| bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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| bandlet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandelette, square and rabbet |
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| bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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| bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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| bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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| bandoneon | (noun) a type of concertina popular in South America | - |
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| bandsaw | (noun) an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels | Synonyms: band saw |
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| bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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| bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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| bandtail | (noun) wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon | Synonyms: band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, Columba fasciata |
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| bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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| (noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
| bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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| bandyleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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| bane | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: curse, nemesis, scourge |
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| baneberry | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher |
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| (noun) a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea | - |
| bang | (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: hit, smash, smasher, strike |
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| (noun) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | Synonyms: fringe |
| (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, blast, clap, eruption |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bash, belt, knock, smash |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
| banger | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: cracker, firecracker |
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| (noun) (British informal) pork sausage | - |
| banging | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: battering |
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| (noun) a continuing very loud noise | - |
| bangle | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bracelet |
| bangtail | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: race horse, racehorse |
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| banian | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banyan |
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| (noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
| banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
| banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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| banjo | (noun) a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body | - |
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| bank | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning) | - |
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| (noun) a building in which the business of banking is transacted | Synonyms: bank building |
| (noun) a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home | Synonyms: coin bank, money box, savings bank |
| (noun) a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities | Synonyms: banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution |
| (noun) an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers | - |
| (noun) a long ridge or pile | - |
| (noun) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water) | - |
| (noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: camber, cant |
| (noun) a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies) | - |
| (noun) the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games | - |
| bankbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: passbook |
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| banker | (noun) a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank | - |
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| (noun) the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game | - |
| banking | (noun) transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc. | - |
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| (noun) engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc. | - |
| banknote | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
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| bankroll | (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: roll |
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| bankrupt | (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: insolvent |
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| bankruptcy | (noun) a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent | - |
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| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: failure |
| (noun) a state of complete lack of some abstract property | - |
| banksia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds | - |
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| banner | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
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| (noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
| banneret | (noun) a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command | Synonyms: knight banneret, knight of the square flag |
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| banning | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding |
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| bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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| bannock | (noun) a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland | - |
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| banns | (noun) a public announcement of a proposed marriage | - |
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| banquet | (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: feast, spread |
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| (noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | Synonyms: feast |
| banqueting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: feasting |
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| banquette | (noun) an upholstered bench | - |
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| banshee | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshie |
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| banshie | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshee |
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| bantam | (noun) any of various small breeds of fowl | - |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| banteng | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banting, Bos banteng, tsine |
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| banter | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: backchat, give-and-take, raillery |
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| banting | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, Bos banteng, tsine |
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| banyan | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banian |
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| (noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian, banian tree, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
| banzai | (noun) a Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph | - |
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| baobab | (noun) African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread | Synonyms: Adansonia digitata, monkey-bread tree |
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| bap | (noun) a small loaf or roll of soft bread | - |
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| baptism | (noun) a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth | - |
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| baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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| baptistry | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistery, font |
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| bar | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: prevention |
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| (noun) a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon | - |
| (noun) an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal | - |
| (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
| (noun) a counter where you can obtain food or drink | - |
| (noun) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) | Synonyms: cake |
| (noun) (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried | - |
| (noun) a heating element in an electric fire | - |
| (noun) a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises | - |
| (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: streak, stripe |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction | Synonyms: legal community, legal profession |
| (noun) a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore | - |
| (noun) (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter | - |
| baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| barb | (noun) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather | - |
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| (noun) a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove | - |
| (noun) the pointed part of barbed wire | - |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
| barbacan | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbican |
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| barbarian | (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
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| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
| barbarisation | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarization |
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| barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
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| barbarity | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, brutality, savagery |
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| (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness |
| barbarization | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarisation |
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| barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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| barbasco | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: Jacquinia keyensis, joewood |
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| barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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| (noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
| barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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| barbel | (noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: feeler |
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| barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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| barbeque | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbecue |
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| (noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbecue |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbecue |
| barber | (noun) a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade | - |
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| barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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| barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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| barbet | (noun) small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings | - |
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| barbette | (noun) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet | - |
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| barbican | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbacan |
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| barbital | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| barbitone | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| barbu | (noun) found along western Atlantic coast | Synonyms: Polydactylus virginicus |
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| barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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| barcarole | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarolle |
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| barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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| bard | (noun) an ornamental caparison for a horse | - |
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| (noun) a lyric poet | - |
| bardolatry | (noun) the idolization of William Shakespeare | - |
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| bareboat | (noun) a vessel (such as a yacht) that can be chartered without a captain or crew or provisions | - |
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| bareboating | (noun) boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions | - |
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| bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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| (noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
| barf | (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: puke, vomit, vomitus |
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| bargain | (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: deal |
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| (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: buy, steal |
| bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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| (noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
| bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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| barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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| bargee | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargeman, lighterman |
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| bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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| bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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| barilla | (noun) Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate | Synonyms: Halogeton souda |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| baring | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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