English words: blotting paper to blue blazes
300 English words, part 85 of 142 of the words starting with B, A to Z. 35 have a page of their own.
English words blotting paper to blue blazes
- blotting paper noun: Absorbent paper used to dry ink.
- blottingly adverb: So as to produce blots.
- blotto adjective, noun, verb /ˈblɒtəʊ/: (Very) drunk or intoxicated.
- blotto box noun: A supposed device used in phreaking, capable of shorting out every telephone in the local area; actually a hoax.
- blottoed adjective, verb: Blotto; drunk.
- blotty adjective: Characterised or ridden with blots or blemishes.
- bloubok noun: bluebuck
- Blough proper noun: A surname.
- Blouin proper noun: A surname from French.
- Blount proper noun /blʌnt/: A surname.
- Blount's disease noun: A growth disorder of the tibia (shin bone) that causes the lower leg to angle inward, resembling a bowleg.
- Blountstown proper noun: A city, the county seat of Calhoun County, Florida, United States.
- blousabella noun: Alternative spelling of blowsabella.
- blousalinda noun: Alternative form of blowsabella.
- blouse noun, verb /ˈblaʊ̯z/: A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
- bloused adjective, verb: Wearing a blouse.
- blouseless adjective: Without a blouse (item of clothing).
- blouselessness noun: Absence of a blouse.
- blouselike adjective: Resembling a blouse.
- blousey adjective: Alternative form of blousy.
- blousily adverb: In a blousy manner.
- blouson noun /ˈbluːzɔ̃ː/: A garment drawn tight at the waist with blousing hanging over the waistband; a blouse jacket.
- blousy adjective /ˈblaʊsi/: Resembling or characteristic of a blouse; loose, flowing.
- blouwildebeesoog noun: An African disease of cattle (sheep, horses and cows), marked by protrusion of the eye, blindness, and rupture
- blouzabella noun: Alternative spelling of blowsabella.
- blouzalinda noun: Alternative form of blowsabella.
- blouze noun: A prostitute.
- blouzy adjective: Alternative spelling of blowsy.
- bloviant adjective: Tending to bloviate.
- bloviate verb /ˈbloʊ.viˌeɪt/: To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
- bloviatingly adverb: In a bloviating manner.
- bloviation noun /bləʊvɪˈeɪʃən/: A boastful or pompous manner of speaking or writing; a lengthy discourse delivered in that manner.
- bloviative adjective: Tending to bloviate.
- bloviator noun: One who habitually bloviates; a pompous, opinionated, typically voluble commentator.
- bloviatory adjective: Of or pertaining to bloviation.
- blow adjective, interjection, noun, verb /bləʊ/: To produce an air current.
- blow a backsight verb: To occupy a point, then enter the wrong point for the backsight, or forget to enter the backsight.
- blow a cloud verb: To smoke a cigar or pipe.
- blow a fuse verb: To overload a circuit sufficiently that a fuse protecting it melts away (or informally a circuit breaker trips), stopping current from flowing.
- blow a gasket verb: To become very angry or upset.
- blow a hole through verb: To destroy the integrity or cohesion of.
- blow a kiss verb: To kiss one's own hand, then blow on it in a direction towards the recipient.
- blow apart verb: To destroy (something) by explosion or figuratively similar disasters (e.g. a scandal for a company).
- blow away verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
- blow-back noun: Alternative form of blowback.
- blow buddy noun: Alternative form of blowbuddy.
- blow-by noun: In an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.
- blow-by-blow adjective, noun: Detailing every action or occurrence completely.
- blow chunks verb: To vomit chunks of undigested food.
- blow down verb: To knock over with an air current, most often wind.
- blow dried adjective, verb: Looking well-groomed, but superficial or vacuous.
- blow drier noun: Alternative form of blow-dryer.
- blow dry noun, verb: To dry with a hair dryer.
- blow dryer noun: A handheld electrical device used for drying hair.
- blow fish noun: Alternative form of blowfish.
- blow fly noun: Alternative form of blowfly.
- blow football noun: An indoor tabletop game, normally for children, simulating football (soccer), in which plastic straws are blown through in order to move a small ball and...
- blow forward noun: A firearm action where the propellant gas pressure and the friction of the bullet traveling down the bore drag the whole gun barrel forward to facilitate...
- blow from a gun verb: To execute by tying against the muzzle of a loaded cannon, which is then fired.
- blow high, blow low adverb: Regardless of what else happens; come what may.
- blow horn noun: Alternative form of blowhorn.
- blow hot air verb: To engage in empty or exaggerated talk that lacks substance, credibility, or truth; to bluster.
- blow hot and cold verb: To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion.
- blow in noun, verb: Someone who has only recently arrived in an area or community; a newcomer.
- blow in the bag verb: To supply a specimen of breath for alcohol analysis.
- blow into verb: To enter (a place) casually.
- blow it out one's ear verb: Synonym of blow it out one's ass.
- blow me down interjection: A cry of surprise
- blow me over interjection: An expression of surprise.
- blow me pink interjection: An expression of surprise.
- blow me tight interjection: An expression of surprise.
- blow me up interjection: An expression of surprise.
- blow mould noun: A hinged mould that is used to shape molten blown glass
- blow off noun, verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, off.
- blow off course verb: To affect negatively, often in an unexpected manner; to derail.
- blow off one's steam verb: Synonym of blow off steam.
- blow off steam verb: To vent; to talk or take action (especially in a ranting or unrestrained way) so as to relieve stress.
- blow on verb: To forcefully expel air from the lungs onto an object.
- blow one's chance verb: To ruin, or fail to capitalise on an opportunity.
- blow one's cool verb: Alternative form of lose one's cool.
- blow one's cork verb: Synonym of pop one's cork.
- blow one's lid verb: Alternative form of blow one's top.
- blow one's nose verb: To expel mucus or other matter from one's nasal passages, via one's nostril, by force of lung power.
- blow one's own horn verb: Alternative form of toot one's own horn.
- blow one's own trumpet verb: To praise oneself.
- blow one's stack verb: Synonym of blow one's top.
- blow one's top verb: To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper.
- blow one's wad verb: To spend all of one's money.
- blow one's wig verb: Synonym of flip one's wig.
- blow-organ noun: Synonym of melodica.
- blow out noun, verb: To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas.
- blow out of proportion verb: To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.
- blow out of proportions verb: Synonym of blow out of proportion.
- blow out of the water verb: To trounce; to defeat thoroughly, as at a game or in battle.
- blow out one's bags verb: To talk in a boastful or overweening manner.
- blow over verb: To blow on something causing it to topple.
- blow past verb: To easily overcome or go around a safeguard or limit.
- blow poke noun: A hollow poker through which air can be blown to fuel a fire.
- blow sky high verb: To destroy totally by explosion.
- blow smoke verb: To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.
- blow snake noun: Any snake of the genus Heterodon.
- blow someone's back out verb: To sexually penetrate someone in a vigorous, intense manner, as if causing them to throw out their back.
- blow someone's brains out verb: To shoot someone in the head.
- blow someone's cover verb: To reveal that someone's behavior, situation, or identity has been fabricated or deliberately misrepresented for an ulterior motive.
- blow someone's mind verb: To astonish someone; to flabbergast someone.
- blow someone's skirt up verb: To appeal to or be pleasing to someone; to be the sort of thing that one enjoys.
- blow someone's socks off verb: Alternative form of knock someone's socks off.
- blow someone's trumpet verb: To praise someone.
- blow sunshine up someone's skirt verb: Synonym of blow sunshine up someone's ass.
- blow the coals verb: To excite passion.
- blow the cobwebs away verb: To make changes for space for new fresh ideas
- blow the doors off verb: To be much more important or impressive than.
- blow the gaff verb: To disclose a secret.
- blow the grampus verb: To throw water on a sleeping person, generally as a practical joke.
- blow the lid off verb: To uncover (a secret or scandal).
- blow the roof off verb: To give a great performance that causes the audience to go wild with enthusiasm.
- blow the whistle verb: To disclose information to the public or to appropriate authorities concerning the illegal or socially harmful actions of a person or group, especially a...
- blow this for a game of soldiers interjection: Expressing exasperation or impatience with a situation.
- blow this for a lark phrase: Synonym of sod this for a game of soldiers.
- blow this pop stand verb: To exit or remove oneself from a less than exciting location or environment.
- blow this popsicle stand verb: To leave an establishment speedily.
- blow this taco stand verb: To exit or remove oneself from a less than exciting location or environment.
- blow through verb: To expend or waste rapidly.
- blow to kingdom come verb /ˈbləʊ tə ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkʌm/: To totally destroy (something); to annihilate or wipe out (something), often via an explosion.
