brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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branching | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
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branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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breakage | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breaking |
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(noun) reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use | - |
(noun) the quantity broken | - |
breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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(noun) making an important discovery | - |
(noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
breathing | (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
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breeding | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
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(noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
(noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
(noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
(noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
bregma | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium | - |
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brewage | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brew |
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brewing | (noun) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast | - |
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bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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bridegroom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: groom |
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(noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: groom |
bridge | (noun) any of various card games based on whist for four players | - |
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(noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | Synonyms: span |
(noun) an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands | Synonyms: bridge deck |
(noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
(noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridgework |
(noun) a wooden support that holds the strings up | - |
(noun) a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected | Synonyms: bridge circuit |
(noun) the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose | - |
(noun) something resembling a bridge in form or function | - |
bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
bridgework | (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridge |
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briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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brig | (noun) a penal institution (especially on board a ship) | - |
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(noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts | - |
brigade | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, typically consisting of a small number of battalions | - |
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brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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brigantine | (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast | Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig |
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brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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(noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
(noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
bringing | (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: delivery |
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brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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(noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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(noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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(noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
(noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
brogan | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogue, clodhopper, work shoe |
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brogue | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, clodhopper, work shoe |
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broiling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, grilling |
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brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
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(noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
(noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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brooding | (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
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(noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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(noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
browning | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: toasting |
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browsing | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browse |
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(noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browse |
brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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(noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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budding | (noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent | - |
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budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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budget | (noun) a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose | - |
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(noun) a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them | - |
budgie | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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buffeting | (noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: pounding |
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bug | (noun) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | Synonyms: hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect |
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(noun) general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate | - |
(noun) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | Synonyms: germ, microbe |
(noun) a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly | - |
(noun) a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine | Synonyms: glitch |
bugaboo | (noun) a source of concern | - |
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(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugbear |
bugbane | (noun) a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects | - |
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(noun) North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally | Synonyms: American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride, white hellebore |
bugbear | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: hobgoblin |
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(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugaboo |
bugger | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: sod, sodomist, sodomite |
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buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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bugginess | (noun) the state of having bugs | - |
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buggy | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: roadster |
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bugle | (noun) a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares | - |
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(noun) a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration | - |
(noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugleweed |
bugler | (noun) someone who plays a bugle | - |
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bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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(noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
bugloss | (noun) perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers | Synonyms: alkanet, Anchusa officinalis |
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(noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
bugologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, entomologist |
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bugology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies insects | Synonyms: entomology |
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building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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(noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
(noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
(noun) the occupants of a building | - |
bulge | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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bulghur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulgur, bulgur wheat |
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bulginess | (noun) the property possessed by a rounded convexity | Synonyms: roundedness |
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bulgur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulghur, bulgur wheat |
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bulldog | (noun) a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting | Synonyms: English bulldog |
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bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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bullfrog | (noun) largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice | Synonyms: Rana catesbeiana |
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bullring | (noun) a stadium where bullfights take place | - |
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bullying | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: intimidation |
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bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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bundling | (noun) the act of binding something into a bundle | - |
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(noun) the act of shoving hastily | - |
(noun) a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing | - |
bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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bung | (noun) a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | Synonyms: spile |
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bungalow | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: cottage |
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bungee | (noun) an elasticized rope | Synonyms: bungee cord |
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bunghole | (noun) a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it | - |
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(noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, asshole |
bungle | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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bunting | (noun) any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America | - |
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(noun) a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. | - |
burg | (noun) colloquial American term for a town | - |
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burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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burgess | (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgher |
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burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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(noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
burglar | (noun) a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | - |
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burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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burgoo | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: oatmeal |
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(noun) thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States | - |
(noun) a gathering at which burgoo stew is served | - |
burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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(noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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burning | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
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(noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
(noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
(noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
(noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
(noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
burping | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, eructation |
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burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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burying | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burial |
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