bailable | (adjective) eligible for bail | - |
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(adjective) admitting of bail | - |
bailee | (noun) the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered | - |
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baize | (noun) a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables | - |
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bake | (verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | - |
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(verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: broil |
(verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven | - |
(verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: broil |
bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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balance | (noun) a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity | - |
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(noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
(noun) a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat | Synonyms: balance wheel |
(noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: proportion, proportionality |
(noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry |
(noun) equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
(noun) the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
(noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise |
(noun) a state of equilibrium | - |
(verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: poise |
(verb) compute credits and debits of an account | - |
(verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize |
(verb) be in equilibrium | - |
baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
bale | (noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport | - |
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(verb) make into a bale | - |
balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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balkline | (noun) line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game | Synonyms: baulk-line, string line |
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ballade | (noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | - |
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balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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ballgame | (noun) a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) | Synonyms: ball game |
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(noun) a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation | Synonyms: new ballgame |
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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bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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(verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
(verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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bane | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: curse, nemesis, scourge |
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bangle | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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(noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bracelet |
bankable | (adjective) acceptable to or at a bank | - |
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(adjective) guaranteed to bring a profit | - |
banknote | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
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bannerlike | (adverb) like a banner | - |
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banquette | (noun) an upholstered bench | - |
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banshee | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshie |
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banshie | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshee |
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baptise | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptize, christen |
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baptize | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, christen |
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barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
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(verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
barbarize | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarise |
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(verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarise |
barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
(verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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barbeque | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbecue |
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(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbecue |
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbecue |
(verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbecue, cook out |
barbette | (noun) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet | - |
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barbitone | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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barcarole | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarolle |
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barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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barde | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, caparison, dress up |
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bare | (adjective) lacking its natural or customary covering | - |
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(adjective) not having a protective covering | Synonyms: unsheathed |
(adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: stripped |
(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark |
(adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: scanty, spare |
(adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: marginal |
(adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: mere, simple |
(adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented |
(adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude |
(adjective) lacking a surface finish such as paint | Synonyms: unfinished |
(verb) lay bare | Synonyms: denudate, denude, strip |
(verb) make public | Synonyms: air, publicise, publicize |
(verb) expose to view | - |
barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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(verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
(verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
bargee | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargeman, lighterman |
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barite | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barium sulphate, barytes, heavy spar |
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baritone | (adjective) lower in range than tenor and higher than bass | - |
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(noun) the second lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: baritone horn |
(noun) the second lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: baritone voice |
(noun) a male singer | Synonyms: barytone |
barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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(noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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(noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
baronetise | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetize |
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baronetize | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetise |
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baroque | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 | Synonyms: Baroque |
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(adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: churrigueresco, churrigueresque |
(noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroqueness |
barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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barque | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: bark |
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barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
(verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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(noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
(verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
(verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
barye | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, microbar |
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barytone | (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: baritone |
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bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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base | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: basal |
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(adjective) debased; not genuine | - |
(adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
(adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: baseborn |
(adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | - |
(adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
(adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: immoral |
(noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: pedestal, stand |
(noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
(noun) a place that the runner must touch before scoring | Synonyms: bag |
(noun) (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector | - |
(noun) installation from which a military force initiates operations | Synonyms: base of operations |
(noun) a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit | - |
(noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: infrastructure |
(noun) the principal ingredient of a mixture | - |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: radical, root, root word, stem, theme |
(noun) a lower limit | Synonyms: floor |
(noun) (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment | - |
(noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: home |
(noun) the bottom or lowest part | - |
(noun) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place | Synonyms: radix |
(noun) the most important or necessary part of something | Synonyms: basis |
(noun) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed | - |
(noun) any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water | Synonyms: alkali |
(noun) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) | Synonyms: nucleotide |
(verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: establish, found, ground |
(verb) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes | Synonyms: free-base |
(verb) situate as a center of operations | - |
baseline | (noun) the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases | - |
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(noun) the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line | Synonyms: service line |
(noun) an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared | - |
basidiomycete | (noun) any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota | Synonyms: basidiomycetous fungi |
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basidiospore | (noun) a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium | - |
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basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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bassine | (noun) coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms | - |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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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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bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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(verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
(verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
bathe | (noun) the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation | - |
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(verb) cleanse the entire body | - |
(verb) suffuse or envelope with something | - |
(verb) swim for pleasure or recreation | - |
bathhouse | (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bagnio |
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(noun) a building containing dressing rooms for bathers | Synonyms: bathing machine |
batholite | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholith, pluton, plutonic rock |
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bathrobe | (noun) a loose-fitting robe of towelling; worn after a bath or swim | - |
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bathyscape | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscaph, bathyscaphe |
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bathyscaphe | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscape, bathyscaph |
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bathysphere | (noun) spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration | - |
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batiste | (noun) a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses | - |
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battercake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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battle | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: conflict, engagement, fight |
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(noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: struggle |
(noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: conflict, struggle |
(verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
battledore | (noun) an ancient racket game | Synonyms: battledore and shuttlecock |
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(noun) a light long-handled racket used by badminton players | Synonyms: badminton racket, badminton racquet |
battue | (noun) a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter | - |
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(noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed |
bauble | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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(noun) a mock scepter carried by a court jester | - |
bauxite | (noun) a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst | - |
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bawbee | (noun) an old Scottish coin of little value | - |
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bawdyhouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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be | (verb) spend or use time | - |
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(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: follow |
(verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: exist |
(verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: live |
(verb) form or compose | Synonyms: comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
(verb) have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) | - |
(verb) occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere | - |
(verb) be identical to; be someone or something | - |
(verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: equal |
(verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: embody, personify |
(verb) be priced at | Synonyms: cost |
(verb) to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form | - |
beadle | (noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function | - |
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beadlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beady, buttonlike, buttony |
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beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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beaklike | (adjective) resembling the beak of a bird | - |
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beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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bearable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportable |
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bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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beatable | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: vanquishable, vincible |
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beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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