bur | (noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: burr |
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(noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: burr |
burbot | (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: cusk, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
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burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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(noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
(noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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bureau | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: chest, chest of drawers, dresser |
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(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, federal agency, government agency, office |
bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
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(noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
(noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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bureaucratism | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucracy |
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buret | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: burette |
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burette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: buret |
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burg | (noun) colloquial American term for a town | - |
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burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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burgess | (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgher |
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burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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(noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
burglar | (noun) a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | - |
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burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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burgoo | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: oatmeal |
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(noun) thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States | - |
(noun) a gathering at which burgoo stew is served | - |
burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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(noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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burial | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burying |
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(noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
burin | (noun) a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving | - |
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burka | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burqa |
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burl | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: knot, slub |
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(noun) a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | - |
(noun) the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer | - |
burlap | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: gunny |
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burlesque | (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
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(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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(noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
(noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
(noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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(noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
burning | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
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(noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
(noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
(noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
(noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
(noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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burnous | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnouse |
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burnouse | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnous |
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burnside | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn |
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burnup | (noun) the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) | - |
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(noun) a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road | - |
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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