| bur | (noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: burr |
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| (noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: burr |
| (verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: burr |
| burble | (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
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| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| burbly | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, effusive, gushing |
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| burbot | (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: cusk, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
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| burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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| (noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |
| burdenless | (adjective) not encumbered with a physical burden or load | Synonyms: unburdened |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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| bureau | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: chest, chest of drawers, dresser |
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| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, federal agency, government agency, office |
| bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
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| (noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
| (noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
| bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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| bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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| bureaucratically | (adverb) with respect to bureaucracy | - |
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| (adverb) in a bureaucratic manner | - |
| bureaucratism | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucracy |
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| buret | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: burette |
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| burette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: buret |
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| burg | (noun) colloquial American term for a town | - |
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| burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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| burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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| burgess | (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgher |
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| burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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| burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
| burglar | (noun) a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | - |
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| burglarious | (adjective) involving or resembling burglary | - |
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| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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| burglarize | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burgle, heist |
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| burglarproof | (adjective) secure against burglary | - |
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| burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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| burgle | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, heist |
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| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| burgoo | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: oatmeal |
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| (noun) thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States | - |
| (noun) a gathering at which burgoo stew is served | - |
| burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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| burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
| burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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| burial | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burying |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
| buried | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: inhumed, interred |
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| burin | (noun) a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving | - |
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| burka | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burqa |
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| burke | (verb) get rid of, silence, or suppress | - |
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| (verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body | - |
| burked | (adjective) suppressed quietly or indirectly | - |
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| burl | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: knot, slub |
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| (noun) a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | - |
| (noun) the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer | - |
| (verb) remove the burls from cloth | - |
| burlap | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: gunny |
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| burled | (adjective) (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl | - |
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| burlesque | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a burlesque | - |
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| (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
| burly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping |
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| burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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| (noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
| (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
| (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| (verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) feel hot or painful | - |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| burnable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: ignitable, ignitible |
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| burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
| (noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
| (noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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| burnous | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnouse |
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| burnouse | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnous |
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| burnside | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn |
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| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| burnup | (noun) the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) | - |
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| (noun) a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road | - |
| burp | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burping, eructation |
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| (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, eruct |
| burping | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, eructation |
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| burqa | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burka |
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| burr | (noun) rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting | - |
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| (noun) rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece | - |
| (noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: bur |
| (noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: bur |
| (verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: bur |
| burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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| burred | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| burrfish | (noun) any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
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| burrito | (noun) a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
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| burrlike | (adjective) resembling a burr; especially in being prickly | - |
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| burro | (noun) small donkey used as a pack animal | - |
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| burrow | (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: tunnel |
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| (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: tunnel |
| burry | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bursa | (noun) a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints | - |
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| bursal | (adjective) relating to or affecting a bursa | - |
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| bursar | (noun) the treasurer at a college or university | - |
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| bursary | (noun) the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
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| bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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| bursitis | (noun) inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder | - |
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| burst | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: explosion |
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| (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: fusillade, salvo, volley |
| (noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | Synonyms: fit |
| (noun) a sudden intense happening | Synonyms: flare-up, outburst |
| (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, split |
| (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) emerge suddenly | - |
| (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: explode |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, erupt |
| (verb) move suddenly, energetically, or violently | - |
| (verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: collapse |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, bristle |
| burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
| burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| bury | (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: forget |
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| (verb) place in the earth and cover with soil | - |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up |
| (verb) cover from sight | - |
| (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
| burying | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burial |
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