awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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backblast | (noun) backfire from a recoilless weapon | Synonyms: back-blast |
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backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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backrest | (noun) a support that you can lean against while sitting | Synonyms: back |
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backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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(noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: offstage, wing |
(adverb) in or to a backstage area of a theater | - |
(adverb) out of view of the public; behind the scenes | - |
backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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backstairs | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, furtive |
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(noun) a second staircase at the rear of a building | - |
backstay | (noun) a stay that supports the back of something | - |
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backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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(verb) do backstitches | - |
backstop | (noun) a precaution in case of an emergency | - |
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(noun) (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field | - |
(noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: catcher |
(verb) act as a backstop | - |
backstroke | (noun) a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back | - |
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(verb) swim on one's back | - |
backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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bacteriologist | (noun) a biologist who studies bacteria | - |
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bacteriostasis | (noun) inhibition of the growth of bacteria | - |
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bacteriostat | (noun) a chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth | - |
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bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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balanoposthitis | (noun) inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin | - |
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ballast | (noun) any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship | - |
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(noun) an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps | Synonyms: light ballast |
(noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast resistor, barretter |
(noun) an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings | - |
(noun) coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads | - |
(verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
ballista | (noun) ancient missile weapon that throws bolts or stones | Synonyms: bolt thrower |
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ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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(noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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baptistry | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistery, font |
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barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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(verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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(noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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bassist | (noun) a musician who play the bass viol | - |
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bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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bast | (noun) (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes | Synonyms: phloem |
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(noun) strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants | Synonyms: bast fiber |
bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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(noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: mongrel |
(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
(noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
bastardisation | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardization |
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bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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(verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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bastardization | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardisation |
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(noun) declaring or rendering bastard | - |
bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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(verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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bastardly | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: mean |
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(adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious |
bastardy | (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, illegitimacy |
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baste | (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: basting, basting stitch, tacking |
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(verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
(verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
baster | (noun) a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat | - |
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(noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: tacker |
(noun) a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy | - |
bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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(noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
(verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
basting | (noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking | - |
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(noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting stitch, tacking |
bastion | (noun) projecting part of a rampart or other fortification | - |
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(noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: citadel |
(noun) a group that defends a principle | - |
bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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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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batiste | (noun) a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses | - |
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beanfeast | (noun) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees | - |
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beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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beast | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna |
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(noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: brute, savage, wildcat, wolf |
beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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(noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
beastly | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish |
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(adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: god-awful, hellish |
(adverb) in a beastly manner | - |
bedfast | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed |
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bedpost | (noun) any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead | - |
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bedrest | (noun) confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick or injured persons) | Synonyms: bed rest |
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bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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beefsteak | (noun) a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
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behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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(noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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(noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist |
behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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behest | (noun) an authoritative command or request | - |
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belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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bequest | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: legacy |
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best | (adjective) (superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities | - |
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(adjective) (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable | Synonyms: better |
(noun) the supreme effort one can make | - |
(noun) the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others | Synonyms: topper |
(adverb) it would be sensible | - |
(adverb) in a most excellent way or manner | - |
(adverb) from a position of superiority or authority | Synonyms: better |
(verb) get the better of | Synonyms: outdo, outflank, scoop, trump |
bestial | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, brutal, brute, brutish |
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bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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(noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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bestially | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: brutishly, in a beastly manner |
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bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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bestir | (verb) become active | Synonyms: rouse |
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bestow | (verb) present | Synonyms: confer |
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(verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
(verb) give as a gift | - |
bestowal | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowment, conferment, conferral |
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(noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowment |
bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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(noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |
bestrew | (verb) cover by strewing | - |
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bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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bibliopolist | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopole |
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bibliotist | (noun) someone who engages in bibliotics | - |
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bicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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