| basic | (noun) (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant | Synonyms: staple |
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| basics | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, bedrock, fundamental principle, fundamentals |
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| (noun) a statement of fundamental facts or principles | Synonyms: rudiments |
| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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| basilica | (noun) a Roman building used for public administration | Synonyms: Roman basilica |
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| (noun) an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges | - |
| beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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| (noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
| (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
| beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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| beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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| bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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| benedick | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedict |
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| benedict | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedick |
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| benedictine | (noun) a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks | - |
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| benediction | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
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| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
| benefice | (noun) an endowed church office giving income to its holder | Synonyms: ecclesiastical benefice |
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| beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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| (noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| beneficiary | (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
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| (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
| beneficiation | (noun) crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques | Synonyms: mineral dressing, mineral extraction, mineral processing, ore dressing, ore processing |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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| bibliotics | (noun) the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity | - |
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| bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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| bicentenary | (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| bicentennial | (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| biceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm) | - |
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| bichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: dichloride |
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| bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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| bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bicorn | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorne |
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| bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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| bicuspid | (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: premolar |
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| bicycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bike, cycle, wheel |
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| bicycler | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicyclist, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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| bicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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| biodynamics | (noun) the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms. | - |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| bioethics | (noun) the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences | - |
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| biomedicine | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the ability of organisms to withstand environmental stress (as in space travel) | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice | - |
| biometrics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometry, biostatistics |
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| bionics | (noun) application of biological principles to the study and design of engineering systems (especially electronic systems) | - |
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| bionomics | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment | Synonyms: ecology, environmental science |
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| biophysicist | (noun) a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology | - |
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| biophysics | (noun) physics as applied to biological problems | - |
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| biostatistics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biometry |
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| biosystematics | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematy |
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| biquadratic | (noun) a polynomial of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic polynomial, quartic polynomial |
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| (noun) an equation of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic equation |
| (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadrate, fourth power, quartic |
| bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
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| bitumastic | (noun) a protective coating of asphalt and filter used on structural metals that are exposed to weathering | - |
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| bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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| bodice | (noun) part of a dress above the waist | - |
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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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| borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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| botanical | (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
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| brachycephalic | (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
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| brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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| breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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| brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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| (noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
| brickbat | (noun) blunt criticism | - |
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| (noun) a fragment of brick used as a weapon | - |
| brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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| brickkiln | (noun) a kiln for making bricks | - |
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| bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
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| bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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| brickwork | (noun) masonry done with bricks and mortar | - |
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| brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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| bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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| bricole | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: mangonel, traction trebuchet |
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| broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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| bucolic | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: eclogue, idyl, idyll |
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| (noun) a country person | Synonyms: peasant, provincial |
| bulimic | (noun) a person suffering from bulimia | - |
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| cacogenics | (noun) the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced | Synonyms: dysgenics |
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| calcification | (noun) a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) | - |
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| (noun) tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts | - |
| (noun) an inflexible and unchanging state | - |
| 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 |
| calico | (noun) coarse cloth with a bright print | - |
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| caliculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: calycle, calyculus |
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| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
| cambric | (noun) a finely woven white linen | - |
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| canaliculus | (noun) a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants | - |
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| candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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| candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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| (noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
| canicule | (noun) the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity | Synonyms: canicular days, dog days |
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| canticle | (noun) a hymn derived from the Bible | - |
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| capriccio | (noun) an instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation | - |
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| caprice | (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: impulse, whim |
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| capriciousness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| (noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: unpredictability |
| capsaicin | (noun) colorless pungent crystalline compound derived from capsicum; source of the hotness of hot peppers of the genus Capsicum such as chili and cayenne and jalapeno | - |
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| capsicum | (noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | Synonyms: capsicum pepper plant, pepper |
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| caricature | (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: imitation, impersonation |
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| caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| catacaustic | (noun) a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface. | - |
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| catalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
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| cataleptic | (noun) a person suffering from catalepsy | - |
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| cathartic | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, physic, purgative |
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| catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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| catholicon | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: cure-all, nostrum, panacea |
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| catoptrics | (noun) branch of optics dealing with formation of images by mirrors | - |
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| caustic | (noun) the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object | - |
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| (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | - |
| cellulosic | (noun) a plastic made from cellulose (or a derivative of cellulose) | - |
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