English words: break ground to breathable
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
- break ground verb: To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
- 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.
- break into verb: To enter illegally or by force, especially in order to commit a crime.
- break into a run verb: To start running.
- break it verb: To deliver unfortunate or upsetting news to someone.
- break it down verb: To dance, especially in a hip hop style.
- break it to verb: To deliver unfortunate or upsetting news to someone.
- 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...
- break loose verb: To escape; to free oneself.
- break luck verb: For a prostitute to pick up her first client of the day.
- 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.
- break new ground verb: To begin excavating and levelling earth for a new building, or, originally, for cultivation.
- break no squares verb: To do no harm; to make no difference.
- break of dawn noun: Daybreak.
- break of day noun: Daybreak.
- 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...
- 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...
- break off noun, verb: To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping.
- break on verb: To humiliate (someone); to scold or demean (someone) in public.
- break on the wheel verb: To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death.
- break one off verb: To throw a curve ball.
- break one's ass verb: To make a great effort; to bust one's ass.
- break one's back verb: Alternative form of break the back of (overburden), when applied to oneself.
- break one's chops verb: To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother.
- break one's duck verb: To score one's first run in an innings.
- 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.
- 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.
- break one's lance verb: To engage in an honorable fight.
- break one's maiden verb: Of a racehorse or jockey: to achieve victory in a race for the first time.
- break one's neck verb: To make extraordinary efforts to achieve an end; to exert oneself in pursuit of a goal.
- break one's promise verb: To fail to keep or maintain an assurance, bond or commitment one has made.
- break one's stride verb: Alternative form of break stride.
- break one's word verb: To break a promise one has made.
- break open verb: To make a breakthrough on a mystery or problem; to cause a breakthrough to be made.
- break out verb: To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
- 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).
- break ranks verb: To march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.
- break reality verb: To reach or experience a nonordinary state of consciousness, especially when using psychedelics.
- 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.
- break room noun: A room in a public building or worksite set aside for coffee breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc.
- break sheer verb: To deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.
- break shins verb: To borrow money.
- break silence verb: To breach a norm against communication or against communicating a specific type of information.
- break someone's back verb: Alternative form of break the back of (overburden).
- break someone's face verb: To beat up someone violently.
- break someone's heart verb: To cause a person to feel grief, disappointment, or sadness.
- break squelch verb: To end radio silence.
- break stride verb: To cease walking or running at the same gait, especially with the result of interrupting one's forward momentum.
- break the back of verb: To complete the greater part of (a project) or solve the most critical part of (a problem).
- break the bank verb: At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.
- break the buck verb: To fall below the value of one dollar per share.
- break the cycle verb: To act so as to end a repeating pattern of harmful or otherwise negative behavior.
- break the deadlock verb: To score the first goal or point in a competition.
- break the fourth wall verb: To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader.
- break the ice verb /ˈbɹeɪk ði ˈaɪs/: To start to get to know people to avoid social awkwardness and formality.
- break the internet verb: To cause a connection to the Internet, or the Internet itself, to malfunction.
- break the internets verb: Alternative form of break the Internet.
- break the interwebs verb: Synonym of break the Internet.
- break the mold verb: To depart from a traditional pattern; to defy convention.
- break the mould verb: Alternative spelling of break the mold.
- break the news verb: To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person.
- break the Sabbath verb: To violate (the holiness or sanctity of) the Sabbath (by not keeping it holy).
- break the seal verb: To urinate, particularly for the first time after drinking alcohol.
- break the silence verb: To start talking in a conversation after a period where nobody speaks.
- break the story verb: To be the first to address or publicize an issue, often a news story.
- break the web verb: Synonym of break the Internet.
- break the wheel verb: To end a pattern of oppression, inequality, injustice, or abuse.
- break through verb: To gain popularity.
- break time noun: Alternative form of breaktime.
- break up noun, verb: To break or separate into pieces.
- break upon the wheel verb: To execute using a breaking wheel.
- break-upper noun: Synonym of dumper (person who terminates the relationship)
- break water verb: To lose one's amniotic fluid a.k.a. water, usually during the last phases of pregnancy.
- break wedlock verb: To commit adultery.
- break wind noun, verb: To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart.
- break with verb: To cease having a positive connection with (a person, group, movement, etc).
- break with tradition noun, verb: A deviation from established practices or traditions.
- breakability noun: The state or property of being breakable.
- breakable adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/: Able to break or be broken.
- breakableness noun: breakability
- breakably adverb: In a breakable manner.
- breakage noun /ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/: The act of breaking.
- breakaway adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪkəweɪ/: Having broken away from a larger unit.
- breakaway glass noun: Synonym of sugar glass.
- breakback adjective: Synonym of backbreaking (“of work, very physically tiring”).
- breakbeat noun: A form of syncopated rhythm prominent in much African music.
- breakbeaty adjective: Resembling or characteristic of breakbeat music.
- breakbone adjective, noun: Breakbone fever.
- breakbone fever noun: dengue fever.
- breakbones noun: plural of breakbone
- breakbuilder noun: A player who scores points by making an interrupted series of pots.
- breakbuilding noun: Alternative form of break-building.
- breakbulk adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of break-bulk.
- 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...
- breakdance noun, verb /ˈbɹeɪk.dɑːns/: The art, or an instance, of breakdancing.
- breakdancer noun: One who breakdances.
- 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.
- breakdown noun /ˈbɹeɪkdaʊn/: A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
- 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...
- breakdown lane noun: Synonym of hard shoulder.
- breakdown lorry noun: A tow truck.
- 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...
- breakdown truck noun: A tow truck.
- breakdown voltage noun: The minimum voltage that causes part of an insulator to become electrically conductive.
- breakee noun: One who is broken, or with whom a relationship is broken.
- breaker interjection, noun /ˈbɹeɪkə/: Something that breaks (something else).
- 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.
- 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...
- breaker-inner noun: One who breaks in; a robber or home invader.
- breaker's yard noun: A place where old or accident-damaged motor vehicles are broken up.
- breaker-up noun: Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).
- breakerless adjective: Without a breaker.
- breakerman noun: The operator of a breaker (machine for breaking rocks or coal).
- breakers adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪ̯kəs/: Outstandingly pleasing, breaking out oneˈs excitement.
- breakeven adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of break-even.
- 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...
- breakeven point noun: Alternative spelling of break-even point.
- breakface noun: the surface of an artifact where a piece has been broken off
- breakfall noun /ˈbɹeɪkˌfɔl/: A technique to minimize impact and injury when falling or being thrown to the ground.
- breakfast noun, verb /ˈbɹɛk.fəst/: The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
- breakfast bar noun: A raised counter in a domestic kitchen at which light meals may be eaten, often seated on high stools.
- breakfast burrito noun: A burrito filled with American breakfast items.
- 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.
- 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.
- breakfast-equipage noun: Small pieces of domestic furniture, such as china, earthenware or glass.
- breakfast in bed noun, verb: Breakfast served to one in bed upon waking, commonly to show appreciation for the receiver.
- breakfast juice noun: A blend of various fruit juices.
- breakfast, lunch and dinner phrase: A group of three bedbug bites appearing together.
- breakfast mate noun: Someone with whom one eats breakfast.
- breakfast milk noun: A milk with relatively high butterfat content, typically 5% or more; especially Channel Island milk.
- breakfast of champions noun: Beer, junk food, or other foods implied to be unhealthy.
- breakfast potatoes noun: Synonym of home fries.
- 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...
- breakfast roll noun: A bread roll filled with elements of a traditional fry up.
- breakfast sausage noun: A kind of seasoned pork sausage, sometimes formed into patties, usually served at breakfast in the United States.
- breakfast set noun: The china or other ware used for serving and eating breakfast.
- breakfast stout noun: A dark stout made with ingredients associated with breakfast, such as oats and coffee.
- breakfast tea noun: Synonym of English breakfast tea.
- breakfast television noun: Any type of television programming that takes place in the morning, usually around breakfast-time.
- breakfast-time noun: The time when breakfast takes place.
- 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.
- breakfast wrap noun: Synonym of breakfast burrito.
- breakfastcup noun: A relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.
- breakfastcupful noun: The amount that fits in a breakfastcup.
- breakfasted adjective, verb: Having already eaten breakfast
- breakfaster noun: One eating breakfast.
- breakfasting noun, verb: The act of eating breakfast.
- breakfastless adjective: Without breakfast.
- breakfastlessness noun: Absence of breakfast.
- breakfastlike adjective: Resembling breakfast
- breakfastwards adverb: Towards breakfast.
- breakfastware noun: The dishes used for serving breakfast.
- breakfasty adjective /ˈbɹɛkfəsti/: Resembling or characteristic of breakfast.
- 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.
- breakie noun /ˈbɹɛki/: Alternative spelling of brekkie.
- breakin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of breaking.
- breaking noun, verb /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/: The act by which something is broken.
- 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.)
- breaking ball noun: A curveball.
- 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...
- 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...
- breaking news noun: News that has either just happened or is currently happening.
- breaking of the waters noun: the rupture of the amniotic sac at the beginning of or during labour.
- breaking point noun: The point at which the increasing strain in a material causes it to break.
- 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...
- breaking wheel noun: A wheel used to break a restrained victim's limbs and body in an ancient European form of execution.
- breakingly adverb: In a manner that breaks.
- breakle adjective: Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
- breakless adjective: Without a break; continuous, unbroken.
- breakline noun: Synonym of line break.
- breakly adjective, adverb: Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
- breakneck adjective, adverb, noun /ˈbɹeɪkˌnɛk/: Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
- breakoff noun: Alternative spelling of break-off.
- 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...
- breakout adjective, noun: An escape from prison.
- breakout board noun: A minimal PCB with a single component, used for easier prototyping.
- breakout character noun: A character who becomes the most popular, talked about, and imitated, helping to establish the narrative's popularity.
- breakout force noun: The amount of force that must be applied to a control before it starts to move.
- breakout group noun: Any of several small groups of people, at a conference etc., who concentrate effort on a part of the main topic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- breakproof adjective: Resistant to breaking; unbreakable.
- breakroom noun: Alternative spelling of break room.
- 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.
- breakstone noun: Saxifrage (Saxifraga spp.)
- breakthrough adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/: Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
- breakthrough bleeding noun: Intermenstrual, and typically irregular, vaginal bleeding commonly associated with the use of hormonal contraceptives.
- breakthru adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪkθɹuː/: Alternative spelling of breakthrough.
- breaktime noun: A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.
- breakup noun /ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/: The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
- breakwall noun: A wall, typically built outside of a harbour, that diminishes damage due to battering by the waves.
- 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.
- Breakwell proper noun: A surname.
- breakwind noun: A windbreak.
- breaky adjective, noun /ˈbɹeɪki/: Easily broken.
- bream noun, verb /bɹiːm/: A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
- breamlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of bream.
- Breanna proper noun: A female given name from the Celtic languages, of American usage, variant of Brianna.
- Brearley proper noun: A hamlet in Hebden Royd parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0225).
- 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.
- breast augmentation noun: A cosmetic procedure to increase the size of a breast (the organ on the front of the chest).
- breast-beating noun: Synonym of chest-beating.
- breast bone noun: Alternative spelling of breastbone.
- 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...
- breast cancer noun: Cancer of the breast.
- breast cleavage noun: The separation between the breasts of an adult woman, including when visible through clothing.
- breast down verb: To use a process of sequential drilling and blasting in building tunnels for mining, subways, etc.
- 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.
- breast envy noun: The sentiment of desiring feminine breasts.
- breast fed adjective, verb: Suckled at one's mother's breast.
- breast feed verb: Alternative spelling of breastfeed.
- breast flattening noun: Synonym of breast ironing.
- breast form noun: A removable prosthetic breast.
- breast-girdle noun: A band or girdle worn around the breasts, serving as a form of brassiere in Mediaeval times.
- breast girth noun: Alternative spelling of breastgirth.
- 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).
- 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...
- breast line noun: A rope used to tie a small ship to a dock, keeping it close to the pier
- breast milk noun: Milk produced by the human mammary glands.
- breast mint noun: Synonym of Tit Tac.
- breast one's cards verb: To hold one's cards close to the chest.
- breast pad noun: Synonym of nursing pad.
- breast pang noun: angina pectoris
- breast pocket noun: a small, outward pocket on a jacket or shirt, located over one's chest
- breast pump noun: A device used by a lactating woman to extract milk from her breasts (typically for short-term storage).
- breast reduction noun: The operation performed to reduce the volume of breast tissue.
- breast shell noun: A lightweight hollow plastic disk worn inside the brassiere to help correct flat or inverted nipples for breastfeeding.
