| benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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| benumbed | (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, numb |
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| (adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: dulled |
| berkelium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium | Synonyms: atomic number 97, Bk |
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| beryllium | (noun) a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element | Synonyms: atomic number 4, Be, glucinium |
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| bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
| bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| bitumastic | (noun) a protective coating of asphalt and filter used on structural metals that are exposed to weathering | - |
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| bitumen | (noun) any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons | - |
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| bitumenoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bituminoid |
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| bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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| bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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| bituminoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bitumenoid |
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| bituminous | (adjective) resembling or containing bitumen | - |
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| bohrium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 107 | Synonyms: atomic number 107, Bh, element 107 |
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| botulinum | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinus, Clostridium botulinum |
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| brachium | (noun) (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal | - |
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| breadcrumb | (noun) crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening | - |
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| bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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| brumal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: hibernal, hiemal |
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| brumous | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: foggy, hazy, misty |
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| bum | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, 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) a vagrant | Synonyms: hobo, tramp |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer |
| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: cadge, grub, mooch, sponge |
| (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
| bumble | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: falter, stammer, stutter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: falter, stumble |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| bumblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: humblebee |
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| bumbler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| bumboat | (noun) a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor | - |
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| bumf | (noun) reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring | Synonyms: bumph |
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| bummer | (noun) an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing | - |
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| (noun) a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug | - |
| bump | (noun) an impact (as from a collision) | Synonyms: blow |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| (noun) a lump on the body caused by a blow | - |
| (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: knock |
| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: dislodge |
| (verb) to play music at loud volume | Synonyms: slap |
| (verb) to enjoy some music greatly | - |
| (verb) dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward | - |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: chance, encounter, find, happen |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| bumper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage | - |
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| (noun) a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast) | - |
| bumph | (noun) reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring | Synonyms: bumf |
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| bumpiness | (noun) the texture of a surface that has many bumps | - |
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| bumpkin | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| bumptious | (adjective) offensively self-assertive | Synonyms: self-assertive |
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| bumptiously | (adverb) in a bumptious manner | - |
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| bumptiousness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: cockiness, forwardness, pushiness |
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| bumpy | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| (adjective) covered with or full of bumps | - |
| bunkum | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, guff, hogwash, rot |
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| cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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| cadmium | (noun) a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores | Synonyms: atomic number 48, Cd |
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| caecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, cecum |
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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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| caladium | (noun) any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red | - |
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| calcium | (noun) a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals | Synonyms: atomic number 20, Ca |
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| californium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles | Synonyms: atomic number 98, Cf |
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| callathump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callithump, callithump parade |
| callithump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callathump, callithump parade |
| callithumpian | (adjective) of or relating to a callithump | - |
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| calumet | (noun) a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace) | Synonyms: peace pipe, pipe of peace |
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| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| calumniation | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
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| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calumnious | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calumniously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: slanderously |
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| calumny | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| cambium | (noun) the inner layer of the periosteum | - |
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| (noun) a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth | - |
| candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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| capitulum | (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: ear, spike |
| (noun) an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree | - |
| capsicum | (noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | Synonyms: capsicum pepper plant, pepper |
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| carborundum | (noun) an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals | - |
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| cardamum | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamom, cardamon |
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| catechumen | (noun) a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist | Synonyms: neophyte |
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| cavum | (noun) (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body | Synonyms: bodily cavity, cavity |
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| cecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, caecum |
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| cementum | (noun) a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth | Synonyms: cement |
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| centrum | (noun) the main body of a vertebra | - |
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| cerebellum | (noun) a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans | - |
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| cerebrum | (noun) anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans | - |
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| cerium | (noun) a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 58, Ce |
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| cerumen | (noun) a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal | Synonyms: earwax |
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| ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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| cesium | (noun) a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal | Synonyms: atomic number 55, caesium, Cs |
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| checksum | (noun) a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage | - |
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| chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| chetrum | (noun) 100 chetrums equal 1 ngultrum in Bhutan | - |
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| chromium | (noun) a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing | Synonyms: atomic number 24, Cr |
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| chrysanthemum | (noun) any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated | - |
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| (noun) the flower of a chrysanthemum plant | - |
| chum | (noun) a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish | Synonyms: chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta |
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| (noun) bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish | - |
| (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, crony, pal, sidekick |
| chumminess | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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| chummy | (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, thick |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: matey, pally, palsy-walsy |
| chump | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
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| cilium | (noun) a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms | - |
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| (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: eyelash, lash |
| cinerarium | (noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: columbarium |
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| cingulum | (noun) (anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth) | - |
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| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumboreal | (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: boreal |
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| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumcision | (noun) the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males | - |
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| (noun) the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite | - |
| circumduction | (noun) a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
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| circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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| (noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
| circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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| circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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| circumflex | (noun) a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | - |
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| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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| (noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
| circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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