English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 66 of 625
A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
A unit of stress optical coefficient which is equal to 10⁻¹² m²/N or 10⁻¹² Pa⁻¹. Symbol: B.
A transliteration of the Russian surname Бре́жнев (Bréžnev); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Leonid Brezhnev.
A diminutive of the female given name Brianna, or Bridget, or Britney, or, rarely, Britannia or Sabrina.
A female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s.
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to breaking the law.
The act of giving an illegal payment (a bribe) to a person in an official position as a means of influencing their decisions.
Initialism of Brazil, Russia, India and China: a group of countries with similarly fast-growing economies.
The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.
Acronym of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, an international economic organization comprising several fast-growing economies.
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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 66. 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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