bialy | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialystoker |
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bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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bias | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: preconception, prejudice |
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(noun) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric | Synonyms: diagonal |
bib | (noun) a napkin tied under the chin of a child while eating | - |
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(noun) top part of an apron; covering the chest | - |
bible | (noun) a book regarded as authoritative in its field | - |
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bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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bibliolatry | (noun) the worship of the Bible | Synonyms: Bible-worship |
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bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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bibliopole | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopolist |
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bibliopolist | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopole |
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bibliothec | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: librarian |
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bibliotheca | (noun) a collection of books | - |
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bibliotics | (noun) the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity | - |
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bibliotist | (noun) someone who engages in bibliotics | - |
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bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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bicentenary | (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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bicentennial | (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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biceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm) | - |
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bichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: dichloride |
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bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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bicorn | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorne |
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bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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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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bicycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bike, cycle, wheel |
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bicycler | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicyclist, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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bicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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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 |
bidder | (noun) someone who makes an offer | - |
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(noun) someone who makes a bid at cards | - |
bidding | (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: summons |
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(noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bid |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, command, dictation |
biddy | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: chick |
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(noun) adult female chicken | Synonyms: hen |
bidet | (noun) a basin for washing genitals and anal area | - |
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biennial | (noun) (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season | - |
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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 | - |
biff | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: clout, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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bifocals | (noun) (plural) eyeglasses having two focal lengths, one for near vision and the other for far vision | - |
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bifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into two branches | - |
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(noun) the place where something divides into two branches | - |
(noun) a bifurcating branch (one or both of them) | - |
bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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(noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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bigeye | (noun) red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales | - |
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biggin | (noun) a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin | - |
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bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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(noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
(noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
(noun) a loop in a rope | - |
bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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bigos | (noun) a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
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bigot | (noun) a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own | - |
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bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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bigram | (noun) a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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bigwig | (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: kingpin, top banana |
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bijou | (noun) a small and delicately worked piece | - |
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bike | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, wheel |
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(noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame | Synonyms: motorcycle |
biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
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bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
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bikini | (noun) a woman's very brief bathing suit | Synonyms: two-piece |
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bilabial | (noun) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ | - |
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bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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bilberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: European blueberry, whortleberry |
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(noun) erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries | Synonyms: mountain blue berry, thin-leaved bilberry, Viccinium membranaceum |
(noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
bilby | (noun) bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit | Synonyms: Macrotis lagotis, rabbit-eared bandicoot, rabbit bandicoot |
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bile | (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: gall |
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bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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bilge | (noun) where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom | - |
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(noun) water accumulated in the bilge of a ship | Synonyms: bilge water |
bilges | (noun) in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side | - |
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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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bilharzia | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharziasis, schistosomiasis |
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bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
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bilimbi | (noun) East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa bilimbi |
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bilingual | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
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bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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biliousness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder | - |
bilirubin | (noun) an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice | Synonyms: haematoidin, hematoidin |
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bill | (noun) the entertainment offered at a public presentation | - |
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(noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker |
(noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: eyeshade, peak, visor, vizor |
(noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: billhook |
(noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: card, notice, placard, poster, posting |
(noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: account, invoice |
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
(noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: measure |
(noun) a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare) | - |
(noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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(noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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billet | (noun) lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home) | - |
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(noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: line, note, short letter |
billfish | (noun) giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw | - |
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(noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: gar, needlefish |
(noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
(noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus |
billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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billiards | (noun) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls | - |
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billing | (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: charge |
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billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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billion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000000, one thousand million |
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(noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen | Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million |
(noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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billionth | (noun) one part in a billion equal parts | Synonyms: one-billionth |
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(noun) position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
billow | (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: surge |
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billy | (noun) male goat | Synonyms: billy goat, he-goat |
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(noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
billyo | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyoh |
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billyoh | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyo |
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billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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bilocation | (noun) the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations | - |
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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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