English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 28 of 625
An alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, originating from the Philippines.
A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
A small village in Bratton Fleming parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6536).
An aromatic hydrocarbon of formula C₆H₆ whose structure consists of a ring of alternate single and double bonds.
Any of a class of psychoactive drugs, structured upon diazepine, used in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and other related disorders.
A univalent radical formally derived from benzoic acid, C₆H₅CO-, by removal of the hydroxyl group.
A renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD.
The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.
A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume.
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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 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.
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