| ackee | (noun) red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe | Synonyms: akee |
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| aflicker | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: flickering |
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| airbrake | (noun) a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles | - |
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| (noun) a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft | Synonyms: dive brake |
| airlike | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: aeriform |
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| akee | (noun) red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe | Synonyms: ackee |
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| (noun) widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh | Synonyms: akee tree, Blighia sapida |
| alike | (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: like, similar |
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| (adverb) equally | Synonyms: likewise |
| (adverb) in a like manner | - |
| alikeness | (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: likeness, similitude |
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| alkene | (noun) any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon | Synonyms: olefin, olefine |
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| apelike | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apish |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, anthropoidal |
| archduke | (noun) a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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| armlike | (adjective) resembling an arm | - |
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| artichoke | (noun) a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart | Synonyms: globe artichoke |
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| (noun) Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head | Synonyms: artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus, globe artichoke |
| ashcake | (noun) corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern) | Synonyms: ash cake, corn tash |
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| asker | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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| askew | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: awry, skew-whiff |
| asterisked | (adjective) marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: starred |
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| attacker | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, assaulter |
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| automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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| automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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| awake | (adjective) not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | - |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, alive |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| awakened | (adjective) aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) (somewhat formal) having been waked up | - |
| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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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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| babelike | (adjective) like a baby especially in dependence | - |
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| backed | (adjective) having a back or backing, usually of a specified type | - |
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| (adjective) used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light | - |
| backer | (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture | Synonyms: angel |
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| backpacker | (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: packer |
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| backstroke | (noun) a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back | - |
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| (verb) swim on one's back | - |
| backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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| baedeker | (noun) any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker | - |
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| bake | (verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | - |
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| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: broil |
| (verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven | - |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: broil |
| bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| baked | (adjective) (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven) | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
| bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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| baker | (noun) someone who bakes bread or cake | Synonyms: bread maker |
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| (noun) someone who bakes commercially | - |
| bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
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| bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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| balker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: baulker, noncompliant |
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| banker | (noun) a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank | - |
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| (noun) the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game | - |
| bannerlike | (adverb) like a banner | - |
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| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| (adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
| barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
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| (noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
| basket | (noun) a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop | Synonyms: field goal |
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| (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: handbasket |
| (noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basketball hoop, hoop |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basketful |
| basketball | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball game, hoops |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing basketball | - |
| basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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| basketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basket |
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| basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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| basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
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| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| battercake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| baulker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, noncompliant |
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| beadlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beady, buttonlike, buttony |
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| beaked | (adjective) having or resembling a beak | - |
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| beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
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| (noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
| beaklike | (adjective) resembling the beak of a bird | - |
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| becket | (noun) (nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship | - |
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| beefcake | (noun) a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire | - |
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| beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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| beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
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| belike | (adverb) with considerable certainty; without much doubt | Synonyms: in all likelihood, in all probability, likely, probably |
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| beltlike | (adjective) resembling a belt around something | Synonyms: belt-like |
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| berkelium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium | Synonyms: atomic number 97, Bk |
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| berrylike | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: baccate |
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| berserker | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserk |
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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 |
| betoken | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, indicate, point, signal |
| bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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| bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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| bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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| bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
| bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bike | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, wheel |
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| (noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame | Synonyms: motorcycle |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, pedal, wheel |
| biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
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| birken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birchen |
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| blacken | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize |
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| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: char, scorch, sear |
| blackened | (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: black |
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| (adjective) darkened by smoke | - |
| blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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| blacksnake | (noun) blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet | Synonyms: black racer, Coluber constrictor |
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| (noun) large harmless shiny black North American snake | Synonyms: black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta, mountain blacksnake, pilot blacksnake |
| bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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| bladelike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| blanket | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
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| (noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: cover |
| (noun) a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor | - |
| (noun) anything that covers | Synonyms: mantle |
| (verb) cover as if with a blanket | - |
| (verb) form a blanket-like cover (over) | - |
| blanketed | (adjective) covered with (or as if with) a blanket | - |
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| blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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| (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
| (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
| (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
| blocked | (adjective) closed to traffic | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: plugged |
| blocker | (noun) a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process | Synonyms: blocking agent |
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| (noun) a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play | - |
| bloke | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
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| bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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| bluejacket | (noun) a serviceman in the navy | Synonyms: navy man, sailor, sailor boy |
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| bonelike | (adjective) resembling bone | - |
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| boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
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| bonkers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| booked | (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: engaged, set-aside |
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| bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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| booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
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| bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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