English words: by the ton to bzzzt

English words by the ton to bzzzt

1. by the ton prepositional phrase: galore, aplenty
2. by the way prepositional phrase: Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has...
3. by the way of preposition: Alternative form of by way of.
4. by-the-wind sailor noun: Velella velella, organism of the monospecific genus Velella.
5. by their fruits you will know them phrase: One is able to identify and recognize the true nature of someone or something by their deeds or actions.
6. by thunder adverb: Used for emphasis, sometimes with a threatening implication.
7. by Toutatis interjection /ˌbaɪ tuːˈtɑːtɪs/: by God (intensifier or oath)
8. by trade prepositional phrase: As a profession; professionally.
9. by-turning noun: A way turning from the main road; a sideroad.
10. by turns prepositional phrase: One after the other; successively; alternating.
11. by vice of preposition: Because of (something unfavorable, immoral, negative, etc.)
12. by-view noun: A private or selfish view; a self-interested aim or purpose.
13. by virtue of preposition /baɪ ˈvɜːtʃuː ɒv/: (originally) By the authority or power of; (now) because of; on the grounds of; by reason of.
14. by-wash noun: The outlet from a dam or reservoir.
15. by-way noun: Alternative spelling of byway.
16. by way of phrase: By the route of.
17. by way of example prepositional phrase: As an example.
18. by wire prepositional phrase: Sent by telegraph or telephone wires.
19. by your leave noun, prepositional phrase: With your permission.
20. bya symbol: Synonym of Gya (“billion years ago (short scale): 10⁹ years ago”).
21. byakangelicin noun: The coumarin 9-[(2R)-2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutoxy]-4-methoxyfuro[3,2-g]chromen-7-one, an aldose reductase inhibitor.
22. Byam proper noun: A surname.
23. Byard proper noun: A surname.
24. Byari noun: Alternative form of Beary
25. Byars proper noun: A surname.
26. Bybee proper noun: A surname.
27. bybidder noun: A person employed to bid at an auction in order to raise the prices for the auctioneer or seller.
28. Byblian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Byblos.
29. byblidaceous adjective: Of or relating to the Byblidaceae.
30. Byblos proper noun /ˈbɪblɒs/: A port city in Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon.
31. byblow noun: Alternative form of by-blow.
32. bybook noun: Alternative form of by-book.
33. bycatch noun, verb: Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea.
34. bycocket noun: Alternative form of bycoket.
35. bycoket noun: A type of medieval cap with a wide brim that comes to a point in the front and is turned up at the rear, originally worn by Western European nobility and...
36. Byculla proper noun /ˈbaɪkələ/: A neighbourhood of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
37. BYD proper noun: A Chinese multinational manufacturing company.
38. Bydgoszcz proper noun /ˈbɪd.ɡɔːʃ(t͡ʃ)/: The capital and largest city of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
39. bydweller noun: One who dwells near; a neighbour.
40. bye adjective, interjection, noun /baɪ/: The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is...
41. bye-blow noun: Alternative spelling of by-blow.
42. bye-bye interjection, noun /baɪˈbaɪ/: Goodbye.
43. bye-election noun: Alternative form of by-election.
44. bye, Felicia interjection /ˌbaɪ fəˈliʃə/: Used to dismissively and sarcastically end a conversation by signaling that the speaker rejects, ignores, or is no longer interested in the other person’s...
45. bye, Felisha interjection: Alternative spelling of bye, Felicia.
46. bye-law noun: Alternative spelling of bylaw.
47. bye-letter noun: A postal letter carried only part of the way to the central post office, and delivered to its destination along the way.
48. bye-place noun: Alternative form of by-place.
49. bye-product noun: Dated form of by-product.
50. bye-street noun: Alternative spelling of bystreet.
51. bye-wash noun: Alternative form of by-wash.
52. bye-workman noun: An underground mine labourer.
53. byebye interjection: Alternative form of bye-bye.
54. byelaw noun: Alternative spelling of bylaw.
55. byelection noun: Alternative form of by-election.
56. byeline noun: Alternative spelling of byline.
57. Byelorussia proper noun /ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃə/: Belarus
58. Byelorussian adjective, noun /ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃən/: Alternative spelling of Belarusian.
59. byemby adverb: Alternative form of byembye.
60. byembye adverb, noun: by and by
61. byen noun /ˈbjɛn/: bone
62. byepath noun: Alternative spelling of bypath.
63. Byer proper noun: A surname.
64. Byerley proper noun: A surname.
65. Byerly proper noun: A surname.
66. Byers proper noun: A surname.
67. byestreet noun: Alternative spelling of bystreet.
68. byewash noun: Alternative form of by-wash.
