asshole | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, bunghole |
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(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
assignable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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assimilable | (adjective) able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues | - |
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associable | (adjective) capable of being associated | - |
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astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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asystole | (noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death | Synonyms: cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest |
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atole | (noun) eaten as mush or as a thin gruel | - |
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attachable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or added to something else | - |
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attainable | (adjective) capable of being attained or accomplished | Synonyms: come-at-able |
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attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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attributable | (adjective) capable of being attributed | - |
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audible | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: hearable |
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(noun) a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage | - |
audile | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: auditive, auditory |
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(noun) one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor | - |
aureole | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus |
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(noun) the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse | Synonyms: corona |
auricle | (noun) a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: atrial auricle, auricula atrii |
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(noun) the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear | Synonyms: ear, pinna |
automobile | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, car, machine, motorcar |
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(verb) travel in an automobile | - |
available | (adjective) obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service | - |
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(adjective) convenient for use or disposal | Synonyms: usable, useable |
(adjective) not busy; not otherwise committed | Synonyms: uncommitted |
avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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avoidable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, evitable |
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awhile | (adverb) for a brief period | Synonyms: for a while |
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axile | (adjective) relating to or attached to the axis | Synonyms: axial |
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axle | (noun) a shaft on which a wheel rotates | - |
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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 |
baffle | (noun) a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy | Synonyms: baffle board |
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(verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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(noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
(noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
bailable | (adjective) eligible for bail | - |
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(adjective) admitting of bail | - |
bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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bale | (noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport | - |
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(verb) make into a bale | - |
bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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bangle | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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(noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bracelet |
bankable | (adjective) acceptable to or at a bank | - |
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(adjective) guaranteed to bring a profit | - |
barcarole | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarolle |
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barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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(noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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battle | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: conflict, engagement, fight |
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(noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: struggle |
(noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: conflict, struggle |
(verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
bauble | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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(noun) a mock scepter carried by a court jester | - |
beadle | (noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function | - |
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beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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bearable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportable |
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beatable | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: vanquishable, vincible |
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bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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beetle | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetling |
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(noun) insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings | - |
(noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: mallet |
(verb) beat with a beetle | - |
(verb) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle | - |
(verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: overhang |
befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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(verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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bendable | (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: pliable, pliant, waxy |
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bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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(verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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bible | (noun) a book regarded as authoritative in its field | - |
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bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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bibliopole | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopolist |
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bicycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bike, cycle, wheel |
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(verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
biddable | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: acquiescent |
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bile | (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: gall |
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bindable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bondable |
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bingle | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: single |
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binnacle | (noun) a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm) | - |
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biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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birle | (verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birl |
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blackbeetle | (noun) dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution | Synonyms: Asiatic cockroach, Blatta orientalis, oriental cockroach, oriental roach |
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blamable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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blameable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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blastocele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoel, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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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 | - |
bluebottle | (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight | Synonyms: Calliphora vicina |
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(noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
bobble | (noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball | - |
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(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, 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 |
boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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(verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
(verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
bole | (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber | Synonyms: tree trunk, trunk |
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(noun) a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) | - |
bondable | (adjective) capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass | - |
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(adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bindable |
boodle | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
bookable | (adjective) subject to being reserved or booked | - |
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bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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(verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
borecole | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail, kale |
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bottle | (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | - |
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(noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children | Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle |
(noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottleful |
(verb) put into bottles | - |
(verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
boucle | (noun) a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect | - |
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boule | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boulle, buhl |
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boulle | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, buhl |
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brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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bracteole | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bractlet |
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braille | (noun) a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals | - |
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(verb) transcribe in braille | - |
bramble | (noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | - |
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brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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breakable | (adjective) capable of being broken or damaged | - |
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(noun) an article that is fragile and easily broken | - |
bribable | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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brickle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickly, brittle |
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bricole | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: mangonel, traction trebuchet |
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bridgeable | (adjective) capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge | - |
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bridle | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: check, curb |
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(noun) headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control | - |
(verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
(verb) put a bridle on | - |
(verb) anger or take offense | - |
brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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