- breast strap noun: Alternative spelling of breaststrap.
- breast-stroke noun, verb /ˈbɹɛstˌstɹoʊk/: Alternative form of breaststroke.
- breast the tape verb: To win a race by hitting the tape with the chest
- 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.
- breast wall noun: retaining wall
- breast-work noun: Alternative form of breastwork.
- breastapo noun: Overzealous lactivists who pressure women to breastfeed and criticize formula-feeders, taken as a group.
- breastaurant noun: A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.
- breastband noun: A strophium: a band worn around the breasts.
- breastbeam noun: Part of a loom.
- breastbone noun: The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.
- breasted adjective, verb /ˈbɹɛstɪd/: Having a breast, or breasts.
- breaster noun: One who breasts something.
- breastfast noun: A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf or to another vessel.
- breastfeed noun, verb /ˈbɹɛs(t)fiːd/: To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.
- breastfeeder noun: A nursing mother, one who breastfeeds (suckles a baby).
- breastfeeding noun, verb /ˈbɹɛstˌfidɪŋ/: The act or process of feeding a baby or young child milk from a lactating breast.
- breastflesh noun: The flesh of somebody's breast.
- breastful noun: The amount that a breast will carry or hold.
- breastgirth noun: A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle to slip backwards.
- breastheight noun: The typical height above ground of an adult's breast, used as a reference height for measuring the diameters of trees.
- breasthook noun: A horizontal timber fitted in the bows of a ship to add strength and to connect the sides to the stem.
- breasticle noun /ˈbɹɛs.tɪ.kəl/: A breast.
- breastie noun: breast
- breasting noun, verb: The curved channel in which a breastwheel turns.
- breastknot noun: A pin worn on the breast as a fastening or ornament; a brooch.
- breastless adjective: Without a breast or breasts; flat-chested.
- breastlessness noun: The condition of being breastless.
- breastlift noun: Any operation designed to lift a woman’s breast.
- breastlike adjective: Resembling a breast or breasts.
- breastling noun: A suckling babe or child.
- breastmilk noun: Alternative spelling of breast milk.
- breastpin noun: An ornamental pin attached to clothing in a person's upper chest area; a brooch.
- breastplate noun /ˈbɹɛstˌpleɪt/: A piece of armor that covers the chest.
- breastplated adjective: Wearing a breastplate.
- 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...
- breastplow noun: Alternative form of breastplough.
- breastpoint noun: The place or point of a breast.
- breastrail noun: The upper rail of a parapet of ordinary height, such as of a balcony, the railing of a boat, etc.
- breastrope noun: breastband
- breastshot adjective: Vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it.
- breastsleep verb: To participate in breastsleeping.
- breastsleeping noun, verb: The practice where a mother cosleeps with her baby while breastfeeding.
- breaststrap noun: A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle from slipping backwards.
- 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
- breaststroker noun: A person swimming using the breaststroke.
- breastsummer noun: Alternative spelling of bressummer.
- breastwear noun: Clothing worn on the breasts.
- breastweed noun: Synonym of lizard's tail (“the plant Saururus cernuus”).
- 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...
- breastwise adverb: Side by side; abreast.
- breastwork noun: A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
- breasty adjective /ˈbɹɛsti/: Having large breasts; busty.
- breath adjective, noun /bɹɛθ/: The act or process of breathing.
- breath and britches noun: physically (implying extreme thinness) or,
- breath-catching adjective: Inspiring awe or deep admiration; impressive.
- breath-catchingly adverb: shockingly; so as to make one catch one's breath
- 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.
- breath control noun: Erotic asphyxiation where one person controls the breathing of another.
- breath guard noun: A sneeze guard.
- breath-holding noun: Alternative form of breathholding
- 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.
- breath mint noun: A mint-flavored candy intended to freshen the breath.
- breath of fresh air noun: Something relieving, refreshing, or new.
- 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.
- breath of life noun: Divine animation; that which brings life into living things.
- breath play noun: Alternative form of breathplay.
- breath spray noun: A product sprayed into the mouth for the purpose of eliminating bad breath.
- 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.
- breath test noun: An official test to determine if someone has taken alcohol or drugs by testing a sample of their exhaled breath.
- breathability noun /ˌbɹiː.ðəˈbɪl.ə.ti/: The ability of a fabric (or clothing) to transmit air and moisture.
- 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.