| bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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| (noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
| bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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| bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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| bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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| bigeye | (noun) red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales | - |
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| bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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| biggin | (noun) a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin | - |
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| biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
| bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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| bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bigos | (noun) a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
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| bigot | (noun) a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own | - |
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| bigoted | (adjective) blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others | - |
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| bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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| bigram | (noun) a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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| bigwig | (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: kingpin, top banana |
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| bijou | (noun) a small and delicately worked piece | - |
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| bike | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, wheel |
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| (noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame | Synonyms: motorcycle |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, pedal, wheel |
| biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
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| bikini | (noun) a woman's very brief bathing suit | Synonyms: two-piece |
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| bilabial | (adjective) of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips | - |
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| (noun) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ | - |
| bilabiate | (adjective) having two lips | Synonyms: two-lipped |
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| bilateral | (adjective) having two sides or parts | Synonyms: two-sided |
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| (adjective) affecting or undertaken by two parties | - |
| (adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral |
| bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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| bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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| bilaterally | (adverb) with the involvement of two parties or governments | - |
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| (adverb) so as to involve two sides or parts | - |
| bilberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: European blueberry, whortleberry |
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| (noun) erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries | Synonyms: mountain blue berry, thin-leaved bilberry, Viccinium membranaceum |
| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
| bilby | (noun) bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit | Synonyms: Macrotis lagotis, rabbit-eared bandicoot, rabbit bandicoot |
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| bile | (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: gall |
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| bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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| bilge | (noun) where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom | - |
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| (noun) water accumulated in the bilge of a ship | Synonyms: bilge water |
| (verb) take in water at the bilge | Synonyms: take in water |
| (verb) cause to leak | - |
| bilges | (noun) in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side | - |
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| bilgewater | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bilgy | (adjective) smelling like bilge water | - |
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| bilharzia | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharziasis, schistosomiasis |
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| bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
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| biliary | (adjective) relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: bilious |
| bilimbi | (noun) East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa bilimbi |
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| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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| (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
| bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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| bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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| bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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| bilious | (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: biliary |
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| (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
| (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: liverish, livery |
| biliousness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder | - |
| bilirubin | (noun) an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice | Synonyms: haematoidin, hematoidin |
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| bilk | (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: elude, evade |
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| (verb) evade payment to | - |
| (verb) cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| bill | (noun) the entertainment offered at a public presentation | - |
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| (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker |
| (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: eyeshade, peak, visor, vizor |
| (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: billhook |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: card, notice, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: account, invoice |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare) | - |
| (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
| (verb) advertise especially by posters or placards | - |
| (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: placard |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: charge |
| billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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| (noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
| billboard | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: hoarding |
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| billed | (adjective) having a beak or bill as specified | - |
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| billet | (noun) lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home) | - |
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| (noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: line, note, short letter |
| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: canton, quarter |
| billfish | (noun) giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: gar, needlefish |
| (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
| (noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus |
| billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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| billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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| billiard | (adjective) of or relating to billiards | - |
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| billiards | (noun) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls | - |
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| billing | (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: charge |
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| billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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| billion | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States | - |
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| (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain | - |
| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000000, one thousand million |
| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen | Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million |
| (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
| billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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| billionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one billion in counting order | - |
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| (noun) one part in a billion equal parts | Synonyms: one-billionth |
| (noun) position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
| billow | (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) move with great difficulty | - |
| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| billowy | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, surging |
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| billy | (noun) male goat | Synonyms: billy goat, he-goat |
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| (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
| billyo | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyoh |
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| billyoh | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyo |
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| billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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| bilobate | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobated, bilobed |
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| bilobated | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobed |
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| bilobed | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobated |
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| bilocation | (noun) the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations | - |
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| bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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| biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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| bilsted | (noun) a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap | Synonyms: American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum, sweet gum tree |
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| biltong | (noun) meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun | - |
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| bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| bimbo | (noun) a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men | - |
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| bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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| bimestrial | (adjective) two months long; lasting two months | - |
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| (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimonthly |
| bimetal | (adjective) formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| (noun) material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals | - |
| bimetallic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallistic |
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| (adjective) formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together | Synonyms: bimetal |
| bimetallism | (noun) a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio | - |
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| bimetallist | (noun) an advocate of bimetallism | - |
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| bimetallistic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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| bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
| bimli | (noun) valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation | Synonyms: bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kanaf, kenaf |
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| bimodal | (adjective) of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes | - |
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