| bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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| bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
| baggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: luggage |
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| (noun) the portable equipment and supplies of an army | - |
| (noun) a worthless or immoral woman | - |
| bagpipe | (noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | - |
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| baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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| bailee | (noun) the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered | - |
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| baize | (noun) a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables | - |
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| bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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| balance | (noun) a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity | - |
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| (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
| (noun) a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat | Synonyms: balance wheel |
| (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: proportion, proportionality |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
| (noun) the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise |
| (noun) a state of equilibrium | - |
| 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 |
| bale | (noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport | - |
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| balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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| balkline | (noun) line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game | Synonyms: baulk-line, string line |
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| ballade | (noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | - |
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| balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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| ballgame | (noun) a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) | Synonyms: ball game |
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| (noun) a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation | Synonyms: new ballgame |
| balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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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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| bane | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: curse, nemesis, scourge |
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| bangle | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bracelet |
| 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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| banquette | (noun) an upholstered bench | - |
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| banshee | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshie |
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| banshie | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshee |
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| barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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| (noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
| barbeque | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbecue |
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| (noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbecue |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbecue |
| barbette | (noun) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet | - |
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| barbitone | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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| barcarole | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarolle |
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| barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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| barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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| bargee | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargeman, lighterman |
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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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| baritone | (noun) the second lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: baritone horn |
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| (noun) the second lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: baritone voice |
| (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: barytone |
| barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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| (noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
| baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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| baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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| (noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
| baroque | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroqueness |
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| barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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| barque | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: bark |
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| barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
| barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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| barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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| barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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| (noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
| barye | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, microbar |
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| barytone | (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: baritone |
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| bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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| base | (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: pedestal, stand |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a place that the runner must touch before scoring | Synonyms: bag |
| (noun) (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector | - |
| (noun) installation from which a military force initiates operations | Synonyms: base of operations |
| (noun) a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit | - |
| (noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| (noun) the principal ingredient of a mixture | - |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: radical, root, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a lower limit | Synonyms: floor |
| (noun) (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment | - |
| (noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: home |
| (noun) the bottom or lowest part | - |
| (noun) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place | Synonyms: radix |
| (noun) the most important or necessary part of something | Synonyms: basis |
| (noun) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed | - |
| (noun) any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water | Synonyms: alkali |
| (noun) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) | Synonyms: nucleotide |
| baseline | (noun) the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases | - |
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| (noun) the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line | Synonyms: service line |
| (noun) an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared | - |
| basidiomycete | (noun) any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota | Synonyms: basidiomycetous fungi |
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| basidiospore | (noun) a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium | - |
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| basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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| bassine | (noun) coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms | - |
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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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| bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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| 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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| bathe | (noun) the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation | - |
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| bathhouse | (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bagnio |
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| (noun) a building containing dressing rooms for bathers | Synonyms: bathing machine |
| 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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| bathrobe | (noun) a loose-fitting robe of towelling; worn after a bath or swim | - |
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| bathyscape | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscaph, bathyscaphe |
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| bathyscaphe | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscape, bathyscaph |
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| bathysphere | (noun) spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration | - |
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| batiste | (noun) a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses | - |
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| 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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| battle | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: conflict, engagement, fight |
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| (noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: struggle |
| (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: conflict, struggle |
| battledore | (noun) an ancient racket game | Synonyms: battledore and shuttlecock |
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| (noun) a light long-handled racket used by badminton players | Synonyms: badminton racket, badminton racquet |
| battue | (noun) a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed |
| bauble | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| (noun) a mock scepter carried by a court jester | - |
| 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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| bawbee | (noun) an old Scottish coin of little value | - |
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| bawdyhouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| beadle | (noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function | - |
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| beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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| beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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| bedframe | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedstead |
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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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| bedside | (noun) space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person) | - |
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| bedsore | (noun) a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) | Synonyms: decubitus ulcer, pressure sore |
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| bedtime | (noun) the time you go to bed | - |
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| bee | (noun) any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions | - |
| beefcake | (noun) a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire | - |
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| beehive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: hive |
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| (noun) any workplace where people are very busy | - |
| (noun) a hairdo resembling a beehive | - |
| (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: hive |
| beeline | (noun) the most direct route | - |
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| beetle | (noun) insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings | - |
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| (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: mallet |
| 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 | - |
| beige | (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
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| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| 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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| 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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| belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |