English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 56 of 625
A hole bored into the ground to collect samples for analysis or to extract oil or water.
A surname. Famously borne by the House of Borgia, a prominent family during the Renaissance.
The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
A Pacific island shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; the world’s third largest island.
The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder.
Any of various minerals whose structure is formally that of a dual salt of boric and silicic acids.
A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.
The shards or fragments removed from diamonds during cutting, used for industrial purposes such as abrasives in cutting, drilling or grinding tools; a poorly crystallized diamond.
A geographic region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting of the northern three fourths of the country.
A person belonging to an autochthonous South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro.
Of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language.
A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion.
The narrow strait beside Istanbul, Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, the northern end of the Turkish Straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean.
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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 56. 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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