| ABYEING | • abyeing v. Present participle of abye. • ABYE v. (archaic) to pay the penalty for, also ABY. |
| ABYSMAL | • abysmal adj. (Now rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss. • abysmal adj. (Figurative) extremely bad; terrible. • ABYSMAL adj. immeasurably deep. |
| ABYSSAL | • abyssal adj. (Archaic) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. • abyssal adj. (Geography) Of or belonging to the ocean depths, especially below 2000 metres (6500 ft): abyssal zone. • abyssal adj. (Geology) Pertaining to or occurring at excessive depths in the earth’s crust; plutonic. |
| ABYSSES | • abysses n. Plural of abyss. • ABYSS n. a bottomless chasm. |
| BABYING | • babying v. Present participle of baby. • babying n. The act of coddling or pampering somebody. • BABY v. to treat like a baby. |
| BABYISH | • babyish adj. Like or suitable for a baby or a young child; childish. • BABYISH adj. resembling a baby. |
| BABYSAT | • babysat v. Simple past tense and past participle of babysit. • baby-sat v. Simple past tense and past participle of baby-sit. • BABYSIT v. to care for a child temporarily. |
| BABYSIT | • babysit v. (Transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend someone else’s child for a period of time, often for money. • babysit v. (Transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much. • baby-sit v. Alternative spelling of babysit. |
| CRYBABY | • crybaby n. A baby who cries excessively. • crybaby n. (Slang) Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters. • crybaby n. (Slang) Someone who takes offense or excessively complains when things aren’t going well. |
| EXABYTE | • exabyte n. (Computing) A unit of storage capacity, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) bytes. • EXABYTE n. a very large unit of computer memory. |
| HUSHABY | • hushaby interj. (Archaic) hush and be still; a lull to sleep. • hushaby n. A lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep. • hushaby v. (Archaic, transitive) To lull to sleep by saying "hushaby". |
| LULLABY | • lullaby n. A cradlesong, a soothing song to calm children or lull them to sleep. • lullaby v. (Transitive) To sing a lullaby to. • LULLABY v. to lull to sleep with a soothing song. |
| MANGABY | • mangaby n. Archaic form of mangabey. • MANGABY n. (Malagasy) a long-tailed African monkey, also MANGABEY. |
| ROCKABY | • ROCKABY n. a song used to lull children to sleep, also ROCKABYE. |
| SASSABY | • sassaby n. (Dated) Alternative form of tsessebe. • SASSABY n. (Setswana) a kind of African antelope, also TSESSEBE. |
| WALLABY | • wallaby n. Any of several species of marsupial; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos. • Wallaby n. (Rugby) A player for the Wallabies, the Australian national rugby union team. • WALLABY n. (Native Australian) any of a number of small marsupials of the family Macropodidae. |