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300 English words, part 113 of 142 of the words starting with B, A to Z. 40 have a page of their own.

English words break ground to breathable

  1. break ground verb: To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
  2. break in noun, verb /ˈbɹeɪkˌɪn/: The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.
  3. break into verb: To enter illegally or by force, especially in order to commit a crime.
  4. break into a run verb: To start running.
  5. break it verb: To deliver unfortunate or upsetting news to someone.
  6. break it down verb: To dance, especially in a hip hop style.
  7. break it to verb: To deliver unfortunate or upsetting news to someone.
  8. break junction noun: An electronic device consisting of two metal wires separated by a subnanometer gap. As the wire breaks, the separation between the electrodes can be...
  9. break loose verb: To escape; to free oneself.
  10. break luck verb: For a prostitute to pick up her first client of the day.
  11. break movie noun: A crude form of text-based animation created in ATASCII, using special control characters to move the cursor and overwrite previous animation frames.
  12. break new ground verb: To begin excavating and levelling earth for a new building, or, originally, for cultivation.
  13. break no squares verb: To do no harm; to make no difference.
  14. break of dawn noun: Daybreak.
  15. break of day noun: Daybreak.
  16. break of gauge noun: an occurrence where a railway with one track gauge meets another railway of a different gauge, thus requiring transhipment of goods and passengers, or a...
  17. break-of-gauge station noun: a railway station where railways of different track gauges meet, and where transhipment of goods and passengers takes place. Some of these stations have a...
  18. break off noun, verb: To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping.
  19. break on verb: To humiliate (someone); to scold or demean (someone) in public.
  20. break on the wheel verb: To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death.
  21. break one off verb: To throw a curve ball.
  22. break one's ass verb: To make a great effort; to bust one's ass.
  23. break one's back verb: Alternative form of break the back of (overburden), when applied to oneself.
  24. break one's chops verb: To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother.
  25. break one's duck verb: To score one's first run in an innings.
  26. break one's fall verb: To provide alleviation to prevent someone from slamming into the ground at full speed; to prevent someone from hitting the ground too hard at the end of a fall.
  27. break one's fast verb: To eat breakfast; to eat the first meal of the day after a night of not eating or to conclude any period of fasting by consuming food.
  28. break one's lance verb: To engage in an honorable fight.
  29. break one's maiden verb: Of a racehorse or jockey: to achieve victory in a race for the first time.
  30. break one's neck verb: To make extraordinary efforts to achieve an end; to exert oneself in pursuit of a goal.
  31. break one's promise verb: To fail to keep or maintain an assurance, bond or commitment one has made.
  32. break one's stride verb: Alternative form of break stride.
  33. break one's word verb: To break a promise one has made.
  34. break open verb: To make a breakthrough on a mystery or problem; to cause a breakthrough to be made.
  35. break out verb: To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
  36. break point noun: A situation in which if the receiver wins the next point, (s)he will win the game (but not the set or match).
  37. break ranks verb: To march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.
  38. break reality verb: To reach or experience a nonordinary state of consciousness, especially when using psychedelics.
  39. break rigor verb: To manipulate a corpse in which rigor mortis has set in, (by massage, flexing joints, or brute force) in order to change the position of the body.
  40. break room noun: A room in a public building or worksite set aside for coffee breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc.
  41. break sheer verb: To deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.
  42. break shins verb: To borrow money.
  43. break silence verb: To breach a norm against communication or against communicating a specific type of information.
  44. break someone's back verb: Alternative form of break the back of (overburden).
  45. break someone's face verb: To beat up someone violently.
  46. break someone's heart verb: To cause a person to feel grief, disappointment, or sadness.
  47. break squelch verb: To end radio silence.
  48. break stride verb: To cease walking or running at the same gait, especially with the result of interrupting one's forward momentum.
  49. break the back of verb: To complete the greater part of (a project) or solve the most critical part of (a problem).
  50. break the bank verb: At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.
  51. break the buck verb: To fall below the value of one dollar per share.
