baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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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baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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banknote | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
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bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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banquette | (noun) an upholstered bench | - |
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banteng | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banting, Bos banteng, tsine |
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banter | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: backchat, give-and-take, raillery |
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baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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barbette | (noun) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet | - |
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barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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barite | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barium sulphate, barytes, heavy spar |
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barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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barretter | (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast, ballast resistor |
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barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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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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barter | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
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barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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barycenter | (noun) (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve | - |
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barytes | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barite, barium sulphate, heavy spar |
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basidiomycete | (noun) any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota | Synonyms: basidiomycetous fungi |
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basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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baste | (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: basting, basting stitch, tacking |
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baster | (noun) a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat | - |
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(noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: tacker |
(noun) a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy | - |
bastnaesite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnasite |
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bastnasite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnaesite |
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batholite | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholith, pluton, plutonic rock |
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bathometer | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathymeter |
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bathymeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathometer |
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batiste | (noun) a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses | - |
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batten | (noun) a strip fixed to something to hold it firm | - |
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(noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batting |
batter | (noun) a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking | - |
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(noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, hitter, slugger |
battercake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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battering | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: banging |
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battery | (noun) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact | Synonyms: assault and battery |
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(noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling |
(noun) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series | Synonyms: electric battery |
(noun) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp battery |
(noun) a collection of related things intended for use together | - |
(noun) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place | - |
(noun) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher | - |
bauxite | (noun) a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst | - |
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beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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(noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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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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bedsitter | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsit, bedsitting room |
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bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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bedwetter | (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, wetter |
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beefeater | (noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: yeoman, yeoman of the guard |
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beefsteak | (noun) a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
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begetter | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: father, male parent |
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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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bentonite | (noun) an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash | - |
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benzoate | (noun) any salt or ester of benzoic acid | - |
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betel | (noun) Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians | Synonyms: betel pepper, Piper betel |
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(noun) a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper | Synonyms: betel leaf |
better | (noun) something superior in quality or condition or effect | - |
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(noun) the superior one of two alternatives | - |
(noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: bettor, punter, wagerer |
(noun) a superior person having claim to precedence | - |
betterment | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: amelioration, melioration |
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(noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, improvement |
(noun) an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility | - |
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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bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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bilgewater | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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bilsted | (noun) a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap | Synonyms: American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum, sweet gum tree |
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bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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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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biosystematy | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematics |
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biotech | (noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotechnology |
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biotechnology | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: bioengineering, ergonomics |
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(noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotech |
bioterrorism | (noun) terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare | Synonyms: biological terrorism |
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biotite | (noun) dark brown to black mica found in igneous and metamorphic rock | - |
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biquadrate | (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic, fourth power, quartic |
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birthrate | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, fertility, fertility rate, natality |
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bister | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bistre |
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bisulfate | (noun) a salt or an ester of sulphuric acid with the chemical formula HSO4-. | Synonyms: hydrogen sulfate |
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bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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bite | (noun) the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws | Synonyms: chomp |
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(noun) a portion removed from the whole | - |
(noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: pungency, raciness, sharpness |
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality | Synonyms: pungency |
(noun) (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait | - |
(noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: collation, snack |
(noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bit, morsel |
(noun) a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person | - |
(noun) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | Synonyms: insect bite, sting |
biteplate | (noun) a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: bite plate |
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biter | (noun) someone who bites | - |
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bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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bitter | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitterness |
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(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitterness |
(noun) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) | - |
bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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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 |
bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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bitterroot | (noun) showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower | Synonyms: Lewisia rediviva |
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bitters | (noun) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots | - |
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bittersweet | (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
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(noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
bitterweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, ragweed |
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(noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bristly oxtongue, bugloss, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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(noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
(noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
blackwater | (noun) any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells | - |
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blastema | (noun) a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops | - |
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blaster | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: chargeman |
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blastocyte | (noun) an undifferentiated embryonic cell | - |
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blastomycete | (noun) any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals | - |
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