Commonly used words in written English - letter B with 468 words, sorted alphabetically
The list of words starting with the letter B that occur frequently in written English is based on an analysis of the Google Books Ngram (a collection compiled by Peter Norvig in 2012, containing close to one trillion words).
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Word Frequency is calculated as the number of occurrences in one million words.
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Word Definition is sourced from the WordNet dictionary. You'll have to look up each word page for its complete definition and Part of Speech (POS) categories.
| Word | Frequency | Definition |
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321 | (noun) the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet | |
8 | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite | |
69 | (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | |
5 | (noun) the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia | |
6 | (noun) German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750) | |
7 | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence; (noun) a man who has never been married | |
7 | (noun) aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil | |
556 | (adverb) in or to or toward a former location; (verb) be behind; approve of | |
13 | (adjective) having a back or backing, usually of a specified type | |
71 | (verb) understate the importance or quality of; (noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | |
7 | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | |
6 | (noun) an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage | |
18 | (adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | |
7 | (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | |
15 | (noun) back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried | |
23 | (noun) (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants | |
13 | (adjective) relating to or caused by bacteria | |
114 | (adjective) having undesirable or negative qualities; (noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | |
20 | (adverb) to a severe or serious degree | |
38 | (verb) capture or kill, as in hunting; (noun) a flexible container with a single opening | |
6 | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | |
8 | (noun) the outer courtyard of a castle | |
6 | (verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait; (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | |
6 | (adjective) (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven) | |
19 | (noun) someone who bakes commercially | |
6 | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven; (noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | |
96 | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium; (noun) a state of equilibrium | |
20 | (adjective) being in a state of proper equilibrium | |
8 | (noun) getting two things to correspond | |
6 | (noun) an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium | |
8 | (noun) United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987) | |
61 | (verb) form into a ball by winding or rolling; (noun) round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games | |
8 | (noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | |
8 | (noun) a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers | |
9 | (verb) ride in a hot-air balloon; (noun) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air | |
10 | (verb) vote by ballot; (noun) a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting | |
7 | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages; (noun) a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy | |
20 | (noun) the largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center | |
6 | (noun) the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles | |
11 | (verb) forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper); (noun) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova | |
8 | (noun) any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits | |
77 | (verb) bind or tie together, as with a band; (noun) instrumentalists not including string players | |
6 | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | |
7 | (adverb) directly; (verb) to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound | |
8 | (verb) expel from a community or group | |
145 | (verb) tip laterally; (noun) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water) | |
15 | (noun) a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank | |
23 | (noun) engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc. | |
12 | (noun) a state of complete lack of some abstract property | |
65 | (noun) English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820) | |
11 | (adjective) unusually good; outstanding; (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | |
7 | (noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | |
13 | (noun) a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth | |
12 | (noun) follower of Baptistic doctrines | |
6 | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | |
64 | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out; (noun) a counter where you can obtain food or drink | |
8 | (adjective) without civilizing influences | |
7 | (verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of; (noun) a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade | |
25 | (verb) lay bare; (adjective) lacking its natural or customary covering | |
19 | (adverb) only a very short time before | |
12 | (verb) come to terms; arrive at an agreement; (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | |
16 | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | |
5 | (verb) push one's way; (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | |
19 | (verb) speak in an unfriendly tone; (noun) tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants | |
7 | (noun) a grain of barley | |
11 | (noun) an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals | |
18 | (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank | |
7 | (verb) lodge in barracks; (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | |
6 | (adjective) marked with stripes or bands | |
10 | (verb) put in barrels; (noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired | |
6 | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | |
8 | (adjective) not bearing offspring; (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | |
35 | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | |
21 | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights | |
11 | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | |
119 | (verb) situate as a center of operations; (adjective) of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense) | |
11 | (noun) a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs | |
264 | (adjective) having a base | |
7 | (noun) an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared | |
9 | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | |
138 | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; (noun) (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant | |
16 | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | |
6 | (noun) any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum | |
28 | (noun) a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids | |
188 | (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | |
17 | (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | |
6 | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | |
12 | (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; (noun) the lowest part of the musical range | |
6 | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | |
9 | (verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | |
9 | (verb) batch together; assemble or process as a batch; (noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time | |
31 | (noun) a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it) | |
6 | (verb) cleanse the entire body; (noun) the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation | |
6 | (noun) immersing the body in water or sunshine | |
10 | (noun) a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet | |
16 | (noun) an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies | |
28 | (noun) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place | |
103 | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | |
6 | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | |
55 | (verb) utter in deep prolonged tones; (adjective) (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color | |
10 | (adverb) before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born | |
6,479 | (verb) have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) | |
38 | (verb) land on a beach; (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | |
8 | (noun) several beads threaded together on a string | |
45 | (verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression; (noun) long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction | |
20 | (verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball; (noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | |
122 | (verb) have; (noun) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws | |
12 | (verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | |
9 | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | |
55 | (noun) relevant relation or interconnection | |
22 | (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | |
31 | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | |
13 | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | |
13 | (noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | |
6 | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | |
92 | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | |
8 | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | |
70 | (noun) the qualities that give pleasure to the senses | |
6 | (verb) work hard on something; (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | |
823 | (preposition) for the reason that, or due to the fact that; (conjunction) by or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that | |
5 | (noun) a beckoning gesture | |
724 | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | |
63 | (adjective) according with custom or propriety | |
124 | (verb) furnish with a bed; (noun) a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | |
19 | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | |
18 | (noun) any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species | |
13 | (noun) cattle that are reared for their meat | |
2,176 | (verb) past participle of be | |
22 | (noun) a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops | |
6 | (noun) German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827) | |
6 | (verb) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; (adjective) jutting or overhanging | |
813 | (preposition) in front of; preceding in space; ahead of | |
23 | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | |
7 | (verb) be beyond the resources of; (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | |
5 | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | |
411 | (verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; (noun) Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992) | |
163 | (noun) the event consisting of the start of something | |
31 | (noun) as the agent of or on someone's part (usually expressed as 'on behalf of' rather than 'in behalf of') | |
25 | (verb) behave in a certain manner | |
160 | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | |
22 | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | |
48 | (noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | |
161 | (preposition) on the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; (adverb) in or to or toward the rear | |
19 | (verb) see with attention | |
7 | (noun) capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city | |
869 | (verb) present participle of be; (noun) the state or fact of existing | |
7 | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people; (noun) a native or inhabitant of Belgium | |
13 | (noun) a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization | |
128 | (noun) any cognitive content held as true | |
272 | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | |
16 | (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | |
16 | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | |
47 | (verb) attach a bell to; (noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | |
6 | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | |
10 | (verb) swell out or bulge out; (noun) a protruding abdomen | |
87 | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | |
30 | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | |
18 | (adjective) dearly loved; (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | |
164 | (preposition) under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; (adverb) in or to a place that is lower | |
25 | (verb) deliver a blow to; (noun) endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys | |
24 | (noun) a mountain or tall hill | |
20 | (verb) take out of a game; of players; (noun) a long seat for more than one person | |
13 | (verb) form a curve; (noun) a circular segment of a curve | |
12 | (noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | |
45 | (preposition) lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of | |
17 | (adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | |
12 | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice; (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | |
157 | (verb) be beneficial for; (noun) financial assistance in time of need | |
5 | (noun) disposition to do good | |
6 | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | |
13 | (noun) a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India | |
7 | (adjective) not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) | |
20 | (noun) (Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel | |
9 | (noun) United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928) | |
25 | (adjective) fixed in your purpose; (noun) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way | |
18 | (noun) Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753) | |
41 | (noun) a limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats | |
16 | (noun) French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878) | |
11 | (verb) pick or gather berries; (noun) any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves | |
39 | (preposition) at the side of; on one side of; next to | |
66 | (preposition) over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than; (adverb) making an additional point; anyway | |
322 | (adverb) in a most excellent way or manner; (adjective) (superlative of 'good') having the most positive qualities | |
