| bloodlust | (noun) a desire for bloodshed | - |
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| bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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| bloodroot | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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| bloodshed | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting |
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| (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: gore |
| bloodshot | (adjective) (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed | - |
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| bloodstain | (noun) a discoloration caused by blood | - |
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| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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| bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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| bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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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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| 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 |
| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| bloodthirsty | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloody-minded, sanguinary |
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| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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| bloody | (adjective) having or covered with or accompanied by blood | - |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (adverb) extremely | Synonyms: all-fired, all-firedly, damn |
| (verb) cover with blood | - |
| bod | (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
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| bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
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| (adjective) incorrigible | - |
| bode | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| bodega | (noun) a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries | - |
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| bodge | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, 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 |
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| bodice | (noun) part of a dress above the waist | - |
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| bodied | (adjective) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
| 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 |
| bodily | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | - |
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| (adjective) having or relating to a physical material body | - |
| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic |
| (adverb) in bodily form | - |
| boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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| bodkin | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: threader |
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| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric | - |
| (noun) formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head | - |
| (noun) a dagger with a slender blade | Synonyms: poniard |
| body | (noun) the external structure of a vehicle | - |
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| (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: soundbox |
| (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: consistence, consistency, substance |
| (noun) the main mass of a thing | - |
| (noun) the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) | Synonyms: organic structure |
| (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: torso, trunk |
| (noun) a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person | Synonyms: dead body |
| (noun) the central message of a communication | - |
| (noun) a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity | - |
| (noun) a collection of particulars considered as a system | - |
| (noun) an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects | - |
| (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: personify |
| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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| bodyguard | (noun) a group of men who escort and protect some important person | - |
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| (noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: escort |
| bodyless | (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodiless |
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| bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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| bodywork | (noun) the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies | - |
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| (noun) the exterior body of a motor vehicle | - |
| 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 |
| boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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| (noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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| (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
| brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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| branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
| branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
| branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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| brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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| (noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |
| briarwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: brier-wood, brierwood |
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| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| brodiaea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium | - |
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| bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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| brood | (noun) the young of an animal cared for at one time | - |
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| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: cover, hatch, incubate |
| (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: dwell |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: grizzle, stew |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: pout, sulk |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: bulk large, hover, loom |
| brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
| (noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
| broodmare | (noun) a female horse used for breeding | Synonyms: stud mare |
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| broody | (adjective) physiologically ready to incubate eggs | - |
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| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
| (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody hen, setting hen, sitter |
| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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| (noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
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| buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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| byproduct | (noun) a product made during the manufacture of something else | Synonyms: by-product, spin-off |
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| (noun) a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence | Synonyms: by-product |
| caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
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| cacodaemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodemon |
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| cacodaemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodemonic |
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| cacodemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodaemon |
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| cacodemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodaemonic |
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| cacodyl | (noun) the univalent group derived from arsine | Synonyms: arsenic group, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical |
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| (noun) a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air | Synonyms: tetramethyldiarsine |
| cacodylic | (adjective) of or relating to cacodyl | - |
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| camwood | (noun) small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye | Synonyms: African sandalwood, Baphia nitida |
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| candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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| canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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| cathode | (noun) a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device | - |
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| (noun) the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current | - |
| cathodic | (adjective) of or at or pertaining to a cathode | - |
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| cedarwood | (noun) durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests | Synonyms: cedar |
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| cephalopod | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopodan |
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| (noun) marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles | Synonyms: cephalopod mollusk |
| cephalopodan | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopod |
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| ceratodus | (noun) extinct lungfish | - |
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| cestode | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: tapeworm |
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| chaetodon | (noun) any fish of the genus Chaetodon | - |
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| childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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| (noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| chiropody | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: podiatry |
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| chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| (noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
| chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| chondrodystrophy | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasia, achondroplasty, osteosclerosis congenita |
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| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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| chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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| chyloderma | (noun) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction | Synonyms: elephantiasis scroti |
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| citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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| (noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
| cladode | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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| clinodactyly | (noun) a congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned | - |
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| clod | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clump, glob, lump |
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| (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
| cloddish | (adjective) heavy and dull and stupid | Synonyms: doltish |
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| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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| cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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| cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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| cod | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: collect |
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| (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: codfish |
| (noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: codfish |
| (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: pod, seedcase |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| coda | (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: finale |
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| coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| coddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| code | (noun) a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy | - |
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| (noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: codification |
| (noun) (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions | Synonyms: computer code |
| (noun) a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| (verb) attach a code to | - |
| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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