| bar | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: prevention |
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| (noun) a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon | - |
| (noun) an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal | - |
| (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
| (noun) a counter where you can obtain food or drink | - |
| (noun) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) | Synonyms: cake |
| (noun) (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried | - |
| (noun) a heating element in an electric fire | - |
| (noun) a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises | - |
| (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: streak, stripe |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction | Synonyms: legal community, legal profession |
| (noun) a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore | - |
| (noun) (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter | - |
| (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: debar, exclude |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| (verb) secure with, or as if with, bars | - |
| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, relegate |
| baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| barb | (noun) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather | - |
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| (noun) a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove | - |
| (noun) the pointed part of barbed wire | - |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
| (verb) provide with barbs | - |
| barbacan | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbican |
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| barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
| barbaric | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and crudely rich | - |
| barbarisation | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarization |
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| barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
| barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
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| barbarity | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, brutality, savagery |
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| (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness |
| barbarization | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarisation |
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| barbarize | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarise |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarise |
| barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
| barbarously | (adverb) in a barbarous manner | - |
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| barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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| barbasco | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: Jacquinia keyensis, joewood |
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| barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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| barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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| (noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
| (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
| barbecued | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: grilled |
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| barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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| barbed | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| barbel | (noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: feeler |
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| barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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| barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| barbeque | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbecue |
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| (noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbecue |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbecue |
| (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbecue, cook out |
| barber | (noun) a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade | - |
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| (verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
| barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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| barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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| barbet | (noun) small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings | - |
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| barbette | (noun) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet | - |
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| barbican | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbacan |
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| barbital | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| barbitone | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| barbu | (noun) found along western Atlantic coast | Synonyms: Polydactylus virginicus |
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| barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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| barcarole | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarolle |
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| barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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| bard | (noun) an ornamental caparison for a horse | - |
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| (noun) a lyric poet | - |
| (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: barde, caparison, dress up |
| barde | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, caparison, dress up |
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| bardic | (adjective) being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry | - |
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| bardolatry | (noun) the idolization of William Shakespeare | - |
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| bare | (adjective) lacking its natural or customary covering | - |
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| (adjective) not having a protective covering | Synonyms: unsheathed |
| (adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: stripped |
| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark |
| (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: scanty, spare |
| (adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: marginal |
| (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: mere, simple |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude |
| (adjective) lacking a surface finish such as paint | Synonyms: unfinished |
| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: denudate, denude, strip |
| (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, publicise, publicize |
| (verb) expose to view | - |
| bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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| (adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| (adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
| bareboat | (noun) a vessel (such as a yacht) that can be chartered without a captain or crew or provisions | - |
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| bareboating | (noun) boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions | - |
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| bared | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bareheaded |
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| barefaced | (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: bald |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| barefacedly | (adverb) without shame | Synonyms: shamelessly, unashamedly |
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| barefoot | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefooted, shoeless |
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| (adverb) without shoes on | Synonyms: barefooted |
| barefooted | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, shoeless |
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| (adverb) without shoes on | Synonyms: barefoot |
| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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| barelegged | (adjective) having the legs uncovered by clothing | - |
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| barely | (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: hardly, just, scarce, scarcely |
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| (adverb) almost not | Synonyms: hardly, scarce, scarcely |
| (adverb) by a little | Synonyms: just |
| bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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| (noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
| barf | (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: puke, vomit, vomitus |
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| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| bargain | (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: deal |
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| (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: buy, steal |
| (verb) come to terms; arrive at an agreement | - |
| (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: dicker |
| bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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| (noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
| bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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| barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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| (verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
| (verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
| bargee | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargeman, lighterman |
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| bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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| bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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| baric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing barium | - |
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| barilla | (noun) Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate | Synonyms: Halogeton souda |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| baring | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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| barite | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barium sulphate, barytes, heavy spar |
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| baritone | (adjective) lower in range than tenor and higher than bass | - |
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| (noun) the second lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: baritone horn |
| (noun) the second lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: baritone voice |
| (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: barytone |
| barium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite | Synonyms: atomic number 56, Ba |
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| bark | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: barque |
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| (noun) the sound made by a dog | - |
| (noun) a noise resembling the bark of a dog | - |
| (noun) tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants | - |
| (verb) tan (a skin) with bark tannins | - |
| (verb) make barking sounds | - |
| (verb) speak in an unfriendly tone | - |
| (verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: skin |
| (verb) cover with bark | - |
| barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
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| (noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
| barky | (adjective) resembling the rough bark of a tree | - |
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| barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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| (noun) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain | - |
| barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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| (noun) a grain of barley | - |
| barm | (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: yeast |
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| barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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| barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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| barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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| barmy | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, bats, 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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| (adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment | Synonyms: yeasty, zestful, zesty |
| barn | (noun) an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter | Synonyms: b |
| barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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| (noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
| barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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| (noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
| barndoor | (noun) an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas | - |
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| barnful | (noun) the quantity that a barn will hold | - |
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| barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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| (verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| barnyard | (noun) a yard adjoining a barn | - |
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| barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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| barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barometric | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometrical |
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| barometrical | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometric |
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| baron | (noun) a British peer of the lowest rank | - |
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| (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
| (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank | - |
| baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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| baronduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| baroness | (noun) a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
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