15 | (verb) give as a gift | |
13 | (verb) maintain with or as if with a bet; (noun) the act of gambling | |
12 | (adjective) second in order of importance; (noun) the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet | |
6 | (noun) the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | |
17 | (verb) reveal unintentionally | |
303 | (adverb) comparative of 'well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.; (verb) surpass in excellence | |
1,000 | (preposition) in the space which separates; betwixt; (adverb) in the interval | |
6 | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | |
159 | (preposition) on the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than; (adverb) farther along in space or time or degree | |
17 | (noun) a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals | |
25 | (verb) influence in an unfair way; (adjective) slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric | |
48 | (noun) a book regarded as authoritative in its field | |
18 | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | |
26 | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | |
7 | (verb) ride a bicycle; (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | |
21 | (verb) ask for or request earnestly; (noun) an attempt to get something | |
6 | (noun) a request to be present | |
147 | (adverb) extremely well; (adjective) significant | |
14 | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | |
6 | (noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame; (verb) ride a bicycle | |
10 | (adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | |
7 | (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | |
130 | (verb) advertise especially by posters or placards; (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | |
35 | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States; (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen | |
12 | (noun) male goat | |
9 | (verb) store in bins; (noun) a container; usually has a lid | |
13 | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base; (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | |
17 | (verb) create social or emotional ties; (noun) something that hinders as if with bonds | |
38 | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority; (noun) the capacity to attract and hold something | |
7 | (adjective) of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms | |
8 | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | |
20 | (noun) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | |
38 | (adjective) pertaining to biology or to life and living things | |
19 | (noun) the science that studies living organisms | |
7 | (noun) examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease | |
6 | (verb) whip with a birch twig; (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | |
93 | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat; (noun) warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings | |
9 | (noun) the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama | |
84 | (noun) the time when something begins (especially life) | |
14 | (noun) an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it) | |
77 | (noun) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ | |
90 | (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | |
16 | (verb) to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; (noun) a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person | |
26 | (verb) make bitter; (adjective) very difficult to accept or bear | |
8 | (adverb) with bitterness; in a resentful manner | |
8 | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | |
270 | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | |
15 | (noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | |
20 | (noun) especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole | |
6 | (noun) British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) | |
9 | (noun) visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827) | |
25 | (verb) put or pin the blame on; (noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | |
7 | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | |
22 | (verb) keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning; (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | |
16 | (verb) cover as if with a blanket; (noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | |
11 | (verb) make a strident sound; (noun) a very long fly ball | |
6 | (verb) shine brightly and intensively; (noun) a strong flame that burns brightly | |
16 | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | |
10 | (verb) combine into one; (noun) an occurrence of thorough mixing | |
10 | (verb) give a benediction to | |
24 | (adjective) highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | |
26 | (noun) the formal act of approving | |
36 | (verb) render unable to see; (adjective) unable to see | |
6 | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | |
7 | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | |
6 | (noun) a group of countries in special alliance | |
87 | (verb) run on a block system; (noun) a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) | |
7 | (verb) obstruct access to; (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | |
9 | (adjective) closed to traffic | |
7 | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | |
193 | (verb) smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill; (noun) the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets | |
16 | (adverb) extremely; (verb) cover with blood | |
13 | (verb) produce or yield flowers; (noun) the best time of youth | |
10 | (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | |
5 | (verb) dry (ink) with blotting paper; (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | |
48 | (verb) exhale hard; (noun) a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon | |
9 | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | |
10 | (adjective) being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor | |
98 | (verb) turn blue; (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | |
7 | (noun) a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes | |
6 | (verb) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand; (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | |
7 | (verb) make less intense; (adjective) having a broad or rounded end | |
6 | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | |
161 | (verb) get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.); (noun) a committee having supervisory powers | |
6 | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | |
23 | (noun) (used in the plural) the stage of a theater | |
12 | (verb) show off; (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | |
74 | (verb) ride in a boat on water; (noun) a small vessel for travel on water | |
22 | (verb) move up and down repeatedly; (noun) a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around | |
5 | (noun) an informal term for a British policeman | |
15 | (adverb) in bodily form; (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | |
414 | (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to; (noun) the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) | |
9 | (verb) come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | |
8 | (adjective) cooked in hot water | |
12 | (noun) sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | |
15 | (adverb) extremely; (noun) the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas | |
22 | (adjective) fearless and daring | |
6 | (adverb) with boldness, in a bold manner | |
6 | (adjective) of or relating to Bolshevism; (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | |
15 | (verb) move or jump suddenly; (noun) a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech | |
23 | (noun) an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions | |
13 | (noun) a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India | |
7 | (noun) a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight | |
8 | (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | |
5 | (noun) French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) | |
85 | (verb) issue bonds on; (noun) a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal | |
5 | (noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | |
6 | (noun) a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child) | |
56 | (verb) remove the bones from; (adjective) consisting of or made up of bone | |
31 | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | |
8 | (noun) anything that tends to arouse | |
5 | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | |
501 | (verb) engage for a performance; (noun) a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together) | |
12 | (verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery; (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | |
7 | (verb) give a boost to; be beneficial to; (noun) the act of giving hope or support to someone | |
20 | (verb) kick; give a boot to; (noun) footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg | |
10 | (noun) a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches | |
62 | (verb) provide with a border or edge; (noun) a strip forming the outer edge of something | |
24 | (verb) cause to be bored; (noun) a person who evokes boredom | |
7 | (adjective) tired of the world | |
6 | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | |
121 | (adjective) brought into existence; (noun) British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970) | |
9 | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | |
26 | (verb) get temporarily | |
7 | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | |
11 | (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | |
9 | (verb) hide in one's bosom; (noun) the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept | |
18 | (adjective) exceptionally good; (noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | |
64 | (noun) state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services | |
731 | (conjunction) as well; not only; equally | |
11 | (verb) intrude or enter uninvited | |
36 | (verb) store (liquids or gases) in bottles; (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | |
76 | (verb) provide with a bottom or a seat; (adjective) the lowest rank | |
9 | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | |
76 | (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to; (adjective) confined by bonds | |
70 | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | |
9 | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | |
11 | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | |
5 | (noun) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | |
13 | (adjective) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class; (noun) a member of the middle class | |
7 | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | |
26 | (verb) bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head; (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | |
8 | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow | |
8 | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | |
18 | (verb) roll (a ball); (noun) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids | |
119 | (verb) put into a box; (noun) a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid | |
182 | (noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown man | |
5 | (verb) refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with; (noun) a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies | |
9 | (noun) a nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water | |
6 | (verb) prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult; (noun) a support that steadies or strengthens something else | |
10 | (verb) support with brackets; (noun) a category falling within certain defined limits | |
7 | (noun) United States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998) | |
88 | (verb) hit on the head; (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | |
7 | (verb) stop travelling by applying a brake; (noun) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | |
102 | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | |
25 | (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals; (noun) a recognizable kind | |
5 | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | |
15 | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | |
23 | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; (noun) a North American Indian warrior | |
21 | (noun) the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter | |
7 | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Brazil or the people of Brazil; (noun) a native or inhabitant of Brazil | |
22 | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | |
41 | (verb) cover with bread crumbs; (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | |
11 | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | |
88 | (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments; (noun) an unexpected piece of good luck | |
14 | (noun) a mental or physical breakdown | |
26 | (verb) eat an early morning meal; (noun) the first meal of the day (usually in the morning) | |
31 | (noun) the act of breaking something | |
43 | (verb) meet at breast level; (noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | |
41 | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | |
12 | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | |
6 | (adjective) uttered without voice | |
22 | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | |
25 | (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses; (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | |
17 | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | |
11 | (verb) blow gently and lightly; (noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | |
15 | (noun) (plural) the lay members of a male religious order | |
6 | (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | |
26 | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | |
16 | (noun) a woman who has recently been married | |
57 | (verb) connect or reduce the distance between; (noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | |
14 | (noun) United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990) | |
65 | (verb) give essential information to someone; (adjective) of short duration or distance | |
29 | (adverb) for a short time | |
18 | (verb) form or unite into a brigade; (noun) army unit smaller than a division | |
59 | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | |
7 | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | |
27 | (adjective) of surpassing excellence | |
401 | (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | |
42 | (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | |
8 | (noun) an industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon | |
88 | (noun) a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom | |
221 | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture; (noun) the people of Great Britain | |
91 | (adjective) not detailed or specific; (noun) slang term for a woman | |
16 | (verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand; (noun) message that is transmitted by radio or television | |
11 | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | |
6 | (verb) make broader | |
11 | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | |
7 | (noun) a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters | |
42 | (adjective) lacking funds | |
69 | (adjective) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | |
12 | (verb) act as a broker | |
17 | (verb) give the color and appearance of bronze to something; (adjective) of the color of bronze | |
8 | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | |
8 | (noun) a borough of New York City | |
9 | (noun) United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963) | |
148 | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | |
8 | (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | |
11 | (noun) the part of the face above the eyes | |
102 | (verb) fry in a pan until it changes color; (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | |
6 | (noun) United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926) | |
6 | (noun) a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular | |
13 | (noun) Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931) | |
6 | (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; (noun) an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration | |
6 | (noun) a university town in southwestern Maine | |
21 | (verb) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush; (noun) a dense growth of bushes | |
8 | (noun) the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization | |
8 | (adjective) punishingly harsh | |
6 | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement; (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | |
6 | (noun) United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) | |
13 | (verb) form, produce, or emit bubbles; (noun) a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) | |
6 | (noun) 15th President of the United States (1791-1868) | |
11 | (verb) to strive with determination; (noun) mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) | |
8 | (verb) put into a bucket; (noun) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top | |
6 | (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles; (noun) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong | |
12 | (verb) develop buds; (noun) a partially opened flower | |
14 | (noun) founder of Buddhism (c 563-483 BC) | |
10 | (noun) a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha | |
13 | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Buddhism; (noun) one who follows the teachings of Buddha | |
55 | (verb) make a budget; (noun) a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose | |
15 | (verb) intimidate or overawe; (noun) meat from an American bison | |
19 | (verb) add a buffer (a solution); (noun) (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH | |
8 | (noun) general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate | |
67 | (verb) build or establish something abstract | |
13 | (noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | |
228 | (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | |
119 | (adjective) (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | |
11 | (noun) a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure | |
6 | (noun) a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe | |
26 | (verb) stick out or up; (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | |
32 | (verb) push or force; (noun) uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle | |
15 | (noun) a projectile that is fired from a gun | |
24 | (verb) make public by bulletin; (noun) a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast) | |
6 | (verb) knock against with force or violence; (noun) a lump on the body caused by a blow | |
11 | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster; (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | |
16 | (verb) make into a bundle; (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | |
41 | (verb) weight down with a load; (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | |
40 | (noun) an administrative unit of government | |
12 | (noun) nonelective government officials | |
8 | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | |
6 | (noun) a citizen of an English borough | |
16 | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | |
29 | (adjective) placed in a grave | |
11 | (verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body; (noun) British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797) | |
7 | (noun) a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal | |
18 | (verb) destroy by fire; (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | |
22 | (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | |
34 | (noun) the act of burning something | |
14 | (noun) United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996) | |
12 | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | |
5 | (verb) move through by or as by digging; (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | |
30 | (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; (noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | |
7 | (noun) English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890) | |
7 | (verb) cover from sight | |
32 | (verb) send or move around by bus; (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | |
33 | (verb) provide with a bushing; (noun) a large wilderness area | |
6 | (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | |
327 | (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | |
6 | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | |
6 | (noun) a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person | |
34 | (verb) keep busy with; (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | |
3,754 | (preposition) except with; unless with; without | |
7 | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; (noun) a retailer of meat | |
16 | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | |
8 | (verb) to strike, thrust or shove against; (noun) thick end of the handle | |
21 | (verb) spread butter on; (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | |
8 | (verb) flutter like a butterfly; (noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | |
35 | (verb) provide with buttons; (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | |
102 | (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | |
26 | (noun) a person who buys | |
22 | (noun) the act of buying | |
6,323 | (preposition) in the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; (adverb) so as to pass a given point | |
8 | (noun) an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | |
7 | (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious; (noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | |
8 | (noun) English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824) | |
8 | (noun) a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information | |
7 | (adjective) of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; (noun) a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire |