| away | (adjective) used of an opponent's ground | - |
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| (adjective) not present; having left | - |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: outside |
| (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: forth, off |
| (adverb) from one's possession | Synonyms: out |
| (adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: aside, by |
| (adverb) out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) out of existence | - |
| (adverb) indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily | - |
| (adverb) in a different direction | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping) | - |
| (adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: off |
| (adverb) so as to be removed or gotten rid of | - |
| (adverb) freely or at will | - |
| aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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| awfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, frightfully, terribly |
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| (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: dreadfully, horribly |
| (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly |
| awkwardly | (adverb) in an awkward manner | - |
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| awny | (adjective) having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses | Synonyms: awned |
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| awry | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, haywire, wrong |
| (adverb) away from the correct or expected course | Synonyms: amiss |
| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: askew, skew-whiff |
| axially | (adverb) with respect to an axis | - |
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| axillary | (adjective) of or relating to the armpit | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: alar |
| axiology | (noun) the study of values and value judgments | - |
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| axiomatically | (adverb) on the basis of axioms | - |
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| baby | (noun) a project of personal concern to someone | - |
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| (noun) a very young mammal | - |
| (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: babe, infant |
| (noun) the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young) | - |
| (noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: child |
| (noun) an unborn child; a human fetus | - |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| baccy | (noun) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | Synonyms: tobacco |
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| bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| backstay | (noun) a stay that supports the back of something | - |
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| bacterially | (adverb) by bacteria | - |
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| bacteriology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease | - |
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| badly | (adverb) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well | Synonyms: ill, poorly |
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| (adverb) to a severe or serious degree | Synonyms: gravely, seriously, severely |
| (adverb) very much; strongly | Synonyms: bad |
| (adverb) with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly') | Synonyms: bad |
| (adverb) in a disobedient or naughty way | Synonyms: mischievously, naughtily |
| (adverb) evilly or wickedly | - |
| (adverb) unfavorably or with disapproval | Synonyms: ill |
| (adverb) with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display | - |
| (adverb) in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage | Synonyms: disadvantageously |
| (adverb) without skill or in a displeasing manner | - |
| baggy | (adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely | Synonyms: loose-fitting, sloppy |
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| bailey | (noun) the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
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| (noun) the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
| bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
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| balcony | (noun) a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet | - |
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| (noun) an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium | - |
| baldly | (adverb) in a bald manner | - |
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| baldy | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, skin, skinhead |
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| balefully | (adverb) in a baleful manner | - |
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| balky | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balking |
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| bally | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| balmily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: daftly, dottily, nuttily, wackily |
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| balmy | (adjective) mild and pleasant | Synonyms: mild, soft |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| balsamy | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamic |
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| banality | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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| banditry | (noun) the practice of plundering in gangs | - |
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| bandy | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged |
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| (verb) discuss lightly | Synonyms: kick around |
| (verb) exchange blows | - |
| (verb) toss or strike a ball back and forth | - |
| baneberry | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher |
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| (noun) a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea | - |
| banefully | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: perniciously |
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| bankruptcy | (noun) a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent | - |
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| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: failure |
| (noun) a state of complete lack of some abstract property | - |
| banteringly | (adverb) in a bantering fashion | Synonyms: tongue-in-cheek |
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| baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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| baptistry | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistery, font |
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| barbarity | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, brutality, savagery |
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| (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness |
| barbarously | (adverb) in a barbarous manner | - |
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| barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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| bardolatry | (noun) the idolization of William Shakespeare | - |
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| barefacedly | (adverb) without shame | Synonyms: shamelessly, unashamedly |
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| barely | (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: hardly, just, scarce, scarcely |
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| (adverb) almost not | Synonyms: hardly, scarce, scarcely |
| (adverb) by a little | Synonyms: just |
| barky | (adjective) resembling the rough bark of a tree | - |
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| barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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| (noun) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain | - |
| barmy | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, bats, 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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| (adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment | Synonyms: yeasty, zestful, zesty |
| baronetcy | (noun) the title of a baron | - |
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| (noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: barony |
| barony | (noun) the domain of a baron | - |
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| (noun) the estate of a baron | - |
| (noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: baronetcy |
| barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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| (noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
| (noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
| (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
| basely | (adverb) in a despicable, ignoble manner | Synonyms: meanly, scurvily |
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| bashfully | (adverb) in a shy or timid or bashful manner | Synonyms: shyly, timidly |
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| basically | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: essentially, fundamentally |
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| basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
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| bastardly | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious |
| bastardy | (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, illegitimacy |
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| bathymetry | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| battery | (noun) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact | Synonyms: assault and battery |
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| (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling |
| (noun) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series | Synonyms: electric battery |
| (noun) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp battery |
| (noun) a collection of related things intended for use together | - |
| (noun) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place | - |
| (noun) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher | - |
| batty | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| bawdily | (adverb) in a bawdy manner | - |
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| bawdry | (noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdy |
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| bawdy | (adjective) humorously vulgar | Synonyms: off-color, ribald |
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| (noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdry |
| bay | (adjective) (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color | - |
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| (noun) a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color | - |
| (noun) a small recess opening off a larger room | Synonyms: alcove |
| (noun) a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose | - |
| (noun) a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital | - |
| (noun) the sound of a hound on the scent | - |
| (noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: embayment |
| (noun) small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors | Synonyms: bay laurel, bay tree, Laurus nobilis, true laurel |
| (verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: quest |
| (verb) utter in deep prolonged tones | - |
| bayberry | (noun) West Indian tree; source of bay rum | Synonyms: bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, Pimenta acris, wild cinnamon |
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| (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
| beady | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, buttonlike, buttony |
| beamy | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) broad in the beam | - |
| beany | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beanie |
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| bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| beastly | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: god-awful, hellish |
| (adverb) in a beastly manner | - |
| beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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| (verb) make blessedly happy | - |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| beauty | (noun) the qualities that give pleasure to the senses | - |
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| (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beaut |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| becomingly | (adverb) in a becoming manner | - |
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| beefy | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: buirdly, burly, husky, strapping |
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| beery | (adjective) smelling of beer | - |
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| befittingly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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| beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
| beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
| belatedly | (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: late, tardily |
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| belay | (noun) something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured | - |
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| (verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
| (verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
| belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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| (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
| believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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| believably | (adverb) in a believable manner | - |
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| (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: credibly, plausibly, probably |
| believingly | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: credulously |
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| bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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| bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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| belly | (noun) the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish | - |
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| (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter |
| (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: paunch |
| (noun) the hollow inside of something | - |
| (noun) a part that bulges deeply | - |
| (verb) swell out or bulge out | Synonyms: belly out |
| beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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| bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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| benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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| benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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| beneficially | (adverb) in a beneficial manner | - |
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| beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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| (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
| (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |