bar | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: prevention |
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(noun) a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon | - |
(noun) an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal | - |
(noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
(noun) a counter where you can obtain food or drink | - |
(noun) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) | Synonyms: cake |
(noun) (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried | - |
(noun) a heating element in an electric fire | - |
(noun) a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises | - |
(noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: streak, stripe |
(noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: measure |
(noun) the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction | Synonyms: legal community, legal profession |
(noun) a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore | - |
(noun) (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter | - |
baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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barb | (noun) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather | - |
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(noun) a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove | - |
(noun) the pointed part of barbed wire | - |
(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
barbacan | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbican |
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barbarian | (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
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(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
barbarisation | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarization |
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barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
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barbarity | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, brutality, savagery |
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(noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness |
barbarization | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarisation |
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barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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barbasco | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: Jacquinia keyensis, joewood |
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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 |
barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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barbel | (noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: feeler |
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barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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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 |
barber | (noun) a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade | - |
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barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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barbet | (noun) small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings | - |
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barbette | (noun) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet | - |
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barbican | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbacan |
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barbital | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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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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barbu | (noun) found along western Atlantic coast | Synonyms: Polydactylus virginicus |
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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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bard | (noun) an ornamental caparison for a horse | - |
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(noun) a lyric poet | - |
bardolatry | (noun) the idolization of William Shakespeare | - |
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bareboat | (noun) a vessel (such as a yacht) that can be chartered without a captain or crew or provisions | - |
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bareboating | (noun) boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions | - |
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bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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(noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
(noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
barf | (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: puke, vomit, vomitus |
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bargain | (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: deal |
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(noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: buy, steal |
bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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(noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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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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bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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barilla | (noun) Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate | Synonyms: Halogeton souda |
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(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
baring | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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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 |
barium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite | Synonyms: atomic number 56, Ba |
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bark | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: barque |
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(noun) the sound made by a dog | - |
(noun) a noise resembling the bark of a dog | - |
(noun) tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants | - |
barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
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(noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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(noun) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain | - |
barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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(noun) a grain of barley | - |
barm | (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: yeast |
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barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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barn | (noun) an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals | - |
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(noun) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter | Synonyms: b |
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 |
barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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(noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
barndoor | (noun) an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas | - |
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barnful | (noun) the quantity that a barn will hold | - |
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barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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(noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
barnyard | (noun) a yard adjoining a barn | - |
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barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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baron | (noun) a British peer of the lowest rank | - |
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(noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
(noun) a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank | - |
baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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baronduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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baroness | (noun) a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
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baronet | (noun) a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight | Synonyms: Bart |
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baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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(noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
baronetcy | (noun) the title of a baron | - |
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(noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: barony |
barong | (noun) a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines | - |
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barony | (noun) the domain of a baron | - |
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(noun) the estate of a baron | - |
(noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: baronetcy |
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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baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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baroreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to pressure | - |
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barosaur | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaurus |
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barosaurus | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaur |
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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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barrack | (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | - |
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barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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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 |
barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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barrator | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrater |
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barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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(noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
(noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
(noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
barrel | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: cask |
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(noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired | Synonyms: gun barrel |
(noun) any of various units of capacity | Synonyms: bbl |
(noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrelful |
(noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: drum |
barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
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barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
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barren | (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
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barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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(noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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