| britches | (noun) (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
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| broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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| brochette | (noun) a small spit or skewer | - |
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| brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
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| brothel | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
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| (noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
| (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
| (noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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| (noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
| bufflehead | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
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| bulkhead | (noun) a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments | - |
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| bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
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| bullhead | (noun) freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines | - |
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| (noun) any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | Synonyms: bullhead catfish |
| bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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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 |
| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| cache | (noun) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics | Synonyms: memory cache |
| (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: hoard, stash |
| cachet | (noun) a seal on a letter | - |
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| (noun) an indication of approved or superior status | Synonyms: seal, seal of approval |
| (noun) a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal | Synonyms: lettre de cachet |
| cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
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| cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
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| cacoethes | (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: mania, passion |
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| calanthe | (noun) any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise | - |
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| caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |
| caliche | (noun) nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru | - |
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| (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: hardpan |
| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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| callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
| caroche | (noun) a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century | - |
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| carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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| cartographer | (noun) a person who makes maps | Synonyms: map maker |
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| cartouche | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouch |
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| cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
| cashew | (noun) kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted | Synonyms: cashew nut |
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| (noun) tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted | Synonyms: Anacardium occidentale, cashew tree |
| catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
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| catastrophe | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, disaster, tragedy |
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| (noun) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Synonyms: cataclysm |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: disaster |
| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| catechesis | (noun) oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation) | - |
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| cathedra | (noun) a throne that is the official chair of a bishop | Synonyms: bishop's throne |
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| cathedral | (noun) any large and important church | - |
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| (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: duomo |
| catheter | (noun) a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open | - |
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| catheterisation | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterization |
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| catheterization | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterisation |
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| cathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: charge |
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| cephalhematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalohematoma |
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| cephalohematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalhematoma |
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| cheapjack | (noun) a peddler of inferior goods | - |
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| cheapness | (noun) a price below the standard price | Synonyms: bargain rate, cut price, cut rate |
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| (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: sleaze, tackiness, tat |
| cheapskate | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: tightwad |
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| cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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| (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
| (noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
| cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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| cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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| cheating | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheat |
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| chebab | (noun) a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis | - |
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| check | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, curb |
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| (noun) obstructing an opponent in ice hockey | - |
| (noun) (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king | - |
| (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, checkout |
| (noun) a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard) | - |
| (noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: chip |
| (noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: assay |
| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: confirmation, substantiation, verification |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: chit, tab |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check mark, tick |
| (noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, cheque |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| checkbook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: chequebook |
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| checker | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (noun) one who checks the correctness of something | - |
| (noun) an attendant who checks coats or baggage | - |
| checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
| checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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| checkerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, chequerboard |
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| checkers | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: draughts |
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| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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| checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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| (noun) complete victory | - |
| checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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| (noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
| (noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
| checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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| checkrein | (noun) a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position | Synonyms: bearing rein |
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| checkroom | (noun) a room where baggage or parcels are checked | Synonyms: left-luggage office |
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| checksum | (noun) a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage | - |
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| checkup | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: health check, medical, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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| cheddar | (noun) hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England | Synonyms: American cheese, Armerican cheddar, cheddar cheese |
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| cheek | (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve |
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| (noun) either side of the face below the eyes | - |
| (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: buttock |
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: impertinence, impudence |
| cheekbone | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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| cheekiness | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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| cheep | (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: peep |
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| cheer | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a cry or shout of approval | - |
| cheerer | (noun) a spectator who shouts encouragement | - |
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| cheerfulness | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: blitheness |
| cheering | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
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| cheerio | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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| (noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
| cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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| cheese | (noun) a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk | - |
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| (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheeseflower, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
| cheeseboard | (noun) tray on which cheeses are served | Synonyms: cheese tray |
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| cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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| cheesecake | (noun) a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire | - |
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| (noun) made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust | - |
| cheesecloth | (noun) a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | - |
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| cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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| cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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| cheesing | (noun) To play a game or sport in a manner that is effective but requires little skill | - |
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| cheetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, chetah |
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| cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chef | (noun) a professional cook | - |
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| cheilitis | (noun) inflammation and cracking of the skin of the lips | - |
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| cheiloschisis | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cleft lip, harelip |
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| cheiloscopy | (noun) a forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lip traces. | - |
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