badgerer | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: heckler |
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badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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badinage | (noun) frivolous banter | - |
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bag | (noun) an activity that you like or at which you are superior | Synonyms: cup of tea, dish |
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(noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: udder |
(noun) a flexible container with a single opening | - |
(noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: grip, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
(noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: handbag, pocketbook, purse |
(noun) a place that the runner must touch before scoring | Synonyms: base |
(noun) an ugly or ill-tempered woman | Synonyms: old bag |
(noun) the quantity that a bag will hold | Synonyms: bagful |
(noun) the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person) | - |
bagascosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagassosis |
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bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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bagassosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagascosis |
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bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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(noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
(noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
bagel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: beigel |
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bagful | (noun) the quantity that a bag will hold | Synonyms: bag |
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baggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: luggage |
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(noun) the portable equipment and supplies of an army | - |
(noun) a worthless or immoral woman | - |
baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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bagger | (noun) a machine for putting objects or substances into bags | - |
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(noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: boxer, packer |
bagging | (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: sacking |
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bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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(noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
bagnio | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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(noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bathhouse |
bagpipe | (noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | - |
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bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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baiting | (noun) harassment especially of a tethered animal | - |
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baking | (noun) cooking by dry heat in an oven | - |
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(noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | - |
balagan | (noun) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) | - |
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balancing | (noun) getting two things to correspond | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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ballgame | (noun) a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) | Synonyms: ball game |
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(noun) a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation | Synonyms: new ballgame |
ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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banding | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, stripe |
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(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, stria, striation |
bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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(noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
bandyleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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bang | (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: hit, smash, smasher, strike |
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(noun) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | Synonyms: fringe |
(noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, blast, clap, eruption |
(noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bash, belt, knock, smash |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
banger | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: cracker, firecracker |
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(noun) (British informal) pork sausage | - |
banging | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: battering |
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(noun) a continuing very loud noise | - |
bangle | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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(noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bracelet |
bangtail | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: race horse, racehorse |
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banking | (noun) transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc. | - |
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(noun) engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc. | - |
banning | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding |
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banqueting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: feasting |
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bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
banteng | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banting, Bos banteng, tsine |
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banting | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, Bos banteng, tsine |
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barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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bareboating | (noun) boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions | - |
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bargain | (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: deal |
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(noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: buy, steal |
bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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(noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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bargee | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargeman, lighterman |
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bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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baring | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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(noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
barong | (noun) a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines | - |
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barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
barring | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: blackball |
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basting | (noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking | - |
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(noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting stitch, tacking |
bathing | (noun) immersing the body in water or sunshine | - |
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(noun) the act of washing yourself (or another person) | Synonyms: washup |
battering | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: banging |
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batting | (noun) (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base | - |
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(noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batten |
battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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batwing | (noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
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bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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beading | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beadwork |
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(noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beadwork |
beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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bearing | (noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
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(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
(noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
(noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
(noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
(noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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bedbug | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius |
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bedding | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedclothes |
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(noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding material, litter |
bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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bedspring | (noun) (usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed | - |
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beefburger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: burger, hamburger |
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beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
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befooling | (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: stultification |
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begetter | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: father, male parent |
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beggar | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: mendicant |
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beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
begging | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
beginning | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
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(noun) the first part or section of something | - |
(noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
begonia | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes | - |
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beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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(noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |