English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 35 of 625
A school of thought, the immediate historical predecessor of Jansenism, that claimed thorough Augustinianism over the scholasticism which held sway over most Catholic theologians at the time.
5,6,7-trihydroxyflavone, a flavone originally isolated from the roots of Scutellaria baicalensis that acts as a lipoxygenase inhibitor and anti-inflammatory agent.
An enzyme that catalyses the chemical reaction baicalin + H₂O ⇌ baicalein + D-glucuronate.
A freshwater dolphin (†Lipotes vexillifer), only found in the Yangtze River, and declared functionally extinct in 2006.
A clear Chinese distilled alcoholic beverage, generally distilled from sorghum and about 40–60% alcohol by volume.
A city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.
Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
A genre of traditional style of dance music of Bolivia and Northern Argentina in 6/8 time.
One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other.
A portable, prefabricated truss bridge, designed for use by military engineering units.
A formula for calculating pi, giving rise to a spigot algorithm for computing the nth base-16 digit without computing the preceding digits.
A yellow-green mineral of the chlorite group with the mineral formula (Zn,Fe,Al,Mg)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₈.
An official employed by the sheriff to carry out summonses, writs etc. within the county.
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 35. 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.