| bayonet | (noun) a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon | - |
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| beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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| beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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| beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
| beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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| becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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| beeline | (noun) the most direct route | - |
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| beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
| beguine | (noun) a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba | - |
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| (noun) music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance | - |
| beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
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| beingness | (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, existence, face of the earth |
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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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| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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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 |
| benefaction | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benevolence |
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| (noun) a contribution of money or assistance | - |
| benefactor | (noun) a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | Synonyms: helper |
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| benefactress | (noun) a woman benefactor | - |
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| 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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| benefit | (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: welfare |
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| (noun) a performance to raise money for a charitable cause | - |
| (noun) financial assistance in time of need | - |
| benevolence | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benefaction |
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| (noun) an inclination to do kind or charitable acts | - |
| (noun) disposition to do good | - |
| benne | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benni, benny, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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| bennet | (noun) North American white-flowered avens | Synonyms: Geum canadense, white avens |
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| (noun) avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers | Synonyms: Geum virginianum, white avens |
| benzene | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzine, benzol |
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| benzine | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzene, benzol |
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| benzocaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: ethyl aminobenzoate |
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| benzodiazepine | (noun) any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency | - |
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| benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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| beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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| betaine | (noun) a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets | - |
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| bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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| bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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| biliousness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder | - |
| bine | (noun) European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America | Synonyms: common hop, common hops, European hop, Humulus lupulus |
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| bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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| biogenesis | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogeny |
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| (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biosynthesis |
| bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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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 | - |
| biplane | (noun) old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other | - |
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| birdnest | (noun) nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young | Synonyms: bird's nest, bird nest |
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| birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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| bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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| blackness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, inkiness |
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| (noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
| blamelessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: guiltlessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
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| blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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| 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 | - |
| blankness | (noun) the state of being blank; void; emptiness | - |
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| blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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| blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
| bleakness | (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, desolation, nakedness |
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| blessedness | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, beatitude |
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| blindness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: cecity, sightlessness |
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| blissfulness | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: bliss, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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| blondness | (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: fairness, paleness |
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| bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
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| (noun) the state of being bloody | - |
| bloodline | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| bluebonnet | (noun) a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side | Synonyms: Balmoral |
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| (noun) low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: buffalo clover, Lupinus subcarnosus, Texas bluebonnet |
| blueness | (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blue |
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| bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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| bluffness | (noun) good-natured frankness | - |
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| bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
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| bluntness | (noun) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point | Synonyms: dullness |
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| (noun) the quality of being direct and outspoken | - |
| blurriness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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| boastfulness | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: vainglory |
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| bogginess | (noun) The state or quality of being too wet and muddy to be easily walked on. | - |
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| boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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| (noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
| boldness | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: daring, hardihood, hardiness |
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| (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: strikingness |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: brass, cheek, face, nerve |
| boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bombazine | (noun) a twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted | - |
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| bone | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: ivory, off-white, pearl |
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| (noun) rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates | Synonyms: os |
| (noun) the porous calcified substance from which bones are made | Synonyms: osseous tissue |
| bonefish | (noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | Synonyms: Albula vulpes |
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| bonehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| bonelet | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicle, ossiculum |
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| bonemeal | (noun) fertilizer made of ground bones | - |
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| boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| bones | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: castanets, clappers, finger cymbals |
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| boneset | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
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| (noun) European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America | Synonyms: common comfrey, Symphytum officinale |
| bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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| boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
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| boniness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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| bonnet | (noun) a hat tied under the chin | Synonyms: poke bonnet |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: cowl, cowling, hood |
| bonnethead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| bonyness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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| bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
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| boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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| (noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
| borderline | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
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| boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
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