| averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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| (noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
| aviatress | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatrix |
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| avidness | (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, eagerness, keenness |
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| awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
| awayness | (noun) the state of being elsewhere than in particular place | - |
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| aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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| awfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| awless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: aweless |
| awnless | (adjective) lacking or having only very short awns | - |
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| backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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| backrest | (noun) a support that you can lean against while sitting | Synonyms: back |
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| backsheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| backwardness | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality |
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| badness | (noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | Synonyms: bad |
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| (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
| (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: mischievousness, naughtiness |
| bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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| baksheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| baldness | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: phalacrosis |
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| balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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| balkiness | (noun) likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly | - |
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| balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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| balminess | (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: softness |
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| barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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| bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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| (noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
| baroness | (noun) a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
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| baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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| barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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| (noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
| barytes | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barite, barium sulphate, heavy spar |
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| baseless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| baseness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| bashfulness | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: abashment |
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| bastnaesite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnasite |
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| battleship | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battlewagon |
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| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bawdiness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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| beakless | (adjective) not having a beak or bill | - |
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| beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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| beardless | (adjective) lacking hair on the face | Synonyms: smooth-faced |
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| (adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: whiskerless |
| beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
| beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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| becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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| bedclothes | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedding |
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| bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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| bedless | (adjective) without a bed | - |
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| bedrest | (noun) confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick or injured persons) | Synonyms: bed rest |
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| beeswax | (noun) a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs | - |
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| (verb) cover with beeswax | - |
| behest | (noun) an authoritative command or request | - |
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| beingness | (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, existence, face of the earth |
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| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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| bellyless | (adjective) lacking a prominent belly | Synonyms: flat-bellied |
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| beltless | (adjective) lacking a belt | Synonyms: unbelted |
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| benefactress | (noun) a woman benefactor | - |
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| bequest | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: legacy |
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| beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
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| beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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| beseechingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: entreatingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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| beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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| beseem | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, suit |
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| beset | (verb) assail or attack on all sides: | Synonyms: set upon |
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| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: encrust, incrust |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| beshrew | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| besides | (adverb) making an additional point; anyway | Synonyms: in any case |
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| (adverb) in addition | Synonyms: also, as well, likewise, too |
| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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| (noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
| besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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| besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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| besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
| besom | (noun) a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle | - |
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| besot | (verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: stupefy |
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| besotted | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
| bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| bespoke | (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoken, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
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| bespoken | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: betrothed, engaged |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoke, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
| bespot | (verb) mark with, or as if with, spots | - |
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| besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| best | (adjective) (superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities | - |
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| (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable | Synonyms: better |
| (noun) the supreme effort one can make | - |
| (noun) the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others | Synonyms: topper |
| (adverb) it would be sensible | - |
| (adverb) in a most excellent way or manner | - |
| (adverb) from a position of superiority or authority | Synonyms: better |
| (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: outdo, outflank, scoop, trump |
| bestial | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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| bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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| (noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
| bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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| bestially | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: brutishly, in a beastly manner |
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| bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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| bestir | (verb) become active | Synonyms: rouse |
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| bestow | (verb) present | Synonyms: confer |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
| (verb) give as a gift | - |
| bestowal | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowment, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowment |
| bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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| bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |
| bestrew | (verb) cover by strewing | - |
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| bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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| bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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| bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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| betimes | (adverb) in good time | Synonyms: early |
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