| archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
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| archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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| biscuit | (noun) small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda | - |
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| (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: cookie, cooky |
| bise | (noun) a dry cold north wind in southeastern France | Synonyms: bize |
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| bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
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| bisection | (noun) dividing into two equal parts | - |
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| bisectional | (adjective) of or relating to bisection | - |
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| biserrate | (adjective) having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched | - |
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| bisexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to both sexes | - |
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| (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: epicene |
| (noun) a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes | Synonyms: bisexual person |
| bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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| (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
| bishop | (noun) (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | - |
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| (noun) port wine mulled with oranges and cloves | - |
| (noun) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ | - |
| bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
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| bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| bismark | (noun) a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam | Synonyms: Berlin doughnut, jelly doughnut |
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| bismuth | (noun) a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals | Synonyms: atomic number 83, Bi |
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| bismuthal | (adjective) of or relating to bismuth | - |
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| bismuthic | (adjective) containing bismuth (especially in the pentavalent state) | - |
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| bison | (noun) any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | - |
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| bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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| bispak | (noun) A sexually promiscuous Indonesian woman | - |
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| bisque | (noun) a thick cream soup made from shellfish | - |
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| bister | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bistre |
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| bistered | (adjective) colored with or as if with bister | Synonyms: bistred |
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| bistre | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bister |
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| bistred | (adjective) colored with or as if with bister | Synonyms: bistered |
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| bistro | (noun) a small informal restaurant; serves wine | - |
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| bistroic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bistro | - |
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| bisulcate | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: cloven |
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| bisulfate | (noun) a salt or an ester of sulphuric acid with the chemical formula HSO4-. | Synonyms: hydrogen sulfate |
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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 |
| clubbish | (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubby |
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| cubism | (noun) an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes | - |
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| cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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| (noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
| cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| gambist | (noun) a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba | - |
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| hibiscus | (noun) any plant of the genus Hibiscus | - |
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| ibis | (noun) wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills | - |
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| isosyllabism | (noun) (linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse. | - |
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| mobbish | (adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless | Synonyms: moblike |
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| nebbish | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbech |
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| plebiscite | (noun) a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance | - |
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| plumbism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, saturnism |
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| pubis | (noun) one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis | Synonyms: os pubis, pubic bone |
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| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurbishment | (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: renovation, restoration |
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| rubbish | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
| (verb) attack strongly | - |
| rubbishy | (adjective) cheap and inferior; of no value | Synonyms: trashy |
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| snobbish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby |
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| snobbishly | (adverb) in a snobbish manner | Synonyms: snootily, uppishly |
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| snobbishness | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbery, snobbism |
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| snobbism | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbery, snobbishness |
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| strabismus | (noun) abnormal alignment of one or both eyes | Synonyms: squint |
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| syllabise | (verb) utter with distinct articulation of each syllable | Synonyms: syllabize |
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| (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabicate, syllabify, syllabize |
| tabis | (noun) a sock with a separation for the big toe; worn with thong sandals by the Japanese | Synonyms: tabi |
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| vibist | (noun) a musician who plays the vibraphone | Synonyms: vibraphonist |
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