bopeep | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: peekaboo |
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borage | (noun) an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked | - |
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(noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort |
borate | (noun) a salt or ester of boric acid | - |
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borax | (noun) an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent | - |
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bordelaise | (noun) brown sauce with beef marrow and red wine | - |
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bordello | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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border | (noun) a strip forming the outer edge of something | - |
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(noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: molding, moulding |
(noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: borderline, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
(noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: edge |
(noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: margin, perimeter |
borderer | (noun) an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England) | - |
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borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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borderline | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
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bore | (noun) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes | Synonyms: bore-hole, drill hole |
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(noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: caliber, calibre, gauge |
(noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
(noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: dullard |
boreas | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: north wind, norther, northerly |
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borecole | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail, kale |
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boredom | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: ennui, tedium |
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borer | (noun) any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood | Synonyms: woodborer |
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(noun) a drill for penetrating rock | Synonyms: bore bit, rock drill, stone drill |
boring | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: drilling, oil production |
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(noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: drilling |
boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
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bornite | (noun) a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits | Synonyms: peacock ore |
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boron | (noun) a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder | Synonyms: atomic number 5, B |
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borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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(noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
borrelia | (noun) cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever | - |
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borrower | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | - |
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borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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(noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
borsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borscht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borsh | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borshch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borsht, bortsch |
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borsht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, bortsch |
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borstal | (noun) formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison | - |
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bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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borzoi | (noun) tall fast-moving dog breed | Synonyms: Russian wolfhound |
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bosc | (noun) greenish-yellow pear | - |
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bosh | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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bosie | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un |
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bosk | (noun) a small wooded area | - |
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bosom | (noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: embrace |
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(noun) cloth that covers the chest or breasts | - |
(noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, breast, knocker, tit, titty |
(noun) a person's breast or chest | - |
(noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: heart |
(noun) the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept | - |
boson | (noun) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons | - |
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boss | (noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: knob |
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(noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: hirer |
(noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: chief, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
(noun) a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments | Synonyms: party boss, political boss |
(noun) a person who exercises control and makes decisions | - |
bossism | (noun) domination of a political organization by a party boss | - |
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bosun | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, boatswain, bos'n |
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bot | (noun) botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human | - |
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bota | (noun) a wine bottle made of leather | - |
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botanical | (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
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botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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botany | (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants | Synonyms: phytology |
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(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: flora, vegetation |
botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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botfly | (noun) stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals | - |
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bother | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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(noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble |
botheration | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
bottle | (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | - |
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(noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children | Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle |
(noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottleful |
bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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bottleful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottle |
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bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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(noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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(noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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bottom | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: freighter, merchant ship, merchantman |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: underside, undersurface |
(noun) the lowest part of anything | - |
(noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bed |
(noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottomland |
(noun) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat | Synonyms: bottom of the inning |
bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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botulin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulinus toxin, botulismotoxin |
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botulinum | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinus, Clostridium botulinum |
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botulinus | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinum, Clostridium botulinum |
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botulism | (noun) food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious; affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly | - |
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botulismotoxin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulin, botulinus toxin |
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bouchee | (noun) shell of puff paste | Synonyms: patty shell |
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boucle | (noun) a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect | - |
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boudoir | (noun) a lady's bedroom or private sitting room | - |
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bouffant | (noun) a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance | - |
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bouffe | (noun) opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken | Synonyms: comic opera, opera bouffe, opera comique |
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bougainvillea | (noun) any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions | - |
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bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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boule | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boulle, buhl |
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boulevard | (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: avenue |
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boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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boulle | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, buhl |
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bounce | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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(noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounciness |
(noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bouncing |
bouncer | (noun) a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting | Synonyms: chucker-out |
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bounciness | (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounce |
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bouncing | (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
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bound | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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(noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: boundary, limit |
(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: boundary, bounds |
(noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: boundary, edge |
boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
(noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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(noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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bounds | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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bounteousness | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounty |
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bountifulness | (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bounty |
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bounty | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounteousness |
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(noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bountifulness |
(noun) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | Synonyms: premium |
bouquet | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: corsage, nosegay, posy |
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(noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
bourbon | (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels | - |
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bourdon | (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: drone, drone pipe |
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bourgeois | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
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(noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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(noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |