| bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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| bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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| bloodily | (adverb) involving a great bloodshed | - |
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| bloodlessly | (adverb) without bloodshed; in a bloodless manner; without shedding blood | - |
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| bloodthirsty | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloody-minded, sanguinary |
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| bloody | (adjective) having or covered with or accompanied by blood | - |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (adverb) extremely | Synonyms: all-fired, all-firedly, damn |
| (verb) cover with blood | - |
| blotchy | (adjective) marred by discolored spots or blotches | - |
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| (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, splotched |
| blowfly | (noun) large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds | Synonyms: blow fly |
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| blowsy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowzy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| blowy | (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: breezy, windy |
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| blowzy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| blubbery | (adjective) swollen with fat | - |
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| blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
| bluffly | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluntly, brusquely, flat out, roundly |
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| bluntly | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluffly, brusquely, flat out, roundly |
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| blurry | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
| boastfully | (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, large, vauntingly |
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| bobby | (noun) an informal term for a British policeman | - |
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| bodily | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | - |
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| (adjective) having or relating to a physical material body | - |
| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic |
| (adverb) in bodily form | - |
| body | (noun) the external structure of a vehicle | - |
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| (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: soundbox |
| (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: consistence, consistency, substance |
| (noun) the main mass of a thing | - |
| (noun) the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) | Synonyms: organic structure |
| (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: torso, trunk |
| (noun) a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person | Synonyms: dead body |
| (noun) the central message of a communication | - |
| (noun) a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity | - |
| (noun) a collection of particulars considered as a system | - |
| (noun) an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects | - |
| (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: personify |
| bogey | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
| (noun) (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole | - |
| (verb) to shoot in one stroke over par | - |
| boggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| bogy | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogie |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogie |
| boisterously | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: rollickingly |
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| boldly | (adverb) with boldness, in a bold manner | - |
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| boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bolshy | (adjective) obstreperous | Synonyms: stroppy |
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| (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshie, Marxist, red |
| bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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| (adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
| boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| bonnily | (adverb) in a bonny manner | - |
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| bonny | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, comely, fair, sightly |
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| bony | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: boney |
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| (adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: osseous, osteal |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| booby | (noun) small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| boorishly | (adverb) like a boor | - |
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| booty | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, swag |
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| boozy | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, drunken, sottish |
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| boringly | (adverb) in a tedious manner | Synonyms: tediously, tiresomely |
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| bosky | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: brushy |
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| bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| bossy | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| botany | (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants | Synonyms: phytology |
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| (noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: flora, vegetation |
| botchy | (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: butcherly, unskillful |
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| botfly | (noun) stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals | - |
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| bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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| bouncy | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: live, lively, resilient, springy |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
| boundlessly | (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: immeasurably, infinitely |
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| bounteously | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bountifully, plenteously, plentifully |
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| bountifully | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, plenteously, plentifully |
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| bounty | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounteousness |
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| (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bountifulness |
| (noun) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | Synonyms: premium |
| bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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| boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
| boxy | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxlike |
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| boy | (noun) a youthful male person | Synonyms: male child |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man | - |
| (noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown man | - |
| (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: son |
| boyishly | (adverb) like a boy | Synonyms: boylike |
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| boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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| (noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
| brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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| brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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| braggy | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| brainy | (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brilliant, smart as a whip |
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| braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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| (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
| brambly | (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: braky |
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| branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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| brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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| brashly | (adverb) in a brash cheeky manner | Synonyms: cheekily, nervily |
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| brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| bratty | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: brattish |
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| bravely | (adverb) in a courageous manner | Synonyms: courageously |
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| bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
| brawny | (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
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| bray | (noun) the cry of an ass | - |
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| (verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
| (verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
| brazenly | (adverb) in a brazen manner | - |
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| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| (noun) the act of breaking away or withdrawing from | Synonyms: breaking away |
| breathlessly | (adverb) in a breathless manner | - |
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| breezily | (adverb) in a breezy manner | - |
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| breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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| (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: briefness, transience |
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| (noun) the use of brief expressions | - |
| brewery | (noun) a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation | - |
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| briary | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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| brickly | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brittle |
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| briefly | (adverb) for a short time | - |
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| (adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: concisely, in brief, in short, shortly |
| briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| brightly | (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brilliantly |
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| brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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| brilliantly | (adverb) in an extremely intelligent way | - |
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| (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brightly |
| briny | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: brackish |
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| (noun) any very large body of (salt) water | Synonyms: main |
| briony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: bryony |
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| briskly | (adverb) in a brisk manner | - |
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| bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
| broadly | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly speaking, generally, loosely |
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| (adverb) in a wide fashion | - |
| brolly | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: gamp |
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| brony | (noun) an adult, male fan of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | - |
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| bronzy | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronze |
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| broody | (adjective) physiologically ready to incubate eggs | - |
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| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
| (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody hen, setting hen, sitter |
| brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
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| (adverb) (archaic as adverb) in a manner characteristic of a brother | - |