English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 28 of 625
A freshwater sponge (genus Spongilla) formerly used to treat bruises, pleurisy, scrofula, etc.
A cement or paste (often made with plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors and builders to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
A short, decorated switch or rod, carried by the fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A ketone pigment produced by Xerocomus badius with SMILES C1=CC(=CC=C1/C(=C\2/C(=C(C(=O)O2)C3=CC4=C5C(=C3)C(=O)C(=O)OC5=C(C=C4C6=C(/C(=C(/C7=CC=C(C=C7)O)\C(=O)O)/OC6=O)O)O)O)/C(=O)O)O
The Cape Verdean Crioulo language spoken on Santiago Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento branch of Crioulo.
A civil parish without a parish council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0655).
A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history.
A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
Describing those Italian soldiers who chose to stay faithful to the Italian Crown and then-Army Commander General Badoglio after September 8 1943, during World War II, as the Fascist regime fell in Italy and the Italian army was left without a lead as King Victor Emmanuel III fled the country.
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 28. 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.