English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 113 of 625
A network of valveless veins in the human body, connecting the deep pelvic veins and thoracic veins (draining the inferior end of the urinary bladder, breast, and prostate) to the internal vertebral venous plexuses.
A mythical flying creature (cryptid) supposedly sighted around Mount St. Helens in the United States, resembling a flying, bat-winged (sometimes bat-eared) primate (either considered one specific creature, or a species).
A kind of gas burner with a slit at the top that causes the flame to take the shape of a bat's wing.
Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action.
An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
A student who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for.
A rare, fatal autosomal-recessive neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood.
A light sponge cake which, when cut in cross section, displays a two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow.
A pattern of high-visibility markings used on emergency-service vehicles in several countries.
A compound wood board consisting of boards of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of lower quality than blockboard.
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 113. 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.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "B" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.