English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 33 of 625
BHP Group Ltd, one of the world's largest mining companies and the largest company in Australia (by market capitalization, as of 2025); (in former eras) any of its predecessor companies, back through the original Broken Hill Proprietary Company.
A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.
Initialism of Bureau of Indian Affairs (a U.S. government federal agency for dealing with Native Amerindians).
A short-lived secessionist state that declared independence from Nigeria in the late 1960s.
A Tai–Kadai language (or perhaps three languages) spoken in southwestern Huaiji County and Fengkai County, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China.
Racing combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; (countable) a particular instance of such a race.
An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
Alternative letter-case form of Bible (“a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the Christian religious text”).
A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.
Being or having a system with two, often unequal, chambers or compartments; of, signifying, relating to, or being the product of such a two-chambered system.
the univalent anion HCO₃⁻; any salt of carbonic acid in which only one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced.
A town and civil parish with a town council in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5822).
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 33. 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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