| abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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| (adverb) to or in a foreign country | - |
| (adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: overseas |
| (adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: afield |
| broad | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: wide |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
| (adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: unsubtle |
| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: unspecific |
| (adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: full |
| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: spacious, wide |
| (adjective) (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional | - |
| (noun) slang term for a woman | - |
| broadax | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadaxe |
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| broadaxe | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadax |
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| broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
| broadbill | (noun) small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | - |
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| (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, shoveler, shoveller |
| (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, scaup, scaup duck |
| (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, boatbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
| broadcast | (noun) message that is transmitted by radio or television | - |
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| (noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: program, programme |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, send, transmit |
| (verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand | - |
| broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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| (noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| 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 | - |
| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
| broadleaf | (adjective) having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves | Synonyms: broad-leafed, broad-leaved |
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| broadloom | (adjective) (of rugs or carpets) woven full width | - |
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| (noun) a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams | - |
| broadly | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly speaking, generally, loosely |
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| (adverb) in a wide fashion | - |
| broadness | (noun) the property of being wide; having great width | Synonyms: wideness |
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| broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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| broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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| (noun) the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship | - |
| (noun) the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern | - |
| (noun) all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship | - |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: philippic, tirade |
| (adverb) with a side facing an object | - |
| (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
| broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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| broadtail | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: caracul, karakul |
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| (noun) the fur of a very young karakul lamb | - |
| broadwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, breadthwise |
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| byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
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| cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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| crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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| crossroads | (noun) a point where a choice must be made | - |
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| (noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: hamlet |
| (noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, juncture |
| fibroadenoma | (noun) benign and movable and firm and not tender tumor of the breast; common in young women and caused by high levels of estrogen | - |
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| highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
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| inroad | (noun) an invasion or hostile attack | - |
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| (noun) an encroachment or intrusion | - |
| railroad | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system |
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| (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad track, railway |
| (verb) transport by railroad | - |
| (verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
| railroader | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railway man, railwayman, trainman |
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| railroading | (noun) the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads | Synonyms: rail technology |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
| road | (noun) a way or means to achieve something | - |
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| (noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: route |
| roadbed | (noun) a bed supporting a road | - |
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| roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
| roadbook | (noun) a guidebook describing the roads of a country; contains maps and (sometimes) a gazetteer | - |
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| roadhog | (noun) a driver who obstructs others | Synonyms: road hog |
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| roadhouse | (noun) an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling | - |
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| roadkill | (noun) the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | - |
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| roadless | (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, trackless, untracked, untrod, untrodden |
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| roadman | (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: bagman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
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| (noun) a workman who is employed to repair roads | Synonyms: road mender |
| roadrunner | (noun) speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas | Synonyms: chaparral cock, Geococcyx californianus |
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| roads | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roadstead |
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| roadside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: wayside |
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| roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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| roadster | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: buggy |
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| (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: runabout, two-seater |
| roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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| roadworthiness | (noun) (of motor vehicles) the quality of being fit to drive on the open road | - |
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