noun] A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. | [noun] Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. BEINGS (9) [noun] A living creature. | [noun] The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state. | [noun] That which has actuality (materially or in concept). BEKISS (12) BEKNOT (12) BELADY (12) BELAUD (9) BELAYS (11) [noun] The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection. | [noun] The object to which a rope is secured. | [noun] A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner. BELDAM (11) [noun] A grandmother. | [noun] An old woman, particularly an ugly one. BELEAP (10) BELFRY (14) [noun] A movable tower used in sieges. | [noun] A shed. | [noun] An alarm-tower; a watchtower containing an alarm-bell. BELGAS (9) [noun] Plural of belga, a monetary unit formerly used in Belgium. BELIED (9) [verb] To tell lies about. | [verb] To give a false representation of. | [verb] To contradict, to show (something) to be false. BELIEF (11) [noun] Mental acceptance of a claim as true. | [noun] Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. | [noun] Something believed. BELIER (8) [noun] One who belies; one who contradicts or gives a false impression of something. BELIES (8) [verb] To lie around; encompass. | [verb] (of an army) To surround; beleaguer. | [verb] To tell lies about. BELIKE (12) [verb] To make like; simulate. | [verb] To be like; resemble. | [noun] An object of affection or liking. | [adverb] Likely, probably, perhaps, haply. BELIVE (11) BELLED (9) [verb] To attach a bell to. | [verb] To shape so that it flares out like a bell. | [verb] To telephone. BELLES (8) [noun] An attractive woman. BELLOW (11) [noun] The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise. | [verb] To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull. | [verb] To shout in a deep voice. BELONG (9) [verb] To have its proper place. | [verb] (followed by to) To be part of, or the property of. | [verb] (followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of. | [preposition] (Australian Aboriginal, optionally followed by to) Of, belonging to. BELOWS (11) [verb] Third person singular present of "below," meaning to shout or call out loudly. | [noun] Plural of "below," referring to the lower deck or compartment of a ship. BELTED (9) [verb] To encircle. | [verb] To fasten a belt on. | [verb] To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood. BELTER (8) [noun] Anything that is particularly good of its class. | [noun] A very good-looking person. | [noun] One who sings forcefully. | [noun] A person who mines asteroids for minerals or lives in the vicinity of an asteroid belt. BELUGA (9) [noun] A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean. | [noun] A fish, Huso huso, found in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, that is a source of caviar. BEMATA (10) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BEMEAN (10) [verb] To degrade, demean, or lower in rank or dignity. BEMIRE (10) [verb] To soil with mud or a similar substance. | [verb] To immerse or trap in mire. BEMIST (10) [verb] To cover or obscure with mist. BEMIXT (17) [verb] Past tense of "bemix," meaning to mix together or mingle. BEMOAN (10) [verb] To moan or complain about (something). | [verb] To be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them. BEMOCK (16) [verb] To mock or ridicule; to treat with contempt or derision. BEMUSE (10) [verb] To confuse or bewilder. | [verb] To devote to the Muses. BENAME (10) [verb] To name or call by a particular name. | [verb] To suit or befit. BENDAY (12) [noun] A printing technique using dots or lines to create shading or color effects in illustrations. | [verb] To apply the Benday process to an image. BENDED (10) [verb] Past tense and past participle of bend, meaning to curve or flex something. | [adjective] Curved or formed into a bend. BENDEE (9) BENDER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, bends. | [noun] A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle. | [noun] A bout of heavy drinking. BENDYS (12) [adjective] Flexible; capable of bending without breaking. | [noun] Plural of bendy, referring to flexible objects or articulated buses. BENIGN (9) [adjective] Kind; gentle; mild. | [adjective] (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable | [adjective] (in combination) Not harmful to the environment. BENNES (8) [noun] Plural of benne, an alternative name for sesame plant or its seeds, particularly used in African and Southern American contexts. BENNET (8) [noun] A grass or herb, especially one of various plants in the genus Carex or similar vegetation. | [noun] A type of small kangaroo found in Australia. BENNIS (8) BENUMB (12) [verb] To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic. | [verb] To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.). BENZAL (17) [adjective] Relating to or containing benzal, a chemical compound derived from benzene; used in chemistry to describe compounds containing the benzal group (C6H5CH2-). BENZIN (17) [noun] Gasoline or petrol, used as a fuel for internal combustion engines. BENZOL (17) [noun] An aromatic hydrocarbon of formula C6H6 whose structure consists of a ring of alternate single and double bonds. | [noun] (in combination) Sometimes used in place of the phenyl group. | [noun] An impure benzene (mixed with toluene etc), used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. BENZYL (20) [noun] (especially in combination) The univalent radical C6H5-CH2- related to toluene and benzoic acid BERAKE (12) BERATE (8) [verb] To chide or scold vehemently BEREFT (11) [verb] To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim. | [verb] To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence. | [verb] To deprive of power; prevent. BERETS (8) [noun] A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France. BERIME (10) BERLIN (8) BERMES (10) [noun] Plural of berme, a narrow ledge or path at the top or bottom of a slope, embankment, or ditch. | [noun] Strips of land between a canal or fortification and a moat or ditch. BERTHA (11) [noun] A lace collar that covers the shoulders of a dress BERTHS (11) [noun] A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc). | [noun] Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.) | [noun] A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. BERYLS (11) [noun] A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone. | [noun] An example (a stone) of the mineral beryl. | [noun] A dull blueish green colour. BESEEM (10) [verb] To be suitable or appropriate for; to befit. BESETS (8) [verb] To surround or hem in. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides. | [verb] To decorate something with jewels etc. BESIDE (9) [adverb] Otherwise; else. | [preposition] Next to; at the side of. | [preposition] Not relevant to. BESMUT (10) BESNOW (11) [verb] To cover with snow. BESOMS (10) [noun] A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft. | [noun] A troublesome woman. | [noun] Any cleansing or purifying agent. BESOTS (8) [verb] Third person singular of "besot," meaning to make drunk or foolish, or to infatuate someone excessively. BESTED (9) [verb] To surpass in skill or achievement. | [verb] To beat in a contest BESTIR (8) [verb] To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor. | [verb] To make active; to rouse oneself. BESTOW (11) [verb] To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put something somewhere. | [verb] To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation. | [verb] To dispose of. BESTUD (9) [verb] To set or decorate with studs; to be studded with something. BETAKE (12) [verb] To beteach. | [verb] To take over to; take across (to); deliver. | [verb] To seize; lay hold of; take. BETELS (8) [noun] Either of two plants often used in combination: | [noun] A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan. BETHEL (11) [noun] A sacred place or shrine, particularly in biblical contexts. | [noun] A chapel or meeting place for seamen. BETIDE (9) [verb] To happen unto; to befall. | [verb] To happen; to take place; to bechance or befall. BETIME (10) BETISE (8) [noun] A foolish or stupid action; a blunder or silly mistake. BETONS (8) [noun] Plural of beton, a type of reinforced concrete or concrete construction material. | [verb] Third person singular of the verb "beton," meaning to construct with or apply concrete/beton. BETONY (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Stachys. | [noun] Any plant of the genus Pedicularis (louseworts). BETOOK (12) [verb] To beteach. | [verb] To take over to; take across (to); deliver. | [verb] To seize; lay hold of; take. BETRAY (11) [verb] To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly. | [verb] To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive. | [verb] To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. BETTAS (8) [noun] Plural of betta, a type of freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, popular in aquariums for their vibrant colors and aggressive behavior. BETTED (9) [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. | [verb] To be sure of something; to be able to count on something. | [verb] To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round. BETTER (8) [noun] An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior. | [adjective] Greater in amount or quantity | [adjective] (of people) | [verb] To improve. | [noun] A person who makes a bet, such as a wager on the outcome of a game of chance or a sporting event. BETTOR (8) [noun] A person who makes a bet, such as a wager on the outcome of a game of chance or a sporting event. BEVELS (11) [noun] An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer. | [noun] An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square. | [verb] To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer. BEVIES (11) [noun] (collective) A group of animals, in particular quail. | [noun] (collective) A group of women. | [noun] (collective) A large group or collection. BEVORS (11) [noun] Plural of bevor, a piece of armor that protects the lower face and neck. | [noun] A drinking glass or cup with a wide mouth. BEWAIL (11) [verb] To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for BEWARE (11) [verb] (defective) To use caution, pay attention to (used both with and without of). BEWEEP (13) [verb] To weep over or lament; to cry for or bewail. BEWEPT (13) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "beweep," meaning to weep over or lament. BEWIGS (12) [verb] Third person singular of "bewig," meaning to put a wig on someone or to cover with a wig. BEWORM (13) BEWRAP (13) [verb] To wrap up or cover completely with wrapping material. BEWRAY (14) [verb] To reveal or expose (someone's guilt or secrets). | [verb] To betray or be unfaithful to. BEYLIC (13) [noun] A territory or province under the jurisdiction of a beylik or Ottoman administrative division. BEYLIK (15) [noun] A province or district of the Ottoman Empire under the rule of a bey. | [noun] The territory governed by a bey. BEYOND (12) [noun] The unknown. | [noun] The hereafter. | [noun] Something that is far beyond. BEZANT (17) [noun] (history) A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe. | [noun] The heraldic representation of a gold coin. BEZAZZ (35) [noun] Liveliness, energy, or style; pizzazz. BEZELS (17) [noun] The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool. | [noun] The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting. | [noun] The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set; the collet. BEZILS (17) [noun] The angled or sloping edge of a cut gemstone, typically between the table and the crown facets. | [noun] The groove or setting that holds a gemstone in jewelry. BEZOAR (17) [noun] A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in an animal's intestines; a hairball. | [noun] An enterolith. BHAKTA (15) [noun] Someone who practises bhakti; a person who is devoted to God; a devotee; a worshipper. BHAKTI (15) [noun] Devotion to God BHANGS (12) [noun] Cannabis or a preparation made from cannabis, especially bhang, a drink or paste made from cannabis leaves and flowers used in India. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of "bhang," to prepare or consume bhang. BHARAL (11) [noun] A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; the Himalayan blue sheep, Pseudois nayaur. BHOOTS (11) [noun] Plural of bhoot, a ghost or spirit in Indian folklore and Hindu mythology. BIALIS (8) [noun] A flat, onion-flavored roll of Jewish origin, typically topped with onions and poppy seeds. BIALYS (11) [noun] A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle. BIASED (9) [verb] To place bias upon; to influence. | [adjective] Exhibiting bias; prejudiced. | [adjective] Angled at a slant. BIASES (8) [noun] Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection. | [noun] The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric. | [noun] A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. BIAXAL (15) [adjective] Having two axes, or capable of being divided into two equal parts by two planes. BIBBED (13) [verb] To dress (somebody) in a bib. | [verb] To drink heartily; to tipple. | [verb] To beep (e.g. a car horn). BIBBER (12) [noun] One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler. BIBLES (10) [noun] An exemplar of the Bible. | [noun] A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible). | [noun] (at certain US universities) A compilation of problems and solutions from previous years of a given course, used by some students to cheat on tests or assignments. BICARB (12) [noun] Bicarbonate. BICEPS (12) [noun] Any muscle having two heads. | [noun] Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow. | [noun] The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm. BICKER (14) [noun] A skirmish; an encounter. | [noun] A fight with stones between two parties of boys. | [noun] A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention. | [noun] A wooden drinking-cup or other dish. BICORN (10) [noun] A hat with two corners or peaks. | [adjective] Having two horns or horn-like projections. BICRON (10) BIDDEN (10) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. BIDDER (10) [noun] Someone who bids, e.g. at an auction BIDERS (9) [noun] Plural of bider; those who bide or wait. | [noun] In some contexts, those who make bids. BIDETS (9) [noun] A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus. | [noun] A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. BIDING (10) [noun] An awaiting; expectation. | [noun] Residence; habitation. | [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. BIELDS (9) [noun] A shelter or refuge, especially for sheep or cattle. | [verb] To shelter or protect from wind or weather. BIFACE (13) [noun] A double-sided stone tool BIFFED (15) [verb] To punch or hit. | [verb] To discard; to throw out; to throw away. | [verb] To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall. BIFFIN (14) [noun] A deep-red cooking apple native to Britain. | [noun] Such an apple baked and flattened as a snack, popular in Norfolk. BIFLEX (18) BIFOLD (12) [noun] A door, window, shutter, or divider consisting of two equal panels hinged together so that it opens by folding the panels against each other. | [noun] A sheet of paper or cardboard folded in half along a crease down the center. | [noun] A wallet, billfold, or carrying case with a single fold, so that it opens like a book. BIFORM (13) [adjective] Having two forms or shapes. BIGAMY (14) [noun] The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously. | [noun] A second marriage after the death of a spouse. BIGEYE (12) [noun] Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes. | [noun] Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus. BIGGER (10) [adjective] Of great size, large. | [adjective] (of an industry or other field, often capitalized) Thought to have undue influence. | [adjective] Popular. BIGGIE (10) [noun] Something large in size in comparison to similar things. | [noun] Something impressive in comparison to similar things. | [noun] (chiefly in the negative) Big deal. BIGGIN (10) [noun] A close-fitting cap worn by babies or young children in historical contexts. | [noun] A coffee pot or brewing vessel. BIGHTS (12) [noun] A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow | [noun] An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf | [noun] A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. BIGOTS (9) [noun] One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to one's own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc. | [noun] One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so. BIGWIG (13) [noun] A person of importance to a group or organization. BIJOUS (15) [noun] Plural of bijou; small, exquisitely made trinkets or pieces of jewelry. | [noun] Plural of bijou; something small and delicately beautiful. BIJOUX (22) [noun] A jewel. | [noun] A piece of jewelry; a trinket. | [noun] A small intricate piece of metalwork. BIKERS (12) [noun] A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club. | [noun] Cyclist BIKIES (12) [noun] A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker. BIKING (13) [verb] To ride a bike. | [verb] To travel by bike. | [verb] To transport by bicycle BIKINI (12) [noun] A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women, especially one that exposes the midriff and navel. | [noun] A brief bathing suit worn by men. BILBOA (10) BILBOS (10) [noun] A device for punishment. See bilboes. | [noun] A kind of sword with well-tempered and flexible blade, originally produced in Bilbao. BILGED (10) [verb] To spring a leak in the bilge. | [verb] To bulge or swell. | [verb] To break open the bilge(s) of. BILGES (9) [noun] The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides. | [noun] The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates. | [noun] The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water. BILKED (13) [verb] To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage. | [verb] To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). | [verb] To evade, elude. BILKER (12) [noun] One who bilks; a person who cheats or defrauds others. | [noun] One who leaves without paying a bill or debt. BILLED (9) [verb] To dig, chop, etc., with a bill. | [verb] To peck | [verb] To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness BILLER (8) [noun] One who prepares or sends out bills or invoices. | [noun] A person or machine that bills customers for services or goods. BILLET (8) [noun] A short informal letter. | [noun] A written order to quarter soldiers. | [noun] A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge. | [noun] A semi-finished length of metal. | [noun] An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. BILLIE (8) BILLON (8) [noun] Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc. BILLOW (11) [noun] A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound | [verb] To surge or roll in billows. | [verb] To swell out or bulge. BIMAHS (13) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BIMBOS (12) [noun] A physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence. | [noun] A stupid or foolish person. BINARY (11) [noun] A thing which can have only (one or the other of) two values. | [noun] The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1. | [noun] An executable computer file. BINATE (8) [verb] To perform bination; to hold Mass twice on the same day. | [adjective] Double; growing in pairs or couples. BINDER (9) [noun] Someone who binds | [noun] A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages etc. | [noun] Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book. BINDIS (9) [noun] The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of married Hindu women. | [noun] Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot. | [noun] The common lawn weed, Soliva sessilis, introduced to Australia from South America. BINDLE (9) [noun] A bundle carried by a hobo, typically containing personal belongings tied in cloth and carried on a stick. BINGED (10) [verb] To go; walk; come; run | [verb] Making the sound of a bounce | [verb] To bounce BINGER (9) [noun] A person who binges, especially on food or drink. | [noun] In Scrabble, a player who uses all seven tiles in a single turn to form a word on the board. BINGES (9) [noun] A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A short period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show. | [verb] To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption. BINGOS (9) [noun] A score in Scrabble achieved by using all seven tiles in a single turn. | [noun] Plural of bingo, the game or the exclamation. BINITS (8) BINNED (9) [verb] To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin. | [verb] To throw away, reject, give up. | [verb] To convert continuous data into discrete groups. BINOCS (10) [noun] Binoculars BIOGAS (9) [noun] A mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, produced by anaerobic digestion of organic waste matter, used as a fuel BIOGEN (9) BIOMES (10) [noun] Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert | [noun] All the genomes of such a community BIONIC (10) [adjective] Related to bionics. | [adjective] Of a biological organism, having been enhanced by electronic or mechanical parts; cyborg. | [adjective] Superhuman BIONTS (8) [noun] Living organisms considered as individual units; the plural of biont, referring to a single living entity or organism. BIOPIC (12) [noun] (film genre) A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people). BIOPSY (13) [noun] The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes. | [verb] To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination. BIOTAS (8) [noun] Plural of biota, referring to the animal and plant life in a particular region or time period. BIOTIC (10) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living organisms BIOTIN (8) [noun] A sulfur-containing member of the vitamin B complex, 5-[(3aS,4S,6aR)-2-oxohexahydro-1H-thieno[3,4-d]imidazol-4-yl]pentanoic acid, found in liver, egg yolk, milk and yeast, essential to the activity of multiple enzyme systems. BIPACK (16) BIPEDS (11) [noun] An animal, being or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs). BIPODS (11) [noun] A two-legged stand. BIRDED (10) [verb] Scored one stroke under par on a golf hole. | [verb] Past tense of bird, meaning to hunt for or observe birds. BIRDER (9) [noun] A birdwatcher. | [noun] A person who hunts birds. BIRDIE (9) [noun] (diminutive) A (little) bird; a birdling; a child's term for a bird. | [noun] The completion of a hole one stroke below par. | [noun] A shuttlecock. BIREME (10) [noun] (history) an ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other. BIRKIE (12) [noun] A golf score of one stroke under par on a hole. BIRLED (9) [verb] To pour a drink (for). | [verb] To drink deeply or excessively; carouse. BIRLER (8) [noun] A person who rolls logs in water. | [verb] To spin or rotate a log in water. BIRLES (8) [verb] To pour drinks for others; to serve drinks. | [verb] To spin or rotate, especially a log in water. BIRRED (9) [verb] Past tense of "birr," meaning to make a whirring sound or to move with a whirring noise. BIRSES (8) [noun] Plural of birse, which is a Scottish and Northern English dialect word for a bristle or coarse hair. | [noun] In Scottish dialect, temper or irritability. BIRTHS (11) [noun] The process of childbearing; the beginning of life. | [noun] An instance of childbirth. | [noun] A beginning or start; a point of origin. BISECT (10) [noun] A bisector, which divides into two equal parts. | [noun] An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available. | [verb] To cut or divide into two parts. BISHOP (13) [noun] An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory. | [noun] The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc. | [noun] Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker. | [verb] To murder by drowning. BISONS (8) [noun] Plural of bison, large shaggy-haired wild oxen native to North America and Europe. BISQUE (17) [noun] A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables. | [noun] A pale pinkish brown colour. | [noun] A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit. | [noun] An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed. BISTER (8) [noun] A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood. | [noun] A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment. BISTRE (8) [noun] A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood. | [noun] A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment. BISTRO (8) [noun] A small restaurant. | [noun] A small bar or pub. BITCHY (16) [adjective] Spiteful or malevolent; catty; malicious; unpleasant. | [adjective] Irritable. BITERS (8) [noun] The act of biting. | [noun] The wound left behind after having been bitten. | [noun] The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. BITING (9) [verb] To cut into something by clamping the teeth. | [verb] To hold something by clamping one's teeth. | [verb] To attack with the teeth. BITTED (9) [verb] To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse). | [verb] To put round the bitts. BITTEN (8) [verb] To cut into something by clamping the teeth. | [verb] To hold something by clamping one's teeth. | [verb] To attack with the teeth. BITTER (8) [noun] (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic. | [noun] A type of beer heavily flavored with hops. | [noun] A turn of a cable about the bitts. | [noun] (in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits). BIZONE (17) [noun] A region divided into two zones, specifically referring to the combined American and British occupation zones in Germany after World War II. BIZZES (26) [noun] Plural of bizz, a variant spelling of buzz, referring to a buzzing sound or excited talk. | [verb] Third person singular of bizz, meaning to make a buzzing sound or to buzz about. BLABBY (15) [adjective] Inclined to talk excessively or reveal secrets; talkative or gossipy. BLACKS (14) [noun] The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed. | [noun] A black dye or pigment. | [noun] A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. BLADED (10) [verb] To skate on rollerblades. | [verb] To furnish with a blade. | [verb] To put forth or have a blade. BLADES (9) [noun] The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword. | [noun] The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc. | [noun] The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal. BLAINS (8) [noun] A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch. BLAMED (11) [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. | [verb] To bring into disrepute. | [verb] (usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). BLAMER (10) [noun] One who blames; a person who assigns fault or responsibility to another. BLAMES (10) [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. | [verb] To bring into disrepute. | [verb] (usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). BLANCH (13) [verb] To grow or become white | [verb] To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach | [verb] To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water. | [verb] To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. BLANKS (12) [noun] A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence . | [noun] A nonplus . | [noun] The white spot in the centre of a target; hence the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim . BLARED (9) [verb] To make a loud sound. | [verb] To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. BLARES (8) [noun] A loud sound. | [noun] Dazzling, often garish, brilliance. | [verb] To make a loud sound. BLASTS (8) [noun] A violent gust of wind. | [noun] A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc. | [noun] A hit from a pipe. BLASTY (11) [adjective] Characterized by or resembling a blast; explosive or forceful in manner or effect. BLAWED (12) [verb] Past tense of "blaw," a Scottish dialect word meaning to blow. BLAZED (18) [verb] To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. | [verb] To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame. | [verb] To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.). BLAZER (17) [noun] A semi-formal jacket. | [noun] A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route). | [noun] Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame. BLAZES (17) [noun] A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light. | [noun] Intense, direct light accompanied with heat. | [noun] The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face. BLAZON (17) [noun] A verbal or written description of a coat of arms. | [noun] A formalized language for describing a coat of arms. | [noun] A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms. BLEACH (13) [adjective] Pale; bleak. | [noun] A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening. | [noun] A variety of bleach. | [noun] An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun. | [noun] A disease of the skin. BLEAKS (12) [noun] A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae. BLEARS (8) [verb] To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes. | [verb] (of the eyes or eyesight) To make blurred or dim. | [verb] (of an image) To blur, make blurry. BLEARY (11) [adjective] Tired, having senses dulled by exhaustion. BLEATS (8) [verb] Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. | [verb] Of a person, to complain. BLEBBY (15) [adjective] Characterized by or full of blebs (fluid-filled blisters on the skin or plant surfaces). BLEEDS (9) [noun] An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia. | [noun] A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet). | [noun] (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended. BLEEPS (10) [noun] A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device. | [noun] Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence. | [noun] A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock. BLENCH (13) [noun] A deceit; a trick. | [noun] A sidelong glance. | [verb] To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off. | [verb] To blanch. BLENDE (9) [noun] Sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc) BLENDS (9) [noun] A mixture of two or more things. | [noun] A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word. | [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. BLENNY (11) [noun] A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families. | [noun] A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related. BLIGHT (12) [noun] Any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts. | [noun] The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition. | [noun] (by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life. BLIMEY (13) [interjection] Used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc. BLIMPS (12) [noun] An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container. | [noun] (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable. | [noun] An obese person. BLINDS (9) [noun] A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass. | [noun] A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc. | [noun] Any device intended to conceal or hide. BLINIS (8) [noun] A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon. BLINKS (12) [noun] The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again. | [noun] The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes. | [noun] A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis. BLINTZ (17) [noun] A thin blini (pancake), filled (often with sweet cheese) and folded, then fried and often served with sour cream, fruit, or a sweet sauce. BLITES (8) [noun] Plural of blite, a plant of the amaranth family with small flowers and edible leaves. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of blite (to wither or decay). BLITHE (11) [adjective] (dated or literary) Happy, cheerful. | [adjective] Casually indifferent, careless, showing a lack of concern. BLOATS (8) [noun] Distention of the abdomen from death. | [noun] Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant. | [noun] Wasteful use of space or other resources. BLOCKS (14) [noun] A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. | [noun] A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading. | [noun] A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets. BLOCKY (17) [adjective] Resembling a block in shape. BLOKES (12) [noun] A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street. | [noun] A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner. | [noun] (A lower deck term for) the Captain or Executive Officer of a warship, with particular reference to discipline and punishment. BLONDE (9) [noun] A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. | [noun] A person with this hair color. | [adjective] Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour. BLONDS (9) [noun] A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. | [noun] A person with this hair color. | [verb] To color or dye blond BLOODS (9) [noun] A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods. | [noun] A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow. | [noun] A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood). BLOODY (12) [verb] To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight. | [verb] To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent. | [adjective] Covered in blood. | [noun] (casual) bloody mary BLOOEY (11) [adjective] Haywire, amiss. | [interjection] Exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence. BLOOIE (8) BLOOMS (10) [noun] A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. | [noun] Flowers, collectively. | [noun] The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. BLOOMY (13) [adjective] Covered with or having the appearance of bloom; flowering or blossoming. | [adjective] Having a whitish or grayish powdery coating on the surface. BLOOPS (10) [verb] To make a hit just beyond the infield. | [verb] To produce a low-pitched beeping sound. | [verb] To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce. BLOTCH (13) [noun] An uneven patch of color or discoloration. | [noun] An irregularly shaped area. | [noun] Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain. BLOTTO (8) [noun] A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated. | [noun] An artwork created using blots of ink or paint. | [verb] To become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated. | [noun] A reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). | [noun] On Sulawesi: a hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat. BLOTTY (11) [adjective] Marked or covered with blots; having irregular spots or stains. BLOUSE (8) [noun] A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist. | [noun] A shirt for women, particularly a shirt with buttons; a dress shirt tailored for women. | [noun] A loose-fitting uniform jacket. | [noun] A prostitute. BLOUSY (11) [adjective] Having a ruddy, coarse complexion; bloated or swollen in appearance. | [adjective] Untidy or slovenly in dress or appearance. BLOWBY (16) [noun] The escape of gases past a seal or piston in an engine, particularly past piston rings into the crankcase. | [noun] In sports, a play that goes past a defender or goalkeeper. BLOWED (12) [verb] Past tense and past participle of blow, used in some dialects or informal speech (non-standard form of "blew"). BLOWER (11) [noun] A person who blows. | [noun] Any device that blows. | [noun] (usually preceded by the) Telephone. BLOWSY (14) [adjective] Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern. | [adjective] Unrefined, countrified. BLOWUP (13) [noun] An explosion, or violent outburst | [noun] An enlargement BLOWZY (23) [adjective] Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern. | [adjective] Unrefined, countrified. BLUELY (11) BLUEST (8) [adjective] Of the colour blue. | [adjective] Depressed, melancholic, sad. | [adjective] Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame. BLUESY (11) [adjective] Characteristic of, or similar to, the blues (a genre of music). BLUETS (8) [noun] Any of several different plants having blue flowers from several genera. | [noun] Common name for several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma. BLUEYS (11) [noun] The metal lead. | [noun] A bushman's blanket. | [noun] A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag. BLUFFS (14) [noun] An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio. | [noun] An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does. | [noun] The card game poker. BLUING (9) [verb] To make or become blue. | [verb] To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust. | [verb] (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid) BLUISH (11) [adjective] Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue. | [adjective] Somewhat depressed; sad. BLUMED (11) BLUMES (10) BLUNGE (9) [verb] To mix clay and water. BLUNTS (8) [noun] A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. | [noun] A short needle with a strong point. | [noun] (smoking) A marijuana cigar. BLURBS (10) [noun] A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. BLURRY (11) [adjective] (of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges. | [adjective] Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries. BLURTS (8) [verb] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. BLYPES (13) [noun] Pieces of skin or bark that peel off in flakes or strips. | [verb] Third person singular of "blype," meaning to peel off in flakes or strips. BOARDS (9) [noun] A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making. | [noun] A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc. | [noun] A flat surface with markings for playing a board game. | [verb] To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance. BOARTS (8) [noun] Imperfectly crystallized diamonds or diamond fragments used as industrial abrasives. BOASTS (8) [noun] A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. | [noun] Something that one brags about. | [noun] A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall. BOATED (9) [verb] To travel by boat. | [verb] To transport in a boat. | [verb] To place in a boat. BOATEL (8) [noun] A ship, normally moored alongside a quay, used as a hotel BOATER (8) [noun] Someone who travels by boat. | [noun] One who works on a boat, especially as captain. | [noun] A straw hat, very stiff, with a flat brim and crown. BOBBED (13) [verb] To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium. | [verb] To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water. | [verb] To curtsy. BOBBER (12) [noun] One who takes part in apple bobbing. | [noun] 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. | [noun] A style of custom motorcycle with stripped-down bodywork and a shortened (or "bobbed") rear fender. BOBBIN (12) [noun] A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled. | [noun] In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread. | [noun] The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch. BOBBLE (12) [noun] A furry ball attached on top of a hat. | [noun] Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie | [noun] A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes). BOBCAT (12) [noun] A North American wild cat, Lynx rufus, having tufted ears and a short tail. | [noun] A multi-purpose construction vehicle, akin to a smaller version of a front-end loader or a backhoe (backhoe loader), with a one-man caged control cabin BOCCES (12) [noun] Plural of bocce, a Italian game similar to bowls played with weighted balls. BOCCIA (12) [noun] A sport, similar to bocce, designed to be played by people with impaired motor skills. BOCCIE (12) [noun] A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court | [noun] One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce. BOCCIS (12) [noun] Plural of bocce, a ball sport similar to lawn bowling played with weighted balls. BOCHES (13) [noun] A German. BODEGA (10) [noun] A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery. | [noun] A store specializing in Hispanic groceries. | [noun] Any convenience store. BODICE (11) [noun] A sleeveless shirt for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves. | [noun] Blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or European folk costume. | [noun] The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt. BODIED (10) [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified form of body. | [adjective] Having a bodily form; corporeal or incarnate. | [verb] To give body or shape to something. BODIES (9) [noun] Physical frame. | [noun] Main section. | [noun] Coherent group. BODILY (12) [adjective] Of, relating to, or concerning the body. | [adjective] Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal. | [adjective] Real; actual; put into execution. BODING (10) [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. | [noun] An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent. BODKIN (13) [noun] A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather. | [noun] A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing. | [noun] A hairpin. BOFFIN (14) [noun] An engineer or scientist, especially one engaged in technological or military research. | [noun] (by extension) A person with specialized knowledge or skills, especially one who is socially awkward; (in a weaker sense) an intellectual; a smart person. BOFFOS (14) [noun] (chiefly in the world of entertainment) A great success; a hit. BOGANS (9) [noun] (derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background. | [noun] An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts. | [noun] A petrolhead. BOGEYS (12) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BOGGED (11) [verb] (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland. | [verb] To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress. | [verb] (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland. BOGGLE (10) [noun] A scruple or objection. | [noun] A bungle; a botched situation. | [verb] Either literally or figuratively to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle. | [noun] A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. BOGIES (9) [noun] One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. | [noun] An outlaw. | [noun] One who cheats others. BOGLES (9) [noun] A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. BOHEAS (11) [noun] Plural of bohea, a type of Chinese black tea that was popular in 18th-century Britain. BOHUNK (15) [noun] An immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated. | [noun] A brawny or coarse person. BOILED (9) [verb] (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. | [verb] To cook in boiling water. | [verb] (of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe. BOILER (8) [noun] A person who boils something. | [noun] A steam boiler. | [noun] An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid. | [noun] Boilerplate. BOITES (8) [noun] Plural of boite, a nightclub or small restaurant, particularly in France. BOLDER (9) [adjective] Courageous, daring. | [adjective] Visually striking; conspicuous. | [adjective] (of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface. BOLDLY (12) [adverb] In a bold manner; with confidence. BOLERO (8) [noun] A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time. | [noun] A type of short, buttonless jacket or blouse, open or tied in front and ending at the diaphragm. | [verb] To dance the bolero. BOLETE (8) [noun] A type of fruiting body produced by certain fungus species in the order Boletales, especially those of genus Boletus, many of which are prized for their flavour; any species of said order that produces such a fruiting body. BOLETI (8) [noun] Plural of boletus, a type of fungus or mushroom with pores instead of gills underneath the cap. BOLIDE (9) [noun] An extremely bright meteor. | [noun] Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth. | [noun] A fireball. BOLLED (9) [verb] Past tense of "boll," meaning to form a seed pod or to swell into a rounded shape, as cotton does when it develops its fluffy seed pod. | [adjective] Having formed into a boll or seed pod. BOLLIX (15) [noun] Confusion | [noun] Mess | [noun] Fool, jerk BOLLOX (15) [verb] To ruin or mess something up. | [noun] Nonsense or rubbish. BOLSHY (14) [noun] A government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader. | [adjective] Difficult or rebellious. BOLSON (8) [noun] A desert basin or valley, typically in the southwestern United States, that has no external drainage outlet. BOLTED (9) [verb] To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt. | [verb] To secure a door by locking or barring it. | [verb] To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. BOLTER (8) [noun] A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly. | [noun] A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual. | [noun] (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour. BOMBAX (19) [noun] A tropical tree of the mallow family, particularly the silk cotton tree, known for its large flowers and seed pods filled with silky fiber. BOMBED (13) [verb] To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard. | [verb] To fail dismally. | [verb] To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs. BOMBER (12) [noun] A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs. | [noun] A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism. | [noun] A bomber jacket. | [adjective] Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear (n.b. the forms "more bomber" or "most bomber" are unusual). BOMBES (12) [noun] A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold. | [noun] (chiefly in German cooking) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.) | [noun] An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis. BOMBYX (22) [noun] A genus of moths that includes the silkworm, producing silk fiber. BONACI (10) BONBON (10) [noun] A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy. | [noun] A small, spherical savory snack or canapé. | [noun] A Christmas cracker. BONDED (10) [verb] To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind. | [verb] To cause to adhere (one material with another). | [verb] To form a chemical compound with. BONDER (9) [noun] One who bonds; a person or thing that creates or strengthens a bond. | [noun] In construction, a worker who applies bonding agents or works with bonded materials. BONDUC (11) [noun] A tropical climbing plant with prickly seed pods, also known as the nicker nut or fever nut. BONERS (8) [noun] An erect penis. | [noun] One who or that which bones (removes bones). | [noun] A blunder; a silly mistake. BONGED (10) [verb] To pull a bell. | [verb] To ring a doorbell. BONGOS (9) [noun] A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus. | [noun] Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands. BONIER (8) [adjective] Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous. | [adjective] Full of bones | [adjective] With little flesh; skinny, thin BONING (9) [verb] To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. | [verb] To fertilize with bone. | [verb] To put whalebone into. BONITA (8) [noun] A large Atlantic food and game fish with an iridescent body, also called a bonito. BONITO (8) [noun] Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda, that are related to and resemble the tuna. | [noun] A large tropical fish, the skipjack tuna, allied to the tunny, Katsuwonus pelamis. | [noun] The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies. BONKED (13) [verb] To strike or collide with something. