| beefburger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: burger, hamburger |
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| bourgeois | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
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| (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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| bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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| burg | (noun) colloquial American term for a town | - |
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| burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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| burgess | (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgher |
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| burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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| burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
| burglar | (noun) a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | - |
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| burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| burgoo | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: oatmeal |
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| (noun) thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States | - |
| (noun) a gathering at which burgoo stew is served | - |
| burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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| burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
| burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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| cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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| chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| courgette | (noun) small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green | Synonyms: zucchini |
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| (noun) marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small | Synonyms: zucchini |
| cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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| demiurge | (noun) a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe | - |
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| dramaturgy | (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, theater, theatre |
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| electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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| expurgation | (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: castration |
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| expurgator | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, bowdlerizer |
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| faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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| gurgle | (noun) the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck | - |
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| hamburger | (noun) beef that has been ground | Synonyms: ground beef |
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| (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, burger |
| homburg | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, Stetson, trilby |
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| hourglass | (noun) a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes | - |
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| insurgence | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgency |
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| insurgency | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgence |
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| insurgent | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurrectionist, rebel |
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| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, irregular |
| liturgics | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgiology |
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| liturgiology | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgics |
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| liturgist | (noun) an authority on liturgies | - |
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| liturgy | (noun) a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship | - |
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| metallurgist | (noun) an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals | Synonyms: metallurgical engineer |
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| metallurgy | (noun) the science and technology of metals | - |
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| microsurgery | (noun) surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures | - |
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| neurosurgeon | (noun) someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain) | Synonyms: brain surgeon |
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| neurosurgery | (noun) any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) | - |
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| objurgation | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, scolding, tongue-lashing |
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| psychosurgery | (noun) brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems | - |
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| purgation | (noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purge, purging |
| (noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purification |
| purgative | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, physic |
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| purgatory | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins | - |
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| (noun) a temporary condition of torment or suffering | - |
| purge | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purging |
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| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purging |
| (noun) an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place | - |
| purging | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purge |
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| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purge |
| regurgitation | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, vomit, vomiting |
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| (noun) recall after rote memorization | - |
| (noun) backflow of blood through a defective heart valve | - |
| resurgence | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
| scourger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: flogger |
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| splurge | (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: binge, orgy |
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| (noun) an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) | - |
| spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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| sturgeon | (noun) large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone | - |
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| surge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: upsurge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, upsurge |
| (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: billow |
| surgeon | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones |
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| surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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| surgery | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| (noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
| (noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | - |
| (noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | - |
| thaumaturge | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| thaumaturgist | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, wizard |
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| thaumaturgy | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, trick |
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| (noun) any art that invokes supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic |
| theurgy | (noun) white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists) | - |
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| (noun) the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs | - |
| tunaburger | (noun) a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef | - |
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| turgidity | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: flatulence, turgidness |
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| turgidness | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: flatulence, turgidity |
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| turgor | (noun) (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane | - |
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| upsurge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: surge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, surge |
| urge | (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: itch |
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| (noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: impulse |
| urgency | (noun) pressing importance requiring speedy action | - |
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| (noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: importunity, urging |
| (noun) the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity | - |
| (noun) an urgent situation calling for prompt action | - |
| urging | (noun) the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging | - |
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| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring |
| (noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: importunity, urgency |
| zymurgy | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymology |
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