| bibliophilic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliophiles | - |
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| biochip | (noun) a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environment | - |
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| bioethics | (noun) the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences | - |
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| biogeographic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographical |
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| biogeographical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographic |
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| biographic | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographical |
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| biographical | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographic |
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| biographism | (noun) reduction of textual meaning to authorial biography. | - |
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| birthing | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, giving birth, parturition |
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| bismuthic | (adjective) containing bismuth (especially in the pentavalent state) | - |
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| bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| bloodthirsty | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloody-minded, sanguinary |
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| blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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| boatmanship | (noun) skill in handling boats | - |
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| bobwhite | (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite quail, partridge |
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| bolographic | (adjective) of or relating to a bolograph | - |
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| bolshie | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshy, Marxist, red |
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| brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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| brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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| (adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
| (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
| brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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| brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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| (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
| brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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| brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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| brachium | (noun) (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal | - |
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| brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| branchia | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: gill |
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| branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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| branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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| branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
| (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
| branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
| branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
| branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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| breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
| brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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| bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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| bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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| bronchiole | (noun) any of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoli | - |
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| bronchiolitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles | - |
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| bronchitic | (adjective) suffering from or prone to bronchitis | - |
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| bronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes | - |
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| brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
| bullshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
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| cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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| calligraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphical |
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| calligraphical | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphic |
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| calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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| camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| captainship | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captaincy |
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| capuchin | (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: Cebus capucinus, ringtail |
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| (noun) a hooded cloak for women | - |
| cardinalship | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalate |
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| cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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| cartographic | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographical |
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| cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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| cashier | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, teller |
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| (noun) a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant) | - |
| (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
| (verb) discard or do away with | - |
| catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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| (noun) of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together | Synonyms: Old World monkey |
| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| catastrophically | (adverb) with unfortunate consequences | - |
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| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
| (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
| (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
| catechin | (noun) a tannic acid that is extracted from black catechu as a white crystalline substance | - |
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| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
| catechism | (noun) an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers | - |
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| (noun) a series of questions put to an individual (such as a political candidate) to elicit their views | - |
| catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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| catechist | (noun) one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism) | - |
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| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| catechize | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechise |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechise |
| cattleship | (noun) a cargo ship for the transport of livestock | Synonyms: cattle boat |
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| censorship | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censoring |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censoring, security review |
| centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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| cephalothin | (noun) a semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin | - |
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| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| chalcanthite | (noun) hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate | Synonyms: blue copperas, blue stone, blue vitriol |
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| championship | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, patronage |
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| (noun) a competition at which a champion is chosen | - |
| (noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: title |
| chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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| chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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| cheiloschisis | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cleft lip, harelip |
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| chi | (noun) the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health | Synonyms: ch'i, ki, qi |
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| (noun) the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet | Synonyms: khi |
| chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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| chiasm | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasma, decussation |
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| chiasma | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasm, decussation |
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| chiasmal | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmatic, chiasmic |
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| chiasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmic |
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| chiasmic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmatic |
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| chiasmus | (noun) inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | - |
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| chic | (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: smart, voguish |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
| chicane | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| (noun) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file | - |
| (noun) a bridge hand that is void of trumps | - |
| (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| chicha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| chichi | (adjective) affectedly trendy and fashionable | - |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
| (noun) someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way | - |
| chichipe | (noun) tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | Synonyms: Lemaireocereus chichipe |
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| chick | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: biddy |
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| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
| chickadee | (noun) any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America | - |
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| chicken | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| (noun) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: Gallus gallus |
| (noun) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops | - |
| (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: poulet, volaille |
| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: crybaby, wimp |
| chickenfeed | (noun) a trifling sum of money | Synonyms: chump change, small change |
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