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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