English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 47 of 625
A cultural region and peninsula in Southeast Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey.
A town in Balkh, province of Afghanistan, historically an ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.
A place for playing handball, ranging in structure from a patch of hard flat ground beside a gable to an indoor four-walled court similar to a squash court.
A heavy iron ball attached to a prisoner's leg by a chain as a means of restraint.
A style of handwriting in which the letters are not joined and feature straight lines and circular arcs; block letters.
A type of clay that commonly consists of 20-80% kaolinite, 10-25% mica, and 6-65% quartz.
A mechanism that uses ball bearings which fall into an indentation to create a clicking noise when an adjustment knob is turned to a correct position.
A world-famous tradition when a large, illuminated crystal ball descends a flagpole from midnight to mark the new year; most commonly associated with the New Year's Eve event in New York's Times Square; a ritual inspired by maritime time ball signals that began in 1907 and has evolved into a massive global event with music and sizable crowds.
A gag with a rubber or silicone sphere that is strapped into the mouth behind the teeth.
A form of hockey similar to ice hockey, played on foot on a hard surface (typically a hockey rink with a concrete surface), using a hard plastic ball in place of a hockey puck.
A short-lived glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air and thought to consist of ionized gas associated with thunderstorms.
An erosional remnant of a shield volcano and caldera, near Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean.
An act of catching or obtaining possession of the ball in a skillful manner; the action of a ball hawk.
A hammer having, besides the normal flat head, an opposite, rounded or peening head.
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 47. 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.