| bonus | (noun) anything that tends to arouse | Synonyms: fillip |
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| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: incentive |
| bonxie | (noun) gull-like jaeger of northern seas | Synonyms: skua |
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| bony | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: boney |
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| (adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: osseous, osteal |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| bonyness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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| bonzer | (adjective) remarkable or wonderful | - |
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| boo | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, razzing, snort |
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| (verb) show displeasure, as after a performance or speech | Synonyms: hiss |
| boob | (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: bosom, breast, knocker, tit, titty |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: blunder, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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| booby | (noun) small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
| boodle | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| booger | (noun) dried nasal mucus | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
| boogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| boogie | (noun) an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) | Synonyms: boogie-woogie |
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| (verb) dance to boogie music | - |
| book | (noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | Synonyms: volume |
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| (noun) a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge | - |
| (noun) a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together) | - |
| (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: playscript, script |
| (noun) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | Synonyms: record, record book |
| (noun) a major division of a long written composition | - |
| (noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made | Synonyms: rule book |
| (noun) a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game | - |
| (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book of account, ledger, leger |
| (verb) engage for a performance | - |
| (verb) record a charge in a police register | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: hold, reserve |
| (verb) register in a hotel booker | - |
| bookable | (adjective) subject to being reserved or booked | - |
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| bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| bookcase | (noun) a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books | - |
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| bookcloth | (noun) a woven fabric (usually cotton) used for book covers. | Synonyms: book cloth |
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| bookclub | (noun) a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices | - |
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| bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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| booked | (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: engaged, set-aside |
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| bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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| booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
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| bookfair | (noun) bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause | Synonyms: book fair |
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| (noun) fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books | Synonyms: book fair |
| bookie | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookmaker |
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| booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
| bookish | (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: studious |
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| bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
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| bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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| bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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| booklet | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
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| booklouse | (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius |
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| booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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| bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
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| (noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
| bookman | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person |
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| bookmark | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmarker |
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| bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
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| bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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| bookplate | (noun) a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted | Synonyms: ex libris |
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| bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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| bookshelf | (noun) a shelf on which to keep books | - |
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| bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
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| bookstall | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstore |
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| bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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| bookworm | (noun) someone who spends a great deal of time reading | - |
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| (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: pedant, scholastic |
| boom | (noun) any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring | - |
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| (noun) a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set | Synonyms: microphone boom |
| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: roar, roaring, thunder |
| (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
| (noun) a state of economic prosperity | - |
| (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: expand, flourish, thrive |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, nail, smash |
| (verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery | Synonyms: din |
| (verb) make a deep hollow sound | Synonyms: boom out |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: thunder |
| boomer | (noun) a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s | Synonyms: baby boomer |
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| boomerang | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: backfire |
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| (noun) a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower | Synonyms: throw stick, throwing stick |
| (verb) return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang | - |
| booming | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: stentorian |
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| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
| boon | (adjective) very close and convivial | - |
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| (noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: blessing |
| boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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| boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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| (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
| boor | (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
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| boorish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| boorishly | (adverb) like a boor | - |
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| boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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| (noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
| boost | (noun) the act of giving hope or support to someone | Synonyms: encouragement |
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| (noun) the act of giving a push | - |
| (noun) an increase in cost | Synonyms: cost increase, hike, rise |
| (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, supercharge |
| (verb) give a boost to; be beneficial to | - |
| (verb) push or shove upward, as if from below or behind | - |
| (verb) increase | Synonyms: hike, hike up |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, encourage, further, promote |
| booster | (noun) an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective | Synonyms: booster dose, booster shot, recall dose |
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| (noun) the first stage of a multistage rocket | Synonyms: booster rocket, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket |
| (noun) an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: booster amplifier, booster station, relay link, relay station, relay transmitter |
| (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: lifter, shoplifter |
| (noun) someone who is an active supporter and advocate | Synonyms: plugger, promoter |
| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
| boot | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: kick, kicking |
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| (noun) a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed | - |
| (noun) footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg | - |
| (noun) compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools | Synonyms: automobile trunk, luggage compartment, trunk |
| (noun) an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg | Synonyms: iron boot, iron heel, the boot |
| (noun) protective casing for something that resembles a leg | - |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
| (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: bring up, reboot |
| (verb) kick; give a boot to | - |
| bootblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: shoeblack |
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| bootboys | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: skinheads |
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| booted | (adjective) wearing boots | - |
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| bootee | (noun) a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) | Synonyms: bootie |
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| booth | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: cubicle, kiosk, stall |
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| (noun) a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment | - |
| (noun) a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches | - |
| boothose | (noun) protective stockings worn with or in place of boots | - |
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| bootie | (noun) a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) | Synonyms: bootee |
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| bootjack | (noun) has V-shaped notch for pulling off boots | - |
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| bootlace | (noun) a long lace for fastening boots | - |
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| bootleg | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, contraband, smuggled |
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| (noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
| (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
| (verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
| (verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
| bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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| bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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| (noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
| bootless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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| bootlick | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| bootlicker | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| bootmaker | (noun) a maker of boots | Synonyms: boot maker |
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| bootstrap | (noun) a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on | - |
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| (verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
| booty | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, swag |
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| booyong | (noun) large tree of Australasia | Synonyms: brown oak, crow's foot, Heritiera trifoliolata, red beech, silky elm, stave wood, Terrietia trifoliolata |
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| booze | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink |
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| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: drink, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| boozer | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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| boozing | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| boozy | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, drunken, sottish |
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| bop | (noun) an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) | Synonyms: bebop |
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| (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, sock, whap, whop |
| (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bebop |
| bopeep | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: peekaboo |
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| boracic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boric |
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| borage | (noun) an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked | - |
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| (noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort |
| borate | (noun) a salt or ester of boric acid | - |
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| borated | (adjective) mixed or impregnated with borax | - |
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| borax | (noun) an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent | - |
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| bordelaise | (noun) brown sauce with beef marrow and red wine | - |
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| bordello | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| border | (noun) a strip forming the outer edge of something | - |
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| (noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: molding, moulding |
| (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: borderline, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: edge |
| (noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: margin, perimeter |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: frame, frame in |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: edge |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: bound |
| bordered | (adjective) having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term | - |
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| borderer | (noun) an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England) | - |
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| borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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| borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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| (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
| bore | (noun) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes | Synonyms: bore-hole, drill hole |
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| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: caliber, calibre, gauge |
| (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
| (noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: dullard |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: drill |
| (verb) cause to be bored | Synonyms: tire |