| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| beaming | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: glad |
| (adjective) pleased and proud | - |
| bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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| becoming | (adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
| bedraggled | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: draggled |
| beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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| befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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| befogged | (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befuddled |
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| beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
| beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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| begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
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| begrimed | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| beguiled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
| beige | (adjective) of a light greyish-brown color | - |
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| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| benign | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benignant |
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| (adjective) not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) | - |
| (adjective) kindness of disposition or manner | - |
| benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
| beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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| betting | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: card-playing, dissipated, gambling, sporting |
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| bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| bibliographic | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographical |
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| bibliographical | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographic |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| big | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: large |
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| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: large, prominent |
| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
| (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: large, magnanimous |
| (adjective) marked by intense physical force | - |
| (adjective) significant | - |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adjective) serious or severe | Synonyms: bad |
| (adjective) loud and firm | - |
| (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
| (adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: swelled, vainglorious |
| (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
| bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
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| bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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| bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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| bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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| biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bigoted | (adjective) blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others | - |
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| bilgy | (adjective) smelling like bilge water | - |
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| bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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| biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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| biogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the production of living organisms from other living organisms | - |
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| biogenic | (adjective) produced by living organisms or biological processes | - |
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| (adjective) essential for maintaining the fundamental life processes | - |
| biogenous | (adjective) producing or produced by living things | - |
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| biogeographic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographical |
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| biogeographical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographic |
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| biographic | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographical |
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| biographical | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographic |
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| biologic | (adjective) pertaining to biology or to life and living things | Synonyms: biological |
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| biological | (adjective) (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related | Synonyms: natural |
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| (adjective) pertaining to biology or to life and living things | Synonyms: biologic |
| biologistic | (adjective) of or relating to biologism | - |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| biting | (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
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| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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| blazing | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, conspicuous |
| blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| blooming | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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| blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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| boggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| bogus | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, fake, phoney, phony |
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| bolographic | (adjective) of or relating to a bolograph | - |
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| booming | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: stentorian |
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| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
| bootleg | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, contraband, smuggled |
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| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| boughed | (adjective) having boughs (of trees) | - |
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| boughless | (adjective) having no boughs (of trees) | - |
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| boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
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| bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| bourgeois | (adjective) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the middle class | - |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: conservative, materialistic |
| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| bowleg | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowlegged |
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| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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| brag | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: boss |
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| braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| braggy | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
| breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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| bridgeable | (adjective) capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge | - |
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