Select a letter for some words
babysitting
the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home.
bacteremia
The presence of bacteria in the blood.
Bad
Bade.
bagel
a glazed leavened doughnut-shaped roll with a hard crust.
Balaustine
The pomegranate tree (). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.
Balcon
A balcony.
Ballet
An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
balletomane
a ballet enthusiast.
Bantling
A young or small child; an infant.
barbarisation
the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
Barbigerous
Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
Bard
To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
Barracan
A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
Baryta
An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.
Bascinet
A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.
Basil
The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
Bass
The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called ; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See .
Baste
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
Basyle
A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.
batholithic
Of or pertaining to a batholith.
Beam tree
A tree () related to the apple.
Bell
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; .
Bellman
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.
Below
Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; .
Bennettitales
an order of fossil gymnospermous plans of the Carboniferous.
Besmear
To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
Beta
The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, beta;. See , and cf. etymology of .
Bewash
To drench or souse with water.
billy club
a policeman's club; a nightstick.
bimotored
having two motors.
Bioplasmic
Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm.
Bird cherry
A shrub ( ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.
Bishop's-weed
An umbelliferous plant of the genus
Bivector
A term made up of the two parts +1-1, where and1 are vectors.
Bl
Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored.
blate
bashful; timid; sheepish; -- chiefly .
Bleareye
A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
Bletting
A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.
Bloodlet
bleed; to let blood.
Blow
A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
Bogsucker
The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
Boldly
In a bold manner.
Bolognian
Bolognese.
Bon
Good; valid as security for something.
bosc
A greenish-yellow variety of pear.
boscage
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
Boulevardier
A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris.
bouncy
readily regaining its original shape or position after stretching, compression, or other deformation; .
Brake
An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
Breakneck
Producing danger of a broken neck; .
Breastsummer
A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.
Brickwork
Anything made of bricks.
Bricole
A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.
Bridgetree
The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.
Broadspread
Widespread.
Bromine
One of the halogen elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.
Brownist
One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.
Brusher
One who, or that which, brushes.
Brute
Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; .
Bryologist
One versed in bryology.
buffalo soldier
A black soldier of the United States army who served in the American west in the late 1800's, often as an indian fighter, and usually as part of an all-black troop; -- the name was given by the indians due to their their kinky hair, and the name was believed also to be a compliment on their courage.
buffer
to add a buffer{5} to (a solution), so as to reduce unwanted fluctuation of acidity.
Bulldozer
One who bulldozes.
Bullion
Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
Burnstickle
A stickleback ().
bust
To arrest, for committing a crime; -- often used in the passive; .
Buzzard
Senseless; stupid.
By-passage
A passage different from the usual one; a byway.