| bilges | (noun) in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side | - |
|---|
| bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
|---|
| bilious | (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: biliary |
|---|
| (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
| (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: liverish, livery |
| biliousness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
|---|
| (noun) gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder | - |
| billiards | (noun) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls | - |
|---|
| binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
|---|
| biodynamics | (noun) the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms. | - |
|---|
| bioethics | (noun) the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences | - |
|---|
| biogenesis | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogeny |
|---|
| (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biosynthesis |
| biogenous | (adjective) producing or produced by living things | - |
|---|
| biomass | (noun) the total mass of living matter in a given unit area | - |
|---|
| (noun) plant materials and animal waste used as fuel | - |
| biometrics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometry, biostatistics |
|---|
| bionics | (noun) application of biological principles to the study and design of engineering systems (especially electronic systems) | - |
|---|
| bionomics | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment | Synonyms: ecology, environmental science |
|---|
| biophysics | (noun) physics as applied to biological problems | - |
|---|
| biostatistics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biometry |
|---|
| biosynthesis | (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biogenesis |
|---|
| biosystematics | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematy |
|---|
| biparous | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: twinning |
|---|
| biramous | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
|---|
| bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
|---|
| bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
|---|
| bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
|---|
| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| bitters | (noun) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots | - |
|---|
| bituminous | (adjective) resembling or containing bitumen | - |
|---|
| bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
|---|
| blackness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, inkiness |
|---|
| (noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
| blahs | (noun) a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction | - |
|---|
| blameless | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
|---|
| blamelessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: guiltlessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
|---|
| blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
|---|
| blandness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: insipidity, insipidness |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: smoothness, suaveness, suavity |
| (noun) the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern | - |
| blankness | (noun) the state of being blank; void; emptiness | - |
|---|
| blasphemous | (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blue, profane |
|---|
| (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: profane, sacrilegious |
| blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
|---|
| (noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
| blastomycosis | (noun) any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces | - |
|---|
| bleachers | (noun) (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached | - |
|---|
| bleakness | (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, desolation, nakedness |
|---|
| blepharitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts | - |
|---|
| bless | (verb) give a benediction to | - |
|---|
| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: consecrate, hallow, sanctify |
| (verb) make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate | Synonyms: sign |
| (verb) confer prosperity or happiness on | - |
| blessedness | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, beatitude |
|---|
| blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
|---|
| blindness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: cecity, sightlessness |
|---|
| blinks | (noun) small Indian lettuce of northern regions | Synonyms: blinking chickweed, Montia lamprosperma, water chickweed |
|---|
| bliss | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
|---|
| blissfulness | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: bliss, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
|---|
| blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
|---|
| blondness | (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: fairness, paleness |
|---|
| bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
|---|
| (noun) the state of being bloody | - |
| bloodless | (adjective) free from blood or bloodshed | - |
|---|
| (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, livid, white |
| (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: exsanguine, exsanguinous |
| (adjective) devoid of human emotion or feeling | - |
| (adjective) without vigor or zest or energy | - |
| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
|---|
| bloomers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: drawers, knickers, pants |
|---|
| bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
| blueness | (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blue |
|---|
| blues | (noun) a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes | - |
|---|
| (noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours |
| bluffness | (noun) good-natured frankness | - |
|---|
| bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
|---|
| blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
|---|
| bluntness | (noun) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point | Synonyms: dullness |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being direct and outspoken | - |
| blurriness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
|---|
| blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
|---|
| boards | (noun) (used in the plural) the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink | - |
|---|
| (noun) (used in the plural) the stage of a theater | - |
| boastfulness | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: vainglory |
|---|
| bobbysocks | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysock |
|---|
| bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
|---|
| (adjective) incorrigible | - |
| bodiless | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
|---|
| (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodyless |
| bodyless | (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodiless |
|---|
| bogginess | (noun) The state or quality of being too wet and muddy to be easily walked on. | - |
|---|
| bogus | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, fake, phoney, phony |
|---|
| boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
|---|
| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
| boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
|---|
| (noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
| boldness | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: daring, hardihood, hardiness |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: strikingness |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: brass, cheek, face, nerve |
| bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
|---|
| bolus | (noun) a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine | - |
|---|
| (noun) a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) | - |
| boneless | (adjective) being without a bone or bones | - |
|---|
| bones | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: castanets, clappers, finger cymbals |
|---|
| boniness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
|---|
| bonkers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
|---|
| bonus | (noun) anything that tends to arouse | Synonyms: fillip |
|---|
| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: incentive |
| bonyness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
|---|
| bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
|---|
| boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
|---|
| boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
|---|
| (noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
| bootboys | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: skinheads |
|---|
| bootless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
|---|
| boreas | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: north wind, norther, northerly |
|---|
| boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
|---|
| boss | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: brag |
|---|
| (noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: knob |
| (noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: hirer |
| (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: chief, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
| (noun) a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments | Synonyms: party boss, political boss |
| (noun) a person who exercises control and makes decisions | - |
| (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: emboss, stamp |
| bottomless | (adjective) having no bottom | - |
|---|
| (adjective) extremely deep | - |
| (adjective) unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness | - |
| (adjective) having no apparent limits or bounds | - |
| bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
|---|
| botulinus | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinum, Clostridium botulinum |
|---|
| boughless | (adjective) having no boughs (of trees) | - |
|---|
| bounciness | (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounce |
|---|
| boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
|---|
| boundless | (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: limitless, unbounded |
|---|
| boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
|---|
| bounds | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
|---|
| bounteous | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
|---|
| bounteousness | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounty |
|---|
| bountifulness | (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bounty |
|---|