| bidding | (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: summons |
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| (noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, command, dictation |
| bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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| (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
| bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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| bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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| bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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| 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 | - |
| 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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| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| biltong | (noun) meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun | - |
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| binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, dressing |
| (noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, book binding, cover |
| (noun) strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration | - |
| (noun) one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall | Synonyms: ski binding |
| (noun) the capacity to attract and hold something | - |
| binge | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: bout, bust, tear |
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| (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: orgy, splurge |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
| (verb) to watch a large amount of media in a single seating | - |
| binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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| bingle | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: single |
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| bingo | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, keno, lotto |
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| binturong | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, bearcat |
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| bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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| birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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| birdsong | (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, call, song |
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| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| birling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: logrolling |
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| birthing | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, giving birth, parturition |
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| bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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| biting | (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| bitingly | (adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitter, bitterly, piercingly |
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| bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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| blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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| blacking | (noun) a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear | Synonyms: shoe polish |
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| blacktopping | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktop |
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| blancmange | (noun) sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded | - |
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| blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
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| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, cacophony, clamor, din |
| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| blazing | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, conspicuous |
| (noun) a strong flame that burns brightly | Synonyms: blaze |
| bleeding | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: haemorrhage, hemorrhage |
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| blending | (noun) a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | Synonyms: shading |
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| (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blend |
| blessing | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
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| (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, approving |
| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
| (noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: grace, thanksgiving |
| (noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: boon |
| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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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 |
| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| blooming | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| (noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: bloom |
| blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| blowbang | (noun) A sexual activity where fellatio is performed on multiple men | - |
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| blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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| blueing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: bluing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, bluing |
| bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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| bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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| bluing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: blueing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, blueing |
| blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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| blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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| boarding | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: embarkation, embarkment |
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| (noun) a structure of boards | - |
| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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| boating | (noun) water travel for pleasure | Synonyms: yachting |
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| bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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| boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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| boiling | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: simmering, stewing |
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| (noun) the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas | - |
| (adverb) passionately or agitatedly | - |
| bombing | (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombardment |
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| (noun) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists | - |
| bonding | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: soldering |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel | - |
| (noun) a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child) | - |
| bong | (noun) a dull resonant sound as of a bell | - |
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| (verb) ring loudly and deeply | - |
| bongo | (noun) large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns | Synonyms: Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus |
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| (noun) a small drum; played with the hands | Synonyms: bongo drum |
| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
| bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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| boomerang | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: backfire |
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| (noun) a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower | Synonyms: throw stick, throwing stick |
| (verb) return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang | - |
| booming | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: stentorian |
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| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
| 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 | - |
| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| booyong | (noun) large tree of Australasia | Synonyms: brown oak, crow's foot, Heritiera trifoliolata, red beech, silky elm, stave wood, Terrietia trifoliolata |
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| boozing | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: drilling, oil production |
| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: drilling |
| boringly | (adverb) in a tedious manner | Synonyms: tediously, tiresomely |
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| boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| bowstring | (noun) the string of an archer's bow | - |
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| boxing | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, pugilism |
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| (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: packing |
| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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| (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: brace |
| bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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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 |
| branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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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 |
| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
| (noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
| (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |