| 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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| ballpark | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: park |
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| (noun) near to the scope or range of something | Synonyms: approximate range |
| ballpen | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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| ballplayer | (noun) an athlete who plays baseball | Synonyms: baseball player |
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| ballpoint | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpen, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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| ballroom | (noun) large room used mainly for dancing | Synonyms: dance hall, dance palace |
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| ballup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, cockup, mess-up |
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| bally | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| ballyhoo | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: hoopla, hype, plug |
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| (verb) advertize noisily or blatantly | - |
| ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| balm | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: ointment, salve, unction, unguent |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing | - |
| balmily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: daftly, dottily, nuttily, wackily |
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| balminess | (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: softness |
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| balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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| balmy | (adjective) mild and pleasant | Synonyms: mild, soft |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| balsa | (noun) forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts | Synonyms: Ochroma lagopus |
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| (noun) strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats | Synonyms: balsa wood |
| balsam | (noun) an ointment containing a fragrant resin | - |
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| (noun) any seed plant yielding balsam | - |
| (noun) any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes | - |
| balsamic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamy |
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| balsamroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots | - |
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| balsamy | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamic |
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| baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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| balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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