babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
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backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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backing | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backup, championship, patronage |
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(noun) something forming a back that is added for strengthening | Synonyms: mount |
(noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: financial backing, financial support, funding, support |
backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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backlog | (noun) an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services) | - |
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(noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: reserve, stockpile |
(noun) the large log at the back of a hearth fire | - |
(verb) accumulate and create a backlog | - |
backpacking | (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: packing |
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backsliding | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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bag | (noun) an activity that you like or at which you are superior | Synonyms: cup of tea, dish |
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(noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: udder |
(noun) a flexible container with a single opening | - |
(noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: grip, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
(noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: handbag, pocketbook, purse |
(noun) a place that the runner must touch before scoring | Synonyms: base |
(noun) an ugly or ill-tempered woman | Synonyms: old bag |
(noun) the quantity that a bag will hold | Synonyms: bagful |
(noun) the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person) | - |
(verb) put into a bag | - |
(verb) capture or kill, as in hunting | - |
(verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: pocket |
(verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bulge |
(verb) hang loosely, like an empty bag | - |
bagging | (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: sacking |
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bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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baiting | (noun) harassment especially of a tethered animal | - |
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baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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(noun) cooking by dry heat in an oven | - |
(noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | - |
balancing | (noun) getting two things to correspond | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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banding | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, stripe |
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(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, stria, striation |
bandyleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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bang | (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: hit, smash, smasher, strike |
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(noun) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | Synonyms: fringe |
(noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, blast, clap, eruption |
(noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bash, belt, knock, smash |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
(adverb) directly | Synonyms: bolt, slap, slapdash, smack |
(verb) strike violently | Synonyms: slam |
(verb) close violently | Synonyms: slam |
(verb) leap, jerk, bang | Synonyms: spang |
(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
(verb) move noisily | - |
(verb) to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound | - |
banging | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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(noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: battering |
(noun) a continuing very loud noise | - |
banking | (noun) transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc. | - |
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(noun) engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc. | - |
banning | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding |
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banqueting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: feasting |
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banteng | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banting, Bos banteng, tsine |
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bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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banting | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, Bos banteng, tsine |
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barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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bareboating | (noun) boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions | - |
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bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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baring | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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barong | (noun) a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines | - |
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barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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barring | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: blackball |
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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 |
bathing | (noun) immersing the body in water or sunshine | - |
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(noun) the act of washing yourself (or another person) | Synonyms: washup |
battering | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: banging |
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batting | (noun) (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base | - |
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(noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batten |
batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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(noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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beading | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beadwork |
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(noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beadwork |
beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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beaming | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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(adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: glad |
(adjective) pleased and proud | - |
beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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(noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
(noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
(noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
(noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
(noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
becoming | (adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage | - |
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(adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
bedbug | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius |
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bedding | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedclothes |
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(noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding material, litter |
bedspring | (noun) (usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed | - |
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beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
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beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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befog | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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befooling | (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: stultification |
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beg | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: implore, pray |
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(verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: solicit, tap |
(verb) dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted | - |
(verb) ask to obtain free | - |
begging | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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(noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
(noun) the first part or section of something | - |
(noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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(adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
beheading | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: decapitation |
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(noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: decapitation |
beholding | (noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: seeing, visual perception |
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being | (noun) a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently | Synonyms: organism |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: beingness, existence, face of the earth |
belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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(noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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(noun) the act of belittling | - |
(noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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(verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
(verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
(verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
(verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
(verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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belting | (noun) the material of which belts are made | - |
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bending | (noun) the act of bending something | - |
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(noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion |
(noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bend |
berating | (noun) a severe rebuke | Synonyms: blowing up |
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berg | (noun) a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | Synonyms: iceberg |
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beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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betting | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: card-playing, dissipated, gambling, sporting |
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bettong | (noun) short-nosed rat kangaroo | - |
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bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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bhang | (noun) a preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant; much used in India | - |
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bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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bidding | (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: summons |
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(noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bid |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, command, dictation |
big | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: large |
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(adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: large, prominent |
(adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
(adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: large, magnanimous |
(adjective) marked by intense physical force | - |
(adjective) significant | - |
(adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: heavy |
(adjective) serious or severe | Synonyms: bad |
(adjective) loud and firm | - |
(adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
(adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: swelled, vainglorious |
(adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
(adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: boastfully, large, vauntingly |
(adverb) in a major way | - |
(adverb) on a grand scale | - |
(adverb) extremely well | - |
bigwig | (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: kingpin, top banana |
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billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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(noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
billing | (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: charge |
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billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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biltong | (noun) meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun | - |
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binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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(noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, dressing |
(noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, book binding, cover |
(noun) strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration | - |
(noun) one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall | Synonyms: ski binding |
(noun) the capacity to attract and hold something | - |