bonduc | (noun) tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries | Synonyms: bonduc tree, Caesalpinia bonduc, Caesalpinia bonducella |
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(noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicot, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
bone | (adjective) consisting of or made up of bone | - |
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(noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: ivory, off-white, pearl |
(noun) rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates | Synonyms: os |
(noun) the porous calcified substance from which bones are made | Synonyms: osseous tissue |
(verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: debone |
(verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
boned | (adjective) having bones as specified | - |
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(adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: deboned |
bonefish | (noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | Synonyms: Albula vulpes |
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bonehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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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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bonelike | (adjective) resembling bone | - |
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bonemeal | (noun) fertilizer made of ground bones | - |
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boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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bones | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: castanets, clappers, finger cymbals |
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boneset | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
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(noun) European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America | Synonyms: common comfrey, Symphytum officinale |
bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
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boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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(adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
bonfire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: balefire |
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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 |
bonheur | (noun) (French) happiness and good humor | - |
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bonhomie | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, geniality |
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boniface | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: host, innkeeper |
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boniness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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bonito | (noun) any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas | - |
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(noun) fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna | Synonyms: Katsuwonus pelamis, oceanic bonito |
(noun) flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna | - |
bonk | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
bonkers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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bonnet | (noun) a hat tied under the chin | Synonyms: poke bonnet |
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(noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: cowl, cowling, hood |
(verb) dress in a bonnet | - |
bonnethead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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bonnie | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonny, comely, fair, sightly |
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bonnily | (adverb) in a bonny manner | - |
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bonny | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, comely, fair, sightly |
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bonobo | (noun) small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species | Synonyms: Pan paniscus, pygmy chimpanzee |
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bonsai | (noun) a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot | - |
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bonus | (noun) anything that tends to arouse | Synonyms: fillip |
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(noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: incentive |
bonxie | (noun) gull-like jaeger of northern seas | Synonyms: skua |
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bony | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: boney |
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(adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: osseous, osteal |
(adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
bonyness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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bonzer | (adjective) remarkable or wonderful | - |
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boon | (adjective) very close and convivial | - |
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(noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: blessing |
boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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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 | - |
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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boron | (noun) a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder | Synonyms: atomic number 5, B |
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boronic | (adjective) of or relating to boron | - |
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boson | (noun) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons | - |
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botheration | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
botonee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonnee |
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botonnee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonee |
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bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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bourbon | (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels | - |
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bourdon | (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: drone, drone pipe |
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bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
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boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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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 |
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 |
bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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breakstone | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: rockfoil, saxifrage |
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breastbone | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: sternum |
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bridoon | (noun) a bit resembling a snaffle bit; used with a separate curb | - |
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brimstone | (noun) an old name for sulfur | Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur |
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briony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: bryony |
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bronc | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: broncho, bronco |
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bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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bronchiole | (noun) any of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoli | - |
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bronchiolitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles | - |
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bronchitic | (adjective) suffering from or prone to bronchitis | - |
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bronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes | - |
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broncho | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: bronc, bronco |
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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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bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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bronchoscope | (noun) a slender tubular instrument used to examine the bronchial tubes | - |
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bronchoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi | - |
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bronchospasm | (noun) a spasm of the bronchi that makes exhalation difficult and noisy; associated with asthma and bronchitis | - |
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bronchus | (noun) either of the two main branches of the trachea | Synonyms: bronchial tube |
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bronco | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: bronc, broncho |
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broncobuster | (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, buster |
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brontosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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brontosaurus | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, thunder lizard |
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brony | (noun) an adult, male fan of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | - |
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bronze | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronzy |
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(adjective) made from or consisting of bronze | - |
(noun) a sculpture made of bronze | - |
(noun) an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin | - |
(verb) get a tan, from wind or sun | Synonyms: tan |
(verb) give the color and appearance of bronze to something | - |
bronzed | (adjective) (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun | Synonyms: suntanned, tanned |
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bronzer | (noun) A cosmetic powder that comes in various shades of brown, meant to create an impression of tanned skin. | Synonyms: bronzing powder |
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bronzy | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronze |
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brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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(noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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(noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
(noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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(noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
(noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
bryony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: briony |
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bubonic | (adjective) of or evidencing buboes | - |
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buffoon | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: clown, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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(noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: clown |
buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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bullion | (noun) gold or silver in bars or ingots | - |
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(noun) a mass of precious metal | - |
bunion | (noun) a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe | - |
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