English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 64 of 625
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
An evergreen tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
An urban style of acrobatic street dance that originated in the hip hop culture of New York City in the late 20th century.
A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.
A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
A hamlet in Hebden Royd parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0225).
Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog's
A device that measures alcohol in expired air so as to estimate the concentration of alcohol in a person's blood; used by traffic police in cases of suspected driving while under the influence of alcohol.
To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
verbal noun of breathe: (uncountable) The act of respiration; (countable) a single instance of this.
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 64. 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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