| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| baccarat | noun | A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters. |
| baccated | adjective | Having many berries., Set or adorned with pearls. |
| bacchant | noun | A priest of Bacchus., A bacchanal; a reveler., Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. |
| bacchius | noun | A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short. |
| bachelor | noun | A man of any age who has not been married., An unmarried woman., A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts., A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight., In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member., A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States. |
| bachelry | noun | The body of young aspirants for knighthood. |
| bacillar | adjective | Shaped like a rod or staff. |
| bacillus | noun | A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism. |
| backband | noun | The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage. |
| backbite | verb i. | To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent)., To censure or revile the absent. |
| backbond | noun | An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust. |
| backbone | noun | The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column., Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone., Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness. |
| backcast | noun | Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. |
| backdoor | adjective | Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues. |
| backdown | noun | A receding or giving up; a complete surrender. |
| backfall | noun | A fall or throw on the back in wrestling. |
| backhand | noun | A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right., Sloping from left to right; — said of handwriting., Backhanded; indirect; oblique. |
| backlash | noun | The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion. |
| backless | adjective | Without a back. |
| backrack | noun | Alt. of Backrag |
| backside | noun | The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal. |
| backslid | imp. | of Backslide, of Backslide |
| backstay | noun | A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast., A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion. |
| backster | noun | A backer. |
| backward | adverb | Alt. of Backwards, Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances., Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath., Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child., Late or behindhand; as, a backward season., Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state., Already past or gone; bygone., The state behind or past., To keep back; to hinder. |
| backwash | verb i. | To clean the oil from (wood) after combing. |
| backworm | noun | A disease of hawks. See Filanders. |
| baconian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. |
| bacteria | nounp. | See Bacterium., of Bacterium |
| bactrian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia., A native of Bactria. |
| baculine | adjective | Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod. |
| baculite | noun | A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite. |