| bobbysock | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysocks |
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| bobbysocks | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysock |
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| bobbysoxer | (noun) an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | Synonyms: bobby-socker |
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| bobcat | (noun) small lynx of North America | Synonyms: bay lynx, Lynx rufus |
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| bobfloat | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobber, cork |
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| bobolink | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird |
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| bobsled | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsleigh |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsleigh |
| bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bobtail | (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, dock |
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| (noun) large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain | Synonyms: Old English sheepdog |
| bobwhite | (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite quail, partridge |
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| bocce | (noun) Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | Synonyms: bocci, boccie |
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| bocci | (noun) Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | Synonyms: bocce, boccie |
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| boccie | (noun) Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | Synonyms: bocce, bocci |
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| bocconia | (noun) small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers | Synonyms: Bocconia frutescens, tree celandine |
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| (noun) herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers | Synonyms: Macleaya cordata, plume poppy |
| bock | (noun) a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring | Synonyms: bock beer |
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| bod | (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
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| bodega | (noun) a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries | - |
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| bodice | (noun) part of a dress above the waist | - |
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| boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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| bodkin | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: threader |
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| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric | - |
| (noun) formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head | - |
| (noun) a dagger with a slender blade | Synonyms: poniard |
| body | (noun) the external structure of a vehicle | - |
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| (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: soundbox |
| (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: consistence, consistency, substance |
| (noun) the main mass of a thing | - |
| (noun) the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) | Synonyms: organic structure |
| (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: torso, trunk |
| (noun) a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person | Synonyms: dead body |
| (noun) the central message of a communication | - |
| (noun) a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity | - |
| (noun) a collection of particulars considered as a system | - |
| (noun) an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects | - |
| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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| bodyguard | (noun) a group of men who escort and protect some important person | - |
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| (noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: escort |
| bodywork | (noun) the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies | - |
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| (noun) the exterior body of a motor vehicle | - |
| boeuf | (noun) meat from an adult domestic bovine | Synonyms: beef |
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| boffin | (noun) (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research | - |
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| bog | (noun) wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel | Synonyms: peat bog |
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| bogbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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| bogey | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
| (noun) (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole | - |
| bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| bogginess | (noun) The state or quality of being too wet and muddy to be easily walked on. | - |
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| bogie | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
| bogmat | (noun) having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America | Synonyms: mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata |
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| bogy | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogie |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogie |
| bohemia | (noun) a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style | - |
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| bohemian | (noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life | - |
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| bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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| bohrium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 107 | Synonyms: atomic number 107, Bh, element 107 |
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| boil | (noun) the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level | Synonyms: boiling point |
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| (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | Synonyms: furuncle |
| boiler | (noun) sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | Synonyms: steam boiler |
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| (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: kettle |
| boilerplate | (noun) thick plate iron used in the production of boilers | - |
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| (noun) standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories | - |
| boilersuit | (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, overall |
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| boiling | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: simmering, stewing |
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| (noun) the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas | - |
| boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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| (noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
| bola | (noun) a rope with weights attached to the ends; is thrown to entangle the legs of an animal; of South American origin | - |
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| (noun) a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie | Synonyms: bola tie, bolo, bolo tie |
| bold | (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold face, boldface |
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| boldface | (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold, bold face |
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| boldness | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: daring, hardihood, hardiness |
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| (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: strikingness |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: brass, cheek, face, nerve |
| bole | (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber | Synonyms: tree trunk, trunk |
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| (noun) a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) | - |
| bolero | (noun) a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets | - |
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| (noun) a short jacket; worn mostly by women | - |
| (noun) music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance | - |
| bolete | (noun) any fungus of the family Boletaceae | - |
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| bolide | (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: fireball |
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| bolivar | (noun) the basic unit of money in Venezuela; equal to 100 centimos | - |
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| bolivia | (noun) a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded | - |
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| boliviano | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| boll | (noun) the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant | - |
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| bollard | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bitt |
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| bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
| bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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| bolo | (noun) long heavy knife with a single edge; of Philippine origin | Synonyms: bolo knife |
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| (noun) a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie | Synonyms: bola, bola tie, bolo tie |
| bologna | (noun) large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork | Synonyms: Bologna sausage |
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| bologram | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bolograph |
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| bolograph | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bologram |
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| bolometer | (noun) an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive | - |
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| boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bolshie | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshy, Marxist, red |
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| bolshy | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshie, Marxist, red |
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| bolster | (noun) a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows | Synonyms: long pillow |
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| bolt | (noun) a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | - |
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| (noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: dash |
| (noun) a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener | - |
| (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: deadbolt |
| (noun) a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech | - |
| (noun) a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length | - |
| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt of lightning, thunderbolt |
| bolti | (noun) important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor | Synonyms: Tilapia nilotica |
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| bolus | (noun) a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine | - |
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| (noun) a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) | - |
| bomb | (noun) an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions | - |
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| (noun) strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion | Synonyms: bomb calorimeter |
| (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: dud, turkey |
| 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 |
| bombast | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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| bombazine | (noun) a twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted | - |
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| bomber | (noun) a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight | - |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a person who plants bombs | - |
| bombie | (noun) an unexploded bomblet | - |
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| bombilation | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombination, buzz |
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| bombination | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, buzz |
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| bombing | (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombardment |
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| (noun) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists | - |
| bomblet | (noun) one of the smaller bombs that are released from a cluster bomb | Synonyms: cluster bomblet |
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| bombproof | (noun) a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids | Synonyms: air-raid shelter, bomb shelter |
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| bombshell | (noun) an explosive bomb or artillery shell | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: thunderbolt, thunderclap |
| (noun) an entertainer who has a sensational effect | - |
| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| bombycid | (noun) moderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk | Synonyms: bombycid moth, silkworm moth |
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| bonanza | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| (noun) an especially rich vein of precious ore | - |
| bonavist | (noun) perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | Synonyms: Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus |
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| bonbon | (noun) a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate | - |
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| bonce | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, dome, noggin, noodle |
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| bond | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: hamper, shackle, trammel |
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| (noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: attachment |
| (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness |
| (noun) an electrical force linking atoms | Synonyms: chemical bond |
| (noun) a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal | Synonyms: bond certificate |
| (noun) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | Synonyms: bail, bail bond |
| (noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: alliance |
| (noun) a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents | Synonyms: bond paper |
| bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| bonding | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: soldering |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel | - |
| (noun) a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child) | - |
| bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
| bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |