English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 88 of 625
A thick, strong kind of camlet from linen, wool, cotton or all three, usually with a stripe structure and fringes, traditionally used for outer garments of both sexes in the Arab World, of a similar purpose as the Roman toga and palla or the Indian sari.
A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
Any of several improvised mortars, developed in the 1990s by the engineering group of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
A crude, authoritarian, forced collectivism and communism where all aspects of life are bureaucratically regimented.
A temporary cage for holding (originally) black slaves, and later convicts and other types of prisoners.
A long, narrow loaf, often indented in the middle so that it can be broken in two.
Any large marine fish of the genus Sphyraena that have elongated bodies, a projecting lower jaw, displaying prominent fang-shaped teeth, and are aggressive predators.
An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.
A diadromous fish of species Lates calcarifer, of the Centropomidae family, order Perciformes, widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific; a popular food fish.
A rare form of lipodystrophy that usually first affects the head and then spreads to the thorax.
One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger.
A guitar chord played by pressing down multiple strings on the fretboard with the same finger.
A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
A barrel filled with explosives, used as an improvised unguided bomb and dropped from a helicopter or airplane.
A child who is abandoned or left behind by their parents who are seeking a better life abroad.
A JavaScript or TypeScript module which does nothing except import various files and then export them together, for the convenience of other developers who only need to know about and work with that single barrel file.
A Scandinavian unit of area, varying in size but usually seen as equivalent to an acre.
A great amount of enjoyment or entertainment, or something or someone that provides this.
A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.
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 88. 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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