beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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berserker | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserk |
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besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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(noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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bestir | (verb) become active | Synonyms: rouse |
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bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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betrayer | (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer |
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(noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: blabber, informer, rat, squealer |
better | (adjective) (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another | - |
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(adjective) (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness | - |
(adjective) (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable | Synonyms: best |
(adjective) more than half | - |
(noun) something superior in quality or condition or effect | - |
(noun) the superior one of two alternatives | - |
(noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: bettor, punter, wagerer |
(noun) a superior person having claim to precedence | - |
(adverb) comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc. | - |
(adverb) from a position of superiority or authority | Synonyms: best |
(verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate |
(verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, improve, meliorate |
(verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: break |
bettor | (noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: better, punter, wagerer |
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bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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(verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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biauricular | (adjective) relating to the two auditory openings | - |
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bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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bicapsular | (adjective) divided into two capsules or having a two-part capsule | - |
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bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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(verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
bicolor | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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bicolour | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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bicycler | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicyclist, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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bidder | (noun) someone who makes an offer | - |
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(noun) someone who makes a bid at cards | - |
bier | (noun) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial | - |
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(noun) a coffin along with its stand | - |
bifilar | (adjective) having or using two filaments | - |
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bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
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bilgewater | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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bimolecular | (adjective) relating to or affecting two molecules | - |
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binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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(noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
(noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
(noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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binuclear | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binucleate, binucleated |
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biographer | (noun) someone who writes an account of a person's life | - |
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biovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: fraternal |
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bipolar | (adjective) having two poles | - |
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(adjective) of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions | - |
(adjective) of or relating to manic depressive illness | - |
birder | (noun) a person who identifies and studies birds in their natural habitats | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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birdfeeder | (noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, feeder |
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birr | (noun) the basic unit of money in Ethiopia; equal to 100 cents | - |
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(noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: whir, whirr, whirring |
(verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: purr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
bister | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bistre |
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biter | (noun) someone who bites | - |
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bitter | (adjective) proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity | - |
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(adjective) very difficult to accept or bear | - |
(adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: biting |
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: acrimonious |
(adjective) expressive of severe grief or regret | - |
(adjective) causing a sharp and acrid taste experience | - |
(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
(noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitterness |
(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitterness |
(noun) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) | - |
(adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitterly, piercingly |
(verb) make bitter | - |
blabber | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, informer, rat, squealer |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
blackamoor | (noun) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) | Synonyms: Black person |
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blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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blackwater | (noun) any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells | - |
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bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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(noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
blasphemer | (noun) a person who speaks disrespectfully of sacred things | - |
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blaster | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: chargeman |
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blastular | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastospheric |
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blather | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blatherskite |
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(verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blether, blither, smatter |
blazer | (noun) lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school | Synonyms: sport coat, sport jacket, sports coat, sports jacket |
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bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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blear | (adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, bleary-eyed, bleary |
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(verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blur |
bleeder | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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blender | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: liquidiser, liquidizer |
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blether | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle |
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(verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blither, smatter |
blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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(noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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(noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
(noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
(verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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(noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
(noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
(verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
(verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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bloater | (noun) large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked | - |
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blockbuster | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: megahit, smash hit |
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(noun) a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) | - |
blocker | (noun) a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process | Synonyms: blocking agent |
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(noun) a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play | - |
blogger | (noun) a person who keeps and updates a blog | - |
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bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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bloomer | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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(noun) a flower that blooms in a particular way | - |
blooper | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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blotter | (noun) the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station | Synonyms: charge sheet, day book, police blotter, rap sheet |
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(noun) absorbent paper used to dry ink | Synonyms: blotting paper |
blower | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal |
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(noun) a device that produces a current of air | - |
(noun) a fan run by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric fan |
blubber | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, fat, fatness |
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(noun) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil | - |
(verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
(verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
blubberer | (noun) someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs | - |
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blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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bluffer | (noun) a person who tries to bluff other people | Synonyms: four-flusher |
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blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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(verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
(verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
(verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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blur | (noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: fuzz |
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(verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: dim, slur |
(verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blear |
(verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure |
(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch |
(verb) to make less distinct or clear | - |
(verb) become glassy; lose clear vision | Synonyms: film over, glaze over |
blusher | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, paint, rouge |
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(noun) yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | Synonyms: Amanita rubescens, blushing mushroom |
bluster | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bravado |
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(noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: braggadocio, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
(noun) a violent gusty wind | - |
(noun) noisy confusion and turbulence | - |
(verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
(verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
blusterer | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: loudmouth |
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boar | (noun) an uncastrated male hog | - |
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(noun) Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States | Synonyms: Sus scrofa, wild boar |
boarder | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: lodger, roomer |
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(noun) a pupil who lives at school during term time | - |
(noun) someone who forces their way aboard ship | - |
boaster | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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boater | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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(noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boatman, waterman |
bobber | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobfloat, cork |
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bobbysoxer | (noun) an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | Synonyms: bobby-socker |
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bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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boiler | (noun) sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | Synonyms: steam boiler |
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(noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: kettle |
bolivar | (noun) the basic unit of money in Venezuela; equal to 100 centimos | - |
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bolometer | (noun) an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive | - |
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bolster | (noun) a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows | Synonyms: long pillow |
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(verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
(verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
(verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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(noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
bomber | (noun) a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight | - |
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(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
(noun) a person who plants bombs | - |
bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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