English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 15 of 625
Of, pertaining to, or located at a base, but especially at the base of the skull or an organ of Corti.
A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
An English surname transferred from the nickname derived from a nickname for a short person.
A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
Any of several trees of the genus Tilia; the lindens, especially Tilia americana, the American basswood.
A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
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 15. 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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