baroness | (noun) a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
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baronet | (noun) a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight | Synonyms: Bart |
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baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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(noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
baronetcy | (noun) the title of a baron | - |
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(noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: barony |
barong | (noun) a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines | - |
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barony | (noun) the domain of a baron | - |
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(noun) the estate of a baron | - |
(noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: baronetcy |
baroque | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroqueness |
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baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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baroreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to pressure | - |
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barosaur | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaurus |
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barosaurus | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaur |
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barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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barque | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: bark |
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barrack | (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | - |
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barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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barrator | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrater |
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barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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(noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
(noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
(noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
barrel | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: cask |
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(noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired | Synonyms: gun barrel |
(noun) any of various units of capacity | Synonyms: bbl |
(noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrelful |
(noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: drum |
barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
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barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
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barren | (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
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barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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(noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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barretter | (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast, ballast resistor |
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barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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(noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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(noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
(noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
barring | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: blackball |
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barrio | (noun) an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country | - |
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(noun) a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States) | - |
barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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barroom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
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barrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow |
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(noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus |
(noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrowful |
barrowful | (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrow |
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bars | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights | Synonyms: parallel bars |
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bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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barter | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
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barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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bartlett | (noun) juicy yellow pear | Synonyms: bartlett pear |
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bartonia | (noun) annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: Mentzelia lindleyi |
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barunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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barycenter | (noun) (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve | - |
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barye | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, microbar |
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baryon | (noun) any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1 | Synonyms: heavy particle |
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baryta | (noun) any of several compounds of barium | - |
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barytes | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barite, barium sulphate, heavy spar |
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barytone | (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: baritone |
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baseboard | (noun) a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor | Synonyms: mopboard, skirting board |
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basidiocarp | (noun) the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells | - |
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bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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bastard | (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: mongrel |
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(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
(noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
bastardisation | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardization |
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bastardization | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardisation |
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(noun) declaring or rendering bastard | - |
bastardy | (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, illegitimacy |
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bazaar | (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: fair |
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(noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazar |
(noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazar |
bazar | (noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazaar |
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(noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazaar |
beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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bear | (noun) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws | - |
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(noun) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price | - |
bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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(noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
bearcat | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, binturong |
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beard | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: byssus |
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(noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals | - |
(noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers |
(noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) | - |
(noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | - |
beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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bearer | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | - |
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(noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: pallbearer |
(noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: holder |
(noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: carrier, toter |
bearing | (noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
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(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
(noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
(noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
(noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
(noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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(noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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beggar | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: mendicant |
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beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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(noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
beneficiary | (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
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(noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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bicentenary | (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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bilharzia | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharziasis, schistosomiasis |
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bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
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billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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billiards | (noun) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls | - |
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bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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(noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
binary | (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
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(noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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bioarm | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological weapon, bioweapon |
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biohazard | (noun) any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological agent |
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(noun) hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions | - |
birchbark | (noun) a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree | Synonyms: birch bark, birchbark canoe |
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birthmark | (noun) a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth | Synonyms: nevus |
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bismark | (noun) a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam | Synonyms: Berlin doughnut, jelly doughnut |
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bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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