English words: B

1119 words under B; 701–800 on this page.

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• book noun (book, books); verb (book, books, booked, booking)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A book is a set of pages with words or pictures, joined at one side inside a cover.
• bookcase noun (a bookcase, bookcases)
  A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves for keeping books on.
• bookie noun (a bookie, bookies) — informal, short for bookmaker
  A person or company that takes bets on races and games and pays out money to winners.
• bookkeeper noun (a bookkeeper, bookkeepers)
  A person whose job is to keep careful records of the money a business earns and spends.
• bookkeeping noun (bookkeeping, uncountable); bookkeeper (a person)
  The job of keeping records of money that a business or person spends and earns.
• booklet noun (a booklet, booklets)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A small, thin book with a paper cover, often giving information or instructions.
• bookmaker noun (a bookmaker, bookmakers)
  A person or company that takes bets on horse races, football matches and other events and pays out if people win.
• bookmark noun (a bookmark, bookmarks); verb…
  A bookmark is a strip of card, paper or ribbon you put in a book to show where you stopped reading.
• bookseller noun (booksellers)
  A bookseller is a person who sells books, often in a shop.
• bookshelf noun (bookshelf, bookshelves)
  A bookshelf is a shelf, or a piece of furniture with several shelves, for keeping books.
• bookshop noun (a bookshop, bookshops); US usually bookstore
  A shop that sells books.
• bookworm noun (a bookworm, bookworms)
  A person who loves reading and reads a lot of books.
• boom noun (a boom, booms); verb (boom, booms, boomed, booming)…
  A deep, loud sound like thunder or a big drum: the boom of the cannon.
• boomer noun (boomer, boomers)
  A baby boomer, a person born in the years just after the Second World War, roughly 1946 to 1964, when many babies were born.
• boomerang noun (a boomerang, boomerangs); verb…
  A curved, flat piece of wood that comes back to you when you throw it the right way, first made by Aboriginal Australians.
• boon noun (a boon, boons)
  Something that is very helpful and makes life better.
• boost verb (boost, boosts, boosted, boosting); noun…
  To boost something is to make it bigger, stronger or better.
• booster noun (a booster, boosters)
  A booster (booster seat) is a special raised seat that lifts a child up so the car's seat belt fits them safely.
• boot noun (a boot, boots); verb (boot, boots, booted, booting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A boot is a strong shoe that covers your foot and ankle and sometimes part of your leg.
• booth noun (a booth, booths)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A small, partly closed place for one person or a small group, such as a phone booth or voting booth.
• booty noun (no plural)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Booty is goods taken by force or by theft, especially by robbers or soldiers in war; it can also mean a prize that is won.
• bordeaux noun…
  Bordeaux, a big city in south-west France, on the river Garonne.
• border noun (border, borders); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A border is the edge of something, like a strip around a picture or a cloth.
• borderland noun (a borderland, borderlands)
  The land near a border between two countries or regions.
• borderline adjective (borderline); noun (a borderline, borderlines)
  Only just on one side of a line between two groups or results, so it is hard to decide which: a borderline pass.
• bore verb (bore, bores, bored, boring); noun (a bore, bores)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To make someone feel tired and uninterested because something is dull.
• boreal adjective (boreal)
  Of the far north, near the Arctic.
• bored adjective (bored, more bored, most bored); verb form…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Bored means tired and restless because nothing interesting is happening or you have nothing to do.
• boredom noun (boredom — uncountable)
  The feeling of being bored, when you have nothing interesting to do or are not interested in what you are doing.
• boring adjective (boring, more boring, most boring); verb form…
  Boring means not interesting, so you feel tired of it or want something else to do.
• born verb (bear, bears, bore, born — in «be born»); adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Born means having come into life.
• bornean adjective (Bornean); noun (a Bornean, Borneans)
  From or to do with Borneo, the third-largest island in the world, in South-East Asia, shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.
• borrow verb (borrow, borrows, borrowed, borrowing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To borrow is to take or use something that you will give back later.
• borrower noun (a borrower, borrowers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A person who borrows something, such as a book from a library.
• borrowing noun (a borrowing, borrowings; borrowing uncountable)…
  Taking something that belongs to someone else, with their permission, and giving it back later.
• borscht noun (borscht — uncountable; a bowl of borscht)
  Borscht is a sour soup, usually red from beetroot, eaten in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.
• borshch noun (borshch — uncountable) (Ukrainian)
  Borshch (борщ) is the Ukrainian spelling in Latin letters of «borscht», the sour beetroot soup that is a national dish of Ukraine.
• bosom noun (bosom, bosoms)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The bosom is the front of a person's chest, the place where you hold someone close.
• boss noun (boss, bosses); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A boss is the person in charge at work who tells others what to do.
• bossy adjective (bossy, bossier, bossiest)
  Bossy means always telling other people what to do, in a way that is annoying.
• bostonian noun (a Bostonian, Bostonians); adjective (Bostonian)
  A person who comes from or lives in Boston, a big city in Massachusetts, USA.
• bot noun (a bot, bots)
  A bot is a computer program that does tasks by itself, often pretending to be a person, such as answering messages or playing in games.
• botanic adjective (botanic, botanical)
  To do with plants and the study of plants (botany).
• botanical adjective (botanical)
  Botanical means to do with plants or with botany, the science of plants.
• botanist noun (a botanist, botanists)
  A botanist is a scientist who studies plants: how they grow, where they live and how they are related.
• botany noun (botany — uncountable)
  The scientific study of plants: how they grow, what they are made of, how they are named and where they live.
• both determiner, pronoun (both, both of); conjunction…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Both means the two of them together, not just one: both hands.
• bother verb (bother, bothers, bothered, bothering); noun…
  To bother someone is to annoy them or interrupt them: «Don't bother me while I'm reading.».
• bothersome adjective
  Bothersome means annoying, causing trouble or worry, so that you feel put out.
• bottle noun (bottle, bottles); verb (bottle, bottles, bottled)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bottle is a container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or other liquids.
• bottlenose noun (a bottlenose, bottlenoses); adjective (bottlenose)
  The bottlenose dolphin, a common grey dolphin with a short, bottle-shaped snout, often seen near coasts and in shows.
• bottom noun (bottom, bottoms); adjective (bottom)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The bottom is the lowest part of something.
• bottomless adjective
  Bottomless means so deep or so large that it has no end or floor you can reach.
• boudoir noun (a boudoir, boudoirs — pronounced BOO-dwah)
  A lady's small private sitting room or dressing room.
• bough noun (a bough, boughs)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bough is a large, main branch of a tree.
• boulder noun (a boulder, boulders)
  A boulder is a very large, rounded rock, too big to pick up.
• bounce verb (bounce, bounces, bounced, bouncing); noun…
  To bounce means to hit a surface and spring back up or away, like a ball hitting the floor.
• bouncer noun (a bouncer, bouncers)
  A person whose job is to stand at the door of a club or bar, check who comes in and remove people who cause trouble.
• bouncy adjective (bouncy, bouncier, bounciest)
  Bouncy describes something that bounces well, like a ball or a trampoline.
• bound adjective (bound, not compared); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Certain to happen: if something is bound to happen, it will almost surely happen.
• boundary noun (a boundary, boundaries)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A boundary is a line that marks the edge of an area, like a field, a country or a garden.
• boundless adjective
  Boundless means with no limit or edge; it goes on without end.
• bounds noun, plural (bounds); verb, third person of bound…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Limits or borders of an area or of what is allowed: within the bounds of the park.
• bounteous adjectiveJewish tradition
  Giving very freely and generously, plentiful.
• bountiful adjectiveJewish tradition
  Giving freely and generously, or plentiful.
• bountifully adverbJewish tradition
  In a generous, plentiful way.
• bounty nounJewish tradition
  Generous giving, or a gift given freely and in plenty.
• bouquet noun (bouquet, bouquets)
  A bouquet is a bunch of flowers picked and tied together, often given as a gift or carried at a wedding.
• bourgeois adjective (bourgeois); noun (a bourgeois, the bourgeoisie)
  Belonging to the middle class, people who have comfortable jobs, homes and money.
• bout noun (a bout, bouts)
  A short period of illness or a strong feeling: a bout of flu, a bout of laughter.
• bow noun (bow, bows); verb (bow, bows, bowed, bowing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bow (rhymes with «go») is a knot with two loops made from ribbon or laces.
• bowel noun (a bowel, bowels)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The long tube in the body below the stomach, also called the intestines, where food is digested and waste is formed.
• bowels noun
  The inside of the body, the womb, or the deep inside of the earth.
• bower noun (a bower, bowers)
  A shady, pleasant place in a garden or wood, under trees or climbing plants.
• bowerbird noun (a bowerbird, bowerbirds)
  A bowerbird is a bird from Australia and New Guinea; the male builds a decorated shelter of twigs (a bower) to attract a female.
• bowhead noun (a bowhead, bowheads; bowhead whale)
  A large dark Arctic whale with a huge curved mouth and a very thick layer of blubber; it has no teeth and filters food with baleen.
• bowl noun (bowl, bowls); verb (bowl, bowls, bowled, bowling)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bowl is a round, deep dish for food like soup, cereal or fruit.
• bowlful nounJewish tradition
  As much as a bowl can hold.
• bowman noun (bowman, bowmen)
  A bowman is a person who shoots arrows from a bow; an archer.
• bowsprit noun (a bowsprit, bowsprits — pronounced BOH-sprit)
  A long pole sticking out forward from the front (the bow) of a sailing ship.
• bowstring noun (bowstring, bowstrings)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The bowstring is the cord on a bow that is pulled back to shoot an arrow.
• box noun (box, boxes); verb (box, boxes, boxed, boxing)
  A box is a container with flat sides, often with a lid.
• boxers noun, plural (boxers; a pair of boxers); singular «boxer»…
  Boxers (boxer shorts) are loose cotton underpants for men and boys that look like short shorts.
• boy noun (boy, boys); interjection (Boy! Oh boy!)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A boy is a male child or a young man.
• boycott verb (boycott, boycotts, boycotted, boycotting); noun…
  To refuse to buy, use, take part in or deal with something or someone, as a protest.
• boyfriend noun (a boyfriend, boyfriends)
  A boyfriend is a boy or man that someone is in a romantic relationship with.
• boyhood noun (boyhood, usually uncountable)
  The time in a person's life when he is a boy, from birth until he becomes a young man.
• boyish adjective (boyish, more boyish, most boyish)
  Like a boy, or looking or behaving like a boy: «a boyish grin».
• br abbreviation (Br, br., BR) — a fragment, not a wordeveryday · Jewish tradition
  «Br» is the chemical symbol for bromine, a dark red liquid element.
• bra noun (a bra, bras)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A piece of underwear worn by women and older girls to support and cover their breasts.
• brace noun (a brace, braces); verb…
  A metal or plastic device fixed to teeth to straighten them (braces).
• bracelet noun (a bracelet, bracelets)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A bracelet is a band or chain worn around the wrist as jewellery or decoration.
• braces noun, plural (braces); also plural of «brace» (a brace)
  Wires and small metal or clear pieces fixed to the teeth to make them straight over time.
• brachiation noun (brachiation, uncountable); verb brachiate…
  A way of moving through trees by swinging from branch to branch using the arms, as gibbons and some monkeys do.
• bracken noun (bracken — uncountable)
  A large, tough fern that grows thickly on hills, moors and in woods, green in summer and brown in autumn.
• bracket noun (bracket, brackets); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Brackets are the marks ( ) put around numbers in a sum to show which part to work out first.
• brackish adjective (brackish)
  Slightly salty, a mix of fresh water and sea water, like water where a river meets the sea.
• brag verb (brag, brags, bragged, bragging); noun (a brag)
  To brag is to talk proudly about yourself, what you have or what you did, in a way that annoys others.
• bragging noun (bragging, uncountable); verb -ing form of brag…
  Talking proudly about yourself and what you have or can do, in a way that annoys others: boasting.
• brahman noun (Brahman; also brahman, brahmans; Brahmin)
  In Hinduism, Brahman is the one ultimate reality or supreme spirit behind everything; Hindus believe all gods and all things come from…

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