burp | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burping, eructation |
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burping | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, eructation |
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burqa | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burka |
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burr | (noun) rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting | - |
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(noun) rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece | - |
(noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: bur |
(noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: bur |
burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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burrfish | (noun) any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
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burrito | (noun) a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
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burro | (noun) small donkey used as a pack animal | - |
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burrow | (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: tunnel |
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bursa | (noun) a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints | - |
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bursar | (noun) the treasurer at a college or university | - |
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bursary | (noun) the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
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bursitis | (noun) inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder | - |
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burst | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: explosion |
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(noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: fusillade, salvo, volley |
(noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | Synonyms: fit |
(noun) a sudden intense happening | Synonyms: flare-up, outburst |
burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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burying | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burial |
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bus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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(noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: heap, jalopy |
(noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: busbar |
(noun) the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar | Synonyms: bus topology |
busbar | (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: bus |
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busboy | (noun) a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | Synonyms: waiter's assistant |
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busby | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, shako |
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bush | (noun) hair growing in the pubic area | Synonyms: crotch hair, pubic hair |
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(noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: chaparral, scrub |
(noun) a large wilderness area | - |
(noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: shrub |
bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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bushbuck | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: guib, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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(noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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(noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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bushtit | (noun) active grey titmice of western North America | Synonyms: bush tit |
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bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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(noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
business | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: job, line, line of work, occupation |
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(noun) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | Synonyms: business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
(noun) the volume of commercial activity | - |
(noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: byplay, stage business |
(noun) an immediate objective | - |
(noun) a rightful concern or responsibility | - |
(noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern |
(noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: clientele, patronage |
(noun) business concerns collectively | Synonyms: business sector |
businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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buskin | (noun) a boot reaching halfway up to the knee | Synonyms: combat boot, desert boot, half boot, top boot |
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busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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busman | (noun) someone who drives a bus | Synonyms: bus driver |
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buspirone | (noun) a drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety | Synonyms: BuSpar |
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buss | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: kiss, osculation |
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bust | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, tear |
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(noun) a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person | - |
(noun) the chest of a woman | Synonyms: female chest |
(noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: fizzle, flop |
bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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(noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
(noun) a robust child | - |
(noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
(noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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bustle | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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(noun) a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt | - |
busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
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busyness | (noun) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | Synonyms: hum |
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busywork | (noun) active work of little value | Synonyms: make-work |
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butacaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: butacaine sulfate |
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butadiene | (noun) a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
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butane | (noun) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels | - |
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butanol | (noun) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | Synonyms: butyl alcohol |
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butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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butat | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butut |
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butch | (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
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(noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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(noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
(noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
(noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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(noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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(noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
(noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
butene | (noun) any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | Synonyms: butylene |
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buteonine | (noun) any hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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butler | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: pantryman |
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butt | (noun) thick end of the handle | Synonyms: butt end |
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(noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: stub |
(noun) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) | - |
(noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: target |
(noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
(noun) a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping | Synonyms: butt joint |
(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: goat, laughingstock, stooge |
(noun) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots | - |
butte | (noun) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
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butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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(noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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(noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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(noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
(noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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(noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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(noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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(noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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buttery | (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
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(noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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buttocks | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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(noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
(noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
(noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
(noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
(noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
(noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
(noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
buttonhole | (noun) a hole through which buttons are pushed | Synonyms: button hole |
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buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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buttress | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttressing |
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buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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butty | (noun) a sandwich | - |
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butut | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butat |
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butyl | (noun) a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9) | - |
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butylene | (noun) any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | Synonyms: butene |
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butyrin | (noun) any of three glycerides of butyric acid | - |
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buxomness | (noun) the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed | - |
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buy | (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: bargain, steal |
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