  52. break the cycle verb: To act so as to end a repeating pattern of harmful or otherwise negative behavior.
  53. break the deadlock verb: To score the first goal or point in a competition.
  54. break the fourth wall verb: To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader.
  55. break the ice verb /ˈbɹeɪk ði ˈaɪs/: To start to get to know people to avoid social awkwardness and formality.
  56. break the internet verb: To cause a connection to the Internet, or the Internet itself, to malfunction.
  57. break the internets verb: Alternative form of break the Internet.
  58. break the interwebs verb: Synonym of break the Internet.
  59. break the mold verb: To depart from a traditional pattern; to defy convention.
  60. break the mould verb: Alternative spelling of break the mold.
  61. break the news verb: To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person.
  62. break the Sabbath verb: To violate (the holiness or sanctity of) the Sabbath (by not keeping it holy).
  63. break the seal verb: To urinate, particularly for the first time after drinking alcohol.
  64. break the silence verb: To start talking in a conversation after a period where nobody speaks.
  65. break the story verb: To be the first to address or publicize an issue, often a news story.
  66. break the web verb: Synonym of break the Internet.
  67. break the wheel verb: To end a pattern of oppression, inequality, injustice, or abuse.
  68. break through verb: To gain popularity.
  69. break time noun: Alternative form of breaktime.
  70. break up noun, verb: To break or separate into pieces.
  71. break upon the wheel verb: To execute using a breaking wheel.
  72. break-upper noun: Synonym of dumper (person who terminates the relationship)
  73. break water verb: To lose one's amniotic fluid a.k.a. water, usually during the last phases of pregnancy.
  74. break wedlock verb: To commit adultery.
  75. break wind noun, verb: To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart.
  76. break with verb: To cease having a positive connection with (a person, group, movement, etc).
  77. break with tradition noun, verb: A deviation from established practices or traditions.
  78. breakability noun: The state or property of being breakable.
  79. breakable adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/: Able to break or be broken.
  80. breakableness noun: breakability
  81. breakably adverb: In a breakable manner.
  82. breakage noun /ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/: The act of breaking.
  83. breakaway adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪkəweɪ/: Having broken away from a larger unit.
  84. breakaway glass noun: Synonym of sugar glass.
  85. breakback adjective: Synonym of backbreaking (“of work, very physically tiring”).
  86. breakbeat noun: A form of syncopated rhythm prominent in much African music.
  87. breakbeaty adjective: Resembling or characteristic of breakbeat music.
  88. breakbone adjective, noun: Breakbone fever.
  89. breakbone fever noun: dengue fever.
  90. breakbones noun: plural of breakbone
  91. breakbuilder noun: A player who scores points by making an interrupted series of pots.
  92. breakbuilding noun: Alternative form of break-building.
  93. breakbulk adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of break-bulk.
  94. breakcore noun /ˈbɹeɪkˌkɔː/: A style of electronic music characterised by a high tempo, complex and intricate breakbeats, and a wide palette of samples from various sources, especially...
  95. breakdance noun, verb /ˈbɹeɪk.dɑːns/: The art, or an instance, of breakdancing.
  96. breakdancer noun: One who breakdances.
  97. breakdancing noun: An urban style of acrobatic street dance that originated in the hip hop culture of New York City in the late 20th century.
  98. breakdown noun /ˈbɹeɪkdaʊn/: A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
  99. breakdown crane noun: A crane that can be used in the event of accidents and derailments, as well as for engineering work on the railway; the crane is usually coupled to another...
  100. breakdown lane noun: Synonym of hard shoulder.
  101. breakdown lorry noun: A tow truck.
  102. breakdown point noun: The number or proportion of arbitrarily large or small extreme values that must be introduced into a batch or sample to cause the estimator to yield an...
  103. breakdown truck noun: A tow truck.
  104. breakdown voltage noun: The minimum voltage that causes part of an insulator to become electrically conductive.
  105. breakee noun: One who is broken, or with whom a relationship is broken.
