| ablism | (noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied | Synonyms: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ableism |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antiestablishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentarianism |
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| assembling | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, collecting, collection |
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| babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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| biblical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: scriptural |
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| (adjective) in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people | - |
| bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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| bibliographic | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographical |
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| bibliographical | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographic |
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| bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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| bibliolatrous | (adjective) given to Bible-worship | - |
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| bibliolatry | (noun) the worship of the Bible | Synonyms: Bible-worship |
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| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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| bibliophilic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliophiles | - |
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| bibliopole | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopolist |
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| bibliopolic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliopoles | - |
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| bibliopolist | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopole |
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| bibliothec | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: librarian |
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| bibliotheca | (noun) a collection of books | - |
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| bibliothecal | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecarial |
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| bibliothecarial | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecal |
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| bibliotic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliotics | - |
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| bibliotics | (noun) the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity | - |
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| bibliotist | (noun) someone who engages in bibliotics | - |
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| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
| blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| blimp | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: sausage, sausage balloon |
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| blimpish | (adjective) pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic | - |
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| blind | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: unsighted |
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| (adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: unreasoning |
| (adjective) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand | - |
| (noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight | Synonyms: screen |
| (noun) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) | - |
| (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: subterfuge |
| (noun) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group | - |
| (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
| (verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
| (verb) render unable to see | - |
| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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| blindfold | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfolded |
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| (noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
| (verb) cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing | - |
| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| blindly | (adverb) without seeing or looking | - |
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| (adverb) without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis | - |
| blindness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: cecity, sightlessness |
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| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
| bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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| blini | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: bliny |
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| blink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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| (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink |
| (verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink away, wink |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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| (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
| (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
| (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
| blinks | (noun) small Indian lettuce of northern regions | Synonyms: blinking chickweed, Montia lamprosperma, water chickweed |
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| blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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| blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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| bliny | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: blini |
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| blip | (noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface | Synonyms: pip, radar target |
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| (noun) a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption | - |
| bliss | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| blissful | (adjective) completely happy and contented | - |
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| blissfully | (adverb) in a blissful manner | - |
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| blissfulness | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: bliss, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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| (noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
| (noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
| (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
| blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
| blithe | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| (adjective) lacking or showing a lack of due concern | - |
| blithely | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: gayly, happily, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
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| blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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| blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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| blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| blitz | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitzkrieg |
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| (noun) (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line | Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz |
| (verb) attack suddenly and without warning | - |
| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
| blizzard | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: rash |
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| (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: snowstorm |
| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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| bubbliness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: effervescence, frothiness |
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| bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| bulblike | (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulbous |
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| bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| cobbling | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: shoe repairing, shoemaking |
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| crumbliness | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: friability |
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| disabling | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disqualifying |
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| (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, incapacitating |
| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| disestablishment | (noun) the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England | - |
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| disoblige | (verb) ignore someone's wishes | - |
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| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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| (noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| eblis | (noun) (Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology | - |
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| enabling | (adjective) providing legal power or sanction | - |
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| enfeebling | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, weakening |
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| ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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| (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| established | (adjective) brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established | Synonyms: constituted |
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| (adjective) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation | Synonyms: naturalized |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: conventional |
| (adjective) shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt | - |
| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: accomplished, effected |
| establishment | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: validation |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: institution |
| (noun) any large organization | - |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: ecesis |
| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| establishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentarianism |
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| fumbling | (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent |
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| gambling | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, sporting |
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| (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gaming, play |
| goblin | (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: hob, hobgoblin |
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| grumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: rumbling |
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| (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, rumble, rumbling |
| hobgoblin | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: bugbear |
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| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hob |
| humbling | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humiliating, mortifying |
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| lamblike | (adjective) like a lamb in meekness and gentleness | - |
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| marbling | (noun) the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat | - |
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| moblike | (adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless | Synonyms: mobbish |
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