| blancmange | (noun) sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded | - |
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| blaring | (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, cacophony, clamor, din |
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| blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
| blazing | (noun) a strong flame that burns brightly | Synonyms: blaze |
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| bleeding | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: haemorrhage, hemorrhage |
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| blending | (noun) a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | Synonyms: shading |
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| (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blend |
| blessing | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
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| (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, approving |
| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
| (noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: grace, thanksgiving |
| (noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: boon |
| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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| blinking | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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| blistering | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
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| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| blockage | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: closure, occlusion |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: obstruction |
| blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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| blog | (noun) a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies | Synonyms: web log |
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| blogger | (noun) a person who keeps and updates a blog | - |
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| bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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| bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
| blooming | (noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: bloom |
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| blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| blowbang | (noun) A sexual activity where fellatio is performed on multiple men | - |
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| blowgun | (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe, blowtube |
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| blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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| bludgeon | (noun) a club used as a weapon | - |
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| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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| bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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| (noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
| blueing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: bluing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, bluing |
| bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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| bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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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 |
| boarding | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: embarkation, embarkment |
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| (noun) a structure of boards | - |
| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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| boating | (noun) water travel for pleasure | Synonyms: yachting |
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| 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 |
| bodega | (noun) a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries | - |
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| boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| 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 | - |
| 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) | - |
| bong | (noun) a dull resonant sound as of a bell | - |
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| bongo | (noun) large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns | Synonyms: Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus |
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| (noun) a small drum; played with the hands | Synonyms: bongo drum |
| booger | (noun) dried nasal mucus | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
| boogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| boogie | (noun) an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) | Synonyms: boogie-woogie |
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| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
| bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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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 |
| boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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| bootleg | (noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
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| (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
| bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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| bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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| (noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
| booyong | (noun) large tree of Australasia | Synonyms: brown oak, crow's foot, Heritiera trifoliolata, red beech, silky elm, stave wood, Terrietia trifoliolata |
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| boozing | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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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 |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| 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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| bouncing | (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
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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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| bowing | (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| bowleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| bowstring | (noun) the string of an archer's bow | - |
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| boxing | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, pugilism |
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| (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: packing |
| bracing | (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: brace |
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| brag | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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| braggart | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bragger | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bragging | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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