English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 85 of 625
The collective construction of a barn by members of a community, common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America, and present-day Mennonite and Amish communities.
Room (space) in a barn: room (for livestock or for storage of fodder) supplied by a barn.
A village in Itchingfield parish, Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1227).
A city in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. Renamed from Bigheart in 1922, after Theodore N. Barnsdall.
A market town and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3406).
A city, the county seat of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Barnstaple in England.
One of 14 counties in Massachusetts, United States, consisting of Cape Cod and some nearby islands. County seat: Barnstable.
A town and civil parish with a town council in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5633).
A decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but occasionally in a circular wagon-wheel style, used to adorn a barn.
The tendency of individuals to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.
Reminiscent of P. T. Barnum (1810–1891), American showman and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding a circus.
Of or relating to P. T. Barnum (1810–1891), American showman and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding a circus.
An organism that spreads by weight, as by the weight of a nut that falls from a tree and is not eaten by animals.
Of or relating to a style of easy listening music that originated in the Baroque and pre-Classic periods, associated with the emergence of LP records and the ability to listen repeatedly to recordings without paying attention to structure etc.
The ability to evaluate the weight of objects, or to differentiate objects of different weights by holding or lifting them.
A tracing, usually made by the barograph, showing graphically the variations of atmospheric pressure for a given time.
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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 85. 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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