| bolshevize | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, communise, communize |
|---|
| bombshell | (noun) an explosive bomb or artillery shell | - |
|---|
| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: thunderbolt, thunderclap |
| (noun) an entertainer who has a sensational effect | - |
| bonehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
|---|
| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
|---|
| bonheur | (noun) (French) happiness and good humor | - |
|---|
| bonnethead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo |
|---|
| bookshelf | (noun) a shelf on which to keep books | - |
|---|
| botched | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: bungled |
|---|
| botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
| bothered | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: daunted, fazed |
|---|
| bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
|---|
| bouchee | (noun) shell of puff paste | Synonyms: patty shell |
|---|
| boughed | (adjective) having boughs (of trees) | - |
|---|
| boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
|---|
| boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
|---|
| bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
|---|
| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
|---|
| branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
|---|
| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
| breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
|---|
| (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
| (verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
| (verb) utter or tell | - |
| (verb) manifest or evince | - |
| (verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
| (verb) be alive | - |
| (verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
| breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
|---|
| breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
|---|
| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
|---|
| breeches | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers |
|---|
| bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
|---|
| (noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
| brioche | (noun) a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet | - |
|---|
| britches | (noun) (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
|---|
| broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
|---|
| broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
|---|
| brochette | (noun) a small spit or skewer | - |
|---|
| brokenhearted | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: heartbroken, heartsick |
|---|
| brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
|---|
| brothel | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
|---|
| brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
|---|
| (noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
| (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
| (noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
|---|
| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| brotherlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherly, fraternal |
|---|
| brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
|---|
| (adverb) (archaic as adverb) in a manner characteristic of a brother | - |
| brushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush | - |
|---|
| (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: fleecy, napped |
| (adjective) touched lightly in passing; grazed against | - |
| buckshee | (adjective) free of charge | - |
|---|
| buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
|---|
| (noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
| bufflehead | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
|---|
| bulkhead | (noun) a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments | - |
|---|
| bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
|---|
| bullhead | (noun) freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | Synonyms: bullhead catfish |
| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
|---|
| bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
|---|
| burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
|---|
| (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
|---|
| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
|---|
| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
|---|
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
|---|
| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
|---|
| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
|---|
| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
|---|
| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
|---|
| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
|---|
| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
|---|
| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| cache | (noun) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) | - |
|---|
| (noun) (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics | Synonyms: memory cache |
| (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: hoard, stash |
| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
| cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
|---|
| cachet | (noun) a seal on a letter | - |
|---|
| (noun) an indication of approved or superior status | Synonyms: seal, seal of approval |
| (noun) a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal | Synonyms: lettre de cachet |
| cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
|---|
| cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
|---|
| cacoethes | (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: mania, passion |
|---|
| calanthe | (noun) any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise | - |
|---|
| caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
|---|
| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |
| caliche | (noun) nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru | - |
|---|
| (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: hardpan |
| calisthenic | (adjective) of or relating to calisthenics | - |
|---|
| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
|---|
| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
|---|
| callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
|---|
| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
| caroche | (noun) a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century | - |
|---|
| carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
|---|
| cartographer | (noun) a person who makes maps | Synonyms: map maker |
|---|
| cartouche | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouch |
|---|
| cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
|---|
| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
| (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
| cashed | (adjective) for which money has been paid | - |
|---|
| cashew | (noun) kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted | Synonyms: cashew nut |
|---|
| (noun) tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted | Synonyms: Anacardium occidentale, cashew tree |
| catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
|---|
| catastrophe | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, disaster, tragedy |
|---|
| (noun) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Synonyms: cataclysm |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: disaster |
| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
|---|
| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| catechesis | (noun) oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation) | - |
|---|
| catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
|---|
| cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
|---|
| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
|---|
| cathedra | (noun) a throne that is the official chair of a bishop | Synonyms: bishop's throne |
|---|
| cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
|---|
| (noun) any large and important church | - |
| (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: duomo |
| catheter | (noun) a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open | - |
|---|
| catheterisation | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterization |
|---|
| catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
|---|
| catheterization | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterisation |
|---|
| catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
|---|
| cathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: charge |
|---|
| cephalhematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalohematoma |
|---|
| cephalohematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalhematoma |
|---|
| cheap | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: inexpensive |
|---|
| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: chinchy, chintzy |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
|---|
| cheapjack | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: shoddy, tawdry |
|---|
| (noun) a peddler of inferior goods | - |
| cheaply | (adverb) with little expenditure of money | Synonyms: inexpensively |
|---|
| (adverb) in a cheap manner | Synonyms: inexpensively, tattily |
| (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: chintzily, stingily |