English Wordbook/B

Staff B of the English Wordbook.

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bakery n bakehouse baptism n christening, forwashing baptize vb christen, forwash barometer n airmeter barrel n coop barrelmaker n cooper battle n hurly-burly, clash, struggle battlefield n fightfield, hurlyburlyfield bay n inlet, cove(sheltered) beau n swain, ladfriend, fop beautiful adj comely, fair beauty n comeliness, fairhood, loveliness, prettyness, sheen because conj for, for that beef n cowflesh, cow, cowmeat bellicose adj warlike belligerent adj war-waging, war-making benefit n behoof, welfare berate vb scold beverage n drink biannual adj twice-yearly, twiyearly, halfyearly bibulous adj soaksome bicycle n twiwheel bidirectional adj two-way bidet n saddlebath biennial adj twinterly, two-yearly bilateral adj two-sided biography n lifetale biology n lifelore bipedal adj two-legged blame vb guilt, pick on Blairite n Blairtrothen blemish vb mar blemish n mar, flaw boil vb seethe bong n waterpipe bordello n whorehouse, brothel border, political n threshold boss n knob botany n wortlore bother n ado boulevardier n man about town bovine adj cowlike boy n lad, knave, knape branch n arm, bough, limb, twig brave adj doughty, fearless, bold breakable n brittle, brickle brewery n brewhouse brutal adj harsh brutality n harshness bullion n ingots bungalow n lowhouse burglary n housebreaking, housebreaching burgle vb housebreak, housebreach butcher n meatcutter button n knob byte n eightcleft