| batik | (noun) a dyed fabric; a removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted | - |
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| (verb) dye with wax | - |
| batiste | (noun) a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses | - |
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| batman | (noun) an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer | - |
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| baton | (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: wand |
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| (noun) a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race | - |
| (noun) a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette | - |
| (noun) a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority | - |
| (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
| batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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| bats | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, 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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| batsman | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batter, hitter, slugger |
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| battalion | (noun) an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies | - |
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| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: large number, multitude, pack, plurality |
| batten | (noun) a strip fixed to something to hold it firm | - |
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| (noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batting |
| (verb) secure with battens | - |
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten down, secure |
| batter | (noun) a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, hitter, slugger |
| (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
| (verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |
| battercake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| battered | (adjective) exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury | - |
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| (adjective) damaged by blows or hard usage | Synonyms: beat-up, beaten-up |
| (adjective) damaged especially by hard usage | - |
| battering | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: banging |
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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 | - |
| batting | (noun) (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base | - |
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| (noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batten |
| battle | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: conflict, engagement, fight |
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| (noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: struggle |
| (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: conflict, struggle |
| (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
| battledore | (noun) an ancient racket game | Synonyms: battledore and shuttlecock |
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| (noun) a light long-handled racket used by badminton players | Synonyms: badminton racket, badminton racquet |
| battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| battlefront | (noun) the line along which opposing armies face each other | Synonyms: front, front line |
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| battleful | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicose, combative |
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| battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| battlement | (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: crenelation, crenellation |
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| battlemented | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: castellated, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| (adjective) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through | - |
| battler | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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| battleship | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battlewagon |
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| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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| battue | (noun) a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed |
| 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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| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| (noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
| bauble | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| (noun) a mock scepter carried by a court jester | - |
| baud | (noun) (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems | Synonyms: baud rate |
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| baulk | (noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: balk, rafter |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline | Synonyms: balk |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, jib, resist |
| baulker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, noncompliant |
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| bauxite | (noun) a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst | - |
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| bauxitic | (adjective) resembling or containing bauxite | - |
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| bawbee | (noun) an old Scottish coin of little value | - |
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| bawd | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| bawdily | (adverb) in a bawdy manner | - |
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| bawdiness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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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 |
| 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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| bawl | (verb) cry loudly | - |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: yawp |
| bawler | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| (noun) a loud weeper | - |
| bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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| 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 | - |
| baya | (noun) common Indian weaverbird | Synonyms: Ploceus philippinus |
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| bayat | (noun) an oath of allegiance to an emir | - |
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| 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 |
| bayonet | (noun) a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon | - |
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| (verb) stab or kill someone with a bayonet | - |
| bayou | (noun) a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana) | - |
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| bazaar | (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: fair |
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| (noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazar |
| (noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazar |
| bazar | (noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazaar |
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| (noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazaar |
| bazillion | (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: billion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
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| bazooka | (noun) a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon | - |
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| bbl | (noun) any of various units of capacity | Synonyms: barrel |
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| bbs | (noun) a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest | Synonyms: bulletin board, bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board |
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| bdellium | (noun) aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh | - |
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| be | (verb) spend or use time | - |
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| (verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: exist |
| (verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: live |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
| (verb) have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) | - |
| (verb) occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere | - |
| (verb) be identical to; be someone or something | - |
| (verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: equal |
| (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: embody, personify |
| (verb) be priced at | Synonyms: cost |
| (verb) to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form | - |
| beach | (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
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| (verb) land on a beach | - |
| beachball | (noun) large and light ball; for play at the seaside | Synonyms: beach ball |
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| beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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| beachfront | (noun) a strip of land running along a beach | - |
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| beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
| beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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| beacon | (noun) a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes | Synonyms: radio beacon |
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| (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon light, lighthouse, pharos |
| (noun) a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance | Synonyms: beacon fire |
| (verb) guide with a beacon | - |
| (verb) shine like a beacon | - |
| bead | (noun) a small ball with a hole through the middle | - |
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| (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, beading, beadwork |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: drop, pearl |
| (verb) string together like beads | - |
| (verb) decorate by sewing beads onto | - |
| (verb) form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example | - |
| beaded | (adjective) covered with beads of liquid | - |
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| beading | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beadwork |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beadwork |
| beadle | (noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function | - |
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| beadlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beady, buttonlike, buttony |
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| beads | (noun) several beads threaded together on a string | Synonyms: string of beads |
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| beadsman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: bedesman |
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| beadwork | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beading |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beading |
| 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 |
| beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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| beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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| beak | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: bill, neb, nib, pecker |
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| (noun) beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures | - |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: peck, pick |
| beaked | (adjective) having or resembling a beak | - |
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| beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
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| (noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
| beakless | (adjective) not having a beak or bill | - |
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| beaklike | (adjective) resembling the beak of a bird | - |
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| beam | (noun) long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction | - |
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| (noun) a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts | Synonyms: balance beam |
| (noun) the broad side of a ship | - |
| (noun) (nautical) breadth amidships | - |
| (noun) a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather | Synonyms: radio beam |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: electron beam, ray |
| (verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression | - |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit |
| (verb) express with a beaming face or smile | - |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: shine |
| beaming | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: glad |
| (adjective) pleased and proud | - |
| beamish | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: smiling, twinkly |
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| beamy | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) broad in the beam | - |
| bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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| (noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
| (noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
| (noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
| (verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | - |
| beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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| beanball | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beaner |
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| beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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| beanfeast | (noun) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees | - |
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| beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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| beano | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: bingo, keno, lotto |
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| beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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| beany | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beanie |
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| bear | (noun) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws | - |
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| (noun) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price | - |
| (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: carry, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
| (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: birth, deliver, give birth, have |
| (verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: wear |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) move while holding up or supporting | - |
| (verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: carry, hold |
| (verb) bring forth | Synonyms: turn out |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: hold |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: pay, yield |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, assume, take over |
| (verb) have | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: carry, contain, hold |
| bearable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportable |
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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 |