| birdbath | (noun) an ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in | - |
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| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| birth | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: nascence, nascency, nativity |
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| (noun) a baby born; an offspring | - |
| (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birthing, giving birth, parturition |
| (noun) the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents | Synonyms: parentage |
| (noun) the time when something begins (especially life) | - |
| (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, deliver, give birth, have |
| bismuth | (noun) a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals | Synonyms: atomic number 83, Bi |
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| bitch | (noun) female of any member of the dog family | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, gripe, kick, squawk |
| (noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: cunt |
| (noun) an unpleasant difficulty | - |
| (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: backbite |
| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
| bitterish | (adjective) somewhat bitter | Synonyms: sharp-tasting |
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| blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| blackfish | (noun) female salmon that has recently spawned | - |
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| (noun) small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school | Synonyms: black whale, common blackfish, Globicephala melaena, pilot whale |
| (noun) large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: tautog, Tautoga onitis |
| blackish | (adjective) of something that is somewhat black | - |
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| blacksmith | (noun) a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil | - |
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| blackwash | (noun) a wash that colors a surface black | - |
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| (noun) a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores | Synonyms: black lotion |
| (noun) an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation | Synonyms: assassination, character assassination |
| (verb) color with blackwash | - |
| (verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
| blah | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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| blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
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| (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| bleach | (noun) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) | - |
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| (noun) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | - |
| (noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener |
| (verb) make whiter or lighter | - |
| (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
| blemish | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: defect, mar |
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| (verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: flaw |
| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: spot |
| (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: deface, disfigure |
| blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
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| blimpish | (adjective) pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic | - |
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| blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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| bloodbath | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodletting, bloodshed |
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| blotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: splodge, splotch |
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| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: mottle, streak |
| blowfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: globefish, puffer, pufferfish |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: puffer, pufferfish, sea squab |
| blowtorch | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, torch |
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| bluefish | (noun) bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | Synonyms: Pomatomus saltatrix |
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| (noun) fatty bluish flesh of bluefish | - |
| blueish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, bluish |
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| bluish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, blueish |
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| blush | (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: flush |
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| (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blusher, paint, rouge |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, flush, rosiness |
| (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
| (verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
| boarfish | (noun) fish with a projecting snout | Synonyms: Capros aper |
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| (noun) fish with large eyes and long snouts | - |
| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bolograph | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bologram |
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| bonefish | (noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | Synonyms: Albula vulpes |
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| bookcloth | (noun) a woven fabric (usually cotton) used for book covers. | Synonyms: book cloth |
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| bookish | (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: studious |
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| boorish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| booth | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: cubicle, kiosk, stall |
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| (noun) a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment | - |
| (noun) a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches | - |
| borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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| (noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
| borsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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| borsh | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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| borshch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borsht, bortsch |
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| bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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| bosh | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| both | (adjective) (used with count nouns) two considered together; the two | - |
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| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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| bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| boxfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: trunkfish |
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| boyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boylike, schoolboyish |
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| brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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| (adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
| brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
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| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
| (noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brash | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: cheeky, nervy |
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| brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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| breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| (noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
| (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| breadth | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: width |
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| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: comprehensiveness, largeness |
| breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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| (noun) making an important discovery | - |
| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
| breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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| (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
| (noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
| (noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| breech | (noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | Synonyms: rear of barrel, rear of tube |
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| breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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| broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
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| (verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: initiate |
| broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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| (noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
| brooch | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, broach |
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| (verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: clasp |
| broth | (noun) a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock | - |
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| (noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: stock |
| brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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| brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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| (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
| brush | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: clash, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) contact with something dangerous or undesirable | - |
| (noun) a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) | - |
| (noun) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle | - |
| (noun) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor | - |
| (noun) momentary contact | Synonyms: light touch |
| (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket |
| (verb) remove with or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) touch lightly and briefly | - |
| (verb) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) clean with a brush | - |
| (verb) cover by brushing | - |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: sweep |
| brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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| bucktooth | (noun) a large projecting front tooth | - |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| buffalofish | (noun) any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley | Synonyms: buffalo fish |
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| (noun) large carp-like North American fish | - |
| buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| bullish | (adjective) expecting a rise in prices | - |
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| bullrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bulrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bulrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bullrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| 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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| bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
| (verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
| burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
| burrfish | (noun) any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
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| bush | (adjective) not of the highest quality or sophistication | Synonyms: bush-league |
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| (noun) hair growing in the pubic area | Synonyms: crotch hair, pubic hair |
| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: chaparral, scrub |
| (noun) a large wilderness area | - |
| (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: shrub |
| (verb) provide with a bushing | - |
| butch | (adjective) (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner | Synonyms: macho |
| (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| (noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
| (noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
| butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| bycatch | (noun) unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species | Synonyms: by-catch |
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| bypath | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: byroad, byway |
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| cabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
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| calabash | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: gourd |
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| (noun) a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | Synonyms: calabash pipe |
| (noun) tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds | Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete |
| (noun) round gourd of the calabash tree | - |
| (noun) Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits | Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria |
| calash | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash top, caleche |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: caleche |
| caliph | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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| calligraph | (verb) write beautifully and ornamentally | - |
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| camash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camass, camosh, quamash |
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