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. | [verb] To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair. BONNES (8) [noun] A French nursemaid. BONNET (8) [noun] A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin. | [noun] A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet. | [noun] (by extension) The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool. BONNIE (8) [adjective] Merry; happy. | [adjective] Beautiful; pretty; attractive. | [adjective] Fine, good (often used ironically). BONSAI (8) [noun] A tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small pot, restricting its roots, and by careful pruning. | [noun] The art of planting and growing trees or plants in such a manner. | [verb] To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning. BONZER (17) [noun] An excellent person or thing. | [adjective] Remarkable; wonderful; excellent; terrific. BONZES (17) [noun] A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia. BOOBED (11) [verb] To behave stupidly; to act like a boob. | [verb] To make a mistake | [adjective] (in composition) Having boobs (breasts) of a specified kind. BOOBIE (10) [noun] A seabird of tropical and subtropical oceans, typically with dark and white plumage. | [noun] A foolish or stupid person. BOOBOO (10) [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise. | [noun] (by or to young children) Feces. BOODLE (9) [noun] Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag. | [noun] The whole collection or lot; caboodle. BOOGER (9) [noun] A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril. | [noun] Something suggestive of this material. | [noun] A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing. | [noun] (mildly derogatory) A bodyboarder. BOOGEY (12) [noun] A score of one stroke over par on a golf hole. | [noun] A frightening creature or ghost, often used to scare children. BOOGIE (9) [noun] A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity. | [noun] A black person. | [noun] Dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks. BOOHOO (11) [verb] To cry, weep. | [noun] The sailfish. BOOING (9) [verb] To shout extended boos derisively. | [verb] To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision. | [noun] A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience. BOOKED (13) [verb] To reserve (something) for future use. | [verb] To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. | [verb] (law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. BOOKER (12) [noun] Scholar; scribe | [noun] One who makes a reservation | [noun] One who records transactions, such as reservations. BOOKIE (12) [noun] A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar. BOOMED (11) [verb] To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. | [verb] (of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder. | [verb] To make something boom. BOOMER (10) [noun] A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s), when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II. | [noun] An adult male kangaroo. | [noun] (by extension) A person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well. BOOSTS (8) [noun] A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb. | [noun] Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance. | [noun] (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers. BOOTED (9) [verb] To kick. | [verb] To put boots on, especially for riding. | [verb] To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering). BOOTEE (8) [noun] A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet. | [noun] A thick sock worn under a wetsuit. | [noun] An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet. BOOTHS (11) [noun] A small stall for the display and sale of goods. | [noun] An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person. | [noun] An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café. BOOTIE (8) [noun] A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet. | [noun] A thick sock worn under a wetsuit. | [noun] An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet. BOOZED (18) [verb] To drink alcohol. BOOZER (17) [noun] One who drinks habitually; a drunkard. | [noun] A public house, pub. | [noun] A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers. BOOZES (17) [verb] To drink alcohol. BOPEEP (12) BOPPED (13) [verb] To strike gently or playfully. | [verb] To dance to this music, or any sort of popular music with a strong beat. | [verb] To have sex. BOPPER (12) [noun] A person or thing that bops. | [noun] A style of jazz music characterized by complex harmonies and fast tempos. BORAGE (9) [noun] Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves, used in salads. BORALS (8) [noun] Plural of boral, a type of boron-aluminum compound used in nuclear applications and control rods. | [noun] Plural of boral, referring to material composed of boron carbide and aluminum used for neutron absorption. BORANE (8) [noun] Any binary compound of boron and hydrogen. BORATE (8) [noun] The oxyanion BO33- or any of several more complex derivatives | [noun] A salt or ester formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical BORDEL (9) [noun] A brothel or house of prostitution. BORDER (9) [noun] The outer edge of something. | [noun] A decorative strip around the edge of something. | [noun] A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown. BOREAL (8) [adjective] Of, relating to, or coming from the north. BOREEN (8) [noun] A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland. BORERS (8) [noun] A tedious person. | [noun] A person who bores, who drills. | [noun] A tool used for drilling. BORIDE (9) [noun] The B3− anion | [noun] Any binary compound of boron and a more electropositive element BORING (9) [verb] To inspire boredom in somebody. | [verb] To make a hole through something. | [verb] To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. BORONS (8) [noun] Plural of boron, a chemical element with atomic number 5. BORROW (11) [noun] Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. | [noun] A borrow pit. | [noun] In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code. | [noun] A ransom; a pledge or guarantee. BORSCH (13) [noun] A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream. | [noun] Any similar sour soup made of other ingredients such as sorrel, cabbage, hogweed BORSHT (11) [noun] A beet soup, typically served hot or cold, that is a traditional dish in Eastern European cuisine, particularly in Jewish and Ukrainian cooking. BORZOI (17) [noun] A dog of a particular breed, similar in shape to a greyhound but with longer silkier hair. BOSHES (11) [noun] Plural of bosh; nonsensical or foolish talk. | [verb] Third person singular of bosh; to speak nonsense or dismiss as foolish. BOSKER (12) [noun] Someone or something impressive and wonderful. | [adjective] Excellent; wonderful; bonzer. BOSKET (12) [noun] A thicket or small wood, especially one planted for ornament in a garden or park. BOSOMS (10) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). | [noun] The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings etc.; one's secret feelings; desire. | [noun] The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace. BOSOMY (13) [adjective] Full of sheltered hollows or recesses. | [adjective] Having a large bosom. BOSONS (8) [noun] A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion. | [noun] A boatswain. BOSQUE (17) [noun] A thicket or small woods, especially in Spain or Spanish America. BOSSED (9) [verb] To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly. | [verb] To decorate with bosses; to emboss. BOSSES (8) [noun] A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor. | [noun] A person in charge of a business or company. | [noun] A leader, the head of an organized group or team. BOSTON (8) BOSUNS (8) [noun] A warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship. BOTANY (11) [noun] The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant. | [noun] The plant life of a geographical area; flora. | [noun] The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group. BOTCHY (16) [adjective] Characterized by poor quality or careless work; done in a clumsy or bungling manner. BOTELS (8) [noun] A floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel BOTFLY (14) [noun] One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasites on many animals, including humans. BOTHER (11) [noun] Fuss, ado. | [noun] Trouble, inconvenience. | [verb] To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. BOTTLE (8) [noun] A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids. | [noun] The contents of such a container. | [noun] A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle. | [noun] A dwelling; habitation. BOTTOM (10) [noun] The lowest part of anything. | [noun] Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment. | [noun] Low-lying land; a valley or hollow. BOUBOU (10) [noun] A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa. | [noun] Any of various passerine birds in the bushshrike family of the genus Laniarius. BOUCLE (10) [noun] A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls. | [noun] Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls. BOUFFE (14) [noun] Food or a meal, especially one that is hearty or abundant. | [noun] Comic or farcical entertainment, particularly in opera (opéra bouffe). BOUGHS (12) [noun] A firm branch of a tree. | [noun] The gallows. BOUGHT (12) [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. | [verb] To bribe. | [noun] A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle. BOUGIE (9) [noun] A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie. | [noun] A wax candle. | [adjective] (usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery). BOULES (8) [noun] One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. | [noun] A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. | [noun] A round loaf of bread. BOULLE (8) [noun] A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works. | [noun] Furniture having ornamentation of this kind. BOUNCE (10) [noun] A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle. | [noun] A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly. | [noun] An email return with any error. BOUNCY (13) [adjective] Easily bounced. | [adjective] Lively, exuberant, energetic. BOUNDS (9) [noun] (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. | [noun] A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values. | [verb] To surround a territory or other geographical entity. BOUNTY (11) [noun] Generosity; also an act of generosity. | [noun] Something given liberally; a gift. | [noun] A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government. BOURGS (9) [noun] Plural of borg, a fortified town or village in medieval times. | [noun] Plural of borg, a designation for a walled settlement in Scandinavian regions. BOURNE (8) [noun] A boundary. | [noun] A goal or destination. | [noun] A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally. BOURNS (8) [noun] A small stream or brook. | [noun] Destination. | [noun] Limit. BOURSE (8) [noun] A stock exchange. | [noun] A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged. | [noun] 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. BOUSED (9) [verb] Past tense of bouse; to drink heavily or excessively. | [verb] To haul or pull with tackle, especially in nautical contexts. BOUSES (8) [verb] Third person singular of "bouse," meaning to drink heavily or to haul with tackle on a ship. BOUTON (8) [noun] A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon BOVIDS (12) [noun] An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep). BOVINE (11) [noun] An animal of the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to cattle. | [adjective] Belonging to the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cows, buffalo, and bison. BOWELS (11) [noun] A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. | [noun] (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach. | [noun] (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something. BOWERS (11) [noun] A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. | [noun] A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. | [noun] A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods. BOWERY (14) [noun] A street lined with shops and taverns; historically, a street in New York City known for its bars and lodging houses. | [noun] A region of shops and entertainment establishments. BOWFIN (14) [noun] A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States. BOWING (12) [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. | [verb] To become bent or curved. | [verb] To make something bend or curve. BOWLED (12) [verb] To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports. | [verb] To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports). | [verb] To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels. BOWLEG (12) [noun] A leg that curves outward at the knee, causing the feet to be wide apart when standing with the legs together. | [verb] To have or develop bowlegs. BOWLER (11) [noun] One who engages in the sport of bowling. | [noun] The player currently bowling. | [noun] A player selected mainly for his bowling ability. | [noun] A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen. BOWMAN (13) [noun] A man who uses a bow; an archer. | [noun] The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow. BOWMEN (13) [noun] A man who uses a bow; an archer. | [noun] The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow. BOWPOT (13) [noun] A decorative container or vase for displaying flowers or plants. BOWSED (12) [verb] Past tense of bowse, meaning to haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [adjective] Drunk or intoxicated (archaic slang). BOWSES (11) [verb] Third-person singular simple present indicative form of "bowse," which means to haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [verb] To drink heavily or excessively. BOWWOW (17) [noun] The sound a dog makes; a bark. | [noun] A dog, especially used as a term of address or reference. BOWYER (14) [noun] A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows). | [noun] A person who uses the bow, an archer. BOXCAR (17) [noun] An enclosed railroad freight car, especially one with a sliding door. | [verb] To reduce to a boxcar function. BOXERS (15) [noun] A participant (fighter) in a boxing match. | [noun] A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle. | [noun] A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft. BOXFUL (18) [noun] The amount that a box can hold or contain. BOXIER (15) [adjective] Box-like or box-shaped. BOXING (16) [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. | [verb] Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in. | [verb] To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical. | [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. BOYARD (12) [noun] A member of the old Russian aristocracy or landowning class. BOYARS (11) [noun] A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. BOYISH (14) [adjective] Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor. BOYLAS (11) BRACED (11) [verb] To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow. | [verb] To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly. | [verb] To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind. | [adjective] Having braces or similar supports. BRACER (10) [noun] That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. | [noun] A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string. | [noun] Armor for the forearm; a brassard. BRACES (10) [noun] Armor for the arm; vambrace. | [noun] A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms. | [noun] A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. BRACHS (13) BRACTS (10) [noun] A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. BRAGGY (13) [adjective] Given to or characterized by bragging; boastful or prone to making exaggerated claims about one's achievements or possessions. BRAHMA (13) [noun] A Hindu deity associated with creation, the first god in the Trimurti. | [noun] A large domesticated chicken breed originating from Asia. BRAIDS (9) [noun] A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. | [noun] A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. | [noun] A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together BRAILS (8) [noun] A small rope used to truss up sails. | [noun] A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. | [noun] A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. BRAINS (8) [noun] The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action. | [noun] An intelligent person. | [noun] (in the plural) Intellect. BRAINY (11) [adjective] Very intellectually capable. BRAISE (8) [noun] A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising. | [noun] A sauce used for braising. | [verb] To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling. | [noun] Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream) BRAIZE (17) [verb] To cook meat or vegetables slowly in a closed pot with a small amount of liquid. | [verb] An alternative spelling of "braise." BRAKED (13) [verb] To bruise and crush; to knead | [verb] To pulverise with a harrow | [verb] To operate (a) brake(s). BRAKES (12) [noun] A fern; bracken. | [noun] A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. | [noun] A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. BRANCH (13) [noun] The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing. | [noun] Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree. | [noun] A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.) BRANDS (9) [noun] A conflagration; a flame. | [noun] A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder. | [noun] A torch used for signaling. BRANDY (12) [noun] An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice. | [noun] Any variety of brandy. | [noun] A glass of brandy. BRANKS (12) [noun] A punishment device, especially for scolding women, consisting of a cage to enclose the head, with a metal gag for the mouth; a scold's bridle. BRANNY (11) [adjective] Resembling or containing bran; having the characteristics of bran. BRANTS (8) [noun] Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla. BRASHY (14) [adjective] Made of or resembling brass. | [adjective] Bold or impudent in manner; brassy. BRASIL (8) BRASSY (11) [adjective] Resembling brass. | [adjective] Impudent; impudently bold. | [adjective] Unfeeling; pitiless. | [noun] A wooden-headed golf club with a brass base plate, similar to a modern two wood. BRATTY (11) [adjective] Characteristic of a brat; unruly and impolite. BRAVAS (11) [noun] Plural of brava, an exclamation of approval or applause, typically shouted at a musical or theatrical performance. | [noun] Plural of brava, a hired assassin or mercenary, especially in Italian contexts. BRAVED (12) [verb] To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke. | [verb] To adorn; to make fine or showy. BRAVER (11) [adjective] Strong in the face of fear; courageous. | [adjective] Having any sort of superiority or excellence. | [adjective] Making a fine show or display. BRAVES (11) [noun] A Native American warrior. | [noun] A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. | [noun] A challenge; a defiance; bravado. BRAVOS (11) [noun] A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado. | [noun] A shout of "bravo!" | [noun] The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet. BRAWER (11) BRAWLS (11) [noun] A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance. | [noun] A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved. | [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. BRAWLY (14) BRAWNS (11) [noun] Muscular strength or physical power. | [noun] Plural of brawn, a jellied loaf of seasoned meat. BRAWNY (14) [adjective] Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong. | [adjective] Calloused; hardened. BRAYED (12) [verb] Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. | [verb] (by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray. | [verb] To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner. BRAYER (11) [noun] A tool used to spread or crush ink in printing. | [noun] A horse used for pulling or carrying loads. BRAZAS (17) [noun] Plural of braza, a unit of length used in Spanish-speaking countries, approximately equivalent to a fathom or about 1.67 meters. BRAZED (18) [verb] To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. | [verb] To burn or temper in fire. BRAZEN (17) [verb] To turn a brass color. | [verb] Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc. | [adjective] Pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass (in color or strength). BRAZER (17) [noun] A person who brases, or one who works with brass. | [noun] A tool or device used in brazing, the process of joining metals with brass or similar filler material. BRAZES (17) [verb] To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. | [verb] To burn or temper in fire. BRAZIL (17) [noun] A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood. | [noun] The hard, brown wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally the sappan, Biancaea sappan, of the East Indies, and later the brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata. | [noun] A Brazil nut. BREACH (13) [noun] A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence | [noun] A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out. | [noun] A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves BREADS (9) [noun] A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. | [noun] Any