| ALABASTER | • alabaster n. A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally. • alabaster n. (Historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded. • alabaster n. (Color) An off-white colour, like that of alabaster. |
| BANDOBAST | • bandobast n. Alternative form of bundobust. • BANDOBAST n. (Urdu) an organisation, also BANDOBUST, BUNDOBUST. |
| BARBASTEL | • barbastel n. Alternative form of barbastelle (“type of bat”). • BARBASTEL n. (French) a long-eared species of bat with hairy lips, also BARBASTELLE. |
| BASTARDLY | • bastardly adj. Having been born out of marriage. • bastardly adj. Of no use or purpose; useless; worthless. • bastardly adv. In a bastardly manner. |
| BASTARDRY | • bastardry n. (Dated) The state of being a bastard (illegitimate child). • bastardry n. (Rare) The unpleasant behaviour of a bastard (objectionable person). • BASTARDRY n. (Australian slang) malicious or cruel behaviour, also BASTARDY. |
| BASTILLES | • bastilles n. Plural of bastille. • BASTILLE n. (French) a tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place, also BASTILE. |
| BASTINADE | • bastinade n. A blow with a stick or cudgel. • bastinade n. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel, specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese… • bastinade v. To beat in this manner. |
| BASTINADO | • bastinado n. A blow with a cudgel or stick. • bastinado n. Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within… • bastinado v. (Transitive) To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon. |
| BASTIONED | • bastioned adj. Furnished with a bastion; having bastions. • bastioned v. Simple past tense and past participle of bastion. • BASTIONED adj. having a defence. |
| BOMBASTED | • bombasted v. Simple past tense and past participle of bombast. • BOMBAST v. to stuff or pad with cotton wool or the like. |
| BOMBASTER | • BOMBASTER n. one who speaks bombast. |
| BOMBASTIC | • bombastic adj. (Of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms;… • bombastic adj. High-sounding but with little meaning. • bombastic adj. (Archaic) Inflated, overfilled. |
| LAMBASTED | • lambasted v. Simple past tense and past participle of lambast. • lambasted v. Simple past tense and past participle of lambaste. • LAMBAST v. to beat severely, also LAMBASTE. |
| LAMBASTES | • lambastes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambaste. • LAMBASTE v. to beat severely, also LAMBAST. |
| SUBASTRAL | • subastral adj. Below the stars; earthly, terrestrial, mundane. • SUBASTRAL adj. beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. |