| bicameral | (adjective) composed of two legislative bodies | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two chambers | Synonyms: two-chambered |
| 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 |
| bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
| bicentric | (adjective) having two centers | - |
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| bicephalous | (adjective) having two heads | - |
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| biceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm) | - |
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| bichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: dichloride |
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| bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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| bichromated | (adjective) treated or combined with bichromate | - |
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| bichrome | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bicipital | (adjective) having two heads or points of origin as a biceps | - |
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| bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
| bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bicolor | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bicolored | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bicolour | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bicoloured | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, dichromatic |
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| biconcave | (adjective) concave on both sides | Synonyms: concavo-concave |
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| biconvex | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform |
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| bicorn | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorne |
| bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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| bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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| bicornuous | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate |
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| bicuspid | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspidate |
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| (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: premolar |
| bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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| bicycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bike, cycle, wheel |
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| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
| bicycler | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicyclist, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bicyclic | (adjective) having molecules consisting of two fused rings | - |
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| bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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| bicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bicylindrical | (adjective) having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes | - |
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| bid | (noun) an attempt to get something | Synonyms: play |
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| (noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: tender |
| (noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bidding |
| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bidding, command, dictation |
| (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: invite |
| (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: wish |
| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, press |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: offer, tender |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: call |
| (verb) make a serious effort to attain something | - |
| biddable | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: acquiescent |
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| bidder | (noun) someone who makes an offer | - |
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| (noun) someone who makes a bid at cards | - |
| bidding | (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: summons |
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| (noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, command, dictation |
| biddy | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: chick |
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| (noun) adult female chicken | Synonyms: hen |
| bide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, stay |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| bidet | (noun) a basin for washing genitals and anal area | - |
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| bidirectional | (adjective) reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions | - |
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| biennial | (adjective) having a life cycle lasting two seasons | Synonyms: two-year |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biyearly |
| (noun) (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season | - |
| biennially | (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biyearly |
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| bier | (noun) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial | - |
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| (noun) a coffin along with its stand | - |
| biface | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: bifacial |
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| bifacial | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: biface |
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| biff | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: clout, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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| (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: pommel, pummel |
| bifid | (adjective) divided into two lobes | - |
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| bifilar | (adjective) having or using two filaments | - |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| bifocal | (adjective) having two foci | - |
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| bifocals | (noun) (plural) eyeglasses having two focal lengths, one for near vision and the other for far vision | - |
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| bifoliate | (adjective) having two leaves | - |
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| biform | (adjective) having or combining two forms | - |
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| bifurcate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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| (verb) divide into two branches | - |
| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| bifurcated | (adjective) divided into or made up of two parts | - |
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| bifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into two branches | - |
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| (noun) the place where something divides into two branches | - |
| (noun) a bifurcating branch (one or both of them) | - |
| big | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: large |
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| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: large, prominent |
| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
| (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: large, magnanimous |
| (adjective) marked by intense physical force | - |
| (adjective) significant | - |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adjective) serious or severe | Synonyms: bad |
| (adjective) loud and firm | - |
| (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
| (adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: swelled, vainglorious |
| (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
| (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: boastfully, large, vauntingly |
| (adverb) in a major way | - |
| (adverb) on a grand scale | - |
| (adverb) extremely well | - |
| bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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| bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
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| bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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| (noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
| 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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| bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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| bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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| bigeye | (noun) red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales | - |
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| bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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| biggin | (noun) a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin | - |
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| biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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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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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
| bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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| bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bigos | (noun) a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
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| bigot | (noun) a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own | - |
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| bigoted | (adjective) blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others | - |
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| bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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| bigram | (noun) a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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| bigwig | (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: kingpin, top banana |
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| bijou | (noun) a small and delicately worked piece | - |
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| bike | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, wheel |
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| (noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame | Synonyms: motorcycle |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, pedal, wheel |
| biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
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| bikini | (noun) a woman's very brief bathing suit | Synonyms: two-piece |
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| bilabial | (adjective) of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips | - |
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| (noun) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ | - |
| bilabiate | (adjective) having two lips | Synonyms: two-lipped |
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| bilateral | (adjective) having two sides or parts | Synonyms: two-sided |
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| (adjective) affecting or undertaken by two parties | - |
| (adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral |
| bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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| bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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| bilaterally | (adverb) with the involvement of two parties or governments | - |
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| (adverb) so as to involve two sides or parts | - |
| bilberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: European blueberry, whortleberry |
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| (noun) erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries | Synonyms: mountain blue berry, thin-leaved bilberry, Viccinium membranaceum |
| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
| bilby | (noun) bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit | Synonyms: Macrotis lagotis, rabbit-eared bandicoot, rabbit bandicoot |
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