| aby | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: abye, atone, expiate |
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| baby | (noun) a project of personal concern to someone | - |
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| (noun) a very young mammal | - |
| (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: babe, infant |
| (noun) the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young) | - |
| (noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: child |
| (noun) an unborn child; a human fetus | - |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| bilby | (noun) bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit | Synonyms: Macrotis lagotis, rabbit-eared bandicoot, rabbit bandicoot |
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| blabby | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, talkative |
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| blebby | (adjective) (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material | Synonyms: blebbed |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| bobby | (noun) an informal term for a British policeman | - |
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| booby | (noun) small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
| busby | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, shako |
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| bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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| by | (adverb) so as to pass a given point | Synonyms: past |
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| (adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: aside, away |
| cabby | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| chubby | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: embonpoint, plump |
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| clubby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, snobbish, snobby |
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| (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubbish |
| cobwebby | (adjective) covered with cobwebs | - |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| crabby | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crybaby | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: chicken, wimp |
| cubby | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubbyhole, snug, snuggery |
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| derby | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler, bowler hat, derby hat, plug hat |
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| flabby | (adjective) out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance | Synonyms: flaccid, soft |
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| gabby | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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| goby | (noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: gudgeon |
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| goodby | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| grabby | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| grubby | (adjective) infested with grubs | - |
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| (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy |
| (noun) small sculpin of the coast of New England | Synonyms: Myxocephalus aenaeus |
| hereby | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: herewith |
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| hobby | (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity |
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| (noun) small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds | Synonyms: Falco subbuteo |
| (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobbyhorse, rocking horse |
| hubby | (noun) a married man; a woman's partner in marriage | Synonyms: husband, married man |
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| knobby | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobbly |
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| layby | (noun) designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily | Synonyms: lay-by, pull-off, rest area, rest stop |
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| lobby | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, vestibule |
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| (noun) an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying | Synonyms: advocacy group, lobby group, pressure group, special-interest group, special interest, special interest group, third house |
| (noun) the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest | - |
| (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: buttonhole |
| lullaby | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: cradlesong |
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| (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, cradlesong |
| nearby | (adjective) close at hand | - |
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| (adverb) not far away in relative terms | - |
| nubby | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy |
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| passerby | (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passer |
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| ruby | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet |
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| (noun) a deep and vivid red color | Synonyms: crimson, deep red |
| (noun) a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers | - |
| rugby | (noun) a form of football played with an oval ball | Synonyms: rugby football, rugger |
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| sassaby | (noun) a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal | Synonyms: Damaliscus lunatus, topi |
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| scabby | (adjective) covered with scabs | - |
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| scrubby | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawny, stunted |
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| (adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrabbly |
| shabby | (adjective) mean and unworthy and despicable | - |
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| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, ratty, tatty |
| shrubby | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, fruticulose |
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| snobby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish |
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| squabby | (adjective) short and fat | Synonyms: squab |
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| standby | (adjective) ready for emergency use | - |
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| (noun) something that can be relied on when needed | - |
| (noun) an actor able to replace a regular performer when required | Synonyms: understudy |
| stubby | (adjective) short and blunt | - |
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| tabby | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, brindled |
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| (noun) a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black | Synonyms: tabby cat |
| (noun) female cat | Synonyms: queen |
| thereby | (adverb) by that means or because of that | - |
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| toby | (noun) a drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a three-cornered hat | Synonyms: toby fillpot jug, toby jug |
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| trilby | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, homburg, Stetson |
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| tubby | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly |
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| wallaby | (noun) any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored | Synonyms: brush kangaroo |
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| webby | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, weblike |
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