| bile | (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: gall |
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| bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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| bilge | (noun) where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom | - |
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| (noun) water accumulated in the bilge of a ship | Synonyms: bilge water |
| (verb) take in water at the bilge | Synonyms: take in water |
| (verb) cause to leak | - |
| bilges | (noun) in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side | - |
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| bilgewater | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bilgy | (adjective) smelling like bilge water | - |
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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 |
| bilimbi | (noun) East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa bilimbi |
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| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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| (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
| bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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| bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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| bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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| bilious | (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: biliary |
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| (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
| (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: liverish, livery |
| biliousness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder | - |
| bilirubin | (noun) an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice | Synonyms: haematoidin, hematoidin |
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| bilk | (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: elude, evade |
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| (verb) evade payment to | - |
| (verb) cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| bill | (noun) the entertainment offered at a public presentation | - |
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| (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker |
| (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: eyeshade, peak, visor, vizor |
| (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: billhook |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: card, notice, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: account, invoice |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare) | - |
| (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
| (verb) advertise especially by posters or placards | - |
| (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: placard |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: charge |
| billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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| (noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
| billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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| billed | (adjective) having a beak or bill as specified | - |
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| billet | (noun) lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home) | - |
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| (noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: line, note, short letter |
| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: canton, quarter |
| billfish | (noun) giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: gar, needlefish |
| (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
| (noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus |
| billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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| billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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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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| billing | (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: charge |
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| billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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| billion | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States | - |
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| (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain | - |
| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000000, one thousand million |
| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen | Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million |
| (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
| billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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| billionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one billion in counting order | - |
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| (noun) one part in a billion equal parts | Synonyms: one-billionth |
| (noun) position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
| billow | (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) move with great difficulty | - |
| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| billowy | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, surging |
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| billy | (noun) male goat | Synonyms: billy goat, he-goat |
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| (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
| billyo | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyoh |
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| billyoh | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyo |
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| billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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| bilobate | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobated, bilobed |
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| bilobated | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobed |
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| bilobed | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobated |
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| bilocation | (noun) the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations | - |
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| bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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| biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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| bilsted | (noun) a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap | Synonyms: American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum, sweet gum tree |
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| biltong | (noun) meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun | - |
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| bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| bimbo | (noun) a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men | - |
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| bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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| bimestrial | (adjective) two months long; lasting two months | - |
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| (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimonthly |
| bimetal | (adjective) formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| (noun) material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals | - |
| bimetallic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallistic |
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| (adjective) formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together | Synonyms: bimetal |
| bimetallism | (noun) a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio | - |
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| bimetallist | (noun) an advocate of bimetallism | - |
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| bimetallistic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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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 |
| bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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| bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
| bimli | (noun) valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation | Synonyms: bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kanaf, kenaf |
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| bimodal | (adjective) of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes | - |
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| bimolecular | (adjective) relating to or affecting two molecules | - |
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| bimonthly | (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimestrial |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| (noun) a periodical that is published twice a month or every two months (either 24 or 6 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) every two months | - |
| (adverb) twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| bimorphemic | (adjective) consisting of two morphemes | - |
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| bimotored | (adjective) having two motors | - |
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| bin | (noun) a container; usually has a lid | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a bin | Synonyms: binful |
| (verb) store in bins | - |
| 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 |
| binate | (adjective) growing in two parts or in pairs | - |
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| binaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: biaural |
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| binaurally | (adverb) in a binaural manner | Synonyms: in both ears, to both ears |
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| bind | (noun) something that hinders as if with bonds | - |
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| (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: constipate |
| (verb) form a chemical bond with | - |
| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige |
| (verb) make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope | - |
| (verb) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Synonyms: tie |
| (verb) provide with a binding | - |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
| (verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss |
| (verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bandage |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bond, tie |
| bindable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bondable |
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| binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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| (noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
| (noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
| (noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
| bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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| binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, dressing |
| (noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, book binding, cover |
| (noun) strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration | - |
| (noun) one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall | Synonyms: ski binding |
| (noun) the capacity to attract and hold something | - |
| bindweed | (noun) any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit | - |
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| bine | (noun) European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America | Synonyms: common hop, common hops, European hop, Humulus lupulus |
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| binful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bin | Synonyms: bin |
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| binge | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: bout, bust, tear |
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| (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: orgy, splurge |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
| (verb) to watch a large amount of media in a single seating | - |
| binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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| bingle | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: single |
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| bingo | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, keno, lotto |
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| binnacle | (noun) a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm) | - |
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| 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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| binomial | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of two terms | - |
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| (adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binominal |
| (noun) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms | - |
| binominal | (adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binomial |
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| binturong | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, bearcat |
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| binuclear | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binucleate, binucleated |
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| binucleate | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleated |
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| binucleated | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleate |
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| bioarm | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological weapon, bioweapon |
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| bioassay | (noun) appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard | Synonyms: bio-assay |
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| (verb) subject to a bio-assay | - |
| bioattack | (noun) the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food | Synonyms: biologic attack, biological attack, biological warfare, BW |
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| biocatalyst | (noun) a biochemical catalyst such as an enzyme | - |
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| biocatalytic | (adjective) of or relating to biocatalysts | - |
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| biochemical | (adjective) of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms | - |
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| biochemically | (adverb) with respect to biochemistry | - |
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