| ABBREVIATOR | • abbreviator n. A person who abbreviates or shortens. • abbreviator n. (Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty… • ABBREVIATOR n. one who abbreviates. |
| ABRACADABRA | • abracadabra n. A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell;… • abracadabra n. Mumbo-jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon. • abracadabra interj. Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed. |
| BACKBREAKER | • backbreaker n. A strenuous and exhausting task, typically involving physical effort. • BACKBREAKER n. a strenuous task. |
| BALLBREAKER | • ballbreaker n. Alternative spelling of ball-breaker. • ball-breaker n. (US, idiomatic, vulgar) A person or task which is excessively demanding or punishing. • BALLBREAKER n. (offensive) an aggressively feminist woman. |
| BARBARESQUE | • barbaresque adj. Barbaric in form or style. • Barbaresque adj. Of or relating to Barbary. • BARBARESQUE adj. relating to Barbary, the country of the Berbers. |
| BARBARISING | • barbarising v. Present participle of barbarise. • BARBARISE v. to reduce to a state of barbarism, also BARBARIZE. |
| BARBARITIES | • barbarities n. Plural of barbarity. • BARBARITY n. the state of being barbaric. |
| BARBARIZING | • barbarizing v. Present participle of barbarize. • BARBARIZE v. to reduce to a state of barbarism, also BARBARISE. |
| BARBAROUSLY | • barbarously adv. In a barbarous manner. • BARBAROUS adv. uncivilized. |
| BARBITURATE | • barbiturate n. (Organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of barbituric acid. • barbiturate n. (Pharmacology) Any of derivatives of barbituric acid that act as depressants of the central nervous… • BARBITURATE n. a sleeping drug. |
| BARGEBOARDS | • bargeboards n. Plural of bargeboard. • barge␣boards n. Plural of barge board. • BARGEBOARD n. a board projecting from a roof gable. |
| BEAVERBOARD | • beaverboard n. A form of fiberboard made of wood pulp compressed into sheets. • BEAVERBOARD n. a building-board of wood fibre. |
| BREADBOARDS | • breadboards n. Plural of breadboard. • BREADBOARD v. to make an experimental version of (an electronic circuit). |
| REBARBATIVE | • rebarbative adj. Irritating, repellent. • REBARBATIVE adj. irritating; repellent. |
| SUBARBOREAL | • subarboreal adj. Beneath a tree. • SUBARBOREAL adj. growing or living under trees. |