| abbot | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: archimandrite |
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| bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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| 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 |
| bot | (noun) botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human | - |
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| bota | (noun) a wine bottle made of leather | - |
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| botanic | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanical |
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| botanical | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanic |
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| (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
| botanise | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanize |
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| botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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| botanize | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanise |
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| botany | (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants | Synonyms: phytology |
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| (noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: flora, vegetation |
| botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| botched | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: bungled |
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| botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| botchy | (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: butcherly, unskillful |
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| botfly | (noun) stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals | - |
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| both | (adjective) (used with count nouns) two considered together; the two | - |
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| bother | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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| (noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled | - |
| (verb) make nervous or agitated | - |
| (verb) intrude or enter uninvited | - |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| botheration | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
| bothered | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: daunted, fazed |
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| bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| botonee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonnee |
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| botonnee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonee |
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| botryoid | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoidal, boytrose |
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| botryoidal | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, boytrose |
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| bottle | (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | - |
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| (noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children | Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottleful |
| (verb) put into bottles | - |
| (verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bottleful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottle |
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| bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
| (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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| (noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
| bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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| bottom | (adjective) situated at the bottom or lowest position | - |
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| (adjective) the lowest rank | - |
| (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: freighter, merchant ship, merchantman |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: underside, undersurface |
| (noun) the lowest part of anything | - |
| (noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bed |
| (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottomland |
| (noun) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat | Synonyms: bottom of the inning |
| (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: fathom, penetrate |
| (verb) strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom | - |
| (verb) provide with a bottom or a seat | - |
| bottomed | (adjective) having a bottom of a specified character | - |
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| bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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| bottomless | (adjective) having no bottom | - |
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| (adjective) extremely deep | - |
| (adjective) unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness | - |
| (adjective) having no apparent limits or bounds | - |
| bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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| bottommost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: lowermost, nethermost |
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| botuliform | (adjective) long with rounded ends | - |
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| botulin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulinus toxin, botulismotoxin |
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| botulinal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the botulinus | - |
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| botulinum | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinus, Clostridium botulinum |
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| botulinus | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinum, Clostridium botulinum |
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| botulism | (noun) food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious; affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly | - |
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| botulismotoxin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulin, botulinus toxin |
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| burbot | (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: cusk, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
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| cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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| (noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
| flatbottom | (adjective) having a flat bottom | Synonyms: flat-bottom, flat-bottomed, flatbottomed |
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| flatbottomed | (adjective) having a flat bottom | Synonyms: flat-bottom, flat-bottomed, flatbottom |
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| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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| jabot | (noun) a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt | - |
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| jaboticaba | (noun) tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil | - |
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| (noun) small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches | Synonyms: jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora |
| lepidobotrys | (noun) African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds | - |
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| lobotomy | (noun) surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes | Synonyms: frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy |
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| palaeobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: paleobotany |
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| paleobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: palaeobotany |
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| phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomist | (noun) someone who practices phlebotomy | - |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| phlebotomus | (noun) a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii | Synonyms: pappataci fever, sandfly fever |
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| phlebotomy | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: venesection |
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| rambotan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambutan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambutan, rambutan tree |
| robot | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: automaton, golem |
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| robotic | (adjective) of or relating to mechanical robots | - |
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| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike |
| robotics | (noun) the area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots | - |
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| robotlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotic |
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| sabot | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, patten |
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| (noun) a shoe carved from a single block of wood | Synonyms: wooden shoe |
| sabotage | (noun) a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged | - |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| saboteur | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, wrecker |
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| (noun) a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader | Synonyms: fifth columnist |
| strabotomy | (noun) the surgical operation of cutting a muscle or tendon of the eye in order to correct strabismus | - |
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| telerobotics | (noun) the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance | - |
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| turbot | (noun) a large brownish European flatfish | Synonyms: Psetta maxima |
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| (noun) flesh of a large European flatfish | - |
| verboten | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu |
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