| brushy | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: bosky |
|---|
| brusquely | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluffly, bluntly, flat out, roundly |
|---|
| brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
|---|
| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
| brutally | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: savagely, viciously |
|---|
| brutishly | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: bestially, in a beastly manner |
|---|
| bryony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: briony |
|---|
| bubbly | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
|---|
| (adjective) full of or showing high spirits | - |
| (noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: champagne |
| buddy | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
|---|
| budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
|---|
| buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
|---|
| buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
|---|
| buggy | (adjective) infested with bugs | - |
|---|
| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: roadster |
| bugology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies insects | Synonyms: entomology |
|---|
| buirdly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, burly, husky, strapping |
|---|
| bulgy | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, protuberant |
|---|
| bulky | (adjective) of large size for its weight | - |
|---|
| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
|---|
| bully | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
|---|
| (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
| (noun) a hired thug | - |
| (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, swagger |
| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| bullyboy | (noun) a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
|---|
| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
|---|
| bumptiously | (adverb) in a bumptious manner | - |
|---|
| bumpy | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
|---|
| (adjective) covered with or full of bumps | - |
| bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
|---|
| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
|---|
| bunny | (noun) (usually informal) especially a young rabbit | Synonyms: bunny rabbit |
|---|
| (noun) a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit | Synonyms: bunny girl |
| buoy | (noun) a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured | - |
|---|
| (verb) mark with a buoy | - |
| (verb) keep afloat | Synonyms: buoy up |
| (verb) float on the surface of water | - |
| buoyancy | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: airiness |
|---|
| (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: irrepressibility |
| (noun) the tendency to float in water or other liquid | - |
| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: perkiness |
| buoyantly | (adverb) in a cheerfully buoyant manner | Synonyms: chirpily |
|---|
| burbly | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, effusive, gushing |
|---|
| bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
|---|
| (noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
| (noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
| bureaucratically | (adverb) with respect to bureaucracy | - |
|---|
| (adverb) in a bureaucratic manner | - |
| burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
|---|
| burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
|---|
| burly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping |
|---|
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
|---|
| burry | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
|---|
| bursary | (noun) the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
|---|
| bury | (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: forget |
|---|
| (verb) place in the earth and cover with soil | - |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up |
| (verb) cover from sight | - |
| (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
| busboy | (noun) a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | Synonyms: waiter's assistant |
|---|
| busby | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, shako |
|---|
| bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
|---|
| bushy | (adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading | - |
|---|
| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired, shaggy |
| busily | (adverb) in a busy manner | - |
|---|
| busty | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
|---|
| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
|---|
| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: occupy |
| busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
|---|
| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
|---|
| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
|---|
| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
|---|
| (noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
| (verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
| (verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
| buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
|---|
| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
|---|
| buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
|---|
| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
| butty | (noun) a sandwich | - |
|---|
| buxomly | (adverb) in a curvaceous way | Synonyms: curvaceously |
|---|
| buy | (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: bargain, steal |
|---|
| (verb) accept as true | - |
| (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: purchase |
| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, corrupt, grease one's palms |
| (verb) acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange | - |
| (verb) be worth or be capable of buying | - |
| by | (adverb) so as to pass a given point | Synonyms: past |
|---|
| (adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: aside, away |
| byplay | (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: business, stage business |
|---|
| byway | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byroad |
|---|
| cabby | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
|---|
| cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
|---|
| cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
|---|
| cackly | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: squawky |
|---|
| cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
|---|
| cacophony | (noun) loud confusing disagreeable sounds | - |
|---|
| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, clamor, din |
| caddy | (noun) a can for storing tea | Synonyms: tea caddy |
|---|
| (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddie |
| cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
|---|
| cagey | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagy, chary |
|---|
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagy, canny, clever |
| cagily | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: circumspectly |
|---|
| cagy | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, chary |
|---|
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, canny, clever |
| cajolery | (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, palaver |
|---|
| cajolingly | (adverb) in a cajoling manner | Synonyms: coaxingly |
|---|
| calamary | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, squid |
|---|
| calamity | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy |
|---|
| calcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: chalcedony |
|---|
| calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
|---|
| (verb) convert into lime | - |
| (verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
| (verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
|---|
| calculatingly | (adverb) in a calculating manner | - |
|---|
| calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
|---|
| calligraphy | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: chirography, penmanship |
|---|
| callosectomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosotomy |
|---|
| callosity | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
|---|
| (noun) an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) | Synonyms: callus |
| callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
|---|
| callously | (adverb) in a callous way | Synonyms: unfeelingly |
|---|
| calmly | (adverb) with self-possession (especially in times of stress) | - |
|---|
| (adverb) in a sedate manner | Synonyms: sedately |
| calorimetry | (noun) measurement of quantities of heat | - |
|---|
| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
|---|
| calumniously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: slanderously |
|---|
| calumny | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander |
|---|
| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| calvary | (noun) any experience that causes intense suffering | Synonyms: martyrdom |
|---|
| campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
|---|
| campy | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: camp |
|---|
| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
|---|
| (noun) any of several small Old World finches | Synonyms: canary bird |
| (noun) a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge | Synonyms: canary yellow |
| (noun) a female singer | - |
| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| candidacy | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
|---|
| candidly | (adverb) (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that | Synonyms: frankly, honestly |
|---|
| candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
|---|
| candy | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: confect |
|---|
| (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat |
| cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
|---|
| cannily | (adverb) with foresight | Synonyms: presciently |
|---|
| canny | (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, clever |
|---|
| canonically | (adverb) in a canonical manner | - |
|---|