| barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
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| barren | (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark |
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| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent |
| (adjective) not bearing offspring | - |
| (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
| barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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| (noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
| barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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| barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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| barretter | (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast, ballast resistor |
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| barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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| (noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
| (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
| (verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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| barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
| (noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
| barring | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: blackball |
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| barrio | (noun) an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country | - |
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| (noun) a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States) | - |
| barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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| barroom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
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| barrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow |
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| (noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrowful |
| barrowful | (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrow |
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| bars | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights | Synonyms: parallel bars |
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| bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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| barter | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
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| (verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
| barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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| bartlett | (noun) juicy yellow pear | Synonyms: bartlett pear |
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| bartonia | (noun) annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: Mentzelia lindleyi |
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| barunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| barycenter | (noun) (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve | - |
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| barye | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, microbar |
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| baryon | (noun) any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1 | Synonyms: heavy particle |
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| baryta | (noun) any of several compounds of barium | - |
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| barytes | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barite, barium sulphate, heavy spar |
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| barytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing baryta | - |
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| barytone | (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: baritone |
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| baseboard | (noun) a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor | Synonyms: mopboard, skirting board |
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| basidiocarp | (noun) the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells | - |
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| basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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| bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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| (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: mongrel |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
| bastardisation | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardization |
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| bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
| bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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| bastardization | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardisation |
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| (noun) declaring or rendering bastard | - |
| bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
| bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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| bastardly | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious |
| bastardy | (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, illegitimacy |
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| bazaar | (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: fair |
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| (noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazar |
| (noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazar |
| bazar | (noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazaar |
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| (noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazaar |
| beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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| bear | (noun) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws | - |
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| (noun) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price | - |
| (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: carry, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
| (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: birth, deliver, give birth, have |
| (verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: wear |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) move while holding up or supporting | - |
| (verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: carry, hold |
| (verb) bring forth | Synonyms: turn out |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: hold |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: pay, yield |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, assume, take over |
| (verb) have | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: carry, contain, hold |
| bearable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportable |
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| bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| bearcat | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, binturong |
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| beard | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: byssus |
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| (noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals | - |
| (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers |
| (noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) | - |
| (noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | - |
| (verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin | - |
| bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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| (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
| beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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| beardless | (adjective) lacking hair on the face | Synonyms: smooth-faced |
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| (adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: whiskerless |
| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| bearer | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | - |
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| (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: pallbearer |
| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: holder |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: carrier, toter |
| bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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| (noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
| (noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
| (noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
| bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
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| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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| (noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
| bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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| becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
| beggar | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: mendicant |
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| (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
| (verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
| beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
| beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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| beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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| beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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| beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
| bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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| benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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| (noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
| beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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| (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
| (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
| besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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| bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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| beware | (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: mind |
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| biauricular | (adjective) relating to the two auditory openings | - |
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| bibliothecarial | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecal |
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| bicapsular | (adjective) divided into two capsules or having a two-part capsule | - |
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| bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
| bifilar | (adjective) having or using two filaments | - |
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| bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bilharzia | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharziasis, schistosomiasis |
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| bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
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| biliary | (adjective) relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: bilious |
| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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| billiard | (adjective) of or relating to billiards | - |
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| billiards | (noun) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls | - |
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| bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| bimolecular | (adjective) relating to or affecting two molecules | - |
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| binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
| (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
| (noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
| binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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| binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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| binuclear | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binucleate, binucleated |
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| bioarm | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological weapon, bioweapon |
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| biohazard | (noun) any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological agent |
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| (noun) hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions | - |