bastard | (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: mongrel |
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(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
(noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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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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baud | (noun) (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems | Synonyms: baud rate |
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bawd | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
bead | (noun) a small ball with a hole through the middle | - |
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(noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, beading, beadwork |
(noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: drop, pearl |
beard | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: byssus |
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(noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals | - |
(noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers |
(noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) | - |
(noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | - |
bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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bed | (noun) a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | - |
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(noun) a plot of ground in which plants are growing | - |
(noun) a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | - |
(noun) the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. | - |
(noun) single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | Synonyms: layer |
(noun) a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | Synonyms: seam |
(noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bottom |
(noun) (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) | - |
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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bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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beefwood | (noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | Synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata |
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(noun) any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork | - |
(noun) tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: Grevillea striata |
(noun) tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus |
(noun) any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork | - |
beetleweed | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
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beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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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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bellbird | (noun) any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call | - |
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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) | - |
beloved | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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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 |
benniseed | (noun) small oval seeds of the sesame plant | Synonyms: sesame seed |
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bentwood | (noun) wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture | - |
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benweed | (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: ragweed, ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
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bereaved | (noun) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved | Synonyms: bereaved person |
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betrothed | (noun) the person to whom you are engaged | - |
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bicuspid | (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: premolar |
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bid | (noun) an attempt to get something | Synonyms: play |
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(noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: tender |
(noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bidding |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bidding, command, dictation |
bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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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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bind | (noun) something that hinders as if with bonds | - |
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bindweed | (noun) any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit | - |
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bioflavinoid | (noun) a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation | Synonyms: citrin, vitamin P |
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biohazard | (noun) any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological agent |
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(noun) hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions | - |
biped | (noun) an animal with two feet | - |
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bird | (noun) warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings | - |
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(noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: birdie, shuttle, shuttlecock |
(noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, razzing, snort |
(noun) the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food | Synonyms: fowl |
(noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: chick, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
birdseed | (noun) food given to birds; usually mixed seeds | Synonyms: bird feed, bird food |
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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 |
bitthead | (noun) the upper end of a bitt | - |
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blackbird | (noun) any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black | Synonyms: New World blackbird |
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(noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: European blackbird, merl, merle, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
blackboard | (noun) sheet of slate; for writing with chalk | Synonyms: chalkboard |
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blackguard | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: bounder, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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blackhead | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: comedo |
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blackseed | (noun) grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus | Synonyms: carpet grass, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii |
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blackwood | (noun) any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | Synonyms: blackwood tree |
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(noun) very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees | - |
bladderpod | (noun) any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods | - |
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(noun) any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods | - |
(noun) annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella | - |
(noun) North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata |
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 | - |
blennioid | (noun) elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins | Synonyms: blennioid fish |
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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 | - |
blindfold | (noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
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blizzard | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: rash |
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(noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: snowstorm |
blockhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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blond | (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blonde |
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(noun) a male person with fair skin and hair | - |
blood | (noun) temperament or disposition | - |
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(noun) the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets | - |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) people viewed as members of a group | - |
(noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
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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bloodshed | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting |
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(noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: gore |
blowhard | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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bluebird | (noun) blue North American songbird | - |
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(noun) fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies | Synonyms: fairy bluebird |
bluehead | (noun) small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head | Synonyms: Thalassoma bifasciatum |
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blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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board | (noun) a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose | - |
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(noun) a table at which meals are served | Synonyms: dining table |
(noun) electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices | Synonyms: control board, control panel, instrument panel, panel |
(noun) a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view | Synonyms: display board, display panel |
(noun) a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities | Synonyms: add-in, card, circuit board, circuit card, plug-in |
(noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games | Synonyms: gameboard |
(noun) food or meals in general | Synonyms: table |
(noun) a committee having supervisory powers | - |
(noun) a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes | Synonyms: plank |
boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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boatload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: carload, shipload |
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boatyard | (noun) a place where boats are built or maintained or stored | - |
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bobsled | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsleigh |
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(noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsleigh |
bod | (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
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bodyguard | (noun) a group of men who escort and protect some important person | - |
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(noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: escort |
bold | (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold face, boldface |
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bollard | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bitt |
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bombard | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombardon |
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bombycid | (noun) moderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk | Synonyms: bombycid moth, silkworm moth |
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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 |
bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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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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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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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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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boulevard | (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: avenue |
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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 |
bovid | (noun) hollow-horned ruminants | - |
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bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
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boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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(noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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brachiopod | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
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brad | (noun) a small nail | - |
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braid | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braiding, gold braid |
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(noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: plait, tress, twist |
brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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branchiopod | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
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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 |
brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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(noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |