| 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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| bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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| bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
| bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| bellows | (noun) (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument | - |
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| bellpull | (noun) a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc. | - |
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| bellwether | (noun) sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | - |
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| (noun) someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | - |
| bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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| belly | (noun) the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish | - |
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| (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter |
| (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: paunch |
| (noun) the hollow inside of something | - |
| (noun) a part that bulges deeply | - |
| (verb) swell out or bulge out | Synonyms: belly out |
| bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
| bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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| (noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
| bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| bellyful | (noun) an undesirable overabundance | - |
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| bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| bellyless | (adjective) lacking a prominent belly | Synonyms: flat-bellied |
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| beneficially | (adverb) in a beneficial manner | - |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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| bergall | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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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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| bestially | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: brutishly, in a beastly manner |
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| bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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| biannually | (adverb) twice a year | - |
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| biennially | (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biyearly |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| bilaterally | (adverb) with the involvement of two parties or governments | - |
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| (adverb) so as to involve two sides or parts | - |
| bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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| bill | (noun) the entertainment offered at a public presentation | - |
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| (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker |
| (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: eyeshade, peak, visor, vizor |
| (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: billhook |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: card, notice, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: account, invoice |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare) | - |
| (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
| (verb) advertise especially by posters or placards | - |
| (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: placard |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: charge |
| billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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| (noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
| billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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| billed | (adjective) having a beak or bill as specified | - |
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| billet | (noun) lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home) | - |
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| (noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: line, note, short letter |
| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: canton, quarter |
| billfish | (noun) giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: gar, needlefish |
| (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
| (noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus |
| billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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| billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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| billiard | (adjective) of or relating to billiards | - |
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| billiards | (noun) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls | - |
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| billing | (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: charge |
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| billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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| billion | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States | - |
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| (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain | - |
| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000000, one thousand million |
| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen | Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million |
| (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
| billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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| billionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one billion in counting order | - |
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| (noun) one part in a billion equal parts | Synonyms: one-billionth |
| (noun) position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
| billow | (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) move with great difficulty | - |
| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| billowy | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, surging |
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| billy | (noun) male goat | Synonyms: billy goat, he-goat |
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| (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
| billyo | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyoh |
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| billyoh | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyo |
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| billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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| bimetallic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallistic |
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| (adjective) formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together | Synonyms: bimetal |
| bimetallism | (noun) a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio | - |
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| bimetallist | (noun) an advocate of bimetallism | - |
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| bimetallistic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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| bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
| binaurally | (adverb) in a binaural manner | Synonyms: in both ears, to both ears |
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| biochemically | (adverb) with respect to biochemistry | - |
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| biologically | (adverb) with respect to biology | - |
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| biradially | (adverb) in a biradial manner | - |
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| birdcall | (noun) a device for imitating a birdcall | - |
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| (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdsong, call, song |
| blackball | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: barring |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: negative, veto |
| blackpoll | (noun) North American warbler having a black-and-white head | Synonyms: Dendroica striate |
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| blanquillo | (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: tilefish |
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| blissfully | (adverb) in a blissful manner | - |
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| blolly | (noun) evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries | Synonyms: Chiococca alba, West Indian snowberry |
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| blowball | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: dandelion |
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| bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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| (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| bluebill | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: broadbill, scaup, scaup duck |
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| bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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| boastfully | (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, large, vauntingly |
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| boatbill | (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, broadbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
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| boll | (noun) the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant | - |
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| bollard | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bitt |
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| bollix | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, 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 |
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| bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
| bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, 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 |
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| bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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| bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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| (adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
| bombshell | (noun) an explosive bomb or artillery shell | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: thunderbolt, thunderclap |
| (noun) an entertainer who has a sensational effect | - |
| bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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| bookstall | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstore |
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| bordello | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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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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| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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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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| bountifully | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, plenteously, plentifully |
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| bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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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 | - |
| brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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| brill | (noun) European food fish | Synonyms: Scophthalmus rhombus |
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