basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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basileus | (noun) a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire | - |
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basilica | (noun) a Roman building used for public administration | Synonyms: Roman basilica |
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(noun) an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges | - |
basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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basilisk | (noun) small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America | - |
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(noun) ancient brass cannon | - |
(noun) (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance | - |
basin | (noun) a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids | - |
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(noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: lavatory, washbasin, washbowl, washstand |
(noun) the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet | Synonyms: catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, watershed |
(noun) a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it | - |
(noun) the quantity that a basin will hold | Synonyms: basinful |
basinal | (adjective) of or relating to a basin | - |
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basined | (adjective) enclosed in a basin | - |
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basinet | (noun) a medieval steel helmet | - |
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basinful | (noun) the quantity that a basin will hold | Synonyms: basin |
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basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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basis | (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
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(noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: footing, ground |
(noun) the most important or necessary part of something | Synonyms: base |
basiscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the base | - |
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bassine | (noun) coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms | - |
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bassinet | (noun) a basket (usually hooded) used as a baby's bed | - |
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(noun) a perambulator that resembles a bassinet | - |
bassist | (noun) a musician who play the bass viol | - |
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bastnaesite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnasite |
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bastnasite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnaesite |
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battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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bedside | (noun) space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person) | - |
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bedsit | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsitter, bedsitting room |
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bedsitter | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsit, bedsitting room |
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bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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besides | (adverb) making an additional point; anyway | Synonyms: in any case |
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(adverb) in addition | Synonyms: also, as well, likewise, too |
besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
(verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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(noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
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biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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biogenesis | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogeny |
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(noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biosynthesis |
biophysicist | (noun) a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology | - |
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biophysics | (noun) physics as applied to biological problems | - |
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biosynthesis | (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biogenesis |
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blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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(noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
blastomycosis | (noun) any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces | - |
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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 |
blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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(verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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bosie | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un |
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bossism | (noun) domination of a political organization by a party boss | - |
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bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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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 | - |
bromeosin | (noun) a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures | Synonyms: eosin |
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browsing | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browse |
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(noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browse |
brucellosis | (noun) an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings | Synonyms: Bang's disease, contagious abortion |
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(noun) infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache | Synonyms: Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, Rock fever, undulant fever |
bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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(adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
burnside | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn |
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bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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bursitis | (noun) inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder | - |
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busily | (adverb) in a busy manner | - |
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business | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: job, line, line of work, occupation |
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(noun) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | Synonyms: business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
(noun) the volume of commercial activity | - |
(noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: byplay, stage business |
(noun) an immediate objective | - |
(noun) a rightful concern or responsibility | - |
(noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern |
(noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: clientele, patronage |
(noun) business concerns collectively | Synonyms: business sector |
businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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(adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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cacogenesis | (noun) inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile | - |
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caenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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caesium | (noun) a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal | Synonyms: atomic number 55, cesium, Cs |
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cainogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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calliopsis | (noun) North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis | Synonyms: Coreopsis tinctoria |
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callosity | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
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(noun) an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) | Synonyms: callus |
campsite | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, encampment |
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candidiasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: monilia disease, moniliasis |
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canvassing | (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, electioneering |
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canyonside | (noun) the steeply sloping side of a canyon | - |
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capsicum | (noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | Synonyms: capsicum pepper plant, pepper |
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capsid | (noun) the outer covering of protein surrounding the nucleic acid of a virus | - |
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(noun) a variety of leaf bug | Synonyms: mirid, mirid bug |
capsize | (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: turn turtle, turtle |
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capsizing | (noun) (nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water | - |
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caressing | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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caryopsis | (noun) dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn | Synonyms: grain |
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casing | (noun) the enclosing frame around a door or window opening | Synonyms: case |
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(noun) the housing or outer covering of something | Synonyms: case, shell |
(noun) the outermost covering of a pneumatic tire | - |
casino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: cassino |
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(noun) a public building for gambling and entertainment | Synonyms: gambling casino |
cassia | (noun) any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods | - |
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(noun) Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon | Synonyms: cassia-bark tree, Cinnamomum cassia |
cassie | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, flame tree, huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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cassino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: casino |
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cassiri | (noun) a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice | - |
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cassiterite | (noun) a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin | - |
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catabiosis | (noun) normal aging of cells | - |
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catachresis | (noun) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') | - |
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catalysis | (noun) acceleration of a chemical reaction induced by the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction | Synonyms: contact action |
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cataphasia | (noun) a speech disorder in which the same word is repeated several times in succession | - |
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cataphoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: dielectrolysis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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cataplasia | (noun) (biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form | - |
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catechesis | (noun) oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation) | - |
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catharsis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: abreaction, katharsis |
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(noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: katharsis, purgation |