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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basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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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 | - |
bather | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: natator, swimmer |
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(noun) a person who takes a bath | - |
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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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 |
battler | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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baulker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, noncompliant |
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bawler | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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(noun) a loud weeper | - |
bazaar | (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: fair |
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(noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazar |
(noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazar |
bazar | (noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazaar |
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(noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazaar |
beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
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(noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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bear | (noun) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws | - |
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(noun) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price | - |
bearer | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | - |
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(noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: pallbearer |
(noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: holder |
(noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: carrier, toter |
beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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(noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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(noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
(noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
(noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
(noun) a full beard | - |
(noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
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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beggar | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: mendicant |
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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 |
behavior | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behaviour, conduct, doings |
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(noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behaviour |
(noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
(noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behaviour |
behaviour | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, doings |
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(noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behavior |
(noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
(noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behavior |
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 | - |
benefactor | (noun) a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | Synonyms: helper |
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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 | - |
bettor | (noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: better, punter, wagerer |
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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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birr | (noun) the basic unit of money in Ethiopia; equal to 100 cents | - |
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(noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: whir, whirr, whirring |
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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blackamoor | (noun) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) | Synonyms: Black person |
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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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