  106. breaker interjection, noun /ˈbɹeɪkə/: Something that breaks (something else).
  107. breaker bar noun: A heavy-duty handle, typically long and with a nonratcheting head, that turns a socket to break loose nuts and bolts that are very tightly fastened.
  108. breaker boy noun: A boy, or sometimes a man unable to do other mining work, employed to separate impurities from coal at the breaker of a coal mine in the 19th and early 20th...
  109. breaker-inner noun: One who breaks in; a robber or home invader.
  110. breaker's yard noun: A place where old or accident-damaged motor vehicles are broken up.
  111. breaker-up noun: Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).
  112. breakerless adjective: Without a breaker.
  113. breakerman noun: The operator of a breaker (machine for breaking rocks or coal).
  114. breakers adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪ̯kəs/: Outstandingly pleasing, breaking out oneˈs excitement.
  115. breakeven adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of break-even.
  116. breakeven load factor noun: The load factor necessary for an airline to break even. It is a function of the percent of seats filled at a particular yield versus the airlines operating...
  117. breakeven point noun: Alternative spelling of break-even point.
  118. breakface noun: the surface of an artifact where a piece has been broken off
  119. breakfall noun /ˈbɹeɪkˌfɔl/: A technique to minimize impact and injury when falling or being thrown to the ground.
  120. breakfast noun, verb /ˈbɹɛk.fəst/: The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
  121. breakfast bar noun: A raised counter in a domestic kitchen at which light meals may be eaten, often seated on high stools.
  122. breakfast burrito noun: A burrito filled with American breakfast items.
  123. breakfast cereal noun: A food made from processed grains, such as maize, oats, wheat or rice, usually eaten for breakfast with milk and sometimes sugar, fruit, etc.
  124. breakfast club noun: A disciplinary punishment requiring a student to come to school before classes, typically to work on homework or perform busywork; morning detention.
  125. breakfast-equipage noun: Small pieces of domestic furniture, such as china, earthenware or glass.
  126. breakfast in bed noun, verb: Breakfast served to one in bed upon waking, commonly to show appreciation for the receiver.
  127. breakfast juice noun: A blend of various fruit juices.
  128. breakfast, lunch and dinner phrase: A group of three bedbug bites appearing together.
  129. breakfast mate noun: Someone with whom one eats breakfast.
  130. breakfast milk noun: A milk with relatively high butterfat content, typically 5% or more; especially Channel Island milk.
  131. breakfast of champions noun: Beer, junk food, or other foods implied to be unhealthy.
  132. breakfast potatoes noun: Synonym of home fries.
  133. breakfast poutine noun: A hot breakfast dish that is a variation of poutine. It is composed of pan-fried cubed potatoes and cheese curds, smothered in hollandaise sauce and topped...
  134. breakfast roll noun: A bread roll filled with elements of a traditional fry up.
  135. breakfast sausage noun: A kind of seasoned pork sausage, sometimes formed into patties, usually served at breakfast in the United States.
  136. breakfast set noun: The china or other ware used for serving and eating breakfast.
  137. breakfast stout noun: A dark stout made with ingredients associated with breakfast, such as oats and coffee.
  138. breakfast tea noun: Synonym of English breakfast tea.
  139. breakfast television noun: Any type of television programming that takes place in the morning, usually around breakfast-time.
  140. breakfast-time noun: The time when breakfast takes place.
  141. breakfast tray noun: A small, lightweight tray with a low rail around the edge used to carry a breakfast meal, sometimes utilised as a serving tray for someone in bed.
  142. breakfast wrap noun: Synonym of breakfast burrito.
  143. breakfastcup noun: A relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.
  144. breakfastcupful noun: The amount that fits in a breakfastcup.
  145. breakfasted adjective, verb: Having already eaten breakfast
  146. breakfaster noun: One eating breakfast.
  147. breakfasting noun, verb: The act of eating breakfast.
  148. breakfastless adjective: Without breakfast.
  149. breakfastlessness noun: Absence of breakfast.
