| awfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| awless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: aweless |
| awnless | (adjective) lacking or having only very short awns | - |
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| axis | (noun) the center around which something rotates | Synonyms: axis of rotation |
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| (noun) the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head | Synonyms: axis vertebra |
| (noun) a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions | - |
| (noun) a group of countries in special alliance | Synonyms: bloc |
| (noun) the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged | - |
| azygos | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygous |
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| azygous | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygos |
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| baas | (noun) South African term for `boss' | - |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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| bacillus | (noun) aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil | Synonyms: B |
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| backcross | (verb) mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents | - |
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| backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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| backstairs | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, furtive |
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| (noun) a second staircase at the rear of a building | - |
| backwardness | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality |
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| backwards | (adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal | Synonyms: backward |
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| (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, rearward, rearwards |
| backwoods | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, boondocks, hinterland |
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| bacteriolysis | (noun) dissolution or destruction of bacteria | - |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| bacteriostasis | (noun) inhibition of the growth of bacteria | - |
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| badass | (adjective) being impressive due to extreme attitude or style | - |
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| (noun) A mean or belligerent person | - |
| (noun) A person considered impressive due to extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance | - |
| badlands | (noun) deeply eroded barren land | - |
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| badness | (noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | Synonyms: bad |
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| (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
| (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: mischievousness, naughtiness |
| bagascosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagassosis |
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| bagassosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagascosis |
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| bakshis | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| balanitis | (noun) inflammation of the head of the penis | - |
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| balanoposthitis | (noun) inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin | - |
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| balas | (noun) a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel | Synonyms: balas ruby |
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| baldness | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: phalacrosis |
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| balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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| balkiness | (noun) likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly | - |
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| balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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| ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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| (noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
| balminess | (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: softness |
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| balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| banns | (noun) a public announcement of a proposed marriage | - |
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| barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
| barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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| bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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| (noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
| baroness | (noun) a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
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| baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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| barosaurus | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaur |
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| barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
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| barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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| (noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
| bars | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights | Synonyms: parallel bars |
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| barytes | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barite, barium sulphate, heavy spar |
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| baseless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| baseness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| bashfulness | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: abashment |
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| basics | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, bedrock, fundamental principle, fundamentals |
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| (noun) a statement of fundamental facts or principles | Synonyms: rudiments |
| basidiomycetous | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes | - |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| basileus | (noun) a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire | - |
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| basis | (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
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| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: footing, ground |
| (noun) the most important or necessary part of something | Synonyms: base |
| bass | (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: deep |
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| (noun) the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments | - |
| (noun) the lowest part of the musical range | - |
| (noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass voice, basso |
| (noun) the lowest part in polyphonic music | Synonyms: bass part |
| (noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: basso |
| (noun) nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes | - |
| (noun) any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) | Synonyms: freshwater bass |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae | Synonyms: sea bass |
| bathos | (noun) triteness or triviality of style | - |
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| (noun) a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one | Synonyms: anticlimax |
| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: mawkishness |
| bats | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| bawdiness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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| bbs | (noun) a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest | Synonyms: bulletin board, bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board |
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| beads | (noun) several beads threaded together on a string | Synonyms: string of beads |
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| beakless | (adjective) not having a beak or bill | - |
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| beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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| beardless | (adjective) lacking hair on the face | Synonyms: smooth-faced |
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| (adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: whiskerless |
| beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
| beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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| beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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| beauteous | (adjective) (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight | - |
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| beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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| becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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| bedclothes | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedding |
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| bedless | (adjective) without a bed | - |
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| beingness | (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, existence, face of the earth |
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| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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| bellows | (noun) (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument | - |
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| bellyless | (adjective) lacking a prominent belly | Synonyms: flat-bellied |
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| belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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| beltless | (adjective) lacking a belt | Synonyms: unbelted |
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| bends | (noun) pain resulting from rapid change in pressure | Synonyms: aeroembolism, air embolism, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism |
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| benefactress | (noun) a woman benefactor | - |
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| benthos | (noun) organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea, lake, river or stream | - |
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| (noun) a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones | Synonyms: benthic division, benthonic zone |
| beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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| besides | (adverb) making an additional point; anyway | Synonyms: in any case |
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| (adverb) in addition | Synonyms: also, as well, likewise, too |
| betimes | (adverb) in good time | Synonyms: early |
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| betulaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family | - |
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| bias | (adjective) slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric | - |
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| (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: preconception, prejudice |
| (noun) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric | Synonyms: diagonal |
| (verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: predetermine |
| (verb) influence in an unfair way | - |
| bibless | (adjective) lacking a bib | - |
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| bibliolatrous | (adjective) given to Bible-worship | - |
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| bibliotics | (noun) the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity | - |
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| bibulous | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: boozy, drunken, sottish |
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| bicephalous | (adjective) having two heads | - |
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| biceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm) | - |
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| bicornuous | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate |
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| bifocals | (noun) (plural) eyeglasses having two focal lengths, one for near vision and the other for far vision | - |
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| bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bigos | (noun) a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
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| bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
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