bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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bandlet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandelette, square and rabbet |
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bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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bandoneon | (noun) a type of concertina popular in South America | - |
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bandsaw | (noun) an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels | Synonyms: band saw |
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bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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bandtail | (noun) wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon | Synonyms: band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, Columba fasciata |
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bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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(noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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bandyleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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barndoor | (noun) an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas | - |
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baronduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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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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bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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barunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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behind | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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(noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
bend | (noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: curve |
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(noun) diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left | Synonyms: bend dexter |
(noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bending |
(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: crook, turn, twist |
bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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bender | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot |
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(noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: breaking ball, curve, curve ball |
(noun) a tool for bending | - |
bending | (noun) the act of bending something | - |
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(noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion |
(noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bend |
bends | (noun) pain resulting from rapid change in pressure | Synonyms: aeroembolism, air embolism, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism |
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bind | (noun) something that hinders as if with bonds | - |
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binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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(noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
(noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
(noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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binding | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, dressing |
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(noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, book binding, cover |
(noun) strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration | - |
(noun) one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall | Synonyms: ski binding |
(noun) the capacity to attract and hold something | - |
bindweed | (noun) any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit | - |
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blandishment | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: wheedling |
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(noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: cajolery, palaver |
blandness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: insipidity, insipidness |
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(noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: smoothness, suaveness, suavity |
(noun) the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern | - |
blend | (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blending |
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(noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: portmanteau, portmanteau word |
(noun) an occurrence of thorough mixing | - |
blende | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: sphalerite, zinc blende |
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blender | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: liquidiser, liquidizer |
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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 |
blind | (noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight | Synonyms: screen |
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(noun) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) | - |
(noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: subterfuge |
(noun) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group | - |
blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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blindfold | (noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
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blindness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: cecity, sightlessness |
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blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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(noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
blond | (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blonde |
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(noun) a male person with fair skin and hair | - |
blonde | (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blond |
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(noun) a female person with fair skin and hair | - |
blondness | (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: fairness, paleness |
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bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
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blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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bond | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: hamper, shackle, trammel |
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(noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: attachment |
(noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness |
(noun) an electrical force linking atoms | Synonyms: chemical bond |
(noun) a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal | Synonyms: bond certificate |
(noun) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | Synonyms: bail, bail bond |
(noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: alliance |
(noun) a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents | Synonyms: bond paper |
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 | - |
bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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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) | - |
bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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(noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |
bondsman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondman |
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(noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondman |
(noun) a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
(noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
bonduc | (noun) tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries | Synonyms: bonduc tree, Caesalpinia bonduc, Caesalpinia bonducella |
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(noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicot, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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bound | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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(noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: boundary, limit |
(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: boundary, bounds |
(noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: boundary, edge |
boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
(noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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(noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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bounds | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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(noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
(noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
(noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
(noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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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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bundle | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: sheaf |
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(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: package, packet, parcel |
(noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile |
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 | - |
burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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calamondin | (noun) a fruit of the calamondin tree. | - |
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calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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(noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
(noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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calendula | (noun) any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes | - |
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calliandra | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers | - |
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campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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candela | (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candle, cd, standard candle |
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candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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