bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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bubble | (noun) a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic | - |
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(noun) an impracticable and illusory idea | - |
(noun) a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control | Synonyms: house of cards |
(noun) a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) | - |
(verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct |
(verb) form, produce, or emit bubbles | - |
(verb) cause to form bubbles | - |
(verb) rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles | - |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
bubblejet | (noun) a kind of ink-jet printer | Synonyms: bubble-jet printer, bubble jet printer |
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bubbler | (noun) a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water | Synonyms: drinking fountain, water fountain |
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(noun) any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid | - |
bubbliness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: effervescence, frothiness |
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bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
bubbly | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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(adjective) full of or showing high spirits | - |
(noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: champagne |
bubo | (noun) a lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis | - |
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bubonic | (adjective) of or evidencing buboes | - |
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buccal | (adjective) of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located | Synonyms: oral |
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(adjective) of or relating to or toward the cheek | - |
buccaneer | (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: pirate, sea robber, sea rover |
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(verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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buccula | (noun) a fold of fatty tissue under the chin | Synonyms: double chin |
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buck | (noun) mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) | - |
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(noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: horse, sawbuck, sawhorse |
(noun) a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting | Synonyms: long horse, vaulting horse |
(noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: clam, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
(verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: hitch, jerk |
(verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: charge, shoot, shoot down, tear |
(verb) resist | Synonyms: go against |
(verb) to strive with determination | - |
buckaroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckeroo, vaquero |
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buckbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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buckboard | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles | - |
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buckeroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, vaquero |
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bucket | (noun) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top | Synonyms: pail |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a bucket | Synonyms: bucketful |
(verb) carry in a bucket | - |
(verb) put into a bucket | - |
bucketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bucket | Synonyms: bucket |
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buckeye | (noun) tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds | Synonyms: Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut |
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(noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: conker, horse chestnut |
buckle | (noun) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong | - |
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(noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding | Synonyms: warp |
(verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
(verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
(verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
buckler | (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: shield |
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buckleya | (noun) parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits | Synonyms: Buckleya distichophylla |
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buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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buckram | (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: starchy, stiff |
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(noun) a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing | - |
(verb) stiffen with or as with buckram | - |
bucksaw | (noun) a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck | - |
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buckshee | (adjective) free of charge | - |
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buckshot | (noun) small lead shot for shotgun shells | Synonyms: bird shot, duck shot |
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buckskin | (noun) horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail | - |
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(noun) a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin | - |
buckskins | (noun) (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin | - |
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buckthorn | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia | - |
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(noun) a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments | - |
(noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass |
bucktooth | (noun) a large projecting front tooth | - |
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buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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(noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
buckyball | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckminsterfullerene |
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bucolic | (adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | Synonyms: pastoral |
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(adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: arcadian, pastoral |
(noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: eclogue, idyl, idyll |
(noun) a country person | Synonyms: peasant, provincial |
bud | (noun) a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals | - |
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(noun) a partially opened flower | - |
(verb) develop buds | - |
(verb) start to grow or develop | - |
budding | (adjective) beginning to develop | - |
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(noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent | - |
buddleia | (noun) tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers | Synonyms: butterfly bush |
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buddy | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
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budge | (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, shift, stir |
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budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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budget | (noun) a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose | - |
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(noun) a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them | - |
(verb) make a budget | - |
budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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budgie | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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buff | (adjective) of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather | - |
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(noun) an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring) | Synonyms: buffer |
(noun) a medium to dark tan color | Synonyms: caramel, caramel brown, raw sienna, yellowish brown |
(noun) bare skin | - |
(noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: devotee, fan, lover |
(noun) a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen | - |
(verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: burnish, furbish |
(verb) strike, beat repeatedly | Synonyms: buffet |
buffalo | (noun) any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo | Synonyms: Old World buffalo |
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(noun) large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains | Synonyms: American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison |
(noun) meat from an American bison | - |
(verb) intimidate or overawe | - |
buffalofish | (noun) any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley | Synonyms: buffalo fish |
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(noun) large carp-like North American fish | - |
buffer | (noun) a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact | Synonyms: fender |
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(noun) a power tool used to buff surfaces | Synonyms: polisher |
(noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: cowcatcher, fender, pilot |
(noun) (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system | Synonyms: buffer storage, buffer store |
(noun) an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring) | Synonyms: buff |
(noun) a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict | Synonyms: buffer zone |
(noun) (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH | - |
(verb) add a buffer (a solution) | - |
(verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: cushion, soften |
buffet | (noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | Synonyms: counter, sideboard |
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(noun) usually inexpensive bar | Synonyms: snack bar, snack counter |
(noun) a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves | - |
(verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: batter, knock about |
(verb) strike, beat repeatedly | Synonyms: buff |
buffeted | (adjective) pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities | Synonyms: storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost |
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buffeting | (noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: pounding |
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bufflehead | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
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buffoon | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: clown, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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(noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: clown |
buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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bufo | (noun) any toad of the genus Bufo | - |
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bug | (noun) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | Synonyms: hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect |
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(noun) general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate | - |
(noun) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | Synonyms: germ, microbe |
(noun) a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly | - |
(noun) a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine | Synonyms: glitch |
(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, pester, tease |
(verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: intercept, tap, wiretap |
bugaboo | (noun) a source of concern | - |
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(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugbear |
bugbane | (noun) a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects | - |
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(noun) North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally | Synonyms: American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride, white hellebore |
bugbear | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: hobgoblin |
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(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugaboo |
bugged | (adjective) having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices | Synonyms: wired |
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bugger | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: sod, sodomist, sodomite |
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(verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: sodomise, sodomize |
buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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bugginess | (noun) the state of having bugs | - |
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buggy | (adjective) infested with bugs | - |
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(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
(noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: roadster |
bugle | (noun) a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares | - |
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(noun) a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration | - |
(noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugleweed |
(verb) play on a bugle | - |
bugler | (noun) someone who plays a bugle | - |
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bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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(noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
bugloss | (noun) perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers | Synonyms: alkanet, Anchusa officinalis |
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(noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
bugologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, entomologist |
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bugology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies insects | Synonyms: entomology |
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buhl | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, boulle |
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build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
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(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
(verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
(verb) improve the cleansing action of | - |
(verb) bolster or strengthen | Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up |
(verb) develop and grow | - |
(verb) found or ground | - |
(verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: construct, make |
(verb) give form to, according to a plan | - |
(verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: establish |
(verb) be engaged in building | - |
(verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of | - |
builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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(noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
(noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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(noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
(noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
(noun) the occupants of a building | - |
buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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(noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
(noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
built | (adjective) (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | Synonyms: reinforced |
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buirdly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, burly, husky, strapping |
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bulb | (noun) electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | Synonyms: electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb, lightbulb |
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(noun) a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end) | - |
(noun) a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ | - |
(noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: medulla, medulla oblongata |
(noun) a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure | - |
(noun) anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop | - |
bulbaceous | (adjective) producing or growing from bulbs | - |
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bulbar | (adjective) involving the medulla oblongata | - |
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bulbed | (adjective) having a bulb | - |
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bulbil | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulblet |
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bulblet | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulbil |
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bulblike | (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulbous |
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bulbous | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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(adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulblike |
bulbul | (noun) nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry | - |
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bulge | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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(verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: pouch, protrude |
(verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulk |
(verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude, start |
(verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bag |
bulghur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulgur, bulgur wheat |
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bulginess | (noun) the property possessed by a rounded convexity | Synonyms: roundedness |
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bulging | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: convex |
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(adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant |
bulgur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulghur, bulgur wheat |
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bulgy | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, protuberant |
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bulimarexia | (noun) a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting | Synonyms: binge-purge syndrome, binge-vomit syndrome, bulimia nervosa |
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bulimia | (noun) pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions) | - |
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(noun) a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation | Synonyms: binge-eating syndrome |
bulimic | (adjective) suffering from bulimia | - |
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(noun) a person suffering from bulimia | - |
bulk | (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: mass, volume |
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(noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: majority |
(noun) the property possessed by a large mass | - |
(verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulge |
(verb) stick out or up | - |
(verb) to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet | - |