English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 13 of 625
The straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line; the backstretch.
A usually small and narrow street or alley, especially one in inferior or poorer parts of a city, away from the centre.
Indicates that one must try a different strategy in order to achieve some goal following the failure of a recent attempt.
The date October 21, 2015, regarded as commemorative of the movie Back to the Future Part II, in which the main characters use a time machine to travel to this date from the year 1985.
The wall at the back of a racquetball or squash court, directly opposite the front wall.
The process of updating the logical design of a circuit with physically measured values, to allow for more accurate simulation.
Informal; armchair; carried out by people without direct knowledge or formal expertise.
The process by which a new word is formed from an older word by interpreting the former as a derivative of the latter, often by removing a morpheme (real or perceived) from the older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as an agent-noun suffix) from burglar.
Especially of a calculation, estimation, or other reasoning, or an idea: approximate, rough, simplified.
An occupant of a large vehicle, such as a firetruck, who helps steer the vehicle from far in the back.
A person who excessively commentates on the in-game decisions and actions of someone playing a video game, whilst not playing the game.
A user who is not a moderator but zealously identifies and polices rule-breaking by others.
An unetymological, often hypercorrect, spelling of a word created by analogy with other words which (usually through loss of a sound or its phonetic merger with other sounds) have become similar to it.
A transaction where a sum borrowed for one country is secured by a deposit of the same company (internal financing) or its stakeholder (external financing) at the same or two different operating companies of the lending financial institution (which may have different legal consequences under taxation law), motivated by hedging against currency fluctuations, restrictive banking regulations in the target country, tax avoidance or money laundering etc.
A legally binding directive—issued by a court of law, legislature, or other authority—that requires workers who are engaging in a strike or similar labor action to return to work.
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 13. 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.