| associability | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associableness |
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| astroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells | Synonyms: macroglia |
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| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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| ateliosis | (noun) a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence | Synonyms: ateleiosis |
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| atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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| atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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| atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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| atrabilious | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
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| attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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| atypicality | (noun) any state that is not typical | Synonyms: untypicality |
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| audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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| automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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| automobilist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: motorist |
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| autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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| autotelism | (noun) belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification | - |
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| auxiliary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant |
| (noun) someone who acts as assistant | Synonyms: aide |
| availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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| babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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| babelike | (adjective) like a baby especially in dependence | - |
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| bacchanalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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| backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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| backsliding | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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| baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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| bailiff | (noun) an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. | - |
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| bailiffship | (noun) the office of bailiff | - |
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| bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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| (noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
| balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| balkline | (noun) line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game | Synonyms: baulk-line, string line |
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| ballista | (noun) ancient missile weapon that throws bolts or stones | Synonyms: bolt thrower |
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| ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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| ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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| (noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
| ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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| ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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| banality | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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| bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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| bannerlike | (adverb) like a banner | - |
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| baseline | (noun) the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases | - |
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| (noun) the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line | Synonyms: service line |
| (noun) an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared | - |
| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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| basilica | (noun) a Roman building used for public administration | Synonyms: Roman basilica |
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| (noun) an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges | - |
| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| basilisk | (noun) small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America | - |
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| (noun) ancient brass cannon | - |
| (noun) (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance | - |
| basophilia | (noun) the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes | - |
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| basophilic | (adjective) staining readily with basic dyes | - |
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| batholite | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholith, pluton, plutonic rock |
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| batholith | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholite, pluton, plutonic rock |
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| batholithic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholitic |
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| batholitic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholithic |
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| battalion | (noun) an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies | - |
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| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: large number, multitude, pack, plurality |
| bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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| bazillion | (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: billion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
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| bdellium | (noun) aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh | - |
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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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| beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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| beaklike | (adjective) resembling the beak of a bird | - |
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| beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
| beeline | (noun) the most direct route | - |
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| beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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| befooling | (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: stultification |
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| beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
| belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
| belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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| belief | (noun) any cognitive content held as true | - |
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| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: feeling, impression, notion, opinion |
| believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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| believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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| believably | (adverb) in a believable manner | - |
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| (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: credibly, plausibly, probably |
| believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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| (verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
| (verb) credit with veracity | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
| believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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| (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
| believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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| believingly | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: credulously |
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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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| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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| belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| (noun) the act of belittling | - |
| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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| bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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| bellied | (adjective) having a belly | - |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
| belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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| belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| beltlike | (adjective) resembling a belt around something | Synonyms: belt-like |
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| bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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| benzylic | (adjective) relating to benzyl | - |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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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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| berlin | (noun) a limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats | - |
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| berrylike | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: baccate |
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| beryllium | (noun) a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element | Synonyms: atomic number 4, Be, glucinium |
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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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