| bloated | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blocked | (adjective) closed to traffic | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: plugged |
| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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| bloodshed | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting |
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| (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: gore |
| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| blotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotchy, splotched |
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| blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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| blunted | (adjective) made dull or blunt | Synonyms: dulled |
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| blurred | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) unclear in form or expression | Synonyms: clouded |
| 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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| bobtailed | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtail |
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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 |
| boiled | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: poached, stewed |
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| boned | (adjective) having bones as specified | - |
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| (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: deboned |
| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| booked | (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: engaged, set-aside |
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| booted | (adjective) wearing boots | - |
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| borated | (adjective) mixed or impregnated with borax | - |
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| bordered | (adjective) having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term | - |
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| bored | (adjective) tired of the world | Synonyms: world-weary |
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| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: blase |
| boredom | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: ennui, tedium |
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| bosomed | (adjective) having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds | - |
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| botched | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: bungled |
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| bothered | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: daunted, fazed |
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| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bottomed | (adjective) having a bottom of a specified character | - |
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| boughed | (adjective) having boughs (of trees) | - |
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| bouldered | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldery, rocky, stony |
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| bounded | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: delimited |
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| boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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| bountied | (adjective) rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty | - |
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| boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
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| boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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| bowed | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow | - |
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| (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate |
| (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowleg, bowlegged |
| (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowing |
| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| boxed | (adjective) enclosed in or set off by a border or box | - |
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| (adjective) enclosed in or as if in a box | Synonyms: boxed-in, boxed in |
| braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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| (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
| bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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| braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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| braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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| branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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| breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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| breed | (noun) a special type | - |
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| (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: stock, strain |
| (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
| (verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
| breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
| (noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
| (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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| bristled | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
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| broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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| broiled | (adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: grilled |
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| brokenhearted | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: heartbroken, heartsick |
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| brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
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| bronzed | (adjective) (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun | Synonyms: suntanned, tanned |
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| brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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| (noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
| broomweed | (noun) annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers | Synonyms: broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana |
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| browned | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: brown |
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| brushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: fleecy, napped |
| (adjective) touched lightly in passing; grazed against | - |
| buffeted | (adjective) pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities | Synonyms: storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost |
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| bugged | (adjective) having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices | Synonyms: wired |
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| bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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| (noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
| bulbed | (adjective) having a bulb | - |
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| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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| bullnecked | (adjective) having a thick short powerful neck | - |
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| bungled | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: botched |
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| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |
| buried | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: inhumed, interred |
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| burked | (adjective) suppressed quietly or indirectly | - |
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| burled | (adjective) (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl | - |
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| burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burred | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
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| busted | (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: broken |
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| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
| buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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| buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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| cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
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| cairned | (adjective) marked by cairns | - |
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| calced | (adjective) used of certain religious orders who wear shoes | Synonyms: shod |
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| calcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: chalcedony |
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| calculated | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
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| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| calibrated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: graduated |
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| calloused | (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: callous, thickened |
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| calycled | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calyculate |
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| camouflaged | (adjective) made invisible by means of protective coloring | - |
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| campanulated | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulate |
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