| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
| bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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| bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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| bivouac | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: camp, cantonment, encampment |
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| (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: camp, camp out, encamp, tent |
| bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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| biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| (noun) a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
| (adverb) twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| biyearly | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biennial |
| (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biennially |
| (adverb) twice a year | Synonyms: semiannually |
| biz | (noun) your occupation or line of work | Synonyms: game |
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| bizarre | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
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| bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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| bize | (noun) a dry cold north wind in southeastern France | Synonyms: bise |
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| bizonal | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones | - |
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| blackbird | (noun) any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black | Synonyms: New World blackbird |
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| (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: European blackbird, merl, merle, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
| bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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| bluebill | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: broadbill, scaup, scaup duck |
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| bluebird | (noun) blue North American songbird | - |
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| (noun) fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies | Synonyms: fairy bluebird |
| boatbill | (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, broadbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
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| bobbin | (noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | Synonyms: reel, spool |
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| bombie | (noun) an unexploded bomblet | - |
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| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombilation | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombination, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| bombination | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, buzz |
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| bombing | (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombardment |
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| (noun) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists | - |
| bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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| bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| broadbill | (noun) small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | - |
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| (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, shoveler, shoveller |
| (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, scaup, scaup duck |
| (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, boatbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
| bulbil | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulblet |
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| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| 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 | - |
| cabin | (noun) the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried | - |
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| (noun) small room on a ship or boat where people sleep | - |
| (noun) a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area | - |
| (verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin | - |
| cabinet | (noun) a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display | - |
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| (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: console |
| (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: locker, storage locker |
| (noun) persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers | - |
| cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
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| cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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| cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
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| cabinetwork | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetry |
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| (noun) woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker | - |
| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| cambial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a cambium | - |
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| cambium | (noun) the inner layer of the periosteum | - |
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| (noun) a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth | - |
| cannabin | (noun) a resin obtained from the hemp plant; thought to be the active narcotic agent in marijuana | Synonyms: cannabis resin |
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| cannabis | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: ganja, marihuana, marijuana |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | Synonyms: hemp |
| cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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| capability | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capableness |
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| (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capableness, potentiality |
| (noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capacity |
| carabineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabinier, carbineer |
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| carabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: karabiner, snap ring |
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| carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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| carbide | (noun) a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element | - |
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| carbine | (noun) light automatic rifle | - |
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| carbineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carabinier |
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| catabiosis | (noun) normal aging of cells | - |
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| catbird | (noun) North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing | Synonyms: Dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird |
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| (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: bowerbird |
| cedarbird | (noun) widely distributed over temperate North America | Synonyms: Bombycilla cedrorun, cedar waxwing |
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| cenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: coenobite |
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| cenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| cenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| chalybite | (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: siderite |
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| changeability | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeableness |
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| cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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| childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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| chrysarobin | (noun) a bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases | Synonyms: araroba, Goa powder |
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| chubbiness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: pudginess, rolypoliness, tubbiness |
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| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| climbing | (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, mounting |
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| clubbing | (noun) a condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease | - |
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| clubbish | (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubby |
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| coalbin | (noun) a bin for holding coal | Synonyms: coalhole |
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| cobia | (noun) large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters | Synonyms: Rachycentron canadum, sergeant fish |
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| coenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: cenobite |
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| coenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitical |
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| coenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic |
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| cohabit | (verb) share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | Synonyms: live together, shack up |
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| (verb) exist together | Synonyms: coexist |
| cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| columbine | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, aquilegia |
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| columbite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: niobite |
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| columbium | (noun) a former name for niobium | - |
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| combinable | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinational, combinatory |
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| combination | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combining, compounding |
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| (noun) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | - |
| (noun) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | - |
| (noun) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | - |
| (noun) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | - |
| (noun) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | - |
| (noun) a coordinated sequence of chess moves | - |
| combinational | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinatory |
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| combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
| combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
| combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
| (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
| combine | (noun) harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field | - |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combining |
| (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: cartel, corporate trust, trust |
| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
| (verb) add together from different sources | - |
| (verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
| (verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
| combined | (adjective) made or joined or united into one | - |
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| combing | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: comb |
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| combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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