absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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adsorbable | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbate |
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ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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baba | (noun) a small cake leavened with yeast | - |
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babassu | (noun) tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa |
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babbitt | (noun) an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction | Synonyms: Babbitt metal |
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(verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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babble | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babbling, lallation |
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(verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
(verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
(verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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babe | (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: baby, infant |
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babel | (noun) a confusion of voices and other sounds | - |
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babelike | (adjective) like a baby especially in dependence | - |
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babiroussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babirusa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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babirusa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babiroussa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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babirussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babiroussa, babirusa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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babka | (noun) a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds | - |
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baboo | (noun) used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr' | Synonyms: babu |
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baboon | (noun) large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles | - |
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baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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babu | (noun) used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr' | Synonyms: baboo |
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babushka | (noun) a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women | - |
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baby | (noun) a project of personal concern to someone | - |
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(noun) a very young mammal | - |
(noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: babe, infant |
(noun) the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young) | - |
(noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: child |
(noun) an unborn child; a human fetus | - |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
babygram | (noun) an X-ray of the entire body of an infant. | - |
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babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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(noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
babyish | (adjective) characteristic of a baby | - |
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babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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(verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
babysitter | (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, sitter |
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babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
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babytalk | (noun) the developing speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk |
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(noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, motherese |
baobab | (noun) African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread | Synonyms: Adansonia digitata, monkey-bread tree |
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bribable | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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chebab | (noun) a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis | - |
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climbable | (adjective) capable of being surmounted | Synonyms: surmountable |
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(adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, ascendible |
clubable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubbable |
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clubbable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubable |
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crybaby | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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(noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: chicken, wimp |
describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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ecobabble | (noun) using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware | - |
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equiprobable | (adjective) equally probable | - |
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imperturbability | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbableness |
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imperturbable | (adjective) not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure | Synonyms: unflappable |
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imperturbableness | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbability |
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improbability | (noun) the quality of being improbable | Synonyms: improbableness |
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improbable | (adjective) not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred | Synonyms: unlikely |
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(adjective) having a probability too low to inspire belief | Synonyms: unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely |
(adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: marvellous, marvelous, tall |
improbableness | (noun) the quality of being improbable | Synonyms: improbability |
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improbably | (adverb) not easy to believe | Synonyms: implausibly, incredibly, unbelievably |
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indescribability | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribableness |
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indescribable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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indescribableness | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribability |
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indescribably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: ineffably, inexpressibly, unspeakably, unutterably |
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kebab | (noun) cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | Synonyms: kabob, shish kebab |
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plumbable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: fathomable, soundable |
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probabilism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action | - |
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(noun) a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable | - |
probabilistic | (adjective) of or relating to or based on probability | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism | - |
probabilistically | (adverb) by the use of probability theory | - |
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probability | (noun) the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event | - |
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(noun) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible | Synonyms: chance |
probable | (adjective) likely but not certain to be or become true or real | - |
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(adjective) apparently destined | - |
(noun) an applicant likely to be chosen | - |
probably | (adverb) with considerable certainty; without much doubt | Synonyms: belike, in all likelihood, in all probability, likely |
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(adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: believably, credibly, plausibly |
psychobabble | (noun) using language loaded with psychological terminology | - |
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technobabble | (noun) technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects | - |
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unascribable | (adjective) not attributable | Synonyms: unattributable |
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unclimbable | (adjective) incapable of being ascended | Synonyms: unscalable |
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(adjective) incapable of being surmounted or climbed | Synonyms: unsurmountable |
uncombable | (adjective) not capable of being combed | - |
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