69. BYF phrase: Initialism of before you follow.
70. byfall noun: A falling about; an incidental accessory or accretion; a happenstance; occurrence; instance.
71. byfellow noun: A fellow of a college (in the University of Cambridge) not on the foundation, and not having the privileges of a foundation fellow.
72. Byfield proper noun: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5153).
73. Byfleet proper noun: A large village within Woking borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0661).
74. byflow noun: That which flows by, near, or around; an ancillary or secondary flow.
75. Byford proper noun: A village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref S03942).
76. byform noun: An alternative tangential, subordinate, or secondary variant form of a word or morpheme.
77. bygan noun: Alternative form of bhaigan.
78. bygone adjective, noun /ˈbaɪɡɒn/: Having been or happened in the distant past.
79. bygones noun /ˈbaɪˌɡɑnz/: Things that happened in the past.
80. Bygrave proper noun: A village and civil parish of North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL258873).
81. byground noun: Ground or a piece of ground lying out of the way.
82. byheart verb: To recite from memory.
83. byhearting noun, verb: Memorisation; recitation.
84. byhove verb /bɪˈhəʊv/: To suit; to befit.
85. Byington proper noun: A surname.
86. byion noun /ˈbaɪˌaɪɒn/: nebenion
87. byke noun: A bisexual woman.
88. byknife noun: A secondary knife carried beside a dagger or short sword.
89. byland noun /ˈbaɪlənd/: A peninsula.
90. bylane noun: A secondary lane.
91. bylaw noun /ˈbaɪ.lɔː/: A local custom or law of a settlement or district.
92. bylaw officer noun: An agent of municipal law enforcement responsible for ensuring obedience to the bylaws.
93. bylee noun: A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by two oxen.
94. Byler proper noun: A surname.
95. Byles proper noun: A surname.
96. bylina noun /bəˈliːnə/: A traditional East Slavic oral epic narrative poem.
97. byline noun, verb /ˈbaɪlaɪn/: A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name.
98. bylined adjective, verb: Having a byline.
99. byliner noun: A journalist who writes bylines.
100. Bylsma proper noun: A surname from West Frisian.
101. bylyna noun: Alternative form of bylina.
102. BYM noun: Initialism of bright young man.
103. bymatter noun: Something beside the main business; a side incident; a trivial, unimportant matter.
104. bymeby adverb: Alternative form of byembye.
105. bymoviral adjective: Of or relating to the bymoviruses.
106. bymovirus noun: Any virus of the genus Bymovirus
107. byname noun, verb /ˈbaɪˌneɪm/: Synonym of epithet, a descriptive and distinguishing additional name.
108. bynedestin noun: A globulin found in malt.
109. Bynes proper noun: A surname, notably borne by Amanda Bynes.
110. Byng proper noun /ˈbɪŋ/: A surname.
111. bynin noun: A protein that replaces hordein when barley is malted.
112. Bynoe proper noun: A surname.
113. Bynum proper noun: A surname.
114. BYO phrase: Initialism of bring your own.
115. BYOB phrase: Initialism of bring your own bottle/booze/beer/beverage.
116. byobu noun: A type of folding screen
117. BYOC phrase: Initialism of bring your own computer (or console).
118. byock noun: A male ostrich's black and white wing feather.
119. BYOD phrase: Initialism of bring your own device: a business or school policy of allowing employees or students to connect to a network from personally-owned mobile devices.
120. BYOE noun: Initialism of bring your own encryption; a system which allows a customer to encrypt their data using an encryption key on a cloud provider's hardware.
121. BYOIP noun: Initialism of bring your own IP (address); a system which allows a customer to use their own IP address(es) on a cloud provider's hardware.
122. BYOK noun: Initialism of bring your own key; a system which allows a customer to encrypt their data using an encryption key on a cloud provider's hardware.
123. BYOL noun, phrase: Initialism of bring your own liquor.
124. BYOVD noun: Initialism of bring your own vulnerable driver (“an exploit in which valid, digitally signed but obsolete drivers are used to introduce malicious code”).
125. BYOW phrase: Initialism of bring your own wine.
126. byoyomi noun: A system of time control in some board games, especially go and shogi, in which the player is assigned a number of additional periods (of a fixed time per...
127. BYP adjective: Abbreviation of bypass.
128. bypass noun, verb /ˈbaɪpæs/: A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
129. bypass duct noun: A component used in HVAC systems to manage airflow by providing an alternative path for excess air.
130. bypassability noun: The quality of being bypassable.
131. bypassable adjective: Capable of being bypassed.
132. bypasser noun: One who or that which bypasses.
133. bypast adjective: past
134. bypath noun /ˈbaɪˌpɑːθ/: An unfrequented path; an indirect route; a byway.
