| bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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| baptise | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptize, christen |
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| barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
| baronetise | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetize |
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| barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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| base | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) debased; not genuine | - |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
| (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: baseborn |
| (adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | - |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
| (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: immoral |
| (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: pedestal, stand |
| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a place that the runner must touch before scoring | Synonyms: bag |
| (noun) (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector | - |
| (noun) installation from which a military force initiates operations | Synonyms: base of operations |
| (noun) a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit | - |
| (noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| (noun) the principal ingredient of a mixture | - |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: radical, root, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a lower limit | Synonyms: floor |
| (noun) (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment | - |
| (noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: home |
| (noun) the bottom or lowest part | - |
| (noun) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place | Synonyms: radix |
| (noun) the most important or necessary part of something | Synonyms: basis |
| (noun) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed | - |
| (noun) any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water | Synonyms: alkali |
| (noun) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) | Synonyms: nucleotide |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: establish, found, ground |
| (verb) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes | Synonyms: free-base |
| (verb) situate as a center of operations | - |
| bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
| bathhouse | (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bagnio |
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| (noun) a building containing dressing rooms for bathers | Synonyms: bathing machine |
| bawdyhouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| bemuse | (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw |
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| berceuse | (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: cradlesong, lullaby |
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| bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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| betise | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity |
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| biodefense | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefence, biological defence, biological defense |
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| birdhouse | (noun) a shelter for birds | - |
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| bise | (noun) a dry cold north wind in southeastern France | Synonyms: bize |
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| bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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| bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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| blase | (adjective) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | Synonyms: worldly |
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| (adjective) nonchalantly unconcerned | - |
| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: bored |
| blockhouse | (noun) a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire | - |
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| blouse | (noun) a top worn by women | - |
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| bluenose | (noun) a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia | Synonyms: Nova Scotian |
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| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| boathouse | (noun) a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats | - |
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| bolshevise | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevize, communise, communize |
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| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bookcase | (noun) a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books | - |
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| booklouse | (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius |
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| boothose | (noun) protective stockings worn with or in place of boots | - |
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| bordelaise | (noun) brown sauce with beef marrow and red wine | - |
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| botanise | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanize |
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| bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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| (noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| bouse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bowse |
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| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bouse |
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| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| braincase | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: brainpan, cranium |
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| braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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| breadthwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, broadwise |
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| breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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| briefcase | (noun) a case with a handle; for carrying papers or files or books | - |
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| broadwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, breadthwise |
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| browse | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browsing |
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| (noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browsing |
| (noun) vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat | - |
| (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: graze |
| (verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular | Synonyms: surf |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: crop, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: shop |
| bruise | (noun) an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration | Synonyms: contusion |
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| (verb) damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure | - |
| (verb) break up into small pieces for food preparation | - |
| (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: contuse |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound |
| brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
| bullnose | (noun) a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front | Synonyms: bullnosed plane |
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| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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| burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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| burnouse | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnous |
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| caboose | (noun) a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train | Synonyms: cabin car |
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| (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: cookhouse, galley, ship's galley |
| caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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| camise | (noun) a loose shirt or tunic; originally worn in the Middle Ages | - |
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| canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
| caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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| capsulise | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulize, encapsulate |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulize |
| caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
| carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
| carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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| carcase | (noun) the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food | Synonyms: carcass |
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| cardcase | (noun) a small case for carrying business cards | - |
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| cardhouse | (noun) an unstable construction with playing cards | Synonyms: card-house, cardcastle, house of cards |
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| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| carouse | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, toot |
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| (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
| carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
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| case | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: causa, cause, lawsuit, suit |
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| (noun) a portable container for carrying several objects | - |
| (noun) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home | Synonyms: display case, showcase, vitrine |
| (noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: pillow slip, pillowcase, slip |
| (noun) (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers | Synonyms: compositor's case, typesetter's case |
| (noun) the housing or outer covering of something | Synonyms: casing, shell |
| (noun) the enclosing frame around a door or window opening | Synonyms: casing |
| (noun) an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part | Synonyms: sheath |
| (noun) the actual state of things | - |
| (noun) nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence | Synonyms: grammatical case |
| (noun) a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument | - |
| (noun) a problem requiring investigation | - |
| (noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: face, font, fount, typeface |
| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: example, instance |
| (noun) a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation | Synonyms: guinea pig, subject |
| (noun) a person requiring professional services | - |
| (noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: character, eccentric, type |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a case | Synonyms: caseful |
| (noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: event |
| (noun) a specific state of mind that is temporary | - |
| (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: encase, incase |
| (verb) look over, usually with the intention to rob | - |
| caspase | (noun) any of a group of proteases that mediate apoptosis | - |
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| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| catalase | (noun) enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst; decomposes hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water | - |
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| catalyse | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyze |
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| catchphrase | (noun) a phrase that has become a catchword | Synonyms: catch phrase |
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| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
| categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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| catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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| catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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| cathouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| cause | (noun) any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | Synonyms: causal agency, causal agent |
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| (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, lawsuit, suit |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: grounds, reason |
| (noun) events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | - |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
| cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
| cayuse | (noun) a small native range horse | Synonyms: Indian pony |
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| cease | (noun) (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end | - |
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| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate |
| cellulose | (noun) a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers | - |
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| cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| cerise | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| (noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cherry, cherry red |
| ceruse | (noun) a poisonous white pigment that contains lead | Synonyms: lead carbonate, white lead |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| chaise | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: shay |
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| (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise longue, daybed |
| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| chapterhouse | (noun) a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity | Synonyms: frat house, fraternity house |
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| (noun) a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter | - |
| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| charterhouse | (noun) a Carthusian monastery | - |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| (noun) a shade of green tinged with yellow | Synonyms: Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
| chase | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: following, pursual, pursuit |
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| (noun) a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time | - |
| (verb) cut a groove into | - |
| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, furrow |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| (verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically | Synonyms: chase after |
| chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |