English words: B

1120 words under B; 101–200 on this page.

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• band noun (band, bands); verb (band together — to join together)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A band is a group of musicians who play together: a rock band, a school band.
• bandage noun (a bandage, bandages); verb…
  A bandage is a strip of cloth or soft material wrapped around a part of the body to cover and protect a wound or support an injury.
• bandit noun (bandits)
  A bandit is a robber, often one of a gang, who attacks travellers and steals from them, usually in wild or lonely places.
• bandmaster noun (bandmasters)
  A bandmaster is the person who leads and trains a band of musicians, and often writes or chooses the music they play.
• bandwagon noun (a bandwagon, bandwagons)
  Something that suddenly becomes popular, which many people join just because others do: «jump on the bandwagon».
• bandy adjective (bandier, bandiest); verb…
  Bandy describes legs that curve outward, so that the knees are apart when the feet are together.
• bane noun (banes)
  A bane is a person or thing that causes trouble, ruin or death.
• bang noun (a bang, bangs); verb (bang, bangs, banged, banging)…
  A bang is a sudden very loud noise, like an explosion or a door slamming.
• banger noun (a banger, bangers)
  A sausage.
• banish verb (banish, banishes, banished, banishing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To send someone away from a country or place as a punishment and forbid them to come back.
• banishment noun (banishment — uncountable; a banishment)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Banishment is being sent away from your country or home as a punishment and not allowed to come back.
• banister noun (a banister, banisters; also bannister)
  A banister is the rail along the side of a staircase that you hold on to.
• bank noun (bank, banks); verb (bank, banks, banked, banking)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bank is a place that keeps money safe and lends it.
• banker noun (a banker, bankers)
  A person who runs or works at a high level in a bank, deciding about loans and money.
• banknote noun (a banknote, banknotes)
  A piece of paper or plastic money printed by a country's bank, such as a £10 note or a $20 bill.
• bankrupt adjective; verb…
  A person or company that is bankrupt cannot pay their debts, and a court takes control of what they own to pay the people they owe.
• banned verb (past form of ban: banned); adjective (banned)
  Banned is the past form of «ban»: it was officially not allowed.
• banner noun (a banner, banners)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A long piece of cloth or paper with words or pictures on it, carried or hung up.
• banning verb, -ing form of ban (ban, bans, banned, banning); noun…
  Officially saying that something is not allowed.
• bannock noun (bannocks)
  A bannock is a round, flat cake of oatmeal or barley bread, baked on a griddle or in an oven, eaten mainly in Scotland.
• banns noun (plural only)
  Banns are the public announcements read out in church, on three Sundays before a wedding, to say that two people plan to marry, so that…
• banquet noun (banquet, banquets); verb (banquet, rare)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A large formal meal for many people, usually to celebrate something, with speeches.
• banter noun (banter); verb (banter, banters, bantered, bantering)
  Friendly, playful teasing and joking talk between people: the friends' banter.
• banyan noun (banyan, banyans; banyan tree)
  A tropical fig tree from India whose branches drop roots down to the ground, which grow into new trunks so one tree can look like a whole…
• baobab noun (a baobab, baobabs)
  A baobab is a huge tree of Africa, Madagascar and Australia with a very fat trunk and short branches that look like roots.
• baptise verb (baptise, baptises, baptised, baptising) — US spelling…
  To baptise someone is to give them the Christian ceremony of baptism, pouring water on them or putting them in water as a sign of joining…
• baptised verb (past and past participle of baptise: baptised)…
  Baptised means given the Christian ceremony of baptism, washed with water as a sign of joining Christ and the Church.
• baptism noun (a baptism, baptisms)
  Baptism is a Christian ceremony in which a person is washed with water or put under water as a sign that they belong to Christ and the…
• baptist noun (a Baptist, Baptists; John the Baptist); adjective…
  A Baptist is a member of a Protestant Christian church that baptises only people old enough to say they believe, usually by putting them…
• baptists noun, plural (Baptists; singular a Baptist)
  Baptists are members of Protestant Christian churches that baptise only believers old enough to choose, usually by full immersion in…
• baptized verb (baptize, baptizes, baptized, baptizing)
  To baptize someone is to sprinkle or dip them in water as a sign that they become a member of the Christian church, often given a name at…
• bar noun (bar, bars); verb (bar, bars, barred, barring)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bar is a long, solid piece of something, like a bar of soap or chocolate.
• barb noun (a barb, barbs); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A barb is a sharp point that sticks out backwards from the tip of a fish hook, arrow or wire, so it is hard to pull out.
• barbarian noun (a barbarian, barbarians); adjective (barbarian)
  A name the ancient Greeks and Romans gave to people from outside their world, whom they saw as wild and uncivilised.
• barbarous adjective
  Barbarous means very cruel, savage or uncivilised, without pity for others.
• barbecue noun…
  A metal grill or frame used for cooking food outdoors over hot coals, wood or gas.
• barbed adjective (barbed)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Barbed means having barbs — small sharp hooks or points pointing backwards, which make something hard to pull out, like a fish hook.
• barbel noun (barbels)
  A barbel is a freshwater fish with whisker-like feelers at its mouth, which it uses to find food on the river bed.
• barberry noun (barberries)
  A barberry is a prickly bush with small yellow flowers and red berries that taste sour, often grown as a hedge.
• bard noun (a bard, bards)
  A bard was a poet and singer who told stories in verse, especially in old Celtic lands such as Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
• bare adjective (bare, barer, barest); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Bare means not covered by clothes, like bare feet or bare arms.
• barefoot adjective (barefoot); adverb (barefoot); also barefootedeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Barefoot means not wearing any shoes or socks on your feet.
• barehanded adjective and adverb (barehanded; also bare-handed)
  Using only your hands, without gloves, tools or weapons.
• bareheaded adjective; adverb
  Bareheaded means with nothing on the head, without a hat or cap.
• barely adverb (barely)
  Only just; almost not (I barely caught the bus).
• bareness nounJewish tradition
  The state of being bare, with nothing on it or in it, such as land without plants or covering.
• bargain noun (a bargain, bargains); verb…
  A bargain is something you buy for less than its usual price, a good deal.
• barge noun (a barge, barges); verb…
  A barge is a long boat with a flat bottom used to carry heavy loads on rivers and canals.
• bargewoman noun (a bargewoman, bargewomen)
  A bargewoman is a woman who lives on or steers a barge, a long flat-bottomed boat that carries goods on canals and rivers.
• barium noun (barium, uncountable)
  A soft, silvery chemical element, a metal, with the symbol Ba and atomic number 56.
• bark noun (a bark, barks; bark, uncountable); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bark is the short loud sound a dog makes.
• barley noun (barley, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A cereal plant like wheat, whose grain is used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt.
• barleycorn noun (barleycorns)
  A barleycorn is one grain of barley, a tiny seed from the barley plant.
• barn noun (barn, barns)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A barn is a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools.
• barnacle noun (a barnacle, barnacles)
  A small sea animal with a hard shell that sticks itself to rocks, ships and whales and stays there.
• barnyard noun (a barnyard, barnyards); adjective (barnyard animals)
  The yard or area around a barn on a farm, where animals walk and feed.
• barometer noun (a barometer, barometers)
  A barometer is an instrument that measures air pressure, used to help forecast the weather.
• baron noun (a baron, barons; baroness for a woman)
  A nobleman of the lowest rank in Britain and some other countries; in the Middle Ages a lord who held land from the king.
• baroness noun (baronesses)
  A baroness is a woman who holds the rank of baron in her own right, or the wife of a baron.
• baronial adjective
  Baronial means of or like a baron or his castle or hall, grand and noble in style.
• barony noun (baronies)
  A barony is the rank or title of a baron.
• barrack noun (a barrack, usually plural: barracks); verb…
  Barracks are a large building or group of buildings where soldiers live.
• barred adjective (barred); verb past form of bar…
  Not allowed to go in or to do something: banned.
• barrel noun (a barrel, barrels); verb…
  A barrel is a big round container with a flat top and bottom, usually made of wood or metal, used to hold liquids or other goods.
• barren adjective (barren, more barren, most barren)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Of land: too poor to grow plants or crops; bare and empty: a barren desert.
• barrenness nouneveryday · Jewish tradition
  Barrenness is the state of being bare and empty, with no crops growing, or of being unable to have children.
• barricade nounJewish tradition
  A wall or circle of wagons, carts and goods set up to block a way or to protect a camp.
• barrier noun (a barrier, barriers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A barrier is a fence, gate, wall or bar that stops people or things from going somewhere.
• barring preposition (from the verb bar, barred, barring)
  Barring means except for, leaving out one thing or person from what is said.
• barrister noun (a barrister, barristers)
  A lawyer who speaks for people in the higher courts and argues their case in front of a judge.
• barrow noun (a barrow, barrows)
  A wheelbarrow: a small cart with one wheel at the front and two handles, pushed by hand.
• barrowful noun (a barrowful, barrowfuls)
  As much as a wheelbarrow will hold.
• bart noun (a name; Bart)
  A boy's or man's name, short for Bartholomew or Bartlett; the best-known Bart is Bart Simpson, a cartoon boy.
• barter verb (barter, barters, bartered, bartering); noun…
  To barter means to swap things or services for other things instead of using money.
• basalt noun (basalt)
  A hard, dark grey or black rock made when hot lava from a volcano cools quickly.
• basaltic adjective (basaltic)
  Made of basalt, a dark, heavy rock that forms when lava from a volcano cools quickly.
• base noun (a base, bases); verb (base, bases, based, basing)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  The base of something is its bottom part or the part it stands on.
• baseball noun (baseball, baseballs)
  Baseball is a game where two teams of 9 take turns to hit a ball with a bat and run around four bases.
• baseline noun (a baseline, baselines)
  A starting measurement that you use to compare later results with.
• basely adverb
  Basely means in a mean, shameful way, without honour or fairness.
• basement noun (a basement, basements)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A basement is a room or floor of a building that is partly or fully under the ground.
• bashful adjective…
  Bashful means shy and easily embarrassed, not wanting to be looked at or to speak in front of others.
• basic adjective (basic, more basic, most basic); noun (the basics)
  Basic means simple and the most important, the first part that everything else is built on: basic facts, basic skills.
• basically adverb
  Basically means in the most important way, when you think about the main idea.
• basil noun
  Basil is a sweet green herb with shiny leaves, used to flavour food, especially tomato dishes and pasta.
• basilisk noun (basilisks)everyday · Jewish tradition
  In old fairy tales, a basilisk is a monstrous serpent or lizard whose look could kill.
• basin noun (a basin, basins)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A round bowl for holding liquid or food, especially for mixing or washing.
• basis noun (a basis, bases — said BAY-seez)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The main idea, fact or thing that something is built on or starts from.
• bask verb (bask, basks, basked, basking)
  To lie or sit enjoying warmth, especially sunlight.
• basket noun (basket, baskets)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A basket is a container made of woven strips, used to carry things like fruit or bread.
• basketball noun (basketball; a basketball, basketballs)
  Basketball is a team game where players bounce the ball and try to throw it through a high hoop with a net.
• basketful noun (basketfuls)
  A basketful is as much as a basket will hold, a basket full of things.
• bass noun (a bass, basses); adjective (bass); noun…
  Bass (said «base») means the lowest notes or sounds in music.
• bast noun
  Bast is the soft fibre under the bark of some trees, such as lime, used to make rope, mats and shoes.
• baste verb (bastes, basted, basting)
  To baste is to pour fat or juice over meat while it cooks, to keep it moist.
• bastille noun (the Bastille); French word (bastille)
  The Bastille was a fortress prison in Paris; on 14 July 1789 crowds stormed it, starting the French Revolution.
• bat noun (a bat, bats); verb (bat, bats, batted, batting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bat is a small flying animal with wings of skin that comes out at night.
• batch noun (a batch, batches); verb…
  A batch is an amount of something made at one time: "a batch of cookies".
• bath noun (a bath, baths); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A long container you fill with water and sit in to wash your body (UK; US says bathtub or tub).
• bathe verb (bathe, bathes, bathed, bathing); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To bathe means to wash yourself or someone else in a bath (more US; in the UK people more often say «have a bath»).

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