English Words: B

31,241 words · Page 59 of 625

Alternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”).

A boundary; a limit.

Bournemouthname

A large town, part of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England.

A surname from French

A stock exchange.

boutnoun

A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.

A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.

A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon.

A surname from Arabic.

plural of bout

Synonym of bouvier des Flandres (“type of dog”).

boveprep

Above.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle.

bownoun

A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.

A surname.

A habitational surname.

boweverb

Obsolete spelling of bow.

simple past and past participle of bow

A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.

The deepest or innermost part.

A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.

plural of Bowe

A surname.

present participle and gerund of bow (all senses)

bowlnoun

A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.

simple past and past participle of bowl

One who engages in the sport of bowling.

A surname.

present participle and gerund of bowl

plural of bowl

A man who uses a bow; an archer.

bowsnoun

plural of bow

A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.

The string of an archer's bow.

A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.

A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).

boxnoun

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.

Double six in a dice game with two dice.

simple past and past participle of box

A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

Boxer shorts.

plural of box

present participle and gerund of box

The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.

Box-shaped, boxlike, or otherwise suggestive of boxes (with right angles or at least blunt profiles).

boynoun

A male child.

Alternative spelling of boy band.

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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 59. 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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