bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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(noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life | - |
bombardon | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombard |
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(noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: helicon |
bombilation | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombination, buzz |
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bombination | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, buzz |
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bonbon | (noun) a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate | - |
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bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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(noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |
bondsman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondman |
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(noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondman |
(noun) a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
(noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
boogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, bugaboo, bugbear |
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bookman | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person |
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boon | (adjective) very close and convivial | - |
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(noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: blessing |
born | (adjective) brought into existence | - |
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(adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: innate, natural |
boron | (noun) a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder | Synonyms: atomic number 5, B |
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boson | (noun) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons | - |
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bosun | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, boatswain, bos'n |
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botheration | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
botulin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulinus toxin, botulismotoxin |
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botulismotoxin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulin, botulinus toxin |
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boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
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bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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bourbon | (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels | - |
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bourdon | (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: drone, drone pipe |
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bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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(noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
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bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
bowfin | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, dogfish, grindle |
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bowman | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: archer |
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boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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brachyuran | (noun) typical crabs | - |
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bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
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(noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
brahman | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahmin |
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(noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahmin |
(noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahmin |
brahmin | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahman |
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(noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahman |
(noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahman |
brain | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: encephalon |
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(noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
(noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: head, mind, nous, psyche |
(noun) the brain of certain animals used as meat | - |
(noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brainiac, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
(verb) hit on the head | - |
(verb) kill by smashing someone's skull | - |
brainpan | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, cranium |
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brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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bran | (noun) food prepared from the husks of cereal grains | - |
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(noun) broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting | - |
branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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(noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
brawn | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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brazen | (adjective) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) | - |
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(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent |
(verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
breakdown | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: dislocation |
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(noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: partitioning |
(noun) a cessation of normal operation | Synonyms: equipment failure |
(noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
(noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition, decomposition reaction |
(noun) a mental or physical breakdown | Synonyms: crack-up |
breastpin | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: broach, brooch |
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brethren | (noun) (plural) the lay members of a male religious order | - |
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brickkiln | (noun) a kiln for making bricks | - |
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bridoon | (noun) a bit resembling a snaffle bit; used with a separate curb | - |
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brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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(verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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(verb) make broader | - |
(verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
(verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
brogan | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogue, clodhopper, work shoe |
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broken | (adjective) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | - |
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(adjective) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly | - |
(adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unkept |
(adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: busted |
(adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: impoverished, wiped out |
(adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: confused, disordered, upset |
(adjective) discontinuous | - |
(adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: crushed, humbled, humiliated, low |
(adjective) weakened and infirm | - |
(adjective) imperfectly spoken or written | - |
(adjective) lacking a part or parts | - |
(adjective) topographically very uneven | Synonyms: rugged |
(adjective) tamed or trained to obey | Synonyms: broken in |
bromeosin | (noun) a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures | Synonyms: eosin |
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broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
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brown | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: browned |
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(adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
(noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation | Synonyms: brownness |
(verb) fry in a pan until it changes color | - |
(verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: embrown |
bruin | (noun) large ferocious bear of Eurasia | Synonyms: brown bear, Ursus arctos |
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(noun) a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox' | - |
brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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(noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
(noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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(noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
(noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
bryozoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
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buckbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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buckskin | (noun) horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail | - |
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(noun) a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin | - |
buckthorn | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia | - |
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(noun) a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments | - |
(noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass |
buffoon | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: clown, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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(noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: clown |
bulletin | (noun) a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast) | - |
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(verb) make public by bulletin | - |
bullhorn | (noun) a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | Synonyms: loud-hailer, loud hailer |
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bullion | (noun) gold or silver in bars or ingots | - |
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(noun) a mass of precious metal | - |
bullpen | (noun) a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | Synonyms: detention cell, detention centre |
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(noun) a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game | - |
bumpkin | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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bun | (noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet | Synonyms: roll |
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bunion | (noun) a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe | - |
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bunsen | (noun) a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air | Synonyms: bunsen burner, etna |
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burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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(noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
(noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
(verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
(verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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burin | (noun) a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving | - |
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burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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(noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
(noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
(noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
(verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
(verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
(verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
(verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
(verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
(verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
(verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
(verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
(verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
(verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
(verb) feel hot or painful | - |
(verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
(verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
(verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
(verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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(verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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buskin | (noun) a boot reaching halfway up to the knee | Synonyms: combat boot, desert boot, half boot, top boot |
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busman | (noun) someone who drives a bus | Synonyms: bus driver |
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butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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(noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
(noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
(noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
(noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
(noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
(noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
(noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
(verb) fasten with buttons | - |
(verb) provide with buttons | - |
butyrin | (noun) any of three glycerides of butyric acid | - |
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cabin | (noun) the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried | - |
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(noun) small room on a ship or boat where people sleep | - |
(noun) a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area | - |
(verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin | - |
cabman | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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cabochon | (noun) a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets | - |
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cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
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cacodaemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodemon |
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cacodemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodaemon |
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caducean | (adjective) of or relating to a caduceus | - |
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caecilian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae | - |
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(noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: blindworm |
caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |