bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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bloomer | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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(noun) a flower that blooms in a particular way | - |
bloomers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: drawers, knickers, pants |
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blooper | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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blotter | (noun) the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station | Synonyms: charge sheet, day book, police blotter, rap sheet |
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(noun) absorbent paper used to dry ink | Synonyms: blotting paper |
blower | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal |
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(noun) a device that produces a current of air | - |
(noun) a fan run by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric fan |
blubber | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, fat, fatness |
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(noun) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil | - |
blubberer | (noun) someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs | - |
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blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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(noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
bluffer | (noun) a person who tries to bluff other people | Synonyms: four-flusher |
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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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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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boarder | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: lodger, roomer |
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(noun) a pupil who lives at school during term time | - |
(noun) someone who forces their way aboard ship | - |
boaster | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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boater | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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(noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boatman, waterman |
bobber | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobfloat, cork |
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bobbysoxer | (noun) an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | Synonyms: bobby-socker |
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bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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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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boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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(noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
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 | - |
bolometer | (noun) an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive | - |
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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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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 | - |
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 | - |
bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
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booger | (noun) dried nasal mucus | - |
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(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
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bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
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(noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
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bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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boomer | (noun) a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s | Synonyms: baby boomer |
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boomerang | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: backfire |
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(noun) a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower | Synonyms: throw stick, throwing stick |
booster | (noun) an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective | Synonyms: booster dose, booster shot, recall dose |
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(noun) the first stage of a multistage rocket | Synonyms: booster rocket, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket |
(noun) an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: booster amplifier, booster station, relay link, relay station, relay transmitter |
(noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: lifter, shoplifter |
(noun) someone who is an active supporter and advocate | Synonyms: plugger, promoter |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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bootlicker | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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bootmaker | (noun) a maker of boots | Synonyms: boot maker |
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boozer | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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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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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 |
borrower | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | - |
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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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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 |
bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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bouncer | (noun) a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting | Synonyms: chucker-out |
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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 |
boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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bower | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, pergola |
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bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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bowler | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat |
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(noun) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins | - |
(noun) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket | - |
boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
boxer | (noun) a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany | - |
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(noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: pugilist |
(noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, packer |
boxers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxershorts, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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(noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
bracer | (noun) a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
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(noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: armguard |
bracero | (noun) a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II | - |
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bragger | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, vaunter |
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brainpower | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
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brainworker | (noun) someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems | Synonyms: brain-worker |
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brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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breaker | (noun) a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded | Synonyms: circuit breaker |
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(noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breakers, surf |
(noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: ledgeman |
breakers | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, surf |
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breakwater | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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