| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| bacchanalianism | noun | The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry. |
| bacteriological | adjective | Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies. |
| bacterioscopist | noun | One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations. |
| barbituric acid | A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea. | |
| batrachophagous | adjective | Feeding on frogs. |
| battering train | A train of artillery for siege operations. | |
| bell animalcule | An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds. | |
| biantheriferous | adjective | Having two anthers. |
| bibliographical | adjective | Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books. |
| bishop’s length | A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56. | |
| blessed thistle | See under Thistle. | |
| blindman’s buff | A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. | |
| blocking course | The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice. | |
| blue-eyed grass | a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color. | |
| bluestockingism | noun | The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. |
| boa constrictor | A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. | |
| borough-english | noun | A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. |
| boustrophedonic | adjective | Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing. |
| brachioganoidei | noun pl. | An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii. |
| brachycephalous | adjective | Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; — in distinction from dolichocephalic. |
| brachycephalism | noun | The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head. |
| brachystochrone | noun | A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid. |
| branchiostegous | adjective | Branchiostegal. |
| breakbone fever | See Dengue. | |
| bristle-pointed | adjective | Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves. |
| brothers-in-law | plural | of Brother-in-law |
| brunswick black | See Japan black. | |
| brunswick green | An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. | |
| bunsen’s burner | See under Battery, and Burner. | |
| burring machine | A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. | |
| butcher’s broom | A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll. | |
| butter-fingered | adjective | Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless. |