| bedchamber | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedroom, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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| bedcover | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedspread, counterpane, spread |
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| bedder | (noun) an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed | Synonyms: bedding plant |
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| bedsitter | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsit, bedsitting room |
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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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| 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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| beefeater | (noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: yeoman, yeoman of the guard |
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| beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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| beeper | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: pager |
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| beer | (noun) a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops | - |
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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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| 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 |
| beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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| belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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| believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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| (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
| bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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| bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| bellwether | (noun) sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | - |
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| (noun) someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | - |
| bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| bender | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot |
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| (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: breaking ball, curve, curve ball |
| (noun) a tool for bending | - |
| berserker | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserk |
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| besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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| (noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
| bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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| bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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| betrayer | (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer |
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| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: blabber, informer, rat, squealer |
| 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 | - |
| bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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| bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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| bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bicycler | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicyclist, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bidder | (noun) someone who makes an offer | - |
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| (noun) someone who makes a bid at cards | - |
| bier | (noun) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial | - |
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| (noun) a coffin along with its stand | - |
| biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
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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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| bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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| binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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| (noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
| (noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
| (noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
| binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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| biographer | (noun) someone who writes an account of a person's life | - |
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| birder | (noun) a person who identifies and studies birds in their natural habitats | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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| birdfeeder | (noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, feeder |
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| bister | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bistre |
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| biter | (noun) someone who bites | - |
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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) | - |
| blabber | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, informer, rat, squealer |
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| blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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| 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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| bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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| (noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
| blasphemer | (noun) a person who speaks disrespectfully of sacred things | - |
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| blaster | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: chargeman |
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| blather | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blatherskite |
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| blazer | (noun) lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school | Synonyms: sport coat, sport jacket, sports coat, sports jacket |
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| bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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| bleeder | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| blender | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: liquidiser, liquidizer |
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| blether | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle |
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| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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| blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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| (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
| (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
| blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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| (noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
| (noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
| bloater | (noun) large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked | - |
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| blockbuster | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: megahit, smash hit |
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| (noun) a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) | - |
| blocker | (noun) a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process | Synonyms: blocking agent |
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| (noun) a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play | - |
| blogger | (noun) a person who keeps and updates a blog | - |
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| bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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| bloomer | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (noun) a flower that blooms in a particular way | - |
| blooper | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| blotter | (noun) the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station | Synonyms: charge sheet, day book, police blotter, rap sheet |
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| (noun) absorbent paper used to dry ink | Synonyms: blotting paper |
| blower | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal |
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| (noun) a device that produces a current of air | - |
| (noun) a fan run by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric fan |
| blubber | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, fat, fatness |
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| (noun) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil | - |
| blubberer | (noun) someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs | - |
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| blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| bluffer | (noun) a person who tries to bluff other people | Synonyms: four-flusher |
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| blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| blusher | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, paint, rouge |
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| (noun) yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | Synonyms: Amanita rubescens, blushing mushroom |
| bluster | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bravado |
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| (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: braggadocio, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
| (noun) a violent gusty wind | - |
| (noun) noisy confusion and turbulence | - |
| blusterer | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: loudmouth |
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| boarder | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: lodger, roomer |
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| (noun) a pupil who lives at school during term time | - |
| (noun) someone who forces their way aboard ship | - |
| boaster | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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| boater | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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| (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boatman, waterman |
| bobber | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobfloat, cork |
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| bobbysoxer | (noun) an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | Synonyms: bobby-socker |
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| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| boiler | (noun) sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | Synonyms: steam boiler |
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| (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: kettle |
| bolometer | (noun) an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive | - |
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| bolster | (noun) a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows | Synonyms: long pillow |
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| bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
| bomber | (noun) a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight | - |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a person who plants bombs | - |
| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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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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| 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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| booger | (noun) dried nasal mucus | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
| bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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| bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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| booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
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| bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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