  150. breakfastlike adjective: Resembling breakfast
  151. breakfastwards adverb: Towards breakfast.
  152. breakfastware noun: The dishes used for serving breakfast.
  153. breakfasty adjective /ˈbɹɛkfəsti/: Resembling or characteristic of breakfast.
  154. breakfront noun /ˈbɹeɪkfɹʌnt/: Any piece of furniture (especially a bookcase or cabinet) that has a central section that projects farther forward than the other sections.
  155. breakie noun /ˈbɹɛki/: Alternative spelling of brekkie.
  156. breakin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of breaking.
  157. breaking noun, verb /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/: The act by which something is broken.
  158. breaking and entering noun, verb: The crime of gaining unauthorized entry into another's property, usually by breaking part of a building (a lock, door, window, etc.)
  159. breaking ball noun: A curveball.
  160. breaking capacity noun: The current that a fuse, circuit breaker, or other electrical apparatus is able to interrupt without being destroyed or causing an electric arc with...
  161. breaking change noun: A change in one part of a software system that potentially causes other components to fail; occurs most often in shared libraries of code used by multiple...
  162. breaking news noun: News that has either just happened or is currently happening.
  163. breaking of the waters noun: the rupture of the amniotic sac at the beginning of or during labour.
  164. breaking point noun: The point at which the increasing strain in a material causes it to break.
  165. breaking strain noun: The amount of strain which can cause something to break, according to the force or weight placed on it. Many materials, such as lines and ropes, have a...
  166. breaking wheel noun: A wheel used to break a restrained victim's limbs and body in an ancient European form of execution.
  167. breakingly adverb: In a manner that breaks.
  168. breakle adjective: Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
  169. breakless adjective: Without a break; continuous, unbroken.
  170. breakline noun: Synonym of line break.
  171. breakly adjective, adverb: Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
  172. breakneck adjective, adverb, noun /ˈbɹeɪkˌnɛk/: Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
  173. breakoff noun: Alternative spelling of break-off.
  174. breakopen noun: In electric arc testing, a material response evidenced by the formation of one or more holes in the material which may allow thermal energy to pass through...
  175. breakout adjective, noun: An escape from prison.
  176. breakout board noun: A minimal PCB with a single component, used for easier prototyping.
  177. breakout character noun: A character who becomes the most popular, talked about, and imitated, helping to establish the narrative's popularity.
  178. breakout force noun: The amount of force that must be applied to a control before it starts to move.
  179. breakout group noun: Any of several small groups of people, at a conference etc., who concentrate effort on a part of the main topic.
  180. breakout room noun: A subroom of a meeting room, in which certain participants can have discussions that are private or separate from the rest of the conference.
  181. breakout session noun: A session of a conference, normally one of a choice of sessions following a plenary session, in which active participation of those attending is called for.
  182. breakpoint noun, verb: A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.
  183. breakproof adjective: Resistant to breaking; unbreakable.
  184. breakroom noun: Alternative spelling of break room.
  185. breakstep noun: A genre that evolved from 2-step garage, moving away from the more soulful elements of garage and incorporating downtempo drum and bass-style basslines.
  186. breakstone noun: Saxifrage (Saxifraga spp.)
  187. breakthrough adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/: Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
  188. breakthrough bleeding noun: Intermenstrual, and typically irregular, vaginal bleeding commonly associated with the use of hormonal contraceptives.
  189. breakthru adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪkθɹuː/: Alternative spelling of breakthrough.
  190. breaktime noun: A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.
  191. breakup noun /ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/: The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
  192. breakwall noun: A wall, typically built outside of a harbour, that diminishes damage due to battering by the waves.
  193. breakwater noun /ˈbɹeɪkˌwɔːtə/: A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
  194. Breakwell proper noun: A surname.
  195. breakwind noun: A windbreak.
  196. breaky adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪki/: Easily broken.
  197. bream noun, verb /bɹiːm/: A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
  198. breamlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of bream.
