| bebop | (noun) an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) | Synonyms: bop |
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| (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bop |
| belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
| belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
| bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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| bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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| bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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| billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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| (noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
| billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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| bimbo | (noun) a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men | - |
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| blackboard | (noun) sheet of slate; for writing with chalk | Synonyms: chalkboard |
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| blackbody | (noun) a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it | Synonyms: black body, full radiator |
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| bluebonnet | (noun) a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side | Synonyms: Balmoral |
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| (noun) low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: buffalo clover, Lupinus subcarnosus, Texas bluebonnet |
| bluebottle | (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight | Synonyms: Calliphora vicina |
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| (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
| boa | (noun) any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs | - |
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| (noun) a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur | Synonyms: feather boa |
| boar | (noun) an uncastrated male hog | - |
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| (noun) Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States | Synonyms: Sus scrofa, wild boar |
| board | (noun) a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose | - |
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| (noun) a table at which meals are served | Synonyms: dining table |
| (noun) electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices | Synonyms: control board, control panel, instrument panel, panel |
| (noun) a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view | Synonyms: display board, display panel |
| (noun) a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities | Synonyms: add-in, card, circuit board, circuit card, plug-in |
| (noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games | Synonyms: gameboard |
| (noun) food or meals in general | Synonyms: table |
| (noun) a committee having supervisory powers | - |
| (noun) a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes | Synonyms: plank |
| (verb) provide food and lodging (for) | - |
| (verb) lodge and take meals (at) | - |
| (verb) get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.) | Synonyms: get on |
| (verb) live and take one's meals at or in | Synonyms: room |
| boarder | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: lodger, roomer |
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| (noun) a pupil who lives at school during term time | - |
| (noun) someone who forces their way aboard ship | - |
| boarding | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: embarkation, embarkment |
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| (noun) a structure of boards | - |
| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| boardroom | (noun) a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) | Synonyms: council chamber |
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| boards | (noun) (used in the plural) the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink | - |
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| (noun) (used in the plural) the stage of a theater | - |
| boardwalk | (noun) a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at seaside | - |
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| boarfish | (noun) fish with a projecting snout | Synonyms: Capros aper |
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| (noun) fish with large eyes and long snouts | - |
| boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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| boast | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boasting, jactitation, self-praise |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: feature, sport |
| boaster | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| boastful | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| boastfully | (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, large, vauntingly |
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| boastfulness | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: vainglory |
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| boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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| boat | (noun) a small vessel for travel on water | - |
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| (noun) a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce | Synonyms: gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat |
| (verb) ride in a boat on water | - |
| boatbill | (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, broadbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
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| boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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| boater | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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| (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boatman, waterman |
| boathouse | (noun) a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats | - |
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| boating | (noun) water travel for pleasure | Synonyms: yachting |
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| boatload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: carload, shipload |
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| boatman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, waterman |
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| boatmanship | (noun) skill in handling boats | - |
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| boatswain | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, bos'n, bosun |
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| boatyard | (noun) a place where boats are built or maintained or stored | - |
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| bob | (noun) a short abrupt inclination (as of the head) | - |
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| (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bobtail, dock |
| (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bobber, bobfloat, cork |
| (noun) a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string | - |
| (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bobsled, bobsleigh |
| (noun) a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around | - |
| (noun) a former monetary unit in Great Britain | Synonyms: British shilling, shilling |
| (verb) cut hair in the style of a bob | - |
| (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: curtsy |
| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: dock, tail |
| (verb) move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement | - |
| (verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bobber | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobfloat, cork |
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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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| bobble | (noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball | - |
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| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| bobby | (noun) an informal term for a British policeman | - |
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| bobbysock | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysocks |
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| bobbysocks | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysock |
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| bobbysoxer | (noun) an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | Synonyms: bobby-socker |
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| bobcat | (noun) small lynx of North America | Synonyms: bay lynx, Lynx rufus |
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| bobfloat | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobber, cork |
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| bobolink | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird |
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| bobsled | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsleigh |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsleigh |
| (verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bob |
| bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bobtail | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtailed |
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| (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, dock |
| (noun) large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain | Synonyms: Old English sheepdog |
| bobtailed | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtail |
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| bobwhite | (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite quail, partridge |
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| bocce | (noun) Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | Synonyms: bocci, boccie |
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| bocci | (noun) Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | Synonyms: bocce, boccie |
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| boccie | (noun) Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | Synonyms: bocce, bocci |
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| bocconia | (noun) small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers | Synonyms: Bocconia frutescens, tree celandine |
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| (noun) herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers | Synonyms: Macleaya cordata, plume poppy |
| bock | (noun) a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring | Synonyms: bock beer |
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| bod | (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
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| bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
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| (adjective) incorrigible | - |
| bode | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| bodega | (noun) a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries | - |
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| bodge | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bodice | (noun) part of a dress above the waist | - |
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| bodied | (adjective) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
| bodiless | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodyless |
| bodily | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | - |
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| (adjective) having or relating to a physical material body | - |
| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic |
| (adverb) in bodily form | - |
| boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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| bodkin | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: threader |
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| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric | - |
| (noun) formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head | - |
| (noun) a dagger with a slender blade | Synonyms: poniard |
| body | (noun) the external structure of a vehicle | - |
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| (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: soundbox |
| (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: consistence, consistency, substance |
| (noun) the main mass of a thing | - |
| (noun) the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) | Synonyms: organic structure |
| (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: torso, trunk |
| (noun) a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person | Synonyms: dead body |
| (noun) the central message of a communication | - |
| (noun) a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity | - |
| (noun) a collection of particulars considered as a system | - |
| (noun) an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects | - |
| (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: personify |
| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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| bodyguard | (noun) a group of men who escort and protect some important person | - |
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| (noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: escort |
| bodyless | (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodiless |
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| bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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| bodywork | (noun) the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies | - |
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| (noun) the exterior body of a motor vehicle | - |
| boeuf | (noun) meat from an adult domestic bovine | Synonyms: beef |
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| boffin | (noun) (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research | - |
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| boffo | (adjective) resoundingly successful and popular | - |
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| bog | (noun) wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel | Synonyms: peat bog |
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| (verb) cause to slow down or get stuck | Synonyms: bog down |
| (verb) get stuck while doing something | Synonyms: bog down |
| bogbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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| bogey | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
| (noun) (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole | - |
| (verb) to shoot in one stroke over par | - |
| bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| bogginess | (noun) The state or quality of being too wet and muddy to be easily walked on. | - |
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| boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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| (verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
| (verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
| boggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| bogie | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
| bogmat | (noun) having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America | Synonyms: mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata |
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| bogus | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, fake, phoney, phony |
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| bogy | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogie |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogie |
| bohemia | (noun) a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style | - |
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| bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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| (noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life | - |
| bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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| bohrium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 107 | Synonyms: atomic number 107, Bh, element 107 |
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| boil | (noun) the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level | Synonyms: boiling point |
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| (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | Synonyms: furuncle |
| (verb) immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes | - |
| (verb) come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor | - |
| (verb) bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated emotional state | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: churn, moil, roil |