English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 39 of 625
A fireman (person who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler on a railroad locomotive).
A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
A heat-resisting chemically inert phenol formaldehyde resin (an early thermosetting plastic).
To invoke the Baker Act, i.e., the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual in the state of Florida, or (by extension) elsewhere in the United States.
a US 2.1 km² uninhabited atoll just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, geographically together with Howland Island part of the Rawaki Islands
A street in the City of Westminster, London; the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes was at number 221B.
A casual assistant, especially in the context of detection or solving crime.
A benign swelling of the semimembranosus or more rarely some other synovial bursa found behind the knee joint.
A variety of FreeCell in which cards on the tableau are built down by suit (e.g., place 4♦ on 5♦).
The apparent paradox that children learning English encounter many sentences amenable to dative shift (e.g. "give the book to me" → "give me the book") but apparently have no way to learn that this is not possible with certain verbs (e.g. "*donate me the book" is unacceptable), and yet rarely make this kind of error.
Applied to prize lectures by fellows of the Royal Society on natural history or experimental philosophy.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
The Bakerloo Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.
A subgenre of country music developed in the West Coast and popularized during the 1950s and 1960s, featuring Fender Telecaster guitars, a drum backbeat, fiddles and steel guitars, along with stylistic touches from rock and roll music.
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 39. 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.