| brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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| brooding | (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
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| (noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
| broodmare | (noun) a female horse used for breeding | Synonyms: stud mare |
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| broody | (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody hen, setting hen, sitter |
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| brook | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: creek |
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| brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
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| brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
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| (noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
| brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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| (noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
| broom | (noun) a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle | - |
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| (noun) any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers | - |
| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, Scots heather |
| broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
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| broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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| broomweed | (noun) annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers | Synonyms: broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana |
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| broth | (noun) a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock | - |
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| (noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: stock |
| brothel | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
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| (noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
| (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
| (noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| brotula | (noun) deep-sea fishes | - |
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| brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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| (noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
| brouhaha | (noun) a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits | - |
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| (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: hubbub, katzenjammer, uproar |
| brow | (noun) the part of the face above the eyes | Synonyms: forehead |
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| (noun) the arch of hair above each eye | Synonyms: eyebrow, supercilium |
| (noun) the peak of a hill | Synonyms: hilltop |
| browallia | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers | Synonyms: bush violet |
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| brown | (noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation | Synonyms: brownness |
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| brownie | (noun) square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts | - |
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| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
| browning | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: toasting |
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| brownness | (noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation | Synonyms: brown |
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| brownout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, dimout |
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| brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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| (noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
| browntail | (noun) small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees | Synonyms: brown-tail moth, Euproctis phaeorrhoea |
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| browse | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browsing |
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| (noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browsing |
| (noun) vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat | - |
| browser | (noun) a program used to view HTML documents | Synonyms: web browser |
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| (noun) a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular | - |
| browsing | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browse |
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| (noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browse |
| brucellosis | (noun) an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings | Synonyms: Bang's disease, contagious abortion |
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| (noun) infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache | Synonyms: Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, Rock fever, undulant fever |
| brucine | (noun) a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica | - |
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| bruin | (noun) large ferocious bear of Eurasia | Synonyms: brown bear, Ursus arctos |
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| (noun) a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox' | - |
| bruise | (noun) an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration | Synonyms: contusion |
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| bruiser | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bull, Samson, strapper |
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| bruitism | (noun) The use in music of sounds taken from an extra-musical source or context. The term is used most often of percussion or of electronic music that suggests the sounds of machinery. | - |
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| brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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| brunet | (noun) a person with dark (brown) hair | Synonyms: brunette |
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| brunette | (noun) a person with dark (brown) hair | Synonyms: brunet |
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| brunt | (noun) main force of a blow etc | - |
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| brush | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: clash, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) contact with something dangerous or undesirable | - |
| (noun) a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) | - |
| (noun) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle | - |
| (noun) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor | - |
| (noun) momentary contact | Synonyms: light touch |
| (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket |
| brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
| brushup | (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: review |
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| brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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| (noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
| brushwork | (noun) an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush | - |
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| brusqueness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
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| brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
| brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
| brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| brute | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, savage, wildcat, wolf |
| bruxism | (noun) involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep | - |
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| bryanthus | (noun) procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowers | - |
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| bryony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: briony |
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| bryophyte | (noun) any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta | Synonyms: nonvascular plant |
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| bryozoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
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