| bouffant | (noun) a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance | - |
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| bouffe | (noun) opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken | Synonyms: comic opera, opera bouffe, opera comique |
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| bougainvillea | (noun) any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions | - |
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| bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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| boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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| boule | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boulle, buhl |
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| boulevard | (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: avenue |
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| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| boulle | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, buhl |
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| bounce | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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| (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounciness |
| (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bouncing |
| bouncer | (noun) a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting | Synonyms: chucker-out |
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| bounciness | (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounce |
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| bouncing | (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
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| bound | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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| (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: boundary, limit |
| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: boundary, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: boundary, edge |
| boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
| boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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| bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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| (noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
| boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| bounds | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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| bounteousness | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounty |
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| bountifulness | (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bounty |
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| bounty | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounteousness |
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| (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bountifulness |
| (noun) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | Synonyms: premium |
| bouquet | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: corsage, nosegay, posy |
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| (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
| bourbon | (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels | - |
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| bourdon | (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: drone, drone pipe |
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| bourgeois | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
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| (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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| bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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| bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
| bourne | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourn |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourn |
| bourtree | (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
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| boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
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| bout | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bust, tear |
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| (noun) a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) | - |
| (noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: round, turn |
| (noun) a period of illness | - |
| boutique | (noun) a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry | Synonyms: dress shop |
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| boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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| bovid | (noun) hollow-horned ruminants | - |
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| bovine | (noun) any of various members of the genus Bos | - |
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| bow | (noun) a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments | - |
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| (noun) a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments | - |
| (noun) a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow | - |
| (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bowknot |
| (noun) a decorative interlacing of ribbons | - |
| (noun) something curved in shape | Synonyms: arc |
| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: fore, prow, stem |
| (noun) an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience | Synonyms: curtain call |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bowing, obeisance |
| bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
| bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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| bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
| bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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| bowel | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: gut, intestine |
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| bowels | (noun) the center of the Earth | - |
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| bower | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, pergola |
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| bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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| bowfin | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, dogfish, grindle |
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| bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
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| bowing | (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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| bowl | (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods | - |
| (noun) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids | - |
| (noun) a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco | Synonyms: pipe bowl |
| (noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: arena, sports stadium, stadium |
| (noun) a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling | - |
| (noun) a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling | Synonyms: bowling ball |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowlful |
| (noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: trough |
| bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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| bowleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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| bowler | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat |
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| (noun) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins | - |
| (noun) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket | - |
| bowlful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowl |
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| bowline | (noun) a loop knot that neither slips nor jams | Synonyms: bowline knot |
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| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| bowls | (noun) a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack | Synonyms: lawn bowling |
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| bowman | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: archer |
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| bowsprit | (noun) a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel | - |
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| bowstring | (noun) the string of an archer's bow | - |
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| bowtie | (noun) a man's tie that ties in a bow | Synonyms: bow-tie, bow tie |
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| box | (noun) a blow with the hand (usually on the ear) | - |
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| (noun) a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid | - |
| (noun) separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people | - |
| (noun) private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance | Synonyms: loge |
| (noun) the driver's seat on a coach | Synonyms: box seat |
| (noun) any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned | - |
| (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: boxwood |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a box | Synonyms: boxful |
| (noun) a rectangular drawing | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: corner |
| boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
| boxcar | (noun) a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides | - |
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| boxcars | (noun) (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots | - |
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| boxer | (noun) a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany | - |
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| (noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: pugilist |
| (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, packer |
| boxers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxershorts, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| boxfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: trunkfish |
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| boxful | (noun) the quantity contained in a box | Synonyms: box |
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| boxing | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, pugilism |
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| (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: packing |
| boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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| boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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| (noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
| boy | (noun) a youthful male person | Synonyms: male child |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man | - |
| (noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown man | - |
| (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: son |
| boycott | (noun) a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies | - |
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| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| boyishness | (noun) being characteristic of a boy | - |
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| boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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| (noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
| bozo | (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: cat, guy, hombre, sod |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |