| 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 |
| boreal | (adjective) toward or located in the north | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind | - |
| (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: circumboreal |
| boreas | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: north wind, norther, northerly |
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| borecole | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail, kale |
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| bored | (adjective) tired of the world | Synonyms: world-weary |
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| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: blase |
| boredom | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: ennui, tedium |
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| borer | (noun) any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood | Synonyms: woodborer |
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| (noun) a drill for penetrating rock | Synonyms: bore bit, rock drill, stone drill |
| boric | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boracic |
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| boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: drilling, oil production |
| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: drilling |
| boringly | (adverb) in a tedious manner | Synonyms: tediously, tiresomely |
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| boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| born | (adjective) brought into existence | - |
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| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: innate, natural |
| bornite | (noun) a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits | Synonyms: peacock ore |
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| boron | (noun) a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder | Synonyms: atomic number 5, B |
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| boronic | (adjective) of or relating to boron | - |
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| borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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| borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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| (noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
| borrelia | (noun) cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever | - |
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| borrow | (verb) get temporarily | - |
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| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, take over, take up |
| borrower | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | - |
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| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| borsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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| borscht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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| borsh | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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| borshch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borsht, bortsch |
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| borsht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, bortsch |
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| borstal | (noun) formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison | - |
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| bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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| borzoi | (noun) tall fast-moving dog breed | Synonyms: Russian wolfhound |
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