| bitey | (adjective) Having a tendency to bite aggressively | - |
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| bitty | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| biyearly | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biennial |
| blabby | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, talkative |
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| blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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| blameworthy | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable |
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| blastomycotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis | - |
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| bleary | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, blear, bleary-eyed |
| blebby | (adjective) (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material | Synonyms: blebbed |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
| blocky | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blockish |
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| bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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| bloodthirsty | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloody-minded, sanguinary |
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| bloody | (adjective) having or covered with or accompanied by blood | - |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| blotchy | (adjective) marred by discolored spots or blotches | - |
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| (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, splotched |
| blowsy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowzy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| blowy | (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: breezy, windy |
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| blowzy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| blubbery | (adjective) swollen with fat | - |
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| blurry | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
| bodily | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | - |
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| (adjective) having or relating to a physical material body | - |
| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic |
| bodyless | (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodiless |
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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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| bolshy | (adjective) obstreperous | Synonyms: stroppy |
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| boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| bonny | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, comely, fair, sightly |
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| bony | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: boney |
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| (adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: osseous, osteal |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| boozy | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, drunken, sottish |
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| bosky | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: brushy |
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| bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| bossy | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| botchy | (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: butcherly, unskillful |
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| botryoid | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoidal, boytrose |
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| botryoidal | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, boytrose |
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| bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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| bouncy | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: live, lively, resilient, springy |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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| boxy | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxlike |
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| boyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boylike, schoolboyish |
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| boylike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, schoolboyish |
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| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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| brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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| brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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| brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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| brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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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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| brainy | (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brilliant, smart as a whip |
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| braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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| (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
| brambly | (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: braky |
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| branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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| brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| bratty | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: brattish |
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| brawny | (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
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| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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| (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
| briary | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| brickly | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brittle |
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| briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| briny | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: brackish |
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| bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
| bronzy | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronze |
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| broody | (adjective) physiologically ready to incubate eggs | - |
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| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
| brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
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| brushy | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: bosky |
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| bryophytic | (adjective) relating to plants of the division Bryophyta | - |
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| bubbly | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) full of or showing high spirits | - |
| budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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| buggy | (adjective) infested with bugs | - |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| buirdly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, burly, husky, strapping |
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| bulgy | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, protuberant |
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| bulky | (adjective) of large size for its weight | - |
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| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
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| bully | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| bullying | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: blustery |
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| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| bumpy | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| (adjective) covered with or full of bumps | - |
| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| burbly | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, effusive, gushing |
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| burly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping |
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| burry | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bushy | (adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading | - |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired, shaggy |
| busty | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
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| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
| butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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| butyric | (adjective) relating to or producing butyric acid | - |
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| bygone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bypast, departed, foregone, gone |
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| bypast | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, departed, foregone, gone |
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| cackly | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: squawky |
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| cacodylic | (adjective) of or relating to cacodyl | - |
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