NOUN
  • Definition - An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
  • Definition - The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
  • Definition - Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
  • Definition - A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
  • Definition - The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
  • Definition - Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
  • Definition - A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
  • Definition - A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
  • Definition - A bustle.
  • Definition - A children's smock or pinafore.
VERB
  • Definition - To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
  • Definition - To make a bishop.
  • Definition - To provide with bishops.
  • Definition - To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
  • Definition - (by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
VERB
  • Definition - To murder by drowning.
Words in your word
7 Letter Words
bishops 14
6 Letter Words
bishop 13
5 Letter Words
ships 10 shops 10 sophs 10 pisos 7
4 Letter Words
bish 9 bosh 9 hips 9 hobs 9 hops 9 phis 9 phos 9 pish 9 posh 9 ship 9 shop 9 soph 9 bops 8 hiss 7 sohs 7 bios 6 boss 6 obis 6 piso 6 piss 6 pois 6 psis 6 sibs 6 sips 6 sobs 6 sops 6
3 Letter Words
hip 8 hob 8 hop 8 phi 8 pho 8 poh 8 bop 7 his 6 hos 6 ohs 6 sho 6 soh 6 bio 5 bis 5 bos 5 obi 5 ops 5 pis 5 poi 5 pos 5 psi 5 sib 5 sip 5 sob 5 sop 5 sis 3 sos 3
2 Letter Words
hi 5 ho 5 oh 5 sh 5 bi 4 bo 4 op 4 pi 4 po 4 is 2 oi 2 os 2 si 2 so 2
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