| booty | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, swag |
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| bot | (noun) botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human | - |
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| bota | (noun) a wine bottle made of leather | - |
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| botanic | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanical |
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| botanical | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanic |
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| (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
| botanise | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanize |
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| botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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| botanize | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanise |
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| botany | (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants | Synonyms: phytology |
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| (noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: flora, vegetation |
| botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| botched | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: bungled |
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| botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| botchy | (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: butcherly, unskillful |
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| botfly | (noun) stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals | - |
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| both | (adjective) (used with count nouns) two considered together; the two | - |
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| bother | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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| (noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled | - |
| (verb) make nervous or agitated | - |
| (verb) intrude or enter uninvited | - |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| 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 |
| bothered | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: daunted, fazed |
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| bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| 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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| botryoid | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoidal, boytrose |
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| botryoidal | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, boytrose |
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| bottle | (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | - |
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| (noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children | Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottleful |
| (verb) put into bottles | - |
| (verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles | - |
| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bottleful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottle |
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| bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
| (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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| (noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
| bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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| bottom | (adjective) situated at the bottom or lowest position | - |
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| (adjective) the lowest rank | - |
| (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: freighter, merchant ship, merchantman |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: underside, undersurface |
| (noun) the lowest part of anything | - |
| (noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bed |
| (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottomland |
| (noun) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat | Synonyms: bottom of the inning |
| (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: fathom, penetrate |
| (verb) strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom | - |
| (verb) provide with a bottom or a seat | - |
| bottomed | (adjective) having a bottom of a specified character | - |
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| bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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| bottomless | (adjective) having no bottom | - |
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| (adjective) extremely deep | - |
| (adjective) unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness | - |
| (adjective) having no apparent limits or bounds | - |
| bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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| bottommost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: lowermost, nethermost |
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| botuliform | (adjective) long with rounded ends | - |
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| botulin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulinus toxin, botulismotoxin |
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| botulinal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the botulinus | - |
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| botulinum | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinus, Clostridium botulinum |
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| botulinus | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinum, Clostridium botulinum |
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| botulism | (noun) food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious; affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly | - |
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| botulismotoxin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulin, botulinus toxin |
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| bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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| boycott | (noun) a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies | - |
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| (verb) refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with | - |
| breadroot | (noun) densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots | Synonyms: Indian breadroot, pomme blanche, pomme de prairie, Psoralea esculenta |
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| breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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| briarroot | (noun) hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea | - |
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| broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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| (noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
| broth | (noun) a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock | - |
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| (noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: stock |
| brothel | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
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| (noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
| (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
| (noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
| 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 | - |
| brotherlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherly, fraternal |
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| brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
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| (adverb) (archaic as adverb) in a manner characteristic of a brother | - |
| brotula | (noun) deep-sea fishes | - |
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| buckshot | (noun) small lead shot for shotgun shells | Synonyms: bird shot, duck shot |
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| bucktooth | (noun) a large projecting front tooth | - |
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| bullshot | (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme | - |
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| burbot | (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: cusk, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
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| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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| (noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
| cachalot | (noun) large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris | Synonyms: black whale, Physeter catodon, sperm whale |
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| cahoot | (noun) collusion | - |
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| callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| capote | (noun) a long cloak with a hood that can be pulled over the head | Synonyms: hooded cloak |
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| (noun) a long overcoat with a hood that can be pulled over the head | Synonyms: hooded coat |
| carnotite | (noun) a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium | - |
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| carotene | (noun) an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver | Synonyms: carotin, provitamin A |
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| (noun) yellow or orange-red fat-soluble pigments in plants | - |
| carotenemia | (noun) excess carotene in the blood stream; can cause the skin to turn a pale yellow or red color | Synonyms: xanthemia |
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| carotenoid | (noun) any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals | - |
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| carotid | (adjective) of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck | - |
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| carotin | (noun) an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver | Synonyms: carotene, provitamin A |
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| carrot | (noun) promise of reward as in "carrot and stick" | - |
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| (noun) orange root; important source of carotene | - |
| (noun) perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions | Synonyms: cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa |
| (noun) deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant | - |
| carrottop | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: red-header, redhead, redheader |
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| carroty | (adjective) resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant | - |
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| carrycot | (noun) box-shaped baby bed with handles (for a baby to sleep in while being carried) | - |
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| cefotaxime | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract | Synonyms: Claforan |
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| cenotaph | (noun) a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered | Synonyms: empty tomb |
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| cephalothin | (noun) a semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin | - |
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| cerecloth | (noun) a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud | - |
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| chamberpot | (noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom | Synonyms: potty, thunder mug |
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| chaotic | (adjective) of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a visible order or organization | Synonyms: helter-skelter |
| (adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: disorderly |
| chaotically | (adverb) in a manner suggestive of chaos | - |
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| (adverb) in a wild and confused manner | - |
| chariot | (noun) a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage | - |
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| (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome | - |
| (verb) ride in a chariot | - |
| (verb) transport in a chariot | - |
| charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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| charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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| cheesecloth | (noun) a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | - |
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| chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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| chemotaxis | (noun) movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus | - |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chemotherapy | (noun) the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness) | - |
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| cheroot | (noun) a cigar with both ends cut flat | - |
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| chevrotain | (noun) very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa | Synonyms: mouse deer |
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| chicot | (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: bonduc, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
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| chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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| chipotle | (noun) a ripe jalapeno that has been dried for use in cooking | - |
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| chlorothiazide | (noun) a diuretic drug (trade name Diuril) used in the treatment of edema and hypertension | Synonyms: Diuril |
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