| babygram | (noun) an X-ray of the entire body of an infant. | - |
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| babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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| backgammon | (noun) a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice | - |
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| backroom | (noun) the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations | - |
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| backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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| backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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| bacteremia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteriaemia, bacteriemia |
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| bacteriaemia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteremia, bacteriemia |
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| bacteriemia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteremia, bacteriaemia |
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| bacterium | (noun) (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants | Synonyms: bacteria |
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| badminton | (noun) a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net | - |
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| bafflement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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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 |
| bailment | (noun) the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee | - |
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| balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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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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| ballottement | (noun) a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus) | - |
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| ballroom | (noun) large room used mainly for dancing | Synonyms: dance hall, dance palace |
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| balm | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: ointment, salve, unction, unguent |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing | - |
| balminess | (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: softness |
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| balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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| balsam | (noun) an ointment containing a fragrant resin | - |
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| (noun) any seed plant yielding balsam | - |
| (noun) any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes | - |
| balsamroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots | - |
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| bam | (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bang, blast, clap, eruption |
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| bambino | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: toddler, tot, yearling |
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| bamboo | (noun) woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture | - |
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| (noun) the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles | - |
| bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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| bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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| banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
| bantam | (noun) any of various small breeds of fowl | - |
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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 | - |
| baptism | (noun) a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth | - |
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| barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
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| bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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| barium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite | Synonyms: atomic number 56, Ba |
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| barm | (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: yeast |
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| barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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| barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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| barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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| barroom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
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| basement | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: cellar |
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| (noun) the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture | - |
| basidiomycete | (noun) any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota | Synonyms: basidiomycetous fungi |
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| basidium | (noun) a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes | - |
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| basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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| bathometer | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathymeter |
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| bathroom | (noun) a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet | - |
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| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: can, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
| bathymeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathometer |
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| bathymetry | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| batman | (noun) an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer | - |
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| batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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| batsman | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batter, hitter, slugger |
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| battlement | (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: crenelation, crenellation |
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| bdellium | (noun) aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh | - |
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| beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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| beadsman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: bedesman |
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| beam | (noun) long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction | - |
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| (noun) a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts | Synonyms: balance beam |
| (noun) the broad side of a ship | - |
| (noun) (nautical) breadth amidships | - |
| (noun) a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather | Synonyms: radio beam |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: electron beam, ray |
| bechamel | (noun) milk thickened with a butter and flour roux | Synonyms: bechamel sauce, white sauce |
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| becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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| bedchamber | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedroom, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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| bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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| bedevilment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, torment, worrying |
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| bedframe | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedstead |
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| bedlam | (noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder | Synonyms: chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness |
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| bedlamite | (noun) an archaic term for a lunatic | - |
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| bedmate | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedfellow |
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| bedroom | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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| bedtime | (noun) the time you go to bed | - |
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| beebalm | (noun) bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves; a garden escapee in northern Europe and North America | Synonyms: bee balm, garden balm, lemon balm, Melissa officinalis, sweet balm |
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| (noun) perennial aromatic herb of eastern North America having variously colored tubular flowers in dense showy heads | Synonyms: bee balm, bergamot mint, Monarda didyma, oswego tea |
| (noun) perennial herb of North America | Synonyms: bee balm, Monarda fistulosa |
| befoulment | (noun) the state of being polluted | Synonyms: defilement, pollution |
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| befuddlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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| beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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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 |
| begum | (noun) a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan | - |
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| behaviorism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behavioristic psychology, behaviourism, behaviouristic psychology |
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| behaviourism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology |
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| behemoth | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: colossus, giant, goliath, monster |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan |
| beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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| belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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| bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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| bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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| bema | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: chancel, sanctuary |
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| bemusement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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| (noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
| benjamin | (noun) gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation | Synonyms: asa dulcis, benzoin, gum benjamin, gum benzoin |
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| bereavement | (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: mourning |
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| bergamot | (noun) small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy | Synonyms: bergamot orange, Citrus bergamia |
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| berkelium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium | Synonyms: atomic number 97, Bk |
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| berm | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: shoulder |
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| (noun) a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope | - |
| beryllium | (noun) a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element | Synonyms: atomic number 4, Be, glucinium |
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| besom | (noun) a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle | - |
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| bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |