| beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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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 |
| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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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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| 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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| brimming | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimfull |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| budding | (adjective) beginning to develop | - |
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| bulging | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: convex |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant |
| bullying | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: blustery |
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| bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| bungaloid | (adjective) characterized by bungalows | - |
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| bungled | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: botched |
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| bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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| bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| buzzing | (adjective) noisy like the sound of a bee | Synonyms: abuzz |
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| calculating | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| captivating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| carangid | (adjective) of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae | - |
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| caring | (adjective) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others | - |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| ceilinged | (adjective) provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface | - |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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| challengeable | (adjective) capable of being challenged | - |
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| challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
| (adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
| changeable | (adjective) such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeful |
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| (adjective) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: mutable |
| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: chatoyant, iridescent, shot |
| (adjective) subject to change | Synonyms: uncertain, unsettled |
| changed | (adjective) made or become different in nature or form | - |
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| (adjective) made or become different in some respect | - |
| changeful | (adjective) such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeable |
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| changeless | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: immutable |
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| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: constant, invariant, unvarying |
| (adjective) remaining the same for indefinitely long times | Synonyms: unalterable |
| changing | (adjective) marked by continuous change or effective action | Synonyms: ever-changing |
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| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| cheeseparing | (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: close, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
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| childbearing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for childbirth | - |
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| chilling | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: scary, shivery, shuddery |
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| choking | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: smothering, suffocating, suffocative |
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| churchgoing | (adjective) actively practicing a religion | - |
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| churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
| circulating | (adjective) passing from one to another | - |
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| clanging | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clangorous |
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| clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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| clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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| cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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| (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
| clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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| closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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| cloying | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly |
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| coalescing | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescent |
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| coaxing | (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: ingratiatory |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| coinciding | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| comforting | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: consolatory, consoling |
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| (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, satisfying |