| 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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| oblanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base | - |
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| resemblance | (noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details | - |
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| scablands | (noun) (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington) | - |
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| scrubland | (noun) an uncultivated region covered with scrub vegetation | - |
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| semblance | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: likeness |
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| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, gloss |
| (noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: illusion |