English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 74 of 625
Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences.
A wide steel bar with premeasured weights counterpoised at either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.
The simultaneous theatrical release on July 21, 2023 of two blockbuster films of contrasting genres: Barbie, a fantasy comedy about the eponymous fashion doll, and Oppenheimer, a biographical thriller about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.
Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”).
a chillout style that emerged in mid-2010s, heavily inspired from vaporwave techniques, downtempo, trip hop and instrumental hip hop.
An articulating chair used in barbershops and salons to facilitate hair-cutting and styling or face-shaving.
Any of a number of sorts of rashes or skin eruptions in the area of the mustache or beard, caused by fungal or staphylococcal infections or by irritation from shaving.
Tinea barbae, a contagious fungal rash that affects the neck and face when one's hair is shaved in these areas.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing boron, fluorine, hydrogen, and nitrogen.
Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.
The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.
Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.
A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
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 74. 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.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "B" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.