| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
| advowson | (noun) the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice | - |
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| afterglow | (noun) the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event | - |
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| (noun) a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset | - |
| aglow | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: lambent, lucent, luminous |
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| airflow | (noun) the flow of air | Synonyms: air flow, flow of air |
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| allow | (verb) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: take into account |
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| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: countenance, let, permit |
| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: permit, tolerate |
| (verb) let have | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) grant as a discount or in exchange | - |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: let, permit |
| (verb) allow the other (baseball) team to score | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide |
| (verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: admit |
| allowable | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: permissible |
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| (adjective) deserving to be allowed or considered | - |
| (adjective) deductible according to the tax laws | - |
| allowably | (adverb) in a permissible manner | Synonyms: permissibly |
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| allowance | (noun) the act of allowing | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance |
| (noun) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) | - |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment |
| (noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses | - |
| (noun) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets | Synonyms: allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve |
| (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
| anyhow | (adverb) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement | Synonyms: anyway, anyways, at any rate, in any case, in any event |
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| (adverb) in any way whatsoever | Synonyms: anyway |
| arrow | (noun) a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow | - |
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| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: pointer |
| arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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| arrowroot | (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch | Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant |
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| (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
| (noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant | - |
| arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| avow | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avouch |
| avowal | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avouchment |
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| avowed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: professed |
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| avowedly | (adverb) by open declaration | Synonyms: professedly |
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| (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: admittedly, confessedly, true |
| avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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| (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
| backdown | (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: climb-down, withdrawal |
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| backflow | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflowing |
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| backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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| barrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow |
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| (noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrowful |
| barrowful | (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrow |
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| batfowl | (verb) catch birds by temporarily blinding them | - |
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| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| bedfellow | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedmate |
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| (noun) a temporary associate | - |
| bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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| bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
| bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| bellows | (noun) (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument | - |
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| below | (adverb) (in writing) at a later place | Synonyms: infra |
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| (adverb) in or to a place that is lower | Synonyms: at a lower place, beneath, to a lower place |
| (adverb) further down | Synonyms: under |
| (adverb) on a floor below | Synonyms: down the stairs, downstairs, on a lower floor |
| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| bestow | (verb) present | Synonyms: confer |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
| (verb) give as a gift | - |
| bestowal | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowment, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowment |
| bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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| bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |
| billow | (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) move with great difficulty | - |
| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| billowy | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, surging |
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| bioweapon | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: bioarm, biological weapon |
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| blow | (noun) a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon | - |
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| (noun) forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth | Synonyms: puff |
| (noun) street names for cocaine | Synonyms: C, coke, nose candy, snow |
| (noun) an impact (as from a collision) | Synonyms: bump |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: shock |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, reversal, reverse, setback |
| (noun) a strong current of air | Synonyms: blast, gust |
| (verb) exhale hard | - |
| (verb) free of obstruction by blowing air through | - |
| (verb) melt, break, or become otherwise unusable | Synonyms: blow out, burn out |
| (verb) burst suddenly | - |
| (verb) shape by blowing | - |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) cause to be revealed and jeopardized | - |
| (verb) allow to regain its breath | - |
| (verb) deposit eggs (of insects) | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, drift, float |
| (verb) cause to move by means of an air current | - |
| (verb) leave; informal or rude | Synonyms: shove along, shove off |
| (verb) cause air to go in, on, or through | - |
| (verb) spout moist air from the blowhole | - |
| (verb) play or sound a wind instrument | - |
| (verb) make a sound as if blown | - |
| (verb) sound by having air expelled through a tube | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: fellate, go down on, suck |
| (verb) spend lavishly or wastefully on | - |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: squander, waste |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: suck |
| (verb) be blowing or storming | - |
| blowback | (noun) Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge. | - |
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| (noun) misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service | - |
| (noun) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | Synonyms: backfire |
| blowball | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: dandelion |
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| blowbang | (noun) A sexual activity where fellatio is performed on multiple men | - |
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| blower | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal |
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| (noun) a device that produces a current of air | - |
| (noun) a fan run by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric fan |
| blowfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: globefish, puffer, pufferfish |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: puffer, pufferfish, sea squab |
| blowfly | (noun) large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds | Synonyms: blow fly |
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| blowgun | (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe, blowtube |
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| blowhard | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| blowhole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: vent-hole, vent, venthole |
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| (noun) the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull | - |
| blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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| blowjob | (noun) slang for fellatio | Synonyms: cock sucking |
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| blowlamp | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowtorch, torch |
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| blown | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: pursy, short-winded, winded |
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| (adjective) being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor | - |
| blowout | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: gala, gala affair, jamboree |
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| (noun) a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus | - |
| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
| blowpipe | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowtube |
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| (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowtube |
| blowsy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowzy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| blowtorch | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, torch |
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| blowtube | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe |
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| (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe |
| blowup | (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: enlargement, magnification |
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| (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: ebullition, effusion, gush, outburst |
| (noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: detonation, explosion |
| blowy | (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: breezy, windy |
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| blowzy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| borrow | (verb) get temporarily | - |
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| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, take over, take up |
| borrower | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | - |
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| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| bow | (noun) a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments | - |
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| (noun) a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments | - |
| (noun) a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow | - |
| (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bowknot |
| (noun) a decorative interlacing of ribbons | - |
| (noun) something curved in shape | Synonyms: arc |
| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: fore, prow, stem |
| (noun) an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience | Synonyms: curtain call |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bowing, obeisance |
| (verb) bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head | Synonyms: bow down |
| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, defer, give in, submit |
| (verb) bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting | - |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, crouch, stoop |
| (verb) play on a stringed instrument with a bow | - |
| bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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| bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
| bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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| bowed | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow | - |
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| (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate |
| (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowleg, bowlegged |
| (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowing |
| bowel | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: gut, intestine |
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| bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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| bowels | (noun) the center of the Earth | - |
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| bower | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, pergola |
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| (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
| bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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| bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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| bowfin | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, dogfish, grindle |
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| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
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| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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| bowl | (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods | - |
| (noun) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids | - |
| (noun) a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco | Synonyms: pipe bowl |
| (noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: arena, sports stadium, stadium |
| (noun) a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling | - |
| (noun) a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling | Synonyms: bowling ball |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowlful |
| (noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: trough |
| (verb) engage in the sport of bowling | - |
| (verb) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end | - |
| (verb) roll (a ball) | - |
| bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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| bowleg | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowlegged |
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| (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| bowler | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat |
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| (noun) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins | - |
| (noun) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket | - |
| bowlful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowl |
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| bowline | (noun) a loop knot that neither slips nor jams | Synonyms: bowline knot |
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| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| bowls | (noun) a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack | Synonyms: lawn bowling |
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