variety of bread. | [noun] Money. BREADY (12) [adjective] Like bread | [adjective] Full of or containing a large quantity of bread BREAKS (12) [noun] An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. | [noun] A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. | [noun] A rest or pause, usually from work. | [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. BREAMS (10) [noun] A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. | [noun] A species in that genus, Abramis brama. | [noun] An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. BREAST (8) [noun] Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males. | [noun] The chest, or front of the human thorax. | [noun] A section of clothing covering the breast area. BREATH (11) [noun] The act or process of breathing. | [noun] A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air. | [noun] Air expelled from the lungs. BREDES (9) [noun] Plural of brede, an archaic or poetic term for a broad sword or blade. | [noun] Embroidered designs or patterns, plural of brede in the sense of broidery or needlework. BREECH (13) [noun] (now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. | [noun] The buttocks or backside. | [noun] The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. BREEDS (9) [noun] All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies. | [noun] A race or lineage; offspring or issue. | [noun] A group of people with shared characteristics. BREEKS (12) [noun] Pants, breeches. BREEZE (17) [noun] A light, gentle wind. | [noun] Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult. | [noun] Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength. | [noun] A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae. BREEZY (20) [adjective] With a breeze blowing, with a lively wind, pleasantly windy. | [adjective] With a cheerful, casual, lively and light-hearted manner. BREGMA (11) [noun] The point on the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet. BRENTS (8) [noun] Plural of brent, a small dark goose found in northern regions. | [noun] Plural of brent, a type of herring. BREVES (11) [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. | [noun] A double whole note. | [noun] Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court. BREVET (11) [noun] A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay. | [noun] A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France. | [noun] An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points. BREWED (12) [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [verb] To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull. | [verb] To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water. BREWER (11) [noun] Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. BREWIS (11) [noun] A dish made of bread soaked in broth or other liquid, sometimes with meat or fish added. BRIARD (9) [noun] A large French sheepdog with a long, shaggy coat, originally bred for herding sheep. BRIARS (8) [noun] Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. | [noun] Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. | [noun] The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub. BRIARY (11) [adjective] Full of or covered with briers; thorny or prickly. BRIBED (11) [verb] To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble. | [verb] To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe. BRIBEE (10) [noun] A person who receives a bribe. BRIBER (10) [noun] A person who gives money or favors to someone in order to influence their actions or decisions illegally or unethically. BRIBES (10) [noun] Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty. | [noun] That which seduces; seduction; allurement. | [verb] To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble. BRICKS (14) [noun] A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. | [noun] Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material. | [noun] Something shaped like a brick. BRICKY (17) BRIDAL (9) [noun] A wedding feast or festival; a wedding. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial. BRIDES (9) [noun] A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. | [noun] An object ardently loved. | [verb] To make a bride of BRIDGE (10) [noun] A construction or natural feature that spans a divide. | [noun] An arch or superstructure. | [noun] A connection, real or abstract. | [noun] A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each. BRIDLE (9) [noun] The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins. | [noun] A restraint; a curb; a check. | [noun] A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line. BRIEFS (11) [noun] A writ summoning one to answer to any action. | [noun] An answer to any action. | [noun] A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case. BRIERS (8) [noun] Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. | [noun] Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. | [noun] The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub. BRIERY (11) [adjective] Full of briers; prickly or thorny. | [adjective] Resembling a brier in appearance or nature. BRIGHT (12) [noun] An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head. | [noun] Splendour; brightness | [noun] A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements. BRILLS (8) [noun] A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus. | [noun] The hair on the eyelids of a horse. BRINED (9) [verb] To preserve food in a salt solution. | [verb] To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. BRINER (8) [noun] One who brines; a person or container that brines food. | [noun] A device or vessel used for brining. BRINES (8) [noun] Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. | [noun] The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. | [verb] To preserve food in a salt solution. BRINGS (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | [verb] To supply or contribute. | [verb] To occasion or bring about. BRINKS (12) [noun] The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge. | [noun] The edge or border BRIONY (11) [noun] A climbing or trailing plant of the gourd family, native to Europe and North Africa, with white flowers and red berries. | [noun] The dried root of this plant, formerly used in medicine. BRISKS (12) [verb] (often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate. BRITTS (8) BROACH (13) [noun] A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here. | [noun] A broad chisel for stone-cutting. | [noun] A spit for cooking food. | [verb] To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves. BROADS (9) [noun] A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. | [noun] A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. | [noun] A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. BROCHE (13) [noun] A decorative clasp or pin worn on clothing. | [noun] A spit or skewer for roasting meat. BROCKS (14) [noun] A male badger. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old. | [noun] A dirty, stinking fellow. BROGAN (9) [noun] A heavy working shoe; a brogue BROGUE (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips. | [noun] A heavy shoe of untanned leather. | [verb] To fish for eels by disturbing the waters. BROILS (8) [noun] Food prepared by broiling. | [verb] To cook by direct, radiant heat. | [verb] To expose to great heat. BROKEN (12) [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. | [verb] To divide (something, often money) into smaller units. | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. BROKER (12) [adjective] Financially ruined, bankrupt. | [adjective] Without any money, penniless. | [adjective] Broken. | [noun] A mediator between a buyer and seller. BROLLY (11) [noun] Umbrella. BROMAL (10) [noun] A colorless liquid compound (CHBr₃) that is used as a sedative and hypnotic agent. BROMES (10) [noun] Plural of brome, a type of grass in the genus Bromus, commonly found in grasslands and used for forage. | [noun] Bromine compounds or brominated substances. BROMIC (12) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing bromine. BROMID (11) [noun] A hackneyed or trite saying; a platitude. | [noun] A chemical compound of bromine with another element or radical. BROMIN (10) BROMOS (10) [noun] Plural of bromo, a type of chemical compound containing bromine, or informal short form for bromide photographs used in printing and photography. BRONCO (10) [noun] A horse of western North America that is wild or not fully broken. BRONCS (10) [noun] A bronco. BRONZE (17) [noun] A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals. | [noun] A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze. | [noun] A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture. BRONZY (20) [adjective] Resembling or containing bronze in color or appearance. | [adjective] Made of or containing bronze metal. BROOCH (13) [noun] A piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body. | [noun] A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting. | [verb] To adorn as with a brooch. BROODS (9) [noun] The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. | [noun] The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. | [noun] The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. BROODY (12) [noun] A female bird in the condition to incubate eggs; a broody hen, duck, etc. | [adjective] Of birds: sitting persistently and protectively on a nest, in order to hatch eggs. | [adjective] Of any creature or person: showing an interest in raising young. BROOKS (12) [verb] To use; enjoy; have the full employment of. | [verb] To earn; deserve. | [verb] To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object). BROOMS (10) [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. | [noun] A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. | [noun] An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper. BROOMY (13) [adjective] Resembling or containing broom (a shrubby plant); covered with broom plants. | [adjective] Sweeping or brushing in manner. BROSES (8) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "brose," to drink or consume broth or a similar liquid (Scottish). | [noun] Plural of "brose," a Scottish dish made of oatmeal mixed with boiling water or broth. BROTHS (11) [noun] Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled. | [noun] A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat. BROTHY (14) [adjective] Resembling or containing broth; having the quality or consistency of broth. BROWED (12) [adjective] (in combination) Having a brow. BROWNS (11) [noun] A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. | [noun] One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. | [noun] Black tar heroin. BROWNY (14) BROWSE (11) [noun] Young shoots and twigs. | [noun] Fodder for cattle and other animals. | [verb] To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. BRUCIN (10) [noun] A bitter alkaloid compound found in the seeds of nux vomica and related plants, used historically in medicine and as a poison. BRUGHS (12) [noun] Plural of brugh, a fairy mound or underground dwelling in Irish mythology. BRUINS (8) [noun] A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos. BRUISE (8) [noun] A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow. | [noun] A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface. | [verb] To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it. BRUITS (8) [noun] Hearsay, rumour; talk; an instance of this. | [noun] A clamour, an outcry; a noise. | [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. BRULOT (8) [noun] A drink of hot wine or brandy mixed with sugar and spices, sometimes set on fire. | [noun] A satirical or abusive pamphlet or broadside. BRUMAL (10) [adjective] Of or relating to winter; wintry. BRUMBY (15) [noun] A wild or feral horse. BRUMES (10) [noun] Plural of brume; mists or fogs. | [verb] Third person singular of brume; to obscure with mist or fog. BRUNCH (13) [noun] A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals. | [verb] To eat brunch. BRUNET (8) [noun] A man or boy with brown or black hair. | [adjective] Of a man's or boy's hair: brown or black. | [adjective] Of a man or boy, having brown or black hair. BRUNTS (8) [noun] Plural of brunt, meaning the main force or impact of something. | [noun] The burnt surface or charred part of something. BRUSHY (14) [adjective] Having a similar texture to a fox’s tail; brushlike, bushy. | [adjective] Of the countryside: having thick vegetation, taller than grass but shorter than trees; having abundant brush; shrubby. BRUTAL (8) [adjective] Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel | [adjective] Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech. | [adjective] Harsh; unrelenting BRUTED (9) [verb] Past tense of brute, meaning to shape a diamond by grinding it against another diamond. | [verb] To spread rumors or gossip about someone. BRUTES (8) [noun] An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. | [noun] A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated. BRYONY (14) [noun] A perennial herb, of genus Bryonia, especially the common wild species, Bryonia dioica. BUBALE (10) [noun] A large African antelope with long curved horns, also called a hartebeest. BUBALS (10) [noun] An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus, which was formerly native to northern Africa. BUBBLE (12) [noun] A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid. | [noun] A small spherical cavity in a solid material. | [noun] (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere. BUBBLY (15) [noun] Champagne. | [adjective] Full of bubbles. | [adjective] Cheerful, lively. BUBOED (11) [adjective] Affected with or having buboes (swollen lymph nodes, especially in the groin, characteristic of bubonic plague). BUBOES (10) [noun] An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis or syphilis. BUCCAL (12) [adjective] Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth. | [adjective] (of a premolar or molar) On the side facing the cheek. | [adjective] (of a drug) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip. BUCKED (15) [verb] To copulate, as bucks and does. | [verb] To bend; buckle. | [verb] (of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack. BUCKER (14) [noun] One who bucks, such as a horse that bucks or a male deer. | [noun] A dollar (slang). | [noun] A sawhorse or frame used in woodworking. BUCKET (14) [noun] A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. | [noun] The amount held in this container. | [noun] A unit of measure equal to four gallons. BUCKLE (14) [verb] To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression. | [verb] To make bend; to cause to become distorted. | [verb] To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person). | [noun] A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap. BUCKRA (14) [noun] A white person. | [noun] A poor white person. | [adjective] White. BUDDED (11) [verb] To form buds. | [verb] To reproduce by splitting off buds. | [verb] To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. BUDDER (10) [noun] A substance made by churning cream or milk, used as a spread and in cooking. | [noun] Something or someone that butts. BUDDLE (10) [noun] An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed. | [verb] To wash (ore) in a buddle. BUDGED (11) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. BUDGER (10) [noun] One who budges or moves slightly. | [noun] A person or thing that refuses to budge. BUDGES (10) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. BUDGET (10) [noun] The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame. | [noun] An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue. | [noun] A wallet, purse or bag. BUDGIE (10) [noun] A budgerigar. BUFFED (15) [verb] To polish and make shiny by rubbing. | [verb] To make a character or an item stronger. | [verb] To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner. BUFFER (14) [adjective] Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow. | [adjective] Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out) | [adjective] Physically attractive. BUFFET (14) [noun] A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. | [noun] Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. | [noun] A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. | [noun] A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind. | [verb] To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap. | [noun] A low stool; a hassock. BUFFOS (14) [noun] A comic singer, particularly in comic opera BUGEYE (12) [noun] A person with protruding or bulging eyes. | [adjective] Having large, protruding eyes. BUGGED (11) [verb] To annoy. | [verb] To install an electronic listening device or devices in. | [adjective] (on one's person or of a telephone line, dwelling, room, etc.) Containing a bug (interceptive listening device). BUGGER (10) [noun] A heretic. | [noun] Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite. | [noun] A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person. | [noun] One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs. BUGLED (10) [verb] To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle | [adjective] Ornamented with bugles. | [adjective] Played by a bugle. BUGLER (9) [noun] A person who plays a bugle, a brass instrument similar to a trumpet. BUGLES (9) [noun] A horn used by hunters. | [noun] A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series | [noun] A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga. BUGSHA (12) BUILDS (9) [noun] The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body. | [noun] Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users. | [noun] Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by the player. BULBAR (10) [adjective] Relating to or resembling a bulb in shape or structure. | [adjective] Of or relating to the medulla oblongata (the bulbar region of the brain). BULBED (11) [adjective] Having a bulb or bulb-like shape; swollen or rounded at one end. | [verb] Past tense of bulb, meaning to swell or form into a bulb shape. BULBEL (10) BULBIL (10) [noun] A bulb-shaped bud in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil. | [noun] A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube. BULBUL (10) [noun] Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’. BULGED (10) [verb] To stick out from (a surface). | [verb] To bilge, as a ship; to founder. BULGER (9) [noun] One who bulges or protrudes. | [noun] A tool or device used for bulging metal. BULGES (9) [noun] Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure. | [noun] The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. | [noun] The bilge of a vessel. BULGUR (9) [noun] Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking. BULKED (13) [verb] To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent. | [verb] To grow in size; to swell or expand. | [verb] To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc. BULLAE (8) [noun] A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion. | [noun] A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. BULLED (9) [verb] To force oneself (in a particular direction). | [verb] To lie, to tell untruths. | [verb] To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. BULLET (8) [noun] A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed. | [noun] An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc. | [noun] Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use. | [noun] A young or little bull; a male calf. BUMBLE (12) [noun] A confusion; a jumble. | [verb] To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes. | [noun] A bumble-bee. BUMKIN (14) [noun] A projecting beam or spar extending from the side of a ship, used to secure rigging or extend the sail. | [noun] A country person; a rustic or unsophisticated person. BUMMED (13) [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. | [verb] To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something. | [verb] To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter. BUMMER (12) [noun] A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864. | [noun] An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. | [noun] A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans. | [adjective] Of poor quality or highly undesirable. | [noun] A disappointment, a pity, a shame. | [noun] Homosexual male BUMPED (13) [verb] To knock against or run into with a jolt. | [verb] To move up or down by a step; displace. | [verb] To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. BUMPER (12) [noun] Someone or something that bumps. | [noun] A drinking vessel filled to the brim. | [noun] Anything large or successful. BUMPHS (15) [noun] Plural of bumph; printed materials or documents, especially those considered tedious or superfluous. | [noun] Toilet paper. BUNCHY (16) [adjective] Growing or gathered in bunches or clusters. | [adjective] Thick and shapeless in form. BUNCOS (10) [noun] A swindle or confidence trick. | [noun] A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. | [noun] A brigand. BUNDLE (9) [noun] A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. | [noun] A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. | [noun] A group of products or services sold together as a unit. BUNDTS (9) [noun] Plural of bundt, referring to a type of ring-shaped cake pan or the cake baked in such a pan. BUNGED (10) [verb] To plug, as with a bung. | [verb] To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck. | [verb] To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. BUNGEE (9) [noun] An elastic fabric-bound strap with a hook at each end, used for securing luggage. | [noun] An elastic cord tied to the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping. | [noun] A rubber eraser. BUNGLE (9) [noun] A botched or incompetently handled situation. | [verb] To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly. BUNION (8) [noun] A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin. | [noun] (by extension) Hallux valgus, deviation of the big toe from its normal position towards the other toes, the prime cause for the swelling of its first joint. BUNKED (13) [verb] To occupy a bunk. | [verb] To provide a bunk. | [verb] To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). BUNKER (12) [noun] A hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks. | [noun] A large container or bin for storing coal, often built outside in the yard of a house. Now rare, as different types of fuels and energy sources are being used. | [noun] A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine. [Also, by extension] the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container. BUNKOS (12) [verb] To swindle (someone). BUNKUM (14) [noun] Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense. | [noun] (Washington, DC) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause. BUNTED (9) [verb] To push with the horns; to butt. | [verb] To spring or rear up. | [verb] To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance. BUNTER (8) [noun] A person who bunts in baseball. | [noun] In British slang, a promiscuous person or someone of loose morals. BUNYAS (11) [noun] The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. | [noun] A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste. BUOYED (12) [verb] To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. | [verb] To support or maintain at a high level. | [verb] To mark with a buoy. BUPPIE (12) [noun] A black urban professional; an African American subset of the yuppie category. The group includes black professionals and executives in their late twenties and early thirties. BUQSHA (20) [noun] A monetary unit of Yemen, equal to one twentieth of a rial. BURANS (8) [noun] Plural of buran, a violent cold northeasterly wind that occurs in Russia and Central Asia. BURBLE (10) [noun] A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek. | [noun] A gush of rapid speech. | [noun] The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body. | [noun] Trouble; disorder. BURBLY (13) [adjective] Having a burbling quality; characterized by a murmuring or bubbling sound. BURBOT (10) [noun] A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter. BURDEN (9) [noun] A heavy load. | [noun] A responsibility, onus. | [noun] A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. | [noun] A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad. BURDIE (9) BUREAU (8) [noun] An administrative unit of government; office. | [noun] An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. | [noun] An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). BURETS (8) [noun] A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration. | [noun] An altar cruet. BURGEE (9) [noun] A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club. BURGER (9) [noun] A hamburger. | [noun] (chiefly as a combining form) A similar sandwich or patty. | [noun] A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class. BURGHS (12) [noun] A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). | [noun] A borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). BURGLE (9) [verb] To commit burglary. | [verb] To take the ball legally from an opposing player. BURGOO (9) [noun] A dish which originated among seafarers during the days of sail: a sort of porridge seasoned with sugar, salt and butter. | [noun] A spicy stew, typically made with a combination of meats and vegetables, and often served with cornbread or corn muffins. BURIAL (8) [noun] The act of burying; interment BURIED (9) [adjective] Placed in a grave at a burial. | [adjective] Concealed, hidden. | [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. BURIER (8) [noun] One who buries or entombs something. | [noun] A type of beetle that buries carrion. BURIES (8) [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. | [verb] To place in the ground. | [verb] To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. BURINS (8) [noun] A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver. | [noun] A prehistoric flint tool BURKED (13) [verb] To suppress or smother something, especially a scandal or unwanted information. | [verb] To murder someone by suffocation, especially for the purpose of selling the body for dissection. BURKER (12) [noun] One who burkes; a person who suppresses or stifles something. | [noun] A murderer who kills by suffocation without leaving visible marks, named after William Burke. BURKES (12) [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A fool, prat, twit. | [noun] Cunt. BURLAP (10) [noun] A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc. BURLED (9) [verb] Past tense of burl; to remove burls (knotty growths) from cloth or wood. | [verb] To throw or hurl with force. BURLER (8) [noun] A person who removes burls (knots or lumps) from cloth or wood. BURLEY (11) [noun] A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes. | [noun] Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish. BURNED (9) [verb] To cause to be consumed by fire. | [verb] To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | [verb] To overheat so as to make unusable. BURNER (8) [noun] A participant in the Burning Man festival. | [noun] Someone or something which burns. | [noun] An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking. BURNET (8) [noun] Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium, including | [noun] Any of several species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, typically having black forewings with red spots. BURNIE (8) BURPED (11) [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. BURRED (9) [verb] To pronounce with a uvular "r". | [verb] To make a rough humming sound. BURRER (8) [noun] One who burrs, such as a person or tool that removes burrs from fabric or metal. | [noun] A rough, prickly seed case or flower head that clings to clothing or fur. BURROS (8) [noun] A small donkey BURROW (11) [noun] A mountain. | [noun] A hill. | [noun] A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. BURSAE (8) [noun] Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces. BURSAL (8) [adjective] Relating to or affecting a bursa, a fluid-filled sac that reduces friction between tissues in the body. BURSAR (8) [noun] The treasurer of a university, college or school. | [noun] A student funded by a bursary. BURSAS (8) [noun] Plural of bursa, small fluid-filled sacs that cushion joints and reduce friction between bones and tissues in the body. BURSES (8) [noun] A purse. | [noun] A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies. | [noun] An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use. BURSTS (8) [noun] An act or instance of bursting. | [noun] A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display. | [noun] A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm. BURTON (8) [noun] An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship. | [noun] Storage of cargo athwartships. BUSBAR (10) [noun] An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one that is part of a power distribution system; typically a thick strip, or a tube, of copper or aluminium. BUSBOY (13) [noun] Assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables BUSHED (12) [adjective] Very tired; exhausted. | [adjective] Mentally unwell due to isolation, especially due to working in a remote mine or camp; experiencing cabin fever. | [adjective] Incorporating a bush, a mechanical part. BUSHEL (11) [noun] A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts. | [noun] A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure. | [noun] A quantity that fills a bushel measure. BUSHER (11) [noun] A minor league baseball player. | [noun] An incompetent or amateurish person. BUSHES (11) [noun] A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category. | [noun] A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree. | [noun] A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. BUSHWA (14) [noun] Nonsense. BUSIED (9) [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. BUSIER (8) [adjective] Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on. | [adjective] Engaged in activity or by someone else. | [adjective] Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate. BUSIES (8) [noun] A police officer. | [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. BUSILY (11) [adverb] In a busy manner; actively. BUSING (9) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUSKED (13) [verb] To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. | [verb] To go; to direct one's course. | [verb] To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport BUSKER (12) [noun] A person who makes money by passing the hat (soliciting donations) while entertaining the public (often by playing a musical instrument) on the streets or in other public area such as a park or market. BUSKIN (12) [noun] A half-boot. | [noun] A type of half-boot with a high heel, worn by the ancient Athenian tragic actors. | [noun] (by extension) Tragic drama; tragedy. BUSMAN (10) [noun] A person employed to drive buses. BUSMEN (10) [noun] A person employed to drive buses. BUSSED (9) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUSSES (8) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. BUSTED (9) [adjective] (often used in combination with an adjective) Having a certain type of bust (breasts; cleavage). | [verb] To break. | [verb] To arrest (someone) for a crime. BUSTER (8) [noun] (with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing. | [noun] Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element. | [noun] (with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing. BUSTIC (10) [noun] A tropical American tree that produces a hard wood and edible fruit, also called the nasberry or sapodilla tree. BUSTLE (8) [noun] An excited activity; a stir. | [noun] A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine. | [noun] A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops. BUTANE (8) [noun] A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C4H10 n-butane, and 2-methyl-propane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions. | [noun] The n-butane isomer only. BUTENE (8) [noun] A hydrocarbon gas with four carbon atoms and one double bond, used in the production of plastics and other chemicals. BUTEOS (8) [noun] Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo. BUTLED (9) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTLER (8) [noun] A manservant having charge of wines and liquors. | [noun] The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services. | [noun] A valet, a male personal attendant. BUTLES (8) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTTED (9) [verb] To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. | [verb] To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. | [verb] To strike bluntly with the head. | [verb] Use the word "but". BUTTER (8) [noun] A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). | [noun] Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it). | [noun] Any specific soft substance. | [noun] Someone who butts, or who butts in. BUTTES (8) [noun] An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. BUTTON (8) [noun] One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States). | [noun] A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. | [noun] A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism. | [verb] To fasten with a button. BUTUTS (8) [noun] A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi BUTYLS (11) [noun] Plural of butyl, a univalent radical (C₄H₉) derived from butane, commonly used in organic chemistry and industrial applications. BUYERS (11) [noun] A person who makes one or more purchases. | [noun] (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment. | [noun] A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products. BUYING (12) [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. | [verb] To bribe. BUYOUT (11) [noun] The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock. BUZUKI (21) [noun] A stringed musical instrument of Greek origin, similar to a mandolin, with a pear-shaped body and paired metal strings. BUZZED (27) [verb] To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. | [verb] To show a high level of activity and haste (alluding to the common simile "busy as a bee"). Often in the colloquial imperative "Buzz off!" | [verb] To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly. BUZZER (26) [noun] One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes. | [noun] A device that makes a buzzing sound. | [noun] A police badge. BUZZES (26) [noun] A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones. | [noun] A whisper. | [noun] The audible friction of voice consonants. BWANAS (11) [noun] Big boss, important person. BYELAW (14) [noun] A rule or law established by a company, society, or other organization to control its internal affairs. | [noun] A local law or regulation made by a local authority. BYGONE (12) [noun] (usually plural) An event that happened in the past. | [adjective] Having been or happened in the distant past. BYLAWS (14) [noun] A local custom or law of a settlement or district. | [noun] A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs. | [noun] A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business). BYLINE (11) [noun] A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name. | [noun] A touchline. | [verb] To provide (an article) with a byline. BYNAME (13) [noun] A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname. | [noun] A nickname. | [noun] A pseudonym; nom-de-plume. BYPASS (13) [noun] A road that passes around something, such as a residential area | [noun] A circumvention | [noun] A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture BYPAST (13) [adjective] Past; bygone. | [noun] The past; time gone by. BYPATH (16) [noun] An unfrequented path; an indirect route; a byway. BYPLAY (16) [noun] Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action. | [noun] Any action, by supporting actor. BYRLED (12) BYRNIE (11) [noun] A short chain mail shirt, covering from the upper arms to the upper thighs. BYROAD (12) [noun] A road less frequented than a highway; a byway. BYSSUS (11) [noun] An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, the word was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk. | [noun] The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured. | [noun] The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like. BYTALK (15) BYWAYS (17) [noun] A road that is not frequently travelled | [noun] (by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study BYWORD (15) [noun] A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase. | [noun] A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group. | [noun] Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits. BYWORK (18) BYZANT (20) CABALA (10) [proper noun] A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures. CABALS (10) [noun] # A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose. | [noun] A secret plot. | [noun] An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism. CABANA (10) [noun] A cabin or hut for relaxing. | [noun] A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool. CABBED (13) [verb] To travel by taxicab. CABBIE (12) [noun] A cabdriver, someone who drives a taxi. CABERS (10) [noun] A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games. CABINS (10) [noun] A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it. | [noun] A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people. | [noun] A private room on a ship. CABLED (11) [verb] To provide with cable(s) | [verb] To fasten (as if) with cable(s) | [verb] To wrap wires to form a cable CABLES (10) [noun] (material) A long object used to make a physical connection. | [noun] (communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. | [noun] A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable. CABLET (10) CABMAN (12) [noun] The driver of a hackney cab. | [noun] The driver of a taxi. CABMEN (12) [noun] The driver of a hackney cab. | [noun] The driver of a taxi. CABOBS (12) [noun] Pieces of meat, vegetables, or seafood threaded on a skewer and grilled or roasted. CAMBER (12) [noun] A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides. | [noun] The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force. | [noun] An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. CAMBIA (12) [noun] A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems. | [noun] Periosteum, a membrane that covers the outer surface of bones | [noun] One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs. CARBON (10) [noun] The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material. | [noun] An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it. | [noun] A sheet of carbon paper. CARBOS (10) [noun] Plural of carbo; informal term for carbohydrates. | [noun] Plural of carbo; short for carbohydrate-rich foods. CARBOY (13) [noun] A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids. | [verb] To bottle in a carboy. CARIBE (10) [noun] A carnivorous fish of South American rivers, also known as a piranha. CAROBS (10) [noun] An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region. | [noun] The fruit of that tree. | [noun] A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit. CASABA (10) [noun] A variety of melon. CASBAH (13) [noun] The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East. | [noun] (by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East. CEBIDS (11) [noun] Any member of the Cebidae. CEBOID (11) [noun] A member of Ceboidea, a family of New World monkeys including capuchins and squirrel monkeys. CEIBAS (10) [noun] Any tree of the species in genus Ceiba | [noun] The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba). CELEBS (10) [noun] A celebrity; a famous person. CHABUK (17) [noun] A type of riding whip or leather strap used in India and other South Asian countries. CHEBEC (15) [noun] A small fast-sailing ship with two or three masts, formerly used by privateers and pirates. CHERUB (13) [noun] A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts. | [noun] An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body. | [noun] A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent. CHIMBS (15) [noun] The top of a ridge. | [noun] The spine of an animal. | [noun] A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. CHUBBY (18) [noun] A chubby, plump person | [noun] An overweight or obese gay man. | [noun] A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner. CIBOLS (10) CLIMBS (12) [noun] An act of climbing. | [noun] The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. | [noun] An upwards struggle CLUBBY (15) [adjective] Resembling or suggestive of a social club or clubhouse: congenial and exclusive. | [adjective] Fond of frequenting nightclubs. COBALT (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal. | [noun] Cobalt blue. COBBER (12) [noun] A pal, buddy, mate, friend; often used in direct address by one male to another. | [noun] A sweet consisting of a small block of hard caramel covered in chocolate. COBBLE (12) [noun] A cobblestone. | [noun] A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. | [verb] To make shoes (what a cobbler does). COBIAS (10) [noun] Plural of cobia, a large Atlantic fish (Rachycentron canadum) that is valued as food and sport fish. COBLES (10) [noun] Small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland. COBNUT (10) [noun] The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut. | [noun] A specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut. | [noun] A game played by children with nuts. COBRAS (10) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae. COBWEB (15) [noun] A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads. | [noun] One of its filaments; gossamer | [noun] Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder. COLOBI (10) COMBAT (12) [noun] A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used). | [noun] A struggle for victory | [verb] To fight; to struggle against. COMBED (13) [verb] (especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. | [verb] To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [verb] To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. | [adjective] Having a comb or crest COMBER (12) [noun] A person who combs wool, etc. | [noun] A machine that combs wool, etc. | [noun] A long, curving wave breaking on the shore. | [noun] Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters. COMBES (12) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. COMBOS (12) [noun] A small musical group. | [noun] A combination. | [noun] An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game. CONFAB (13) [noun] A casual conversation; a chat. | [noun] A fabricated memory believed to be true. | [verb] To speak casually with; to chat. COOMBE (12) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. COOMBS (12) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. | [noun] An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels. CORBAN (10) [noun] A gift or offering to God in Jewish tradition, or something devoted to sacred use that cannot be used for ordinary purposes. CORBEL (10) [noun] A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight. | [verb] To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. CORBIE (10) [noun] A raven or crow (typically Corvus corax). | [noun] Either of two moth species of genus Oncopera, whose larvae feed on grasses, especially Oncopera intricata. CORYMB (15) [noun] A cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top. COWBOY (16) [noun] A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West. | [noun] A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music. | [noun] A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off. CRABBY (15) [adjective] Visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault in an annoyed way. | [adjective] Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. CRAMBE (12) CRAMBO (12) [noun] A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed. | [noun] A word rhyming with another word. CRUMBS (12) [noun] A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). | [noun] A small piece of other material, such as rubber. | [noun] A bit, small amount. CRUMBY (15) [adjective] Crumbly; inclined to break into crumbs. | [adjective] Bad; poor. | [adjective] Full of crumb or crumbs. CUBAGE (11) [noun] A cubic measurement. CUBEBS (12) [noun] The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil. CUBERS (10) CUBICS (12) [noun] A cubic curve. CUBING (11) [verb] To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. | [verb] To form into the shape of a cube. | [verb] To cut into cubes. CUBISM (12) [noun] (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. CUBIST (10) CUBITS (10) [noun] Various former units of length notionally based on the distance from a grown man's elbow to his fingertips, standardized in different places and times at values between 35 and 60 cm. | [noun] The ulna. CUBOID (11) [noun] The cuboid bone. | [noun] A parallelepiped having six rectangular faces. | [adjective] Of the shape of a cube. CUMBER (12) [verb] To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber. CURBED (11) [verb] To check, restrain or control. | [verb] To rein in. | [verb] To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth. CURBER (10) CYBORG (14) [noun] A person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic. | [noun] A robot who has an organic past. | [noun] A human with electronic or bionic prostheses. CYMBAL (15) [noun] A concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like. DABBED (12) [verb] To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing. | [verb] To apply a substance in this way. | [verb] To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. DABBER (11) [noun] A thing or person that dabs. | [noun] A cushioned pad used for applying ink. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DABBLE (11) [noun] A spattering or sprinkling of a liquid. | [noun] An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc. | [noun] An act of participation in an activity in a casual or superficial way. DAGOBA (10) DAUBED (10) [verb] To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. | [verb] To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner. | [verb] To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. DAUBER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter. | [noun] (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DAUBES (9) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAUBRY (12) DAYBED (13) [noun] A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night. | [noun] A long chair for reclining. DEBARK (13) [verb] To unload goods from an aircraft or ship. | [verb] To disembark. | [verb] To remove the bark from a tree, especially one that has been felled. | [verb] To devocalize (a dog). DEBARS (9) [verb] To exclude or shut out; to bar. | [verb] To hinder or prevent. | [verb] To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program. DEBASE (9) [verb] To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. | [verb] To lower in position or rank. | [verb] To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. DEBATE (9) [noun] An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision. | [noun] An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views. | [noun] Discussion of opposing views. DEBEAK (13) [verb] To remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms. DEBITS (9) [noun] In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account. | [noun] A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer. | [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. DEBONE (9) [verb] To remove the bones from. DEBRIS (9) [noun] Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. | [noun] Litter and discarded refuse. | [noun] The ruins of a broken-down structure. DEBTOR (9) [noun] A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt | [noun] 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. DEBUGS (10) [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). | [verb] To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice. DEBUNK (13) [verb] To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something. DEBUTS (9) [noun] A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area. | [noun] The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece. | [noun] The first appearance of a debutante in society. DEBYES (12) [noun] The CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10-18 statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10-30. DEMOBS (11) [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DESORB (9) [verb] (of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed DHOBIS (12) [noun] A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman, in India and Pakistan. DIBBED (12) [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] To move in a rapid, cautious manner; especially, with movement like a mouse or rat. | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DIBBER (11) [noun] A tool with a handle on one end and a point on the other, used in the garden to poke holes in preparation for planting seeds, bulbs, etc. Also known as a dibble or dib. | [noun] One who dibs. DIBBLE (11) [noun] A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds. | [verb] To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. | [verb] To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. | [noun] (originally Manchester) A police officer. DIBBUK (15) DIOBOL (9) DISBAR (9) [verb] To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such. | [verb] To exclude (a person) from something. DISBUD (10) [verb] To remove buds from a plant in order to promote growth and health in the remaining buds. | [verb] To remove horn-buds from a young calf, lamb or goat kid, to prevent growth of horns. DJEBEL (16) [noun] A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa). DOABLE (9) [noun] Something that can be done; a possible or practical task. | [adjective] Possible to do; feasible. | [adjective] Worthy of sexual conquest. DOBBER (11) DOBBIN (11) [noun] An old jaded horse. | [noun] Sea gravel mixed with sand. | [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. DOBIES (9) DOBLAS (9) DOBLON (9) DOBRAS (9) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. DOBSON (9) DORBUG (10) DOUBLE (9) [noun] Twice the number, amount, size, etc. | [noun] A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes | [noun] A drink with two portions of alcohol. DOUBLY (12) [adverb] (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; twice the severity or degree. | [adverb] In two ways | [adverb] With duplicity DOUBTS (9) [noun] Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty. | [noun] A point of uncertainty; a query. | [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. DRABLY (12) DUBBED (12) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUBBER (11) DUBBIN (11) [noun] A mixture of tallow and oil used to soften leather, and make it waterproof. | [verb] To apply dubbin to DUMBED (12) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMBER (11) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. DUMBLY (14) DURBAR (9) [noun] A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India. | [noun] An audience chamber. | [noun] The body of officials at a native court. DWEEBS (12) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. DYABLE (12) DYBBUK (18) [noun] A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. EBBETS (10) EBBING (11) [verb] To flow back or recede | [verb] To fall away or decline | [verb] To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb EDIBLE (9) [noun] Anything edible. | [noun] (marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc. | [adjective] That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption. ELBOWS (11) [noun] The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. | [noun] (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. | [noun] A detective. EMBALM (12) [verb] To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition. | [verb] To perfume or add fragrance to something. EMBANK (14) [verb] To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone EMBARK (14) [verb] To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane. | [verb] To start, begin. | [verb] To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. EMBARS (10) EMBAYS (13) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBEDS (11) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMBERS (10) [noun] A glowing piece of coal or wood. | [noun] Smoldering ash. | [noun] The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash. EMBLEM (12) [noun] A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo. | [noun] Something which represents a larger whole. | [noun] Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. EMBODY (14) [verb] To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify. | [verb] To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws. | [verb] To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of. EMBOLI (10) [noun] An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel. | [noun] The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct. EMBOLY (13) EMBOSK (14) EMBOSS (10) [verb] To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol. | [verb] To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc. | [verb] Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest. EMBOWS (13) EMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). EMBRYO (13) [noun] In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus. | [noun] An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis. | [noun] In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body ENABLE (8) [verb] To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. | [verb] To affirm; to make firm and strong. | [verb] To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. ENROBE (8) [verb] To invest or adorn with a robe or vestment; to attire. | [verb] To coat or cover. ENTOMB (10) [verb] To deposit in a tomb. | [verb] To confine in restrictive surroundings. ENWOMB (13) EPHEBE (13) [noun] A 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training. | [noun] (by extension) A young man; a youth. EPHEBI (13) ERBIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements. | [noun] A single atom of this element. EXURBS (15) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. EYEBAR (11) FABLED (12) [verb] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. | [verb] To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable. | [adjective] Known only in fables; fictitious. FABLER (11) FABLES (11) [noun] A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. | [noun] Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. | [noun] Fiction; untruth; falsehood. FABRIC (13) [noun] An edifice or building. | [noun] The act of constructing, construction, fabrication. | [noun] The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make. FEEBLE (11) [verb] To make feeble; to enfeeble. | [adjective] Deficient in physical strength | [adjective] Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint. FEEBLY (14) [adverb] In a feeble manner. FERBAM (13) FIBBED (14) [verb] To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. | [verb] (thieves cant) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike. FIBBER (13) FIBERS (11) [noun] A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. | [noun] A material in the form of fibers. | [noun] A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width. FIBRES (11) [noun] A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. | [noun] Material in the form of fibres. | [noun] Dietary fibre. FIBRIL (11) [noun] A fine fibre or filament | [noun] Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants FIBRIN (11) [noun] A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood. | [noun] An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein produced by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen and forming an interlacing fibrous network in the coagulation of blood. | [noun] An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin. FIBULA (11) [noun] An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin. | [noun] The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the calf bone. FIMBLE (13) FLABBY (16) [adjective] Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid. | [adjective] (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness. | [adjective] (of writing, etc.) overwrought. FLAMBE (13) [noun] A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. | [noun] A flambéed dish. | [verb] To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. FLYBOY (17) [noun] An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft. FLYBYS (17) [noun] A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations. | [noun] A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade. | [noun] A brief visit. FOBBED (14) [verb] To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone. | [verb] To beat; to maul. FOGBOW (15) [noun] A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets. FOIBLE (11) [noun] A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly strange or silly. | [noun] A weakness or failing of character. | [noun] Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte. FORBAD (12) [verb] To disallow; to proscribe. | [verb] (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. | [verb] To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. FORBID (12) [verb] To disallow; to proscribe. | [verb] (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. | [verb] To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. FORBYE (14) [adverb] Past; by; beyond. | [adverb] Uncommonly; exceptionally. | [preposition] Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover. FOREBY (14) FUBBED (14) FUMBLE (13) [noun] A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident. | [verb] To handle nervously or awkwardly. | [verb] To grope awkwardly in trying to find something | [noun] A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble. GABBED (12) [verb] To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie. | [verb] To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. | [verb] To speak or tell falsely. GABBER (11) [noun] A liar; a deceiver. | [noun] One who is addicted to idle talk. | [noun] A subgenre of hardcore techno characterised by an intense, distorted kick sound and controversial lyrics or samples. GABBLE (11) [noun] Confused or unintelligible speech. | [verb] To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. | [verb] To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity. GABBRO (11) [noun] Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite. GABIES (9) GABION (9) [noun] A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag). | [noun] A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride. | [noun] A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks. GABLED (10) GABLES (9) [noun] The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches). | [noun] A cable. GABOON (9) [noun] A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket. GAMBAS (11) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. GAMBES (11) GAMBIA (11) GAMBIR (11) [noun] Uncaria gambir, a plant from Indonesia. | [noun] An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing. GAMBIT (11) [noun] An opening in chess, in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage. | [noun] Any ploy or stratagem. | [noun] A remark intended to open a conversation. GAMBLE (11) [noun] A bet or wager. | [noun] A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain. | [noun] A risky venture. GAMBOL (11) [noun] An instance of running or skipping about playfully. | [noun] An instance of more general frisking or frolicking. | [verb] To move about playfully; to frolic. GARBED (10) [verb] To dress in garb. GARBLE (9) [noun] Confused or unintelligible speech. | [noun] Refuse; rubbish. | [noun] Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings. GASBAG (10) [noun] A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. | [noun] A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag. | [verb] To speak foolishly, pompously, or at length; to blather. GAZABO (18) GAZEBO (18) [noun] A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn. GERBIL (9) [noun] One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus and certain other genera in subfamily Gerbillinae, with leaping powers resembling the jerboa, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe. | [verb] To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking. | [verb] To insert a small animal into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth). GHIBLI (12) [noun] (Libya) sirocco GIBBED (12) [verb] To fasten in place with a gib. | [verb] To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs. | [verb] To install plasterboard. GIBBER (11) [noun] Gibberish, unintelligible speech. | [verb] To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently. | [noun] A boulder, a stone; a mass of stone. | [noun] A balky horse. GIBBET (11) [noun] An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display. | [noun] The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. | [noun] A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal. GIBBON (11) [noun] A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch. GIBERS (9) GIBING (10) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe | [noun] A gibe. GIBLET (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) the edible viscera of a bird GIBSON (9) GIMBAL (11) [noun] A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped. | [verb] To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals. | [verb] To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments. GLEBAE (9) GLEBES (9) [noun] Turf; soil; ground; sod. | [noun] In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. | [noun] A meadow, land or fields GLIBLY (12) GLOBAL (9) [noun] A globally scoped identifier. | [adjective] Concerning all parts of the world. | [adjective] Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal: GLOBBY (14) GLOBED (10) [verb] To become spherical. | [verb] To make spherical. GLOBES (9) [noun] Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. | [noun] The planet Earth. | [noun] A spherical model of Earth or any planet. GLOBIN (9) GOBANG (10) GOBANS (9) GOBBED (12) [verb] To gather into a lump. | [verb] To spit, especially to spit phlegm. | [verb] To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine. GOBBET (11) [noun] A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch. | [noun] A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat. | [noun] An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination. GOBBLE (11) [noun] Fellatio; blowjob | [noun] An act of eating hastily or greedily. | [verb] To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) | [noun] The sound of a turkey. GOBIES (9) [noun] Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. | [noun] A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio. GOBLET (9) [noun] A drinking vessel with a foot and stem. GOBLIN (9) [noun] One of various hostile supernatural creatures, now especially (fantasy literature) a malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid. GOBOES (9) GOBONY (12) [adjective] Compony GOMBOS (11) GOOBER (9) [noun] The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe. | [noun] A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe. | [noun] A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America. GOODBY (13) [noun] An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone. GRABBY (14) [adjective] Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily. GRABEN (9) [noun] An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area. GREBES (9) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. GRUBBY (14) [noun] Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. | [adjective] Dirty, unwashed, unclean. | [adjective] Having grubs in it. GUMBOS (11) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GYBING (13) [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [verb] Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other. | [verb] Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel. HABILE (11) [adjective] Generally able or adroit; handy. HABITS (11) [noun] An action performed on a regular basis. | [noun] An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. | [noun] A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. HABOOB (13) [noun] A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America. HAGBUT (12) HARBOR (11) [noun] Any place of shelter. | [noun] A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading. | [noun] (glassworking) A mixing box for materials. | [verb] To provide a harbor or safe place for. HATBOX (18) [noun] A piece of luggage for a hat; a case or box for a hat. HENBIT (11) [noun] Lamium amplexicaule, an annual plant with pink or purple flowers and deeply crenate leaves. HERBAL (11) [noun] A manual of herbs and their medical uses | [noun] An herbal supplement | [adjective] Made from or with herbs. HERBED (12) [adjective] Seasoned with herbs | [noun] A Zoroastrian priest of a minor order. HEREBY (14) [adverb] Near this place; nearby. | [adverb] By this means, action or process. HOBBED (14) HOBBIT (13) [noun] A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds | [noun] An old unit of volume (2 1/2 bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat). HOBBLE (13) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off. | [noun] An unsteady, off-balance step. | [noun] A difficult situation; a scrape. HOBNOB (13) [noun] A toast made while touching glasses together. | [noun] A drinking together. | [noun] An informal chat. HOBOED (12) HOBOES (11) [noun] A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum. | [noun] Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not. | [noun] A kind of large handbag. HOMBRE (13) [noun] (in Spanish-speaking contexts) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man. HOTBED (12) [noun] A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse. | [noun] (by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable. | [noun] An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. HOTBOX (18) [noun] A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents. | [noun] An overheated shaft bearing. | [verb] To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby purportedly intensifying the drug's effects. HUBBLY (16) HUBBUB (15) [noun] A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket. | [verb] To cause a tumult or racket. HUBCAP (15) [noun] A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel HUBRIS (11) [noun] Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods). HUMBLE (13) [noun] (Baltimore) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. | [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [noun] A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns. HUMBLY (16) [adverb] In a humble manner. HUMBUG (14) [noun] A hoax, jest, or prank. | [noun] A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable). | [noun] A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite. HYBRID (15) [noun] Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains. | [noun] Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. | [adjective] Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components. HYBRIS (14) IAMBIC (12) [noun] An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs. | [adjective] Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. IAMBUS (10) [noun] An iamb IBEXES (15) [noun] A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex. IBICES (10) IBIDEM (11) IBISES (8) [noun] Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans. ICEBOX (17) [noun] A box or compartment containing ice. | [noun] A compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer. | [noun] A refrigerator. IMBALM (12) IMBARK (14) IMBEDS (11) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. IMBIBE (12) [verb] To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages). | [verb] To take in; absorb. IMBODY (14) IMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). IMBUED (11) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. IMBUES (10) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. INBORN (8) [adjective] Innate, possessed by an organism at birth. | [adjective] Inherited or hereditary. INBRED (9) [noun] An inbred individual. | [adjective] Bred within; innate. | [adjective] Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding. INCUBI (10) [noun] An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep. | [noun] A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare. | [noun] (by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden. INDABA (9) [noun] A tribal conference held by Nguni leaders. | [noun] A problem, a concern. | [noun] An international conference of Scout leaders. INTOMB (10) ISOBAR (8) [noun] A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant pressure. | [noun] Either of two nuclides of different elements having the same mass number. | [noun] A set of points or conditions at constant pressure. JABBED (18) [verb] To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion. | [verb] To deliver a quick punch. | [verb] To give someone an injection JABBER (17) [noun] Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. | [verb] To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. | [verb] To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble. | [noun] One who or that which jabs. JABIRU (15) [noun] A species of bird Jabiru mycteria in the monotypic genus Jabiru, of the stork family Ciconiidae, endemic to the Americas. | [noun] The black-necked stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus. JABOTS (15) [noun] A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc. JAMBED (18) JAMBES (17) JEBELS (15) [noun] A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa). JERBOA (15) [noun] Any of a number of species comprising most of the family Dipodidae, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa, being a small, jumping rodent with a long tufted tail, very small forefeet and very long hind legs. JIBBED (18) [verb] To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking. | [verb] To stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse). | [verb] To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity. JIBBER (17) JIBERS (15) JIBING (16) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JOBBED (18) [verb] To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire. | [verb] To work as a jobber. | [verb] To take the loss. JOBBER (17) [noun] One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and recruits other people. | [noun] A promoter or broker of stocks for investment. | [noun] An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise. JOJOBA (22) [noun] A shrub native to the southwestern United States and to Mexico, Simmondsia chinensis: the only plant known to store liquid wax in its seed. JUBBAH (20) JUBHAH (21) JUBILE (15) JUJUBE (22) [noun] The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees. | [noun] A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus jujuba or Ziziphus zizyphus. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, fructus jujubae. JUMBAL (17) JUMBLE (17) [noun] A mixture of unrelated things. | [noun] Items for a rummage sale. | [noun] A rummage sale. | [noun] A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped. JUMBOS (17) [noun] An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing. | [noun] A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock. | [noun] Short for mumbo jumbo. KABABS (14) KABAKA (16) [noun] The title of the king of Buganda. KABALA (12) KABARS (12) KABAYA (15) KABIKI (16) KABOBS (14) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KABUKI (16) [noun] (often capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies. KANBAN (12) [noun] A card containing a set of manufacturing specifications and requirements, used to regulate the supply of components. | [noun] A coordinated manufacturing system using such cards. KASBAH (15) [noun] The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East. | [noun] (by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East. KEBABS (14) [noun] A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab. | [noun] A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer. | [noun] The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure. KEBARS (12) KEBBIE (14) KEBLAH (15) KEBOBS (14) KERBED (13) KIBBEH (17) [noun] A form of dumpling, from the Levant, made of spiced lamb and bulgur wheat. KIBBES (14) KIBBIS (14) KIBBLE (14) [noun] Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed. | [verb] To grind coarsely. | [noun] An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface. KIBEIS (12) KIBITZ (21) [verb] To make small talk or idle chatter. | [verb] To give unsolicited or unwanted advice or make unhelpful or idle comments, especially to someone playing a game. | [verb] To watch a card or board game. KIBLAH (15) [noun] The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca. KIBLAS (12) [noun] The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca. KIBOSH (15) [noun] Nonsense, bosh. | [noun] Fashion; style. | [verb] To decisively terminate. KNOBBY (17) KNUBBY (17) KOBOLD (13) [noun] (German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite. | [noun] (German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings. KRUBIS (12) KRUBUT (12) KYBOSH (18) [noun] Nonsense, bosh. | [noun] Fashion; style. | [verb] To decisively terminate. LABARA (8) LABELS (8) [noun] A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached. | [noun] A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group. | [noun] A company that sells records. LABIAL (8) [noun] A consonant articulated by the lips. | [noun] An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound. | [noun] Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile. LABILE (8) [adjective] Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. | [adjective] Apt or likely to change. | [adjective] (of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). LABIUM (10) [noun] A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva. | [noun] The lip of a labiate corolla. | [noun] The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes. LABORS (8) [noun] Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work. | [noun] That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. | [noun] Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour. LABOUR (8) [noun] Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work. | [noun] That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. | [noun] Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour. LABRET (8) [noun] A body piercing consisting of an adornment attached to the lip. LABRUM (10) [noun] The uppermost of the mouthparts (trophi) of a typical insect, such as a cockroach. Typically resembles an upper lip and forms part of the roof of the mouth in such insects. | [noun] Any of several lip-like projections. | [noun] A large basin of warm water, with an overhanging lip, in a Roman bath. LAMBDA (11) [noun] The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet. | [noun] Unit representation of wavelength. | [noun] The cosmological constant. LAMBED (11) [verb] Of a sheep, to give birth. | [verb] To assist (sheep) to give birth. LAMBER (10) LAMBIE (10) LAVABO (11) [noun] A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist. | [noun] The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual. | [noun] A washbasin, particularly the one in a church used in the ritual. LEBENS (8) LIABLE (8) [adjective] Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable. | [adjective] Subject; susceptible. | [adjective] Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable. LIBBER (10) [noun] One who supports liberation for some group. LIBELS (8) [noun] A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation. | [noun] The act or crime of displaying such a statement publicly. | [noun] Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire. LIBERS (8) LIBIDO (9) [noun] The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage. | [noun] The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith. | [noun] One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia. LIBLAB (10) LIBRAE (8) [noun] A Roman unit of weight equal to about 327 grams. | [noun] Any of various units of weight in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries approximately equal to 460 grams or a little more than a US or UK pound. | [noun] Alternative spelling of libbra, an Italian unit of weight. LIBRAS (8) LIMBAS (10) [noun] A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments. LIMBED (11) LIMBER (10) [verb] To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant. | [adjective] Flexible, pliant, bendable. | [noun] A two-wheeled vehicle to which a wheeled artillery piece or caisson may be attached for transport. LIMBIC (12) LIMBOS (10) [noun] (Roman Catholic theology, since circa 400 A.D.) The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum) and those of unbaptized but innocent children (limbus infantum). | [noun] (by extension, since the 16th century) Any in-between place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock. LIMBUS (10) [noun] A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea. LOBATE (8) [adjective] Lobed. | [adjective] Resembling a lobe. LOBBED (11) [verb] To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch. | [verb] To throw. | [verb] To put, place LOBBER (10) LOBULE (8) [noun] A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. | [noun] In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac. LOWBOY (14) [noun] A low chest of drawers. | [noun] Trucking A semi-trailer designed for hauling vehicles and other mobile equipment, with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels; so named because the trailer's main deck is situated close to the ground for easy loading and unloading of vehicles and equipment. LUBBER (10) [noun] A clumsy or lazy person. | [noun] An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber. LUBRIC (10) LUMBAR (10) [noun] The lumbar region. | [noun] A lumbar vertebra. | [adjective] Related to the lower back or loin, specifically the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis. LUMBER (10) [noun] Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away. | [noun] Useless or cumbrous material. | [noun] A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. MAMBAS (12) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees. MAMBOS (12) [noun] A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) | [noun] A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. | [verb] To perform this dance. MARBLE (10) [noun] A rock of crystalline limestone. | [noun] (games) A small ball, usually of glass or ceramic. | [noun] An artwork made from marble. MARBLY (13) MAYBES (13) [noun] Something that is possibly true. | [noun] An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | [noun] A future event that may or may not happen. MBIRAS (10) [noun] A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument. MEMBER (12) [noun] One who officially belongs to a group. | [noun] A part of a whole. | [noun] Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. | [verb] (obsolete outside dialectal) To remember. MIDRIB (11) [noun] The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet. | [noun] The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach. MIHRAB (13) [noun] A niche in a mosque that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays | [noun] A design in a Muslim prayer mat with the same function MILNEB (10) MIMBAR (12) [noun] A pulpit in a mosque from which the leader of prayers delivers the khutbah. MOBBED (13) [verb] To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. | [verb] To crowd into or around a place. | [verb] To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. MOBBER (12) MOBCAP (14) [noun] A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band. | [noun] (modern-day use) A disposable head covering with an elasticated band, worn for cleanliness in industrial settings. MOBILE (10) [noun] A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other. | [noun] The internet accessed via mobile devices. | [noun] Something that can move. MOBLED (11) MORBID (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to disease. | [adjective] (by extension) Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. | [adjective] Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish MUMBLE (12) [noun] A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice. | [verb] To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate. | [verb] To chew something gently with closed lips. MUMBLY (15) NABBED (11) [verb] To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive). | [verb] To grab or snatch something. NABBER (10) NABOBS (10) [noun] An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire. | [noun] (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance. | [noun] (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner. NAWABS (11) [noun] A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura. NEARBY (11) [adjective] Adjacent, near, close by | [adverb] Next to, close to NEBULA (8) [noun] A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes). | [noun] A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea. | [noun] A cloudy appearance in the urine NEBULE (8) NEBULY (11) [adjective] Edged in a deeply wavy line, intended to represent clouds. NIBBED (11) NIBBLE (10) [noun] A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth. | [noun] (in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks. | [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [noun] A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits. NIMBLE (10) [adjective] Adept at taking or grasping | [adjective] Quick and light in movement or action. | [adjective] Quick-witted and alert. NIMBLY (13) [adverb] In a nimble manner NIMBUS (10) [noun] A circle of light; a halo. | [noun] A gray rain cloud. NIOBIC (10) NOBBLE (10) [verb] To injure or obstruct intentionally. | [verb] To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation. | [verb] To steal. NOBLER (8) [adjective] Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character. | [adjective] Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid. | [adjective] Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn. NOBLES (8) [noun] An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. | [noun] A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d. NOBODY (12) [noun] Someone who is not important or well-known. | [pronoun] Not any person; the logical negation of somebody. NUBBIN (10) [noun] A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple. | [noun] A small protuberance, bud, bump or knob. | [noun] The clitoris. NUBBLE (10) [noun] A small knob or lump. | [verb] To beat or bruise with the fist. NUBBLY (13) [adjective] Rough or lumpy NUBIAS (8) NUBILE (8) [noun] A young sexually attractive woman. | [adjective] Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman). | [adjective] Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman). NUMBAT (10) [noun] A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites. NUMBED (11) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. NUMBER (10) [noun] An abstract entity used to describe quantity. | [noun] A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer. | [noun] An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc. | [adjective] Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation. NUMBLY (13) OBEAHS (11) OBELIA (8) [noun] Any of various colonial marine hydroids of the genus Obelia. OBELUS (8) [noun] A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant; an obelisk. | [noun] A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date; an obelisk. OBEYED (12) [verb] To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of. | [verb] To do as one is told. | [verb] To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.). OBEYER (11) OBIISM (10) OBJECT (17) [noun] A thing that has physical existence. | [noun] Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something. | [noun] (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action. OBJETS (15) OBLAST (8) [noun] A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries. OBLATE (8) [noun] A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community. | [noun] A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house. | [adjective] Flattened or depressed at the poles. | [verb] To offer as either a gift or an oblation. OBLIGE (9) [verb] To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means. | [verb] To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation). | [verb] To be indebted to someone. OBLONG (9) [noun] Something with an oblong shape. | [noun] A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length. | [adjective] Longer than wide or wider than long; not square. OBOIST (8) OBOLES (8) OBOLUS (8) OBSESS (8) [verb] (passive, constructed with "with") To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion. | [verb] To dominate the thoughts of someone. | [verb] (construed with over) To think or talk obsessively about. OBTAIN (8) [verb] To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way. | [verb] To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached. | [verb] To prevail, be victorious; to succeed. OBTECT (10) [adjective] (of a pupa) Having the legs and other appendages more or less strongly cemented to the body. OBTEST (8) OBTUND (9) [verb] To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull. OBTUSE (8) [verb] To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state. | [adjective] Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form. | [adjective] Intellectually dull or dim-witted. OBVERT (11) [verb] To turn so as to show another side. | [verb] To turn towards the front. OMBERS (10) OMBRES (10) ORBIER (8) ORBING (9) ORBITS (8) [noun] A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object, particularly in astronomy and space travel. | [noun] A sphere of influence; an area of control. | [noun] The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range. ORIBIS (8) [noun] Ourebia ourebi, a species of antelope. OUREBI (8) OUTBEG (9) OUTBID (9) [verb] To bid more than (somebody else) in an auction. OUTBOX (15) [noun] A box holding papers to be transmitted to others, eg, by mail. | [noun] An electronic folder serving the same purpose, for electronic mail. | [verb] To box better than. OUTBUY (11) OUTBYE (11) OVIBOS (11) OXBOWS (18) [noun] A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts fastened to its yoke | [noun] A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop PABLUM (12) [noun] Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing. | [noun] Nourishment. PEBBLE (12) [noun] A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water. | [noun] A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. | [noun] A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface. PEBBLY (15) PEGBOX (18) [noun] The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs. PHOBIA (13) [noun] An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something). PHOBIC (15) [noun] A person who has a phobia. | [adjective] Relating to a phobia. | [adjective] Experiencing or expressing phobia (strong fear and/or dislike). PHOEBE (13) [noun] Any of several birds of the genus Sayornis. PIBALS (10) PLEBES (10) [noun] (usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens. | [noun] The plebs, the plebeian class. | [noun] The similar lower class of any area. PLUMBS (12) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. POTBOY (13) PREFAB (13) [noun] A prefabricated building. | [noun] A prefabricated section of a building. | [noun] A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use. PROBED (11) [verb] To explore, investigate, or question | [verb] To insert a probe into. PROBER (10) PROBES (10) [noun] Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. | [noun] Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. | [noun] An act of probing; a prod, a poke. PROBIT (10) [noun] A unit, derived from a standard distribution, used in measuring the responses to doses PUBLIC (12) [noun] The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group. | [noun] A public house; an inn. | [adjective] Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment. PUEBLO (10) [noun] A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building. RABATO (8) [noun] Stiff collar, wired or starched, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries; sometimes used as a support for the ruff. RABATS (8) RABBET (10) [noun] A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of a plank of wood or other material; especially, one intended to fit another member to form a joint. | [verb] To cut a rabbet in a piece of material. RABBIN (10) RABBIS (10) [noun] A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions. | [noun] A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation. | [noun] (police) A senior officer who acts as a mentor. RABBIT (10) [noun] A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. | [noun] The meat from this animal. | [noun] The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur. | [verb] To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly. | [verb] Confound; damn; drat. RABBLE (10) [verb] To speak in a confused manner; talk incoherently; utter nonsense | [verb] To speak confusedly or incoherently; gabble or chatter out | [noun] A bewildered or meaningless string of words. | [noun] An iron bar used in puddling. RABIES (8) [noun] An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death. RAGBAG (10) [noun] A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things. RAMBLE (10) [noun] A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside. | [noun] A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction. | [noun] A bed of shale over the seam of coal. RATBAG (9) [noun] A despicable person. | [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A mischievous person, especially a child. REBAIT (8) REBARS (8) [noun] A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure. | [noun] A grid-shaped system of such bars. REBATE (8) [noun] A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement. | [noun] The return of part of an amount already paid. | [noun] The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed. REBATO (8) [noun] Stiff collar, wired or starched, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries; sometimes used as a support for the ruff. REBBES (10) [noun] The spiritual leader of a Chassidic Jewish community. REBECK (14) [noun] An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras. REBECS (10) [noun] An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras. REBELS (8) [noun] A person who resists an established authority, often violently | [noun] A person from the Confederate States of America | [verb] To resist or become defiant toward an authority. REBIDS (9) [noun] A second or subsequent (normally higher) bid. | [verb] To bid again on something. | [verb] To require a new set of bids for. REBILL (8) REBIND (9) [verb] To bind again. | [verb] To associate a command with a different key. REBODY (12) REBOIL (8) REBOOK (12) [verb] To book again. REBOOT (8) [noun] An instance of rebooting. | [noun] The restarting of a series' storyline, discarding all previous continuity. | [verb] To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, possibly after a system failure. REBOPS (10) REBORE (8) [noun] The process of modifying the bore of an engine. | [verb] To bore through an existing hole, generally to correct its shape. | [verb] To bear again. REBORN (8) [noun] A manufactured vinyl doll that has been transformed to resemble a human baby with as much realism as possible. | [adjective] Revived or regenerated, especially emotionally or spiritually. | [adjective] Reincarnated. REBOZO (17) [noun] A woman's garment of Mexico, a rectangular piece of fabric worn as a scarf or shawl and sometimes used to carry children or goods. REBRED (9) REBUFF (14) [noun] A sudden resistance or refusal. | [noun] Repercussion, or beating back. | [verb] To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out. | [verb] To