135. byplace noun: Alternative form of by-place.
136. byplay noun: Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
137. bypoll noun: Synonym of by-election.
138. byproduct noun: Alternative form of by-product.
139. Byram proper noun: A surname.
140. byrampaut noun: A woven material of cotton and linen, from India.
141. Byrd proper noun: A surname.
142. byre noun /ˈbaɪə/: A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
143. byre-dwelling noun: A farmhouse having human living quarters under the same roof as the livestock and/or grain.
144. byreman noun: A man employed to look after cows in a byre.
145. byrewoman noun: A woman employed to look after cows in a byre.
146. byrl verb: Alternative form of birle.
147. byrlady interjection: Used as an exclamation of surprise or anger.
148. byrlakin interjection: An exclamation of surprise or vehemence.
149. Byrn proper noun: A surname.
150. Byrne proper noun: A surname from Irish.
151. Byrnes proper noun: A surname.
152. byrnie noun /ˈbɜːni/: A short chain mail shirt, covering from the upper arms to the upper thighs.
153. byrny noun: Alternative form of byrnie.
154. byroad noun: A road less frequented than a highway; a byway.
155. Byrom proper noun: A surname.
156. Byron proper noun /ˈbaɪɹən/: A surname from Old English.
157. Byronesque adjective: Reminiscent of the works of George Gordon Byron, typified by gloomy Romantic themes and passionate, arrogant and self-destructive heroes.
158. Byronian adjective, noun /baɪˈɹəʊ.ni.ən/: Of or pertaining to British Romantic poet Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) or his writings.
159. Byroniana noun: Objects, materials, or documents relating to the poet and politician Lord Byron.
160. Byronic adjective /baɪˈɹɒn.ɪk/: Of or pertaining to British Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) or his writings.
161. Byronic hero noun /baɪˈɹɒn.ɪk ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ/: A character type originating in the works of Lord Byron, typically characterized by introspection, arrogance, cynicism, emotional depth, and moral...
162. Byronic heros noun: Alternative spelling of Byronic heroes.
163. Byronically adverb: In a Byronic fashion.
164. Byronics noun: The style of the poet Lord Byron.
165. Byronish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of British Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) or his writings.
166. Byronism noun /ˈbaɪ.ɹən.ɪzm̩/: Admiration or emulation of the poet Lord Byron.
167. Byronist noun: A proponent of Byronism.
168. Byronize verb: To make something, or someone, more Byronic
169. byrrhid noun: Any member of the family Byrrhidae.
170. byrrhoid noun: Any member of the Byrrhoidea superfamily of beetles.
171. Byrum proper noun: A surname.
172. byrunning adjective, noun: Going by; passing; current.
173. bysack noun: A wallet.
174. bysitter noun: One sitting near or nearby.
175. bysmalith noun: A volcanic plug.
176. byspeech noun: An incidental or casual speech not directly relating to the point.
177. byspel noun: An example.
178. byssaceous adjective: Like byssus; consisting of fine interwoven fibres or threads.
179. byssal adjective: Of or pertaining to the byssi, filaments secreted by certain bivalves
180. byssally adverb: By means of byssi
181. byssate adjective: Relating to, or possessing a byssus
182. byssiferous adjective /bɪˈsɪfəɹəs/: Bearing a byssus or tuft.
183. byssine adjective /bɪˈsiːn/: Made of, or resembling, silk; silken.
184. byssinosis noun /ˌbɪsɪˈnəʊsɪs/: A lung disease, caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments.
185. byssinotic adjective: Afflicted with, or pertaining to, byssinosis.
186. byssochlamic acid noun: A nonadride mycotoxin found in certain fungi.
187. byssogenous adjective: Secreting or producing byssus.
188. byssoid adjective: Synonym of byssaceous.
189. byssolite noun: An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.
190. byssolitic adjective: Of or relating to the mineral byssolite.
191. byssus noun /ˈbɪsəs/: The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea...
192. bystander noun /ˈbaɪˌstænd.ə(ɹ)/: A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer, witness, or spectator.
193. bystander effect noun: A social phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer assistance to a victim when other people are present.
194. bystanderish adjective: Of, or characteristic of a bystander.
195. bystanderism noun: The tendency to observe a situation without getting involved.
196. bystandership noun: The role of being a bystander, not taking any active part.
197. bystanding adjective, noun: Standing nearby; having the role of bystander.
198. bystreet noun: An obscure, private, or secondary street; a byroad or byway.
199. bystrite noun: A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and sulfur.
