| blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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| bluff | (noun) the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards | Synonyms: four flush |
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| (noun) pretense that your position is stronger than it really is | - |
| (noun) a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion) | - |
| bluffer | (noun) a person who tries to bluff other people | Synonyms: four-flusher |
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| bluffness | (noun) good-natured frankness | - |
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| bluing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: blueing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, blueing |
| bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
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| blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
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| blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bluntness | (noun) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point | Synonyms: dullness |
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| (noun) the quality of being direct and outspoken | - |
| blur | (noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: fuzz |
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| blurb | (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement |
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| blurriness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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| blush | (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: flush |
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| (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blusher, paint, rouge |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, flush, rosiness |
| blusher | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, paint, rouge |
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| (noun) yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | Synonyms: Amanita rubescens, blushing mushroom |
| bluster | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bravado |
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| (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: braggadocio, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
| (noun) a violent gusty wind | - |
| (noun) noisy confusion and turbulence | - |
| blusterer | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: loudmouth |
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| bobble | (noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball | - |
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| bomblet | (noun) one of the smaller bombs that are released from a cluster bomb | Synonyms: cluster bomblet |
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| bootblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: shoeblack |
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| bramble | (noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | - |
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| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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| breakable | (noun) an article that is fragile and easily broken | - |
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| breakableness | (noun) the consistency of something that breaks under pressure | - |
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| breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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| bubble | (noun) a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic | - |
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| (noun) an impracticable and illusory idea | - |
| (noun) a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control | Synonyms: house of cards |
| (noun) a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) | - |
| bubblejet | (noun) a kind of ink-jet printer | Synonyms: bubble-jet printer, bubble jet printer |
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| bubbler | (noun) a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water | Synonyms: drinking fountain, water fountain |
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| (noun) any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid | - |
| bubbliness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: effervescence, frothiness |
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| bubbly | (noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: champagne |
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| bulblet | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulbil |
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| bumblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: humblebee |
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| bumbler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| cable | (noun) a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire | - |
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| (noun) a television system that transmits over cables | Synonyms: cable system, cable television, cable television service |
| (noun) a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power | Synonyms: line, transmission line |
| (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cablegram, overseas telegram |
| (noun) television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver | Synonyms: cable television |
| (noun) a nautical unit of depth | Synonyms: cable's length, cable length |
| cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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| caipiblack | (noun) a variation of the Caipirinha made with black vodka instead of cachaça. | - |
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| capableness | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capability |
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| (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capability, potentiality |
| cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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| changeableness | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeability |
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| charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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| chasuble | (noun) a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass | - |
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| checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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| chilblain | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblains, pernio |
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| chilblains | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, pernio |
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| chromoblastomycosis | (noun) a fungal infection characterized by itchy warty nodules on the skin | - |
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| cobble | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobblestone, sett |
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| cobbler | (noun) a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit | Synonyms: deep-dish pie |
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| (noun) tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit | - |
| (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: shoemaker |
| cobblers | (noun) a man's testicles | - |
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| (noun) nonsense | - |
| cobblestone | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, sett |
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| cobbling | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: shoe repairing, shoemaking |
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| collectable | (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectible |
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| collectible | (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
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| collywobbles | (noun) severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea | Synonyms: cholera morbus |
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| combustible | (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
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| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| comestible | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
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| comfortableness | (noun) a feeling of being at ease in a relationship | - |
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| (noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfort |
| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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| constable | (noun) a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff | - |
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| (noun) a police officer of the lowest rank | Synonyms: police constable |
| convertible | (noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
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| (noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
| (noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |
| counterblast | (noun) a vigorous and unrestrained response | - |
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| counterblow | (noun) a return blow; a retaliatory blow | - |
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| credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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| crucible | (noun) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions | Synonyms: melting pot |
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| crumbliness | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: friability |
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| culpableness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpability |
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| curableness | (noun) capability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: curability |
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| dabbler | (noun) any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling | Synonyms: dabbling duck |
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| (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dilettante, sciolist |
| deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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| decasyllable | (noun) a verse line having ten syllables | - |
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| deductible | (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
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| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| deliverable | (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
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| dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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| desirableness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of desiring | Synonyms: desirability |
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| (noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirability, oomph, sex appeal |
| despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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| diablotin | (noun) a thin round slice of bread usually served with soup, especially consomme. | - |
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| dibble | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibber |
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| digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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| dirigible | (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: airship |
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| disabled | (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: handicapped |
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| disablement | (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, handicap, impairment |
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| disagreeableness | (noun) an ill-tempered and offensive disposition | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| disestablishment | (noun) the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England | - |
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| dishonorableness | (noun) the quality of not deserving honor or respect | Synonyms: dishonourableness |
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| dishonourableness | (noun) the quality of not deserving honor or respect | Synonyms: dishonorableness |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| disposable | (noun) an item that can be disposed of after it has been used | - |
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| disreputableness | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputability, unrespectability |
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| dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| dissyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: disyllable |
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| disyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: dissyllable |
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| double | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base | Synonyms: two-bagger, two-base hit, two-baser |
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| (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: doubling |
| (noun) a quantity that is twice as great as another | - |
| (noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: image, look-alike |
| (noun) a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts | - |
| doubleheader | (noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | Synonyms: double feature, twin bill |
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| doubler | (noun) an electronic device that doubles the voltage or the frequency of an input signal | - |
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| doubles | (noun) tennis played with two players on each side | - |
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| (noun) badminton played with two players on each side | - |
| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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