| benevolently | (adverb) in a benevolent manner | - |
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| benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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| benignantly | (adverb) in a benign manner | Synonyms: benignly |
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| benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
| benignly | (adverb) in a benign manner | Synonyms: benignantly |
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| benny | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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| berry | (noun) any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves | - |
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| (noun) a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) | - |
| (verb) pick or gather berries | - |
| beseechingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: entreatingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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| bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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| (noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
| bestially | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: brutishly, in a beastly manner |
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| bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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| betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
| (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| bevy | (noun) a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground) | - |
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| (noun) a large gathering of people of a particular type | - |
| bewilderedly | (adverb) in a bewildered manner | - |
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| bewilderingly | (adverb) in a bewildering and confusing manner | Synonyms: confusingly |
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| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| bewitchingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: captivatingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly |
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| bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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| bey | (noun) the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt | - |
| bialy | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialystoker |
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| biannually | (adverb) twice a year | - |
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| bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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| bibliolatry | (noun) the worship of the Bible | Synonyms: Bible-worship |
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| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
| biddy | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: chick |
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| (noun) adult female chicken | Synonyms: hen |
| biennially | (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biyearly |
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| bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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| (noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
| bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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| bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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| bilaterally | (adverb) with the involvement of two parties or governments | - |
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| (adverb) so as to involve two sides or parts | - |
| bilberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: European blueberry, whortleberry |
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| (noun) erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries | Synonyms: mountain blue berry, thin-leaved bilberry, Viccinium membranaceum |
| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
| bilby | (noun) bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit | Synonyms: Macrotis lagotis, rabbit-eared bandicoot, rabbit bandicoot |
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| bilgy | (adjective) smelling like bilge water | - |
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| biliary | (adjective) relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: bilious |
| bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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| billowy | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, surging |
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| billy | (noun) male goat | Synonyms: billy goat, he-goat |
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| (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| bimonthly | (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimestrial |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| (noun) a periodical that is published twice a month or every two months (either 24 or 6 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) every two months | - |
| (adverb) twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
| (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
| (noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
| binaurally | (adverb) in a binaural manner | Synonyms: in both ears, to both ears |
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| bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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| bioassay | (noun) appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard | Synonyms: bio-assay |
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| (verb) subject to a bio-assay | - |
| biochemically | (adverb) with respect to biochemistry | - |
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| biochemistry | (noun) the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry | - |
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| bioclimatology | (noun) the study of effects of climate on living organisms | - |
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| biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| biogeny | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogenesis |
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| biogeography | (noun) dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants | - |
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| biography | (noun) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | Synonyms: life, life history, life story |
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| biologically | (adverb) with respect to biology | - |
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| biology | (noun) the science that studies living organisms | Synonyms: biological science |
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| (noun) all the plant and animal life of a particular region | Synonyms: biota |
| (noun) characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms | - |
| biometry | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biostatistics |
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| biopiracy | (noun) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use | - |
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| biopsy | (noun) examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease | - |
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| biosafety | (noun) safety from exposure to infectious agents | - |
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| biosystematy | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematics |
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| biotechnology | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: bioengineering, ergonomics |
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| (noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotech |
| biradially | (adverb) in a biradial manner | - |
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| birthday | (noun) an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| (noun) the date on which a person was born | Synonyms: natal day |
| bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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| (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
| bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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| bitchy | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: cattish, catty |
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| bitey | (adjective) Having a tendency to bite aggressively | - |
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| bitingly | (adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitter, bitterly, piercingly |
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| bitterly | (adverb) with bitterness; in a resentful manner | - |
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| (adverb) indicating something hard to accept | - |
| (adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitter, piercingly |
| bitty | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| (noun) a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
| (adverb) twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| biyearly | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biennial |
| (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biennially |
| (adverb) twice a year | Synonyms: semiannually |
| blabby | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, talkative |
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| blackberry | (noun) large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus | - |
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| (noun) bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle | Synonyms: blackberry bush |
| (verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
| blackbody | (noun) a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it | Synonyms: black body, full radiator |
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| blackfly | (noun) small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals | Synonyms: black fly, buffalo gnat |
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| (noun) blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets | Synonyms: Aphis fabae, bean aphid |
| blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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| blaeberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
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| blamelessly | (adverb) in an irreproachable and blameless manner | Synonyms: irreproachably |
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| blameworthy | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable |
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| blandly | (adverb) in a bland manner | - |
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| blankly | (adverb) in a blank and uncomprehending manner | - |
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| blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| blasphemously | (adverb) in a blasphemous manner | - |
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| blasphemy | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: desecration, profanation, sacrilege |
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| (noun) blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred) | - |
| blatancy | (noun) the property of being both obvious and offensive | - |
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| blatantly | (adverb) in a blatant manner | - |
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| blazonry | (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: arms, blazon, coat of arms |
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| bleakly | (adverb) without hope | - |
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| bleary | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, blear, bleary-eyed |
| blebby | (adjective) (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material | Synonyms: blebbed |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| blenny | (noun) small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks | Synonyms: combtooth blenny |
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| blessedly | (adverb) in a blessed manner | - |
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| blindly | (adverb) without seeing or looking | - |
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| (adverb) without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis | - |
| bliny | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: blini |
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| blissfully | (adverb) in a blissful manner | - |
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| blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
| blithely | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: gayly, happily, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
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| blocky | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blockish |
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| blolly | (noun) evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries | Synonyms: Chiococca alba, West Indian snowberry |
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