English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 55 of 625
A traditional dessert from the Indian subcontinent, somewhat resembling a glazed doughnut.
A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway or around a balcony; a banister.
A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell
A province and metropolitan municipality in northwestern Turkey, with coasts on both the Mediterranean and the Sea of Marmara.
The chemical reaction of phenylhydroxylamines with strong aqueous acid, which will rearrange to give 4-aminophenols.
A complex of antibiotics obtained from Streptomyces bambergiensis, used as a food additive for poultry and swine.
The tendency of people to object to the killing of those specific animals that are perceived as cute or adorable.
The idea that many anti-hunting arguments are based on the cuteness of the animal being hunted.
A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Any of a group of Dutch painters, from the seventeenth century, who painted scenes from ordinary life; used attributively to describe the style of their paintings
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing copper, selenium, and tellurium.
Any of the fast-growing grasses of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.
A social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.
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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 55. 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.
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