| buffeted | (adjective) pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities | Synonyms: storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost |
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| bufflehead | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
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| bugged | (adjective) having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices | Synonyms: wired |
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| bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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| (noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
| build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
| (verb) improve the cleansing action of | - |
| (verb) bolster or strengthen | Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up |
| (verb) develop and grow | - |
| (verb) found or ground | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: construct, make |
| (verb) give form to, according to a plan | - |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) be engaged in building | - |
| (verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of | - |
| bulbed | (adjective) having a bulb | - |
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| bulkhead | (noun) a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments | - |
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| bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
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| bullhead | (noun) freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines | - |
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| (noun) any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | Synonyms: bullhead catfish |
| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| bullnecked | (adjective) having a thick short powerful neck | - |
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| bungaloid | (adjective) characterized by bungalows | - |
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| bungled | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: botched |
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| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |
| buried | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: inhumed, interred |
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| burked | (adjective) suppressed quietly or indirectly | - |
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| burled | (adjective) (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl | - |
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| burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burred | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
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| busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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| bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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| busted | (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: broken |
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| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
| buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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| buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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| buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| buzzard | (noun) a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States | Synonyms: Cathartes aura, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture |
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| (noun) the common European short-winged hawk | Synonyms: Buteo buteo |
| buzzword | (noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: cant |
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| byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
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| byword | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, proverb, saw |
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| cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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| cad | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, dog, heel, hound |
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| cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
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| cairned | (adjective) marked by cairns | - |
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| calced | (adjective) used of certain religious orders who wear shoes | Synonyms: shod |
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| calculated | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
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| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| calibrated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: graduated |
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| calloused | (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: callous, thickened |
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| calycled | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calyculate |
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| camelopard | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe |
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| camouflaged | (adjective) made invisible by means of protective coloring | - |
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| campanulated | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulate |
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| campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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| camphorated | (adjective) impregnated with camphor | - |
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| camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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| camwood | (noun) small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye | Synonyms: African sandalwood, Baphia nitida |
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| canard | (noun) a deliberately misleading fabrication | - |
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| cancellated | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, clathrate |
| cancelled | (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: off |
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| cancerweed | (noun) sage of eastern United States | Synonyms: cancer weed, Salvia lyrata |
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| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| (noun) the most common form of skin cancer | Synonyms: squamous cell carcinoma |
| candid | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness | Synonyms: heart-to-heart, open |
| (adjective) informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared | - |
| candied | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: crystalised, crystalized, glace |
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| (adjective) encrusted with sugar or syrup | Synonyms: sugar-coated |
| candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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| candyweed | (noun) bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers | Synonyms: orange milkwort, Polygala lutea, yellow bachelor's button, yellow milkwort |
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| canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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| canid | (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canine |
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| cankerweed | (noun) herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes | Synonyms: Nabalus alba, Prenanthes alba, white lettuce |
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| canned | (adjective) sealed in a can or jar | Synonyms: tinned |
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| (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: transcribed |
| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonized | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, glorified |
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| canopied | (adjective) covered with or as with a canopy | - |
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| canted | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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| caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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| capeweed | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, cat's-ear, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| capped | (adjective) covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns | - |
| caprimulgid | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: goatsucker, nightjar |
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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 |
| capsulated | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate |
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| captivated | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: charmed |
| carangid | (adjective) of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae | - |
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| (noun) a percoid fish of the family Carangidae | Synonyms: carangid fish |
| carbolated | (adjective) containing or treated with carbolic acid | - |
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| carbonated | (adjective) having carbonation (especially artificially carbonated) | - |
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| carbuncled | (adjective) set with carbuncles | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncular |
| carcinoid | (noun) a small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin | - |
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| card | (noun) one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes | - |
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| (noun) a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities | Synonyms: add-in, board, circuit board, circuit card, plug-in |
| (noun) a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures) | - |
| (noun) a card certifying the identity of the bearer | Synonyms: identity card |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, notice, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat | Synonyms: batting order, lineup |
| (noun) a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited | Synonyms: calling card, visiting card |
| (noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, carte, carte du jour, menu |
| (noun) (golf) a record of scores (as in golf) | Synonyms: scorecard |
| (noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes | Synonyms: wag, wit |
| (noun) thin cardboard, usually rectangular | - |
| (verb) ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor | - |
| (verb) separate the fibers of | Synonyms: tease |
| cardboard | (adjective) without substance | Synonyms: unlifelike |
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| (noun) a stiff moderately thick paper | Synonyms: composition board |
| cardioid | (noun) an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle | - |
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| carinated | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, keeled, ridged |
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| carload | (noun) a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile | - |
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| (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, shipload |
| carotenoid | (noun) any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals | - |
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| carotid | (adjective) of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck | - |
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| carpeted | (adjective) covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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| cartload | (noun) the quantity that a cart holds | - |
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| cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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| carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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| carved | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carven |
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| caryatid | (noun) a supporting column carved in the shape of a person | - |
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| cased | (adjective) enclosed in a case | - |
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| (adjective) covered or protected with or as if with a case | Synonyms: encased, incased |
| cashcard | (noun) a payment card that entitles the holder to receive cash | Synonyms: cash card |
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| cashed | (adjective) for which money has been paid | - |
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| cassocked | (adjective) dressed in a cassock | - |
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