| 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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| birchbark | (noun) a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree | Synonyms: birch bark, birchbark canoe |
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| bombard | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombardon |
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| bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
| bombardment | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, shelling |
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| (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombing |
| (noun) the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) | - |
| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, onslaught, outpouring |
| bombardon | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombard |
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| (noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: helicon |
| busbar | (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: bus |
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| cabaret | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: floor show, floorshow |
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| (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: club, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
| capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| capybara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capibara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| cinnabar | (noun) large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort | Synonyms: Callimorpha jacobeae, cinnabar moth |
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| (noun) a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury | - |
| columbarium | (noun) a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns | - |
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| (noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: cinerarium |
| (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbary, dovecote |
| columbary | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, dovecote |
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| counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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| courbaril | (noun) West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | Synonyms: Hymenaea courbaril |
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| cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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| crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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| crossbar | (noun) long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over | - |
| (noun) a horizontal bar that goes across something | - |
| crowbar | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | Synonyms: pry, pry bar, wrecking bar |
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| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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| (noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
| disbarment | (noun) the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law | - |
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| disembarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkment |
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| disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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| disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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| drawbar | (noun) a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled | - |
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| durbar | (noun) the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur | - |
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| embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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| embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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| embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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| embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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| (noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
| (noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
| (noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
| gabardine | (noun) a firm durable fabric with a twill weave | - |
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| (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gaberdine, smock |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, tweed, white |
| handbarrow | (noun) a rectangular frame with handles at both ends; carried by two people | - |
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| handlebar | (noun) the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | - |
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| herbarium | (noun) a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study | - |
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| isobar | (noun) (meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time | - |
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| lacebark | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, ribbonwood |
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| liquidambar | (noun) any tree of the genus Liquidambar | - |
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| (noun) aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree | Synonyms: sweet gum |
| mephobarbital | (noun) a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy | Synonyms: Mebaral |
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| microbar | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, barye |
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| millibar | (noun) a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar | - |
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| minibar | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: cellaret |
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| neobaroque | (noun) art or architecture based on study of 17th century baroque. | Synonyms: neo-baroque |
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| pentobarbital | (noun) a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic | Synonyms: Nembutal, pentobarbital sodium, yellow jacket |
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| phenobarbital | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbitone, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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| phenobarbitone | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbital, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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| rhubarb | (noun) long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened | Synonyms: pieplant |
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| (noun) plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous | Synonyms: rhubarb plant |
| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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| sandbar | (noun) a bar of sand | Synonyms: sand bar |
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| scabbard | (noun) a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet | - |
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| secobarbital | (noun) barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions | Synonyms: red devil, secobarbital sodium, Seconal |
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| shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| sidebar | (noun) (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing | - |
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| (noun) a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
| smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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| spinnbarkeit | (noun) the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble | - |
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| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| sybarite | (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: voluptuary |
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| syllabary | (noun) a writing system whose characters represent syllables | Synonyms: syllabic script |
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| tabard | (noun) a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald | - |
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| tanbark | (noun) bark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering | - |
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| tollbar | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollgate |
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| wheelbarrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart |
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