buff again. REBUKE (12) [noun] A harsh criticism. | [verb] To criticise harshly; to reprove. REBURY (11) [verb] To bury again REBUTS (8) [verb] To drive back or beat back; to repulse. | [verb] To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it. REBUYS (11) RECOMB (12) REDBAY (12) REDBUD (10) [noun] Any of several small trees, of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; the Judas tree. REDBUG (10) REDUBS (9) REHABS (11) [noun] Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs. | [noun] An institution for rehabilitation. | [verb] To rehabilitate. RESORB (8) [verb] To absorb (something) again. | [verb] To undergo resorption. | [verb] To dissolve (bone, sinew, suture, etc.) and assimilate it. REVERB (11) [noun] (audio effects) An electronic effect which simulates echoes or reverberations in the sound signal being processed. | [verb] To echo. | [verb] To apply a reverb (electronic echo effect) to. RHEBOK (15) [noun] A medium-sized, deerlike South African antelope, Pelea capreolus, having pale-gray, curly fur and straight horns. RHOMBI (13) [noun] A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. | [noun] In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer. | [noun] Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus. RHOMBS (13) [noun] A rhombus. | [noun] A rhombohedron. RHUMBA (13) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RHUMBS (13) [noun] A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle | [noun] One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) | [noun] A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25° RIBALD (9) [noun] An individual who is filthy or vulgar in nature. | [adjective] Coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way. RIBAND (9) [noun] A narrow diminutive of the bend, thinner than a bendlet. | [noun] A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework. | [noun] A ribbon. RIBBED (11) [verb] To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs. | [verb] To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way. | [verb] To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in. RIBBER (10) [noun] One who ribs; a good-natured tease. RIBBON (10) [noun] A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework. | [noun] A ribbon. | [noun] A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping. RIBIER (8) RIBLET (8) RIBOSE (8) [noun] A naturally occurring pentose sugar, which is a component of the nucleosides and nucleotides that constitute the nucleic acid biopolymer, RNA. It is also found in riboflavin. ROBALO (8) ROBAND (9) ROBBED (11) [verb] To steal from, especially using force or violence. | [verb] To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. | [verb] (used with "of") To deprive (of). ROBBER (10) [noun] A person who robs. ROBBIN (10) ROBING (9) [verb] To clothe; to dress. | [verb] To put on official vestments. | [noun] The act of putting on ceremonial clothing. ROBINS (8) [noun] Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast. | [noun] A trimming in front of a dress. ROBLES (8) ROBOTS (8) [noun] A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed. | [noun] An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. | [noun] A person who does not seem to have any emotions. ROBUST (8) [adjective] Evincing strength and health; strong. | [adjective] Violent; rough; rude. | [adjective] Requiring strength or vigor ROUBLE (8) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. RUBACE (10) RUBATO (8) [noun] A tempo in which strict timing is relaxed, the music being played near, but not on, the beat RUBBED (11) [verb] To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction. | [verb] To rub something against (a second thing). | [verb] To be rubbed against something. RUBBER (10) [noun] Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene. | [noun] Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber. | [noun] An eraser. | [noun] In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches: | [verb] To eavesdrop on a telephone call RUBBLE (10) [noun] The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry. | [noun] A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock. | [noun] (in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. RUBBLY (13) RUBIED (9) RUBIER (8) RUBIES (8) [noun] A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone. | [noun] A red spinel. | [noun] A deep red colour. RUBIGO (9) RUBLES (8) [noun] The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's symbol is ₽. RUBOFF (14) RUBOUT (8) RUBRIC (10) [noun] A heading in a book highlighted in red. | [noun] A title of a category or a class. | [noun] The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters. RUMBAS (10) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RUMBLE (10) [noun] A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach. | [noun] A street fight or brawl. | [noun] A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. RUMBLY (13) RURBAN (8) SABBAT (10) [noun] Witches' Sabbath SABBED (11) [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SABERS (8) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SABINE (8) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SABINS (8) SABIRS (8) SABLES (8) [noun] A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia). | [noun] The marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana). | [noun] The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur. SABOTS (8) [noun] A wooden shoe. | [noun] A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel SABRAS (8) [noun] A native-born Israeli. SABRED (9) [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. | [adjective] Equipped with a sabre or sabres. SABRES (8) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. SACBUT (10) SAGBUT (9) SAHIBS (11) [noun] A term of respect for a white European or other person of rank in colonial India. SAMBAR (10) [noun] A Southeast Asian deer, Cervus unicolor. | [noun] A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of vegetables and lentils (usually pigeon peas, also called toor dal) in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base. SAMBAS (10) [noun] A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. | [noun] A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. | [verb] To dance the samba. SAMBOS (10) [noun] A sandwich. SAMBUR (10) SCABBY (15) [adjective] Affected with scabs; full of scabs. | [adjective] Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. | [adjective] Having a blotched, uneven appearance. SCARAB (10) [noun] A beetle of the species Scarabaeus sacer, sacred to the ancient Egyptians. | [noun] Any species of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae. | [noun] A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle. SCRIBE (10) [noun] Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary or copyist. | [noun] A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people. | [noun] A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber. SCRUBS (10) [noun] One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | [noun] One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. | [noun] A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant SCUBAS (10) [noun] (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater. SEABAG (9) [noun] A duffel bag used by sailors or marines. SEABED (9) [noun] The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean. SEBUMS (10) SERDAB (9) SHABBY (16) [adjective] Torn or worn; unkempt. | [adjective] Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. | [adjective] Mean; paltry; despicable. SHIBAH (14) SHRUBS (11) [noun] A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | [noun] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. SIBYLS (11) [noun] A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl. SKIBOB (14) SKYBOX (22) [noun] A seating area for VIPs in a stadium. | [noun] A cube with textures on its inner faces, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield. SLOBBY (13) [adjective] Slobbish. | [adjective] Slobbery. | [adjective] Slushy, like slob ice. SLURBS (8) SNOBBY (13) [adjective] Characteristic of a snob. SNUBBY (13) SOBBED (11) [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. | [verb] To say (something) while sobbing. | [verb] To soak. SOBBER (10) SOBEIT (8) SOBERS (8) [verb] (often with up) To make or become sober. | [verb] (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. | [verb] To moderate one's feelings SOBFUL (11) SOMBER (10) [verb] To make sombre or dark; to make shady. | [adjective] Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. | [adjective] Dull or dark in colour or brightness. SOMBRE (10) [noun] Gloom; obscurity; duskiness. | [verb] To make sombre or dark; to make shady. | [adjective] Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. SORBED (9) SORBET (8) [noun] Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal. SORBIC (10) SQUABS (17) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUIBS (17) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. STABLE (8) [noun] A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses. | [noun] (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner. | [noun] A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers. | [adjective] Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed. STABLY (11) [adverb] In a stable manner. | [noun] A medieval hunting practice in which a group of hunters and hounds stationed around the perimeter of a wood during a hunt to prevent the escape of the game. STROBE (8) [noun] A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light. | [noun] An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read. | [verb] To flash like a stroboscopic lamp. STUBBY (13) [noun] A small, squat beer bottle. | [adjective] Abounding with stubs. | [adjective] Like a stub; short, especially cut short, thick and stiff; stunted; stubbed. SUABLE (8) SUABLY (11) SUBAHS (11) SUBBED (11) [verb] To substitute for. | [verb] To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education. | [verb] To replace (a player) with a substitute. SUBDEB (11) SUBDUE (9) [verb] To overcome, quieten, or bring under control. | [verb] To bring (a country) under control by force. SUBERS (8) SUBFIX (18) SUBGUM (11) SUBITO (8) SUBLET (8) [noun] Property leased by one lessee to another. | [verb] To lease or rent all or part of (a property) (to another person). SUBLOT (8) SUBMIT (10) [verb] To yield or give way to another. | [verb] To yield (something) to another, as when defeated. | [verb] To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. SUBNET (8) [noun] The abstraction of a sequence. | [noun] A portion of a network that shares a network address in which each component is identified by a number. | [verb] To break (a network) into subnets. SUBORN (8) [verb] To induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury | [verb] To procure privately, or by collusion; to incite secretly; to instigate. SUBPAR (10) SUBSEA (8) [adjective] Beneath the sea; submarine. SUBSET (8) [noun] (of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S. | [noun] A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group. | [verb] To take a subset of. SUBTLE (8) [adjective] Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable. | [adjective] (of a thing) Cleverly contrived. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful. SUBTLY (11) [adverb] With subtleness, in a subtle manner; with cleverness rather than brute force. SUBURB (10) [noun] A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc. | [noun] (by extension) The outer part; the environment. | [noun] Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery. SUBWAY (14) [noun] An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way. SUNBOW (11) [noun] A bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, caused by refraction through a spray of water from a cataract, waterfall, fountain, etc., rather than through droplets of rain. SUPERB (10) [adjective] First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good. | [adjective] Grand; magnificent; august; stately. | [adjective] Haughty. SWABBY (16) [noun] A sailor. SYBOES (11) SYMBOL (13) [noun] A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. | [noun] A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object. | [noun] A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index. TABARD (9) [noun] A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet. | [noun] A woman's or girl's sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment. | [noun] A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people. TABBED (11) [verb] To affix with tabs; to label. | [verb] To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage. | [adjective] Having a tab (protruding strip of material). TABBIS (10) TABERS (8) TABLAS (8) [noun] A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos. TABLED (9) [verb] To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. | [verb] To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. | [verb] To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. TABLES (8) [noun] Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. | [noun] A two-dimensional presentation of data. | [noun] The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate. TABLET (8) [noun] A slab of clay used for inscription. | [noun] A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith. | [noun] A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance. TABOOS (8) [noun] An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. | [noun] (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. TABORS (8) [noun] A small drum. | [noun] A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources. TABOUR (8) TABUED (9) [adjective] Forbidden; prohibited. TABULI (8) TABUNS (8) TAMBAC (12) TAMBAK (14) TAMBUR (10) TEABOX (15) TERBIA (8) TERBIC (10) THROBS (11) [noun] A beating, vibration or palpitation. | [verb] To pound or beat rapidly or violently. | [verb] To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm. THUMBS (13) [noun] The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. | [noun] The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. | [noun] A thumbnail picture. TIBIAE (8) [noun] The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone | [noun] The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. | [noun] The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus. TIBIAL (8) TIBIAS (8) [noun] The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone | [noun] The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. | [noun] The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus. TIDBIT (9) [noun] A tasty morsel (of food). | [noun] A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits). | [noun] A short mention of news or gossip. TIMBAL (10) [noun] A kettledrum. TIMBER (10) [noun] Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood. | [noun] (outside North America) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction. | [noun] A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. TIMBRE (10) [noun] The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume. | [noun] The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch. | [noun] The crest on a coat of arms. TITBIT (8) [noun] A tasty morsel (of food). | [noun] A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits). | [noun] A short mention of news or gossip. TOBIES (8) [noun] A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop. | [noun] The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing. | [noun] The road or highway. TOMBAC (12) TOMBAK (14) TOMBAL (10) TOMBED (11) TOMBOY (13) [noun] A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner. | [noun] A lesbian. TREBLE (8) [noun] The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition. | [noun] A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano. | [noun] The highest tuned in a ring of bells. TREBLY (11) [adjective] Having treble, or high-pitched, qualities. | [adverb] Three times, thrice | [adverb] To three times the extent or degree; triply. TRIBAL (8) [noun] A design or image that has been influenced by indigenous peoples; especially such a tattoo. | [adjective] Of or relating to tribes. | [adjective] Based on or organized according to tribes. TRIBES (8) [noun] A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people. | [noun] A society larger than a band but smaller than a state. | [noun] A group of apes who live and work together. TRILBY (11) [noun] A narrow-brimmed felt hat. TUBATE (8) TUBBED (11) [verb] To plant, set, or store in a tub. | [verb] To bathe in a tub. TUBBER (10) TUBERS (8) [noun] A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. | [noun] A thickened rootstock. | [noun] A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body. TUBFUL (11) TUBING (9) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUBIST (8) TUBULE (8) [noun] A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube. TUMBLE (10) [noun] A fall, especially end over end. | [noun] A disorderly heap. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. TURBAN (8) [noun] A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head. | [noun] A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim. | [noun] The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell. TURBID (9) [adjective] (of a liquid) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. | [adjective] Smoky or misty. | [adjective] Unclear; confused; obscure. TURBIT (8) [noun] A kind of pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding, known for its peaked crest, short beak, and frill of feathers on the breast. | [noun] The turbot. TURBOS (8) [noun] Turbocharger. | [noun] Turbojet. | [noun] Turbomolecular pump. TURBOT (8) [noun] A species of flatfish native to Europe (Scophthalmus maximus, earlier Psetta maxima). | [noun] Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters. | [noun] Triggerfish, Canthidermis sufflamen. TWIBIL (11) TYMBAL (13) [noun] A kettledrum. UBIETY (11) [noun] The state of existing in a specific point in space, thereness. | [noun] Omnipresence; ubiquity. UBIQUE (17) UMBELS (10) [noun] A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre. UMBERS (10) [noun] A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. | [noun] A grayling. | [noun] A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. UMBLES (10) [noun] Animal entrails, especially of a deer. UMBRAE (10) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UMBRAL (10) UMBRAS (10) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UNABLE (8) [adjective] Not able; lacking a certain ability. | [verb] To render unable; disable UNBANS (8) [verb] To lift a ban against. UNBARS (8) [verb] To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To remove a prohibition. | [verb] To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar. UNBEAR (8) UNBELT (8) [verb] To remove a belt | [verb] To relax, unwind UNBEND (9) [verb] To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight | [verb] To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax. | [verb] To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use. UNBENT (8) [verb] To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight | [verb] To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax. | [verb] To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use. UNBIND (9) [verb] To take bindings off. | [verb] To set free from a debt, contract or promise. | [verb] To disable some kind of connection in software, such as a key binding. UNBOLT (8) [verb] To unlock by undoing the bolts of. UNBORN (8) [noun] A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation. | [noun] Unborn offspring collectively. | [adjective] Not yet born; yet to come; future. UNBRED (9) UNBUSY (11) UNCURB (10) UNROBE (8) [verb] To disrobe, to undress. UPBEAR (10) UPBEAT (10) [noun] An unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase. | [adjective] Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat. | [adjective] Having a positive, lively, or perky tone, attitude, etc. UPBIND (11) UPBOIL (10) UPBORE (10) UPBOWS (13) URBANE (8) [adjective] (of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave. URBIAS (8) USABLE (8) [adjective] Capable of being used. | [adjective] Easy to use; exhibiting good usability. | [adjective] Homosexual USABLY (11) VERBAL (11) [noun] (grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals. | [noun] A confession given to police. | [verb] To induce into fabricating a confession. VERBID (12) VIABLE (11) [noun] An organism that is able to live and develop. | [adjective] Able to live on its own (as for a newborn). | [adjective] Able to be done, possible. VIABLY (14) VIBIST (11) [noun] A vibraphone player; someone that plays the vibraphone. VIBRIO (11) [noun] Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod. WABBLE (13) WABBLY (16) WAMBLE (13) WAMBLY (16) WARBLE (11) [noun] The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations. | [noun] In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered. | [verb] To modulate a tone's frequency. | [noun] A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma. WASABI (11) [noun] A pungent green Japanese condiment made from the plant Eutrema japonicum (formerly Wasabia japonica). | [noun] An imitation of this condiment made from horseradish with green dye. WEBBED (14) [verb] To construct or form a web. | [verb] To cover with a web or network. | [verb] To ensnare or entangle. WEBERS (11) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb. WEBFED (15) WIMBLE (13) WOBBLE (13) [noun] An unsteady motion. | [noun] A tremulous sound. | [noun] A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep WOBBLY (16) [noun] A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union. | [noun] A wobbler; a fit of rage. | [adjective] Unsteady and tending to wobble. WOMBAT (13) [noun] Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia. WOMBED (14) XEBECS (17) [noun] A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern. YABBER (13) [verb] To talk, jabber. YERBAS (11) [noun] Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate. YOBBOS (13) [noun] A yob. ZAREBA (17) [noun] A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes. | [noun] (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed. | [noun] (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure. ZARIBA (17) [noun] A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes. | [noun] (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed. | [noun] (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure. ZEBECK (23) [noun] A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern. ZEBECS (19) [noun] A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern. ZEBRAS (17) [noun] Any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa. | [noun] A referee. | [noun] An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".) ZIBETH (20) ZIBETS (17) ZINEBS (17) ZOMBIE (19) [noun] A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere. | [noun] (voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own. | [noun] A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living. ZOMBIS (19)