blackheart | (noun) heart cherry with dark flesh and skin | Synonyms: blackheart cherry |
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(noun) any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken | - |
blacking | (noun) a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear | Synonyms: shoe polish |
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blackish | (adjective) of something that is somewhat black | - |
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blackjack | (noun) a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21 | Synonyms: twenty-one, vingt-et-un |
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(noun) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people | Synonyms: cosh, sap |
(noun) a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship | Synonyms: black flag, Jolly Roger, pirate flag |
(noun) a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets | Synonyms: blackjack oak, jack oak, Quercus marilandica |
(verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackmail, pressure |
blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
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(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
blacklist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, shitlist |
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(verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted | - |
blackmail | (noun) extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information | - |
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(verb) obtain through threats | - |
(verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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blackness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, inkiness |
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(noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
blackout | (noun) a momentary loss of consciousness | - |
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(noun) partial or total loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesia, memory loss |
(noun) the failure of electric power for a general region | - |
(noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: brownout, dimout |
(noun) a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting | - |
blackpoll | (noun) North American warbler having a black-and-white head | Synonyms: Dendroica striate |
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blackseed | (noun) grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus | Synonyms: carpet grass, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii |
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blacksmith | (noun) a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil | - |
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blacksnake | (noun) blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet | Synonyms: black racer, Coluber constrictor |
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(noun) large harmless shiny black North American snake | Synonyms: black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta, mountain blacksnake, pilot blacksnake |
blacktail | (noun) mule deer of western Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: black-tailed deer, blacktail deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus |
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blackthorn | (noun) erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries | Synonyms: Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn |
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(noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: Prunus spinosa, sloe |
blacktop | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktopping |
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(verb) coat with blacktop | - |
blacktopping | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktop |
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blackwash | (noun) a wash that colors a surface black | - |
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(noun) a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores | Synonyms: black lotion |
(noun) an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation | Synonyms: assassination, character assassination |
(verb) color with blackwash | - |
(verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
blackwater | (noun) any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells | - |
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blackwood | (noun) any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | Synonyms: blackwood tree |
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(noun) very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees | - |
bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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(noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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bladderpod | (noun) any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods | - |
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(noun) any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods | - |
(noun) annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella | - |
(noun) North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata |
bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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bladderwrack | (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, tang |
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(noun) similar to and found with black rockweed | Synonyms: Ascophyllum nodosum |
bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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blade | (noun) the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge | - |
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(noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: brand, steel, sword |
(noun) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water | Synonyms: vane |
(noun) the part of the skate that slides on the ice | - |
(noun) a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) | - |
(noun) a cut of beef from the shoulder blade | - |
(noun) something long and thin resembling a blade of grass | - |
(noun) a dashing young man | - |
(noun) especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole | Synonyms: leaf blade |
bladed | (adjective) bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination | - |
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(adjective) having a blade or blades; often used in combination | - |
(adjective) composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade | - |
bladelike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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blae | (adjective) of bluish-black or grey-blue | - |
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blaeberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
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blah | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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blahs | (noun) a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction | - |
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blain | (noun) an inflammatory swelling or sore | - |
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blamable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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blame | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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(noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: rap |
(noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: incrimination, inculpation |
(verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: charge |
(verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: fault |
(verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: find fault, pick |
blameable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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blamed | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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blameful | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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blameless | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
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blamelessly | (adverb) in an irreproachable and blameless manner | Synonyms: irreproachably |
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blamelessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: guiltlessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
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blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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blameworthy | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable |
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blanc | (noun) a white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables (used especially with braised meat) | - |
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blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
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(verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
blanched | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white |
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(adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated |
blancmange | (noun) sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded | - |
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bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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(adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
(adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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blandishment | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: wheedling |
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(noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: cajolery, palaver |
blandly | (adverb) in a bland manner | - |
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blandness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: insipidity, insipidness |
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(noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: smoothness, suaveness, suavity |
(noun) the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern | - |
blank | (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: clean, white |
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(adjective) not charged with a bullet | - |
(adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: utter |
(adjective) without comprehension | - |
(noun) a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet | Synonyms: blank shell, dummy |
(noun) a piece of material ready to be made into something | - |
(noun) a blank gap or missing part | Synonyms: lacuna |
(noun) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing | Synonyms: space |
(verb) keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning | - |
blanket | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
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(noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: cover |
(noun) a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor | - |
(noun) anything that covers | Synonyms: mantle |
(verb) cover as if with a blanket | - |
(verb) form a blanket-like cover (over) | - |
blanketed | (adjective) covered with (or as if with) a blanket | - |
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blankly | (adverb) in a blank and uncomprehending manner | - |
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blankness | (noun) the state of being blank; void; emptiness | - |
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blanquillo | (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: tilefish |
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blare | (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blaring, cacophony, clamor, din |
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(verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, claxon, honk, toot |
(verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blast |
blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
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(noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, cacophony, clamor, din |
blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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(verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
blase | (adjective) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | Synonyms: worldly |
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(adjective) nonchalantly unconcerned | - |
(adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: bored |
blaspheme | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: curse, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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(verb) speak of in an irreverent or impious manner | - |
blasphemer | (noun) a person who speaks disrespectfully of sacred things | - |
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blasphemous | (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blue, profane |
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(adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: profane, sacrilegious |
blasphemously | (adverb) in a blasphemous manner | - |
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blasphemy | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: desecration, profanation, sacrilege |
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(noun) blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred) | - |
blast | (noun) a very long fly ball | - |
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(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, fire, flack, flak |
(noun) an explosion (as of dynamite) | - |
(noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, bang, clap, eruption |
(noun) a highly pleasurable or exciting experience | Synonyms: good time |
(noun) a strong current of air | Synonyms: blow, gust |
(verb) shatter as if by explosion | Synonyms: knock down |
(verb) shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly | - |
(verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: crucify, pillory, savage |
(verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: shell |
(verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: shoot |
(verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: boom, nail, smash |
(verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: shell |
(verb) make with or as if with an explosion | - |
(verb) apply a draft or strong wind to to | - |
(verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blare |
blasted | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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blastema | (noun) a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops | - |
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blastemal | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastematic, blastemic |
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blastematic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastemic |
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blastemic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastematic |
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blaster | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: chargeman |
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blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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(adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
blastocele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoel | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoel, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoelic | (adjective) of or relating to a segmentation cavity | - |
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blastocyst | (noun) the blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred | Synonyms: blastodermic vessicle |
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blastocyte | (noun) an undifferentiated embryonic cell | - |
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blastocytoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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blastodisc | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastoderm, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blastoff | (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: shot |
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blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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(noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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blastoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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blastomere | (noun) any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg | - |
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blastomeric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastomere | - |
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blastomycete | (noun) any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals | - |
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blastomycosis | (noun) any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces | - |
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blastomycotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis | - |
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blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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