200. Bystrom proper noun: A surname from Swedish.
201. bystrowianid noun: Any extinct chroniosuchian of the family Bystrowianidae
202. BYT noun: Initialism of bright young thing.
203. bytalk noun: incidental conversation, chit-chat; small talk
204. byte noun /baɪt/: A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
205. byte bucket noun: Synonym of bit bucket (“an imaginary domain that accepts lost, discarded, or useless digital data”)
206. byte code noun: Alternative spelling of bytecode.
207. byte order adjective, noun: Order in which bytes are written or read, in memory or through a transmission; choices being big-endian or little-endian.
208. byte order mark noun: A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
209. byte pair encoding noun: A lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not already present...
210. bytecode noun: P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into...
211. bytecoded adjective: encoded using bytecode
212. byter noun: A chunk of data having a size of so many bytes.
213. bytesexual adjective: Capable of operating in either big-endian or little-endian mode.
214. bytestring noun: A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
215. bytewise adjective, adverb: In terms of bytes, or one byte at a time.
216. bythitid noun: Any fish in the family Bythitidae, the brotulas.
217. bythograeid noun: Any member of the family Bythograeidae.
218. bytime noun: A period of leisure; spare time
219. bytown noun: A subsidiary or subordinate town
220. bytownite noun: A plagioclase feldspar, the fifth member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series. Bytownite is rare, and normally occurs in small grains in lime-rich...
221. byturid noun: Any beetle in the family Byturidae.
222. Byun proper noun: A surname from Korean.
223. bywalk noun: a secluded or private walk
224. bywash noun: Alternative form of by-wash.
225. Bywater proper noun: A surname.
226. Bywaters' syndrome noun: crush syndrome
227. byway noun /ˈbaɪweɪ/: A road or track not following a main route; a secondary or minor road or path.
228. byway open to all traffic noun: A minor road or path that may be legally traversed on foot, on horseback, or in any vehicle whether or not mechanically propelled.
229. bywoner noun: A poor tenant farmer who labours for the owner and does some farming of his own.
230. byword noun /ˈbaɪ.wə(ɹ)d/: A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
231. bywork noun: Work done in addition to one's normal duties; subordinate or secondary business; work done on the side.
232. Byz noun: Abbreviation of Byzantium.
233. byzaanchy noun: A four-stringed vertical spike fiddle used in the traditional music of Tuva.
234. byzant noun /bɪˈzænt/: Alternative form of bezant.
235. Byzantiac adjective /baɪˈzantɪak/: Synonym of Byzantine.
236. Byzantian adjective, noun: Alternative form of Byzantine (“of or pertaining to Byzantium”).
237. byzantievite noun: A brown trigonal mineral containing boron, barium, calcium, flourine, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, titanium, and yttrium.
238. byzantine adjective, noun /bɪˈzæntaɪn/: Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
239. Byzantine attack noun: A type of attack involving multiple nodes collaborating to disrupt the network.
240. Byzantine fault tolerance noun: The dependability of a fault-tolerant (distributed) computer system, where components may fail without perfect information about the state of the components.
241. Byzantine fire noun: Synonym of Greek fire.
242. Byzantine Patriarch noun: The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
243. Byzantine scale noun: The double harmonic scale.
244. Byzantine studies noun: An interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, costumes, religion, art, such as literature and music, science, economy,...
245. Byzantineness noun: The quality of being Byzantine.
246. Byzantinesque adjective: Characteristic of Byzantine art or culture.
247. Byzantinism noun: Byzantine characteristics generally.
248. Byzantinist noun: A student of the Byzantine Empire.
249. Byzantinization noun: The process of making something Byzantine.
250. Byzantinize verb: To make Byzantine.
251. Byzantinological adjective: Of or relating to Byzantinology.
252. Byzantinologist noun: One who studies Byzantinology.
253. Byzantinology noun: Byzantine studies.
254. Byzantism noun: The study, or the use of elements of the Byzantine culture
255. Byzantium noun /bɪˈzæn.ti.əm/: A dark shade of purple, close to Tyrian purple and palatinate purple.
256. byzen noun: Alternative form of bizen.
257. BZ noun, phrase: Initialism of Bravo Zulu.
258. BZ black hole noun: A rotating black hole that extracts energy from its rotation and magnetic fields to emit a jet of particles and radiation.
259. BZ reaction noun: Initialism of Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.
260. BZD noun: Abbreviation of benzodiazepine.
261. BZO noun: Initialism of battlesight zero.
262. BZP noun: Abbreviation of benzylpiperazine.
263. bzz interjection, verb: The buzzing sound of a bee, wasp, etc.
264. bzzt interjection: The sound of a game show buzzer or of electricity. Often used as a reaction to a wrong answer.
265. bzzz interjection: Elongated form of bzz.
266. bzzzt interjection: Alternative spelling of bzzt.

Part 141 · English words: B

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.