broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
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broad | (noun) slang term for a woman | - |
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broadax | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadaxe |
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broadaxe | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadax |
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broadbill | (noun) small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | - |
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(noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, shoveler, shoveller |
(noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, scaup, scaup duck |
(noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, boatbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
broadcast | (noun) message that is transmitted by radio or television | - |
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(noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: program, programme |
broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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(noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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(noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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(noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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(noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
(noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
broadloom | (noun) a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams | - |
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broadness | (noun) the property of being wide; having great width | Synonyms: wideness |
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broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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broadside | (noun) the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship | - |
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(noun) the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern | - |
(noun) all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship | - |
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
(noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: philippic, tirade |
broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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broadtail | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: caracul, karakul |
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(noun) the fur of a very young karakul lamb | - |