| bletia | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudobulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers | - |
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| bleu | (noun) cheese containing a blue mold | Synonyms: blue cheese |
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| blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
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| bloodleaf | (noun) any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage | - |
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| bloodless | (adjective) free from blood or bloodshed | - |
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| (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, livid, white |
| (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: exsanguine, exsanguinous |
| (adjective) devoid of human emotion or feeling | - |
| (adjective) without vigor or zest or energy | - |
| bloodlessly | (adverb) without bloodshed; in a bloodless manner; without shedding blood | - |
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| bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
| bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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| blowhole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: vent-hole, vent, venthole |
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| (noun) the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull | - |
| bluebottle | (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight | Synonyms: Calliphora vicina |
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| (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
| bobble | (noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball | - |
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| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| 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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| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bobtailed | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtail |
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| bodiless | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodyless |
| bodyless | (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodiless |
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| boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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| (verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
| (verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
| boiled | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: poached, stewed |
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| boiler | (noun) sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | Synonyms: steam boiler |
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| (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: kettle |
| boilerplate | (noun) thick plate iron used in the production of boilers | - |
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| (noun) standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories | - |
| boilersuit | (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, overall |
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| bole | (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber | Synonyms: tree trunk, trunk |
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| (noun) a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) | - |
| bolero | (noun) a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets | - |
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| (noun) a short jacket; worn mostly by women | - |
| (noun) music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance | - |
| bolete | (noun) any fungus of the family Boletaceae | - |
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| bomblet | (noun) one of the smaller bombs that are released from a cluster bomb | Synonyms: cluster bomblet |
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| bondable | (adjective) capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bindable |
| boneless | (adjective) being without a bone or bones | - |
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| bonelet | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicle, ossiculum |
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| boodle | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| bookable | (adjective) subject to being reserved or booked | - |
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| bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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| booklet | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
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| bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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| bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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| boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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| (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
| bootleg | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, contraband, smuggled |
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| (noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
| (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
| (verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
| (verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
| bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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| bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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| (noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
| bootless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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| borecole | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail, kale |
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| bottle | (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | - |
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| (noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children | Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottleful |
| (verb) put into bottles | - |
| (verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bottleful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottle |
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| bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
| (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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| (noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
| bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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| bottomless | (adjective) having no bottom | - |
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| (adjective) extremely deep | - |
| (adjective) unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness | - |
| (adjective) having no apparent limits or bounds | - |
| bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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| boucle | (noun) a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect | - |
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| bougainvillea | (noun) any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions | - |
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| boughless | (adjective) having no boughs (of trees) | - |
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| boule | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boulle, buhl |
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| boulevard | (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: avenue |
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| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| boulle | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, buhl |
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| boundless | (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: limitless, unbounded |
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| boundlessly | (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: immeasurably, infinitely |
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| boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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| bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
| bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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| bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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| bowleg | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowlegged |
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| (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| bowler | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat |
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| (noun) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins | - |
| (noun) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket | - |
| brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| bracelet | (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bangle |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband |
| bracteole | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bractlet |
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| bractlet | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bracteole |
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| braille | (noun) a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals | - |
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| (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
| brainless | (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: headless |
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| braless | (adjective) having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity | Synonyms: bare-breasted, topless |
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| bramble | (noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | - |
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| branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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| branchlet | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: sprig, twig |
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| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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| brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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| breakable | (adjective) capable of being broken or damaged | - |
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| (noun) an article that is fragile and easily broken | - |
| breakableness | (noun) the consistency of something that breaks under pressure | - |
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| breastless | (adjective) without a breast | - |
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| breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
| (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
| breathlessly | (adverb) in a breathless manner | - |
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| breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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| bribable | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| brickle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickly, brittle |
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| bricole | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: mangonel, traction trebuchet |
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| bridgeable | (adjective) capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge | - |
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| bridle | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: check, curb |
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| (noun) headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control | - |
| (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
| (verb) put a bridle on | - |
| (verb) anger or take offense | - |
| briefless | (adjective) (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients | - |
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| brimless | (adjective) without a brim | - |
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| brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, 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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| bristle | (noun) a stiff hair | - |
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| (noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic | - |
| (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
| (verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
| 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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