English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 11 of 625
The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
The Mediterranean coastal areas of North Africa that were used as a base by pirates in the 16th to 19th centuries.
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
A wide steel bar with premeasured weights counterpoised at either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.
Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”).
The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.
A female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling of Barbara. Associated with Barbra Streisand, who changed the spelling of her name from Barbara.
Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology.
A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter B contains 31,241 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 625 pages, and you are currently viewing page 11. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
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