  199. Breanna proper noun: A female given name from the Celtic languages, of American usage, variant of Brianna.
  200. Brearley proper noun: A hamlet in Hebden Royd parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0225).
  201. breast noun, verb /bɹɛst/: Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
  202. breast augmentation noun: A cosmetic procedure to increase the size of a breast (the organ on the front of the chest).
  203. breast-beating noun: Synonym of chest-beating.
  204. breast bone noun: Alternative spelling of breastbone.
  205. breast boobily verb: To move with an exaggerated swaying of the breasts; parodying a typical description of female characters by male authors which focuses excessively on their...
  206. breast cancer noun: Cancer of the breast.
  207. breast cleavage noun: The separation between the breasts of an adult woman, including when visible through clothing.
  208. breast down verb: To use a process of sequential drilling and blasting in building tunnels for mining, subways, etc.
  209. breast drill noun: A hand-cranked drill that is braced against the breast (chest) and whose axial feed can be provided by pushing or leaning therefrom.
  210. breast envy noun: The sentiment of desiring feminine breasts.
  211. breast fed adjective, verb: Suckled at one's mother's breast.
  212. breast feed verb: Alternative spelling of breastfeed.
  213. breast flattening noun: Synonym of breast ironing.
  214. breast form noun: A removable prosthetic breast.
  215. breast-girdle noun: A band or girdle worn around the breasts, serving as a form of brassiere in Mediaeval times.
  216. breast girth noun: Alternative spelling of breastgirth.
  217. breast implant noun: A medical prosthesis used to augment, reconstruct, or create the physical form of breasts (the organs on the front of the [typically female] chest).
  218. breast ironing noun: The pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts, using hard or heated objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear, typically aiming...
  219. breast line noun: A rope used to tie a small ship to a dock, keeping it close to the pier
  220. breast milk noun: Milk produced by the human mammary glands.
  221. breast mint noun: Synonym of Tit Tac.
  222. breast one's cards verb: To hold one's cards close to the chest.
  223. breast pad noun: Synonym of nursing pad.
  224. breast pang noun: angina pectoris
  225. breast pocket noun: a small, outward pocket on a jacket or shirt, located over one's chest
  226. breast pump noun: A device used by a lactating woman to extract milk from her breasts (typically for short-term storage).
  227. breast reduction noun: The operation performed to reduce the volume of breast tissue.
  228. breast shell noun: A lightweight hollow plastic disk worn inside the brassiere to help correct flat or inverted nipples for breastfeeding.
  229. breast strap noun: Alternative spelling of breaststrap.
  230. breast-stroke noun, verb /ˈbɹɛstˌstɹoʊk/: Alternative form of breaststroke.
  231. breast the tape verb: To win a race by hitting the tape with the chest
  232. breast up verb: To cut the face of (a hedge) on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.
  233. breast wall noun: retaining wall
  234. breast-work noun: Alternative form of breastwork.
  235. breastapo noun: Overzealous lactivists who pressure women to breastfeed and criticize formula-feeders, taken as a group.
  236. breastaurant noun: A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.
  237. breastband noun: A strophium: a band worn around the breasts.
  238. breastbeam noun: Part of a loom.
  239. breastbone noun: The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.
  240. breasted adjective, verb /ˈbɹɛstɪd/: Having a breast, or breasts.
  241. breaster noun: One who breasts something.
  242. breastfast noun: A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf or to another vessel.
  243. breastfeed noun, verb /ˈbɹɛs(t)fiːd/: To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.
  244. breastfeeder noun: A nursing mother, one who breastfeeds (suckles a baby).
  245. breastfeeding noun, verb /ˈbɹɛstˌfidɪŋ/: The act or process of feeding a baby or young child milk from a lactating breast.
  246. breastflesh noun: The flesh of somebody's breast.
  247. breastful noun: The amount that a breast will carry or hold.
  248. breastgirth noun: A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle to slip backwards.
  249. breastheight noun: The typical height above ground of an adult's breast, used as a reference height for measuring the diameters of trees.
  250. breasthook noun: A horizontal timber fitted in the bows of a ship to add strength and to connect the sides to the stem.
  251. breasticle noun /ˈbɹɛs.tɪ.kəl/: A breast.
  252. breastie noun: breast
  253. breasting noun, verb: The curved channel in which a breastwheel turns.
  254. breastknot noun: A pin worn on the breast as a fastening or ornament; a brooch.
  255. breastless adjective: Without a breast or breasts; flat-chested.
  256. breastlessness noun: The condition of being breastless.
  257. breastlift noun: Any operation designed to lift a woman’s breast.
  258. breastlike adjective: Resembling a breast or breasts.
  259. breastling noun: A suckling babe or child.
  260. breastmilk noun: Alternative spelling of breast milk.
  261. breastpin noun: An ornamental pin attached to clothing in a person's upper chest area; a brooch.
  262. breastplate noun /ˈbɹɛstˌpleɪt/: A piece of armor that covers the chest.
  263. breastplated adjective: Wearing a breastplate.
  264. breastplough noun: A kind of plough, worked by handles near the worker's breast, and in some types by pushing with the breast/chest, by which ploughing can be done by hand...
  265. breastplow noun: Alternative form of breastplough.
  266. breastpoint noun: The place or point of a breast.
  267. breastrail noun: The upper rail of a parapet of ordinary height, such as of a balcony, the railing of a boat, etc.
  268. breastrope noun: breastband
  269. breastshot adjective: Vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it.
  270. breastsleep verb: To participate in breastsleeping.
  271. breastsleeping noun, verb: The practice where a mother cosleeps with her baby while breastfeeding.
  272. breaststrap noun: A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle from slipping backwards.
  273. breaststroke noun, verb /ˈbɹɛstˌstɹoʊk/: A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog's
  274. breaststroker noun: A person swimming using the breaststroke.
  275. breastsummer noun: Alternative spelling of bressummer.
  276. breastwear noun: Clothing worn on the breasts.
  277. breastweed noun: Synonym of lizard's tail (“the plant Saururus cernuus”).
  278. breastwheel noun: A water wheel where the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the...
  279. breastwise adverb: Side by side; abreast.
  280. breastwork noun: A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
  281. breasty adjective /ˈbɹɛsti/: Having large breasts; busty.
  282. breath adjective, noun /bɹɛθ/: The act or process of breathing.
  283. breath and britches noun: physically (implying extreme thinness) or,
  284. breath-catching adjective: Inspiring awe or deep admiration; impressive.
  285. breath-catchingly adverb: shockingly; so as to make one catch one's breath
  286. breath check noun: The act of blowing air into one's hand and the sniffing it, in order to determine if one has bad breath.
  287. breath control noun: Erotic asphyxiation where one person controls the breathing of another.
  288. breath guard noun: A sneeze guard.
  289. breath-holding noun: Alternative form of breathholding
  290. breath mark noun: The musical notation symbol ⟨𝄒⟩, directing a performer to take a breath, for wind instruments and singers, or to pause shortly, for other instruments.
  291. breath mint noun: A mint-flavored candy intended to freshen the breath.
  292. breath of fresh air noun: Something relieving, refreshing, or new.
  293. breath of heaven noun: A small southern African shrub (Coleonema pulchellum) with small leathery leaves and white or pink flowers that is cultivated in California.
  294. breath of life noun: Divine animation; that which brings life into living things.
  295. breath play noun: Alternative form of breathplay.
  296. breath spray noun: A product sprayed into the mouth for the purpose of eliminating bad breath.
  297. breath strip noun: An antiseptic in the form of a strip that is intended to be dissolved in the mouth, ridding a person of bad breath.
  298. breath test noun: An official test to determine if someone has taken alcohol or drugs by testing a sample of their exhaled breath.
  299. breathability noun /ˌbɹiː.ðəˈbɪl.ə.ti/: The ability of a fabric (or clothing) to transmit air and moisture.
  300. breathable adjective /ˈbɹiːðəbəl/: suitable for breathing

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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under B: 42,566 words, in 142 parts.