| abbe | (noun) a French abbot | - |
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| adobe | (noun) sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates | Synonyms: adobe brick |
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| (noun) the clay from which adobe bricks are made | - |
| aerobe | (noun) an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life | - |
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| anaerobe | (noun) an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live | - |
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| anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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| ascribe | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: assign, attribute, impute |
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| astilbe | (noun) any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers | - |
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| astrolabe | (noun) an early form of sextant | - |
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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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| bathrobe | (noun) a loose-fitting robe of towelling; worn after a bath or swim | - |
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| be | (verb) spend or use time | - |
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| (verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: exist |
| (verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: live |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
| (verb) have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) | - |
| (verb) occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere | - |
| (verb) be identical to; be someone or something | - |
| (verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: equal |
| (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: embody, personify |
| (verb) be priced at | Synonyms: cost |
| (verb) to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form | - |
| 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 |
| bribe | (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: payoff |
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| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: buy, corrupt, grease one's palms |
| buncombe | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot |
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| caribe | (noun) small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals | Synonyms: pirana, piranha |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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| conglobe | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobate |
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| cube | (noun) a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | Synonyms: square block |
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| (noun) any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | - |
| (noun) the product of three equal terms | Synonyms: third power |
| (noun) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | Synonyms: regular hexahedron |
| (noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) raise to the third power | - |
| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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| disrobe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| earlobe | (noun) the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear | Synonyms: ear lobe |
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| engobe | (noun) a clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing. | - |
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| enrobe | (verb) adorn with a robe | - |
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| (verb) provide with a coating | - |
| flambe | (verb) pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | - |
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| gibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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| (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, jeer, scoff |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, jibe, match, tally |
| glebe | (noun) plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office | - |
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| globe | (noun) a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented | - |
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| (noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, earth, world |
| (noun) an object with a spherical shape | Synonyms: ball, orb |
| grebe | (noun) small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet | - |
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| gybe | (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, jib, jibe |
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| homophobe | (noun) a person who hates or fears homosexual people | - |
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| imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| inscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: autograph |
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| (verb) address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication | - |
| (verb) write, engrave, or print as a lasting record | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, write in code |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, scratch |
| (verb) draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, raise, recruit |
| jibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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| (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jib |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, match, tally |
| jujube | (noun) chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat) | - |
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| (noun) dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees | Synonyms: Chinese date, Chinese jujube |
| (noun) spiny tree having dark red edible fruits | Synonyms: Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, jujube bush, Ziziphus jujuba |
| katharobe | (noun) an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter | - |
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| kibe | (noun) ulcerated chilblain on the heel | - |
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| lobe | (noun) a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure | - |
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| (noun) (anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part | - |
| (noun) the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern | - |
| (noun) (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided | - |
| lube | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lubricant, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lubricate |
| maybe | (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly |
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| microbe | (noun) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | Synonyms: bug, germ |
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| nanotube | (noun) a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape | Synonyms: carbon nanotube |
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| phoebe | (noun) small dun-colored North American flycatcher | Synonyms: phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe |
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| pickelhaube | (noun) a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers | - |
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| plebe | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: cadet |
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| prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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| (verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
| (verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
| probe | (noun) an exploratory action or expedition | - |
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| (noun) an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity | - |
| (noun) a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities | - |
| (noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: investigation |
| (verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: examine |
| (verb) examine physically with or as if with a probe | Synonyms: dig into, poke into |
| proscribe | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, veto |
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| robe | (noun) any loose flowing garment | - |
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| (noun) outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: gown |
| (verb) clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes | Synonyms: vest |
| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, clothe, drape |
| rube | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, yahoo, yokel |
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| saprobe | (noun) an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water | - |
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| scribe | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scriber |
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| (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribbler |
| (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scrivener |
| (verb) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking | - |
| strobe | (noun) scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary | Synonyms: strobe light, stroboscope |
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| subscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature; write one's name (on) | Synonyms: sign |
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| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: support |
| (verb) receive or obtain regularly | Synonyms: subscribe to, take |
| (verb) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares | - |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: pledge |
| superscribe | (verb) write on the outside or upper part of | - |
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| (verb) write on the top or outside | - |
| technophobe | (noun) a person who dislikes or avoids new technology | - |
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| thebe | (noun) 100 thebe equal 1 pula in Botswana | - |
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| transcribe | (verb) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA | - |
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| (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transliterate |
| (verb) write out from speech, notes, etc. | - |
| (verb) make a phonetic transcription of | - |
| (verb) rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended | - |
| tribe | (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: folk |
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| (noun) a federation (as of American Indians) | Synonyms: federation of tribes |
| (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily | - |
| tube | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tubing |
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| (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, underground |
| (noun) electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope | Synonyms: electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube |
| (noun) (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure | Synonyms: tube-shaped structure |
| (noun) a hollow cylindrical shape | Synonyms: pipe |
| (verb) place or enclose in a tube | - |
| (verb) convey in a tube | - |
| (verb) ride or float on an inflated tube | - |
| (verb) provide with a tube or insert a tube into | - |
| vibe | (noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibration |
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| (verb) to feel emotionally | - |
| wannabe | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabee |
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| wardrobe | (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: closet, press |
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| (noun) collection of clothing belonging to one person | - |
| (noun) collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company | - |
| watertube | (noun) a boiler tube through which the water flows. | Synonyms: water tube |
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