English Words: B

31,241 words · Page 36 of 625

bailingverb

present participle and gerund of bail

bailingsnoun

plural of bailing

bailivaladj

Relating to, or ruled by, a bailiff.

bailivatenoun

The office of bailiff.

bailiwicknoun

The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

bailjumpingnoun

The act of absconding while at liberty under bail bonds.

baillienoun

The jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff; a bailiwick.

baillie brushkienoun

The parakeet auklet.

Baillon's crakenoun

A small rallid, Zapornia pusilla (syn. Porzana pusilla), distributed unevenly throughout Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia.

Baillyname

A surname from French.

bailmentnoun

The handing over of control over, or possession of, personal property by one person, the bailor, to another, the bailee, for a specific purpose upon which the parties have agreed.

bailonoun

title of the Venetian envoy to particularly the Sublime Porte

Bailongweiname

Synonym of Bạch Long Vĩ: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

bailornoun

One who bails property; one who places property in the hands of another (called a bailee) for safekeeping.

bailoutnoun

A rescue, especially a financial rescue.

bailsnoun

plural of bail

bailsmannoun

A person who provides bail for another; bail bondsman

Baily's beadsnoun

A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.

Baimaclianame

A village and commune of Cantemir Raion, Romania.

bainadj

Ready; willing.

bain'tcontraction

be not

bain-marienoun

A large pan containing hot water, into which other smaller pans are set in order to cook food slowly, or to keep food warm.

Bainbridgename

A placename:

Bainename

A surname.

Baine Harbourname

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Bainesname

A surname.

baingannoun

An eggplant; a brinjal.

baininnoun

undyed white homespun woolen yarn or cloth

Bainingnoun

A member of the Baining people, indigenous to the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

bainitenoun

A microstructure of steel consisting of needle-like particles of cementite embedded in a ferrite matrix.

bainiticadj

Of or relating to bainite.

bainlyadv

readily, willingly; at once.

Baintonname

A village and civil parish (served by Bainton and Ashton Parish Council) in the City of Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF0906).

Baiquanname

Former name of Juguang.

bairamnoun

Eid, either of two Muslim festivals held after Ramadan.

Bairdname

A surname.

Baird's beaked whalenoun

A whale of species Berardius bairdii.

Baird's tapirnoun

A tapir, Tapirus bairdii, from Central America

bairdinoun

Chionoecetes bairdi, a species of snow crab.

Baire functionnoun

A function obtained from a continuous function by transfinite iteration of the operation of forming pointwise limits of sequences of functions.

Baire spacenoun

A topological space such that every intersection of a countable collection of open dense sets in the space is also dense.

Bairiname

A Tibetan autonomous county in Wuwei, Gansu, in northwestern China.

bairnnoun

A child or baby.

bairn-timenoun

Offspring; the group of all offspring.

bairnhoodnoun

The quality, condition, or state of a bairn (child); childhood

bairnishadj

Having the manners of a child; childish; silly.

bairnlessadj

childless

bairnlikeadj

Like a bairn; childlike.

bairnlyadj

Bairnlike; childish.

bairnwortnoun

Synonym of English daisy

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