English Words: B

31,241 words · Page 118 of 625

baumstarkitenoun

A triclinic-pinacoidal gray to white mineral containing antimony, arsenic, silver, and sulfur.

Bauméname

A French family name

Baumé scalename

The original scale used on the Baumé type of densimeter to quantify the density of liquids.

baunonoun

Mangifera caesia; a wild mango found in the Philippines.

Baunscheidtismnoun

A form of acupuncture with toxic oil, causing inflammation that is alleged to draw the body's "attention" away from the patient's illness, thus effecting a cure.

Baupname

A surname from French.

bauplannoun

A plan of the essential elements of the bodies of a related group of organisms.

bauranoitenoun

A triclinic reddish brown mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and uranium.

bauriamorphnoun

Any therocephalian therapsid of the superfamily Baurioidea.

Bauschinger effectnoun

The situation where a material's stress/strain characteristics change as a result of the microscopic stress distribution of the material. For example, an increase in tensile yield strength occurs at the expense of compressive yield strength.

Bausermanname

A surname from German.

Bauskaname

A town in Latvia.

Bautchname

A surname from German.

Bautistaname

A surname from Spanish.

Bautzenname

A town and rural district of Saxony, Germany.

Baux scorenoun

A value used to predict the chance of mortality due to burns, based on the patient's age and the burned percentage of the surface of the body.

bauxitenoun

The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.

bauxiticadj

Containing or relating to bauxite.

Bava Metzi'aname

A tractate (book) of the Talmud which deals with the laws of property.

bavardagenoun

chatter, banter

bavaresenoun

A bavaroise (creamy dessert).

Bavarianame

A historic region, former duchy, former kingdom, and modern state of Germany; the modern state includes parts of historical Swabia and Franconia as well as historical Bavaria.

bavariannoun

A type of custard-like food, made with fruit.

Bavariannessnoun

The quality of being Bavarian.

bavaroisnoun

A pudding similar to pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or cornstarch, and flavoured with liqueur.

bavaroisenoun

A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit.

bavaroynoun

A kind of cloak or surtout.

Bavaryname

Obsolete form of Bavaria.

bavenitenoun

An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

Baverstockname

A village in Dinton parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0231).

bavettenoun

A kind of beefsteak

bavinnoun

A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.

Bavliname

The Babylonian Talmud

baw-waysadv

crookedly, awkwardly

bawbagnoun

The scrotum or ballsack.

bawbeenoun

A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.

bawcocknoun

A fine fellow.

bawdnoun

One who keeps a brothel, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer or madam.

Bawdenname

A surname.

bawdilyadv

In a bawdy manner; lewdly or obscenely with humorous intent.

bawdinessnoun

The characteristic or state of being bawdy.

bawdishadj

Synonym of bawdy.

bawdronsnoun

Alternative form of baudrons

bawdrynoun

The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

bawdshipnoun

The employment or office of a bawd

bawdyadj

Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

bawdy-housenoun

A brothel; a house of prostitution.

bawlverb

To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.

bawl offverb

To severely scold; to shout at; to (figuratively) remove by shouting invective.

bawl outverb

To shout very loudly.

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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 118. 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.

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