English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 18 of 625
A blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached underbarrel.
A city and commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
An inner suburb of London in the City of Westminster, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2680).
A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar.
A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
Initialism of big beautiful woman, used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive.
Initialism of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (academic qualification to practise dentistry in the UK and most of the Commonwealth except Canada)
A variety of often erotic practices involving bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, dominance and submission, and other related interpersonal dynamics.
A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
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 18. 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.