English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 3 of 625
A monument situated at the entrance of the Khyber Pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
A Middle Eastern dish made from a purée of roasted aubergine (eggplant), garlic, and tahini, often eaten as a dip with bread.
In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a character who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.
Representing a protracted sound of thundering or crashing.
A fruit tree, related to the papaya and native to mountainous areas of Ecuador, Vasconcellea × heilbornii
A tall Brazilian feather palm, Attalea speciosa, having hard-shelled nuts that yield an edible oil.
Any of four species of passerine birds within the genus Pterorhinus in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae.
Of or relating to Charles Babbage (1791–1871), English mathematician and engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.
Ellipsis of babbitt metal or Babbitt metal (“a soft white alloy of variable composition used in bearings to diminish friction”).
A soft white alloy of variable composition (for example, nine parts of tin to one of copper, or fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.
A phonemically basic word, one which is easy for small children to pronounce and which therefore tends to be produced by them early on (for example, mama): A word from baby talk.
a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
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 3. 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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