bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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(noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
bagnio | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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(noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bathhouse |
bagpipe | (noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | - |
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bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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baht | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: tical |
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bail | (noun) the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial) | - |
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(noun) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | Synonyms: bail bond, bond |
(verb) remove (water) from a vessel with a container | - |
(verb) empty (a vessel) by bailing | - |
(verb) secure the release of (someone) by providing security | - |
(verb) deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period | - |
(verb) release after a security has been paid | - |
bailable | (adjective) eligible for bail | - |
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(adjective) admitting of bail | - |
bailee | (noun) the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered | - |
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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 | - |
bailiff | (noun) an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. | - |
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bailiffship | (noun) the office of bailiff | - |
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bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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(noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
bailment | (noun) the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee | - |
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bailor | (noun) the person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment | - |
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bairn | (noun) a child: son or daughter | - |
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baisa | (noun) 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani in Oman | Synonyms: baiza |
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bait | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: decoy, lure |
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(noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: come-on, hook, lure, sweetener |
(verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
(verb) attack with dogs or set dogs upon | - |
(verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait | - |
baiting | (noun) harassment especially of a tethered animal | - |
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baiza | (noun) 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani in Oman | Synonyms: baisa |
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baize | (noun) a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables | - |
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bake | (verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | - |
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(verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: broil |
(verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven | - |
(verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: broil |
bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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baked | (adjective) (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven) | - |
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(adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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baker | (noun) someone who bakes bread or cake | Synonyms: bread maker |
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(noun) someone who bakes commercially | - |
bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
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bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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(noun) cooking by dry heat in an oven | - |
(noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | - |
baklava | (noun) rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey | - |
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baksheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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bakshis | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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bakshish | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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balaclava | (noun) a cap that is close-fitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face | Synonyms: balaclava helmet |
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balagan | (noun) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) | - |
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balalaika | (noun) a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings | - |
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balance | (noun) a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity | - |
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(noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
(noun) a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat | Synonyms: balance wheel |
(noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: proportion, proportionality |
(noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry |
(noun) equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
(noun) the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
(noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise |
(noun) a state of equilibrium | - |
(verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: poise |
(verb) compute credits and debits of an account | - |
(verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize |
(verb) be in equilibrium | - |
balanced | (adjective) being in a state of proper equilibrium | - |
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balancer | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: halter, haltere |
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(noun) an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions | - |
balancing | (noun) getting two things to correspond | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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balanitis | (noun) inflammation of the head of the penis | - |
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balanoposthitis | (noun) inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin | - |
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balas | (noun) a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel | Synonyms: balas ruby |
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balata | (noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | Synonyms: balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata |
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(noun) when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls | Synonyms: gutta balata |
balboa | (noun) the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos | - |
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balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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balconied | (adjective) having balconies or a balcony | - |
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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 | - |
bald | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: denudate, denuded |
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(adjective) lacking hair on all or most of the scalp | Synonyms: bald-headed, bald-pated |
(adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: barefaced |
(verb) grow bald; lose hair on one's head | - |
baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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baldly | (adverb) in a bald manner | - |
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baldness | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: phalacrosis |
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baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
baldric | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldrick |
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baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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baldy | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, skin, skinhead |
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bale | (noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport | - |
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(verb) make into a bale | - |
baleen | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: whalebone |
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balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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baleful | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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(adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baneful |
balefully | (adverb) in a baleful manner | - |
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balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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balk | (noun) an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base | - |
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(noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: baulk, rafter |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
(noun) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline | Synonyms: baulk |
(verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist |
balker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: baulker, noncompliant |
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balkiness | (noun) likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly | - |
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balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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balkline | (noun) line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game | Synonyms: baulk-line, string line |
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balky | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balking |
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ball | (noun) a pitch that is not in the strike zone | - |
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(noun) a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs | Synonyms: baseball, baseball game |
(noun) round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games | - |
(noun) a spherical object used as a plaything | - |
(noun) a solid projectile that is shot by a musket | Synonyms: musket ball |
(noun) a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass | - |
(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
(noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: formal |
(noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump |
(noun) an object with a spherical shape | Synonyms: globe, orb |
(verb) form into a ball by winding or rolling | - |
(verb) to live very well | - |
ballad | (noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: lay |
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(noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: lay |
ballade | (noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | - |
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balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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ballast | (noun) any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship | - |
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(noun) an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps | Synonyms: light ballast |
(noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast resistor, barretter |
(noun) an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings | - |
(noun) coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads | - |
(verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
ballcock | (noun) floating ball that controls level in a water tank | Synonyms: ball cock |
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balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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ballerina | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: danseuse |
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ballet | (noun) a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers | Synonyms: concert dance |
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(noun) music written for a ballet | - |
balletic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet | - |
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balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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ballgame | (noun) a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) | Synonyms: ball game |
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(noun) a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation | Synonyms: new ballgame |
ballista | (noun) ancient missile weapon that throws bolts or stones | Synonyms: bolt thrower |
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ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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(noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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ballock | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
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balloon | (noun) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air | - |
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(noun) small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck | - |
(verb) become inflated | Synonyms: billow, inflate |
(verb) ride in a hot-air balloon | - |
balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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ballot | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: balloting, vote, voting |
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(noun) a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting | - |
(verb) vote by ballot | - |
balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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ballottement | (noun) a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus) | - |
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