- blow tomahawks verb: Of the wind, to blow with great violence.
- blow torch noun: Alternative spelling of blowtorch.
- blow town verb: To suddenly leave one's residence.
- blow up adjective, noun, verb: Inflatable; able to be blown up.
- blow-up doll noun: A sex toy in the form of an inflatable life-size doll.
- blow up in one's face verb: To fail disastrously.
- blow up the tote verb: To win a race as a long shot.
- blow upon verb: To defame, discredit; make someone the subject of a scandal.
- blow valve noun: snifting valve
- blow water verb: to brag; to boast; to talk big
- blow-wave verb: To blow-dry (hair) with the use of a brush, to make it wavy.
- blow wide open phrase: To expose (problems, lies, or corruption).
- blow wind up someone's skirt verb: Synonym of blow sunshine up someone's ass.
- blow wise to verb: To take heed of; to inform oneself of, or pay attention to.
- blow with the wind verb: Synonym of go with the flow.
- blowability noun: The quality of being blowable.
- blowable adjective: Capable of being blown or blown away; that can be subjected to blowing.
- blowback noun /ˈbloʊˌbæk/: A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge,...
- blowball noun: The downy seedhead of a dandelion, a dandelion clock.
- blowbuddy noun: A male same-sex partner, especially for fellatio and handjobs, or by extension a close friend (humorous, mockingly).
- blowby noun: Alternative spelling of blow-by.
- blowdart noun: A dart fired from a blowpipe or blowgun.
- blowdown noun: The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.
- blowdown limit noun: The maximum deflection that a control surface is capable of reaching under given flight conditions, past which the aerodynamic forces acting on the control...
- blowdrier noun: Alternative form of blow-dryer.
- blowdry noun, verb: Alternative form of blow-dry.
- blowdryer noun: Alternative spelling of blow-dryer.
- blower noun /ˈbləʊ.ə/: A person who blows.
- blower door noun: A machine used to measure the airtightness of a building or ductwork, etc., incorporating a variable-speed fan and a manometer.
- blowfish noun /ˈbloʊˌfɪʃ/: Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water...
- blowfly noun /ˈbloʊˌflaɪ/: Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds.
- blowgun noun /ˈbloʊˌɡʌn/: A hollow tube through which a dart or similar missile may be blown.
- blowhole noun, verb /ˈbləʊhəʊl/: The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe.
- blowhorn noun: A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.
- blowie noun: A blow job.
- blowin' verb /ˈbloʊ.ɪn/: Pronunciation spelling of blowing.
- blowing noun, verb /ˈbləʊ.ɪŋ/: The act of one who blows, or that which blows.
- blowing agent noun: An expanding agent used to produce a gas by chemical or thermal action, or both, in the manufacture of hollow or cellular materials.
- blowing cave noun: Synonym of breathing cave.
- blowing house noun: A building traditionally used for smelting tin in Cornwall and Devon, England, containing a furnace and a pair of bellows powered by an adjacent water wheel.
- blowing mill noun: Synonym of blowing house.
- blowing pipe noun: Synonym of blowpipe (“pipe for blowing glassware”).
- blowing up noun, verb: Explosion.
- blowingly adverb: Accompanied by blowing.
- blowlamp noun: A burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame; a blowtorch
- blown adjective, verb /bləʊn/: Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- blown diffuser noun: A diffuser which uses exhaust gases to generate aerodynamic forces.
- blown glass noun: Glass that has been shaped by a glassblower.
- blown-in-the-bottle adjective: True, genuine, indubitable
- blown off adjective, verb: Having been blown off; removed by the wind.
- blown out adjective, verb: overexposed
- blown pupil noun: Mydriasis.
- blown save noun: A failure to convert a save opportunity to a save.
- blownup adjective: Enlarged
- blowoff noun: Something that is blown off.
- blowout noun /ˈbloʊaʊt/: A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- blowout coil noun: A coil, carrying an electric current, that serves to deflect and thus extinguish an arc formed when the contacts of a switch part to turn off the current.
- blowout preventer noun: A device that sits at the surface interface of an oil well and prevents a blowout from occurring by closing the orifice, allowing material to flow from the...
- blowout sale noun: A sale that is advertised as having bigger than usual discounts, with a real or notional intent to deplete the inventory.
- blowover noun: The situation where a vehicle or vessel overturns because of excessive air under the chassis or hull.
- blowpipe noun, verb /ˈbloʊˌpaɪp/: A narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture.
- blowpiper noun: One who uses a blowpipe (a chemistry tool).
- blowpoint noun: A child's game, probably involving blowing small fragments of wood through a tube at targets.
- blowproof adjective: Resistant to being blown.
- blowsabella noun: A rural woman; a country wench.
- blowsalinda noun: Alternative form of blowsabella.
- blowsed adjective: Made blowsy.
- blowsey adjective: Alternative spelling of blowsy.
- blowsily adverb /ˈblaʊzɪli/: In a blowsy manner.
- blowsiness noun: The state or quality of being blowsy.
- blowsy adjective /ˈblaʊzi/: Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
- blowth noun /bləʊθ/: Bloom or blossom; blossoms collectively; the state of blossoming.
- blowtorch noun, verb /ˈbləʊˌtɔːtʃ/: A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.
- blowtube noun: A blowpipe (used in metallurgy, etc.).
- blowup noun: Alternative form of blow-up.
- blowup doll noun: Alternative form of blow-up doll
- blowvalve noun: Alternative form of blow valve.
- blowy adjective, noun /ˈbləʊi/: Windy or breezy.
- blowze noun: A ruddy, fat-faced woman, or a wench.
- blowzed adjective: Rendered blowsy by weather, drink, exertion, etc.
- blowzily adverb: Alternative spelling of blowsily.
- blowziness noun: Alternative spelling of blowsiness.
- blowzy adjective: Alternative spelling of blowsy.
- blox noun, verb: To kill (a character) in a Roblox game, causing the blocks that make up it to fall to the ground.
- Bloxam proper noun: A surname.
- Bloxham proper noun: A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4235).
- Bloxwich proper noun: A town in Walsall borough, West Midlands, England, historically in Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9902).
- BLP noun: Initialism of biography of a living person.
- BLQ noun: Abbreviation of broad emission-line quasar.
- BLR noun, suffix /-blə/: Initialism of broad-line region.
- BLRG noun: broad emission-line radio-galaxy
- BLS noun: Initialism of basic life support.
- BLS1 noun: broad emission-line Seyfert type-1 galaxy
- BLT noun /ˌbiː.ɛlˈtiː/: Initialism of bacon, lettuce and tomato.
- blu adjective, noun: Abbreviation of blue.
- Blu-Ray noun [ˈbluːˌɹeɪ]: The Blu-ray Disc format.
- Blu-ray burner noun: A device that permanently records (burns) information onto a Blu-ray.
- Blu-ray Disc noun: An optical disc storage medium used for data and video, introduced in 2006, having the same physical dimensions as a CD or DVD but greater storage capacity.
- Blu-ray drive noun: An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a Blu-ray disc.
- Blu-ray player noun: An electronic device for playing Blu-ray Discs.
- Blu-Tack noun, verb: A solid putty-like adhesive, originally blue in colour, used to secure items to walls and other surfaces.
- Blu-Tacked adjective, verb: Affixed with Blu-Tack.
- blub adjective, noun, verb /blʌb/: To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).
- blubber adjective, noun, verb /ˈblʌbə/: Often followed by out: to cry out (words) while sobbing.
- blubber fish noun: A marine animal yielding blubber, especially a whale.
- blubber-lip noun: A thick or swollen lip.
- blubber-lipped adjective: Having a thick or swollen lip.
- blubberation noun: Crying; blubbering.
- blubbered adjective, verb: Of the face: swollen from weeping.
- blubberer noun: Someone who blubbers.
- blubberfest noun: An event characterized by weeping.
- blubberhead noun: A fool.
- blubbering noun, verb: noisy sobbing
- blubberingly adverb: With blubbering sounds; with broken or noisy sobs.
- blubberless adjective: Without blubber.
- blubberlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of blubber.
- blubberous adjective: Blubbery.
- blubbersome adjective: Characterised by blubber; (by extension) fat, obese.
- blubbery adjective /ˈblʌbəɹi/: Having the characteristics of blubber.
- blubbing noun, verb /ˈblʌbɪŋ/: Crying; whining; blubbering.
- blube noun: Alternative form of blueb.
- blucher noun /ˈbluːkə/: A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
- Bluck proper noun: A surname
- blucka interjection: Representing the sound of gunfire.
- blucket noun: A type of turbine blade where the inner portion of the blade is driven by expanding exhaust gases from the engine core, while the outer portion extends into...
- blud noun, pronoun /blʌd/: Informal address to a man.
- bludge noun, verb /blʌdʒ/: The act of bludging.
- bludgeon noun, verb /ˈblʌd͡ʒ.ən/: A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
- bludgeoner noun: One who bludgeons.
- bludgeoning noun, verb: An assault with a club or similar weapon.
- bludgeonman noun: A person armed with a bludgeon.
- bludgeonry noun: Harsh coercion; bludgeoning.
- bludger noun: A pimp, a man living off the earnings of a harlot.
- blue adjective, noun, verb /bluː/: Of a blue hue.
- blue acara noun: Any member of the species Andinoacara pulcher of blue-grey freshwater cichlids found in Central and South America.
- blue admiral noun: Any member of the species Kaniska canace of black and blue nymphaline butterflies.
- blue agave noun: Any member of the species Agave tequilana of agave plants used in making tequila.
- blue alert noun: A bulletin announcing information about the injuring or killing of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty, to aid in catching the perpetrator.
- blue ammonia noun: ammonia produced from blue hydrogen and nitrogen
- blue-and-gold macaw noun: Synonym of blue-and-yellow macaw.
- blue and green should never be seen proverb: Fashion advice: blue and green clothing or accessories should not be worn together as they will clash.
- blue-and-white adjective, noun: A police car.
- blue-and-yellow macaw noun: Ara ararauna, a large South American parrot with a mostly blue dorsum, light yellow-orange venter, and gradient hues of green on top of its head.
- Blue Andalusian noun: A domestic chicken of a breed indigenous to Andalusia in Spain.
- blue angel noun: A blue flame produced by lighting one's flatus.
- blue ant noun: A parasitic tiphiid wasp of the species Diamma bicolor
- blue antelope noun: A bluebuck of the extinct species †Hippotragus leucophaeus.
- blue argus noun: A butterfly of species Junonia orithya, family Nymphalidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
- blue asbestos noun: Crocdilite
- blue ash noun: Any member of the species Fraxinus quadrangulata of ash trees native primarily to the Midwestern United States, as well as the Bluegrass region of Kentucky...
- blue ash tree noun: Synonym of blue ash.
- blue baby noun: A baby born with cyanosis as a result of a congenital defect.
- blue baby syndrome noun: Cyanotic heart defects in a newborn baby.
- blue badge noun: A blue parking disc issued to disabled drivers that allows them to park on most double yellow lines
- blue bag noun: A lawyer's bag made of blue fabric to carry briefs, now as typically carried by a junior barrister.
- blue baller noun: Alternative spelling of blue-baller.
- blue balls noun, verb: A cramp-like ache in the testicles and prostate region caused by prolonged sexual arousal; testicles experiencing such an ache.
- blue-banded eggfly noun: A species of nymphalid butterfly, Hypolimnas alimena, of Australasia and Oceania.
- blue-banded sea krait noun: Synonym of blue-lipped sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata).
- blue bean noun: Discomfort or swelling in the clitoris from prolonged sexual arousal without orgasm.
- blue-bearded adjective: Having thick, dark facial hair.
- blue beat noun: Alternative form of bluebeat
- blue beech noun: Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.
- blue-bellied black snake noun: A snake of species Pseudechis guttatus, of eastern Australia.
- blue belly noun: Alternative form of bluebelly.
- blue beret noun: A United Nations peacekeeper.
- blue beryl noun: A pleochroic, light-sensitive variety of the mineral beryl containing aluminium, beryllium, oxygen and silicon.
- blue bible noun: Synonym of Tijuana Bible (“kind of pornographic comic book”).
- blue-billed duck noun: A species of stiff-tailed duck, Oxyura australis, endemic to southern Australia including Tasmania.
- blue Billy noun: The refuse ammoniacal lime from gas factories.
- blue bindweed noun: Synonym of bittersweet (“plant of species Solanum dulcamara”).
- blue-black adjective, noun: A very dark blue.
- blue-black grosbeak noun: Any bird of the species Cyanoloxia cyanoides, a deep blue and black-colored cardinalid found from southern Mexico down to northern South America.
- blue blanket noun: A rough overcoat made of coarse pilot cloth.
- blue blazes noun: Alliterative elaboration or intensification of 'blazes', a euphemism for 'hell'.
Part 84 · Part 86 · 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.