| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| blabbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Blab |
| blacking | present participle & vb. noun | of Black, Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves., The act or process of making black. |
| blackcap | noun | A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale., An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee., An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard., The black raspberry. |
| blackfin | noun | See Bluefin. |
| blackish | adjective | Somewhat black. |
| blackleg | noun | A notorious gambler., A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. |
| bladdery | adjective | Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder. |
| blamable | adjective | Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy. |
| blameful | adjective | Faulty; meriting blame., Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. |
| blancard | noun | A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven. |
| blanched | imp. & past participle | of Blanch |
| blancher | noun | One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose., One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside. |
| blandise | verb i. | To blandish any one. |
| blandish | verb t. | To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole., To make agreeable and enticing. |
| blanking | present participle & vb. noun | of Blank |
| blasting | present participle & vb. noun | of Blast, A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause., The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts. |
| blastema | noun | The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows. |
| blastide | noun | A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus. |
| blastoid | noun | One of the Blastoidea. |
| blastula | noun | That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm. |
| blastule | noun | Same as Blastula. |
| blatancy | noun | Blatant quality. |
| blazoned | imp. & past participle | of Blazon |
| blazoner | noun | One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. |
| blazonry | noun | Same as Blazon, 3., A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings., Artistic representation or display. |
| bleached | imp. & past participle | of Bleach, Whitened; make white. |
| bleacher | noun | One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching. |
| blearing | present participle & vb. noun | of Blear |
| bleareye | noun | A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. |
| bleating | present participle & vb. noun | of Bleat, Crying as a sheep does., The cry of, or as of, a sheep. |
| bleeding | present participle & vb. noun | of Bleed, Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion., A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant. |
| blenched | imp. & past participle | of Blench |
| blencher | noun | One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher., One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back. |
| blending | present participle & vb. noun | of Blend, The act of mingling., The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. |
| blendous | adjective | Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende. |
| blenniid | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies. |
| blennies | plural | of Blenny |
| blessing | present participle & vb. noun | of Bless, The act of one who blesses., A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces., A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift., A gift., Grateful praise or worship. |
| bletting | noun | A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. |
| blighted | imp. & past participle | of Blight |
| blimbing | noun | See Bilimbi, etc. |
| blinding | present participle & vb. noun | of Blind, Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow., A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4. |
| blindage | noun | A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework. |
| blinking | present participle & vb. noun | of Blink |
| blinkard | noun | One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes., That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. |
| blissful | adjective | Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. |
| blistery | adjective | Full of blisters. |
| blithely | adverb | In a blithe manner. |
| blizzard | noun | A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. |
| bloating | present participle & vb. noun | of Bloat |
| blocking | present participle & vb. noun | of Block, The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks., Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily. |
| blockade | verb t. | The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy., An obstruction to passage., To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n., Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress., To obstruct entrance to or egress from. |
| blockage | noun | The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up. |
| blockish | adjective | Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. |
| bloedite | noun | A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium. |
| bloncket | adjective | Alt. of Blonket |
| blooding | present participle & vb. noun | of Blood |
| bloodily | adverb | In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood. |
| bloodlet | verb t. | bleed; to let blood. |
| bloodulf | noun | The European bullfinch. |
| bloodwit | noun | A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled. |
| bloodied | imp. & past participle | of Bloody |
| blooming | present participle & vb. noun | of Bloom, The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron., Opening in blossoms; flowering., Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health. |
| bloomary | noun | See Bloomery. |
| bloomery | noun | A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron. |
| blossomy | adjective | Full of blossoms; flowery. |
| blotting | present participle & vb. noun | of Blot |
| blotched | adjective | Marked or covered with blotches. |
| blotless | adjective | Without blot. |
| blowball | noun | The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away. |
| blowhole | noun | A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity., A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean., A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe., An air hole in a casting. |
| blow-off | noun | A blowing off steam, water, etc.;, as, a blow-off cock or pipe., An outburst of temper or excitement. |
| blow-out | noun | The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam. |
| blowpipe | noun | A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object., A blowgun; a blowtube. |
| blowtube | noun | A blowgun., A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles., A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of “metal” (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; — called also blowing tube, and blowpipe. |
| blubbery | adjective | Swollen; protuberant., Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass. |
| bludgeon | noun | A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon. |
| blueback | noun | A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine., A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward., An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife. |
| bluebell | noun | A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell., A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans). |
| bluebill | noun | A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck. |
| bluebird | noun | A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin. |
| bluecoat | noun | One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc. |
| blue-eye | noun | The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia. |
| bluefish | noun | A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack., A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae. |
| bluegown | noun | One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king’s birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman. |
| blue jay | The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue. | |
| blueness | noun | The quality of being blue; a blue color. |
| bluenose | noun | A nickname for a Nova Scotian. |
| bluepoll | noun | A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales. |
| bluewing | noun | The blue-winged teal. See Teal. |
| bluffing | present participle & vb. noun | of Bluff |
| blunging | noun | The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. |
| blunting | present participle & vb. noun | of Blunt |
| bluntish | adjective | Somewhat blunt. |
| blurring | present participle & vb. noun | of Blur |
| blurting | present participle & vb. noun | of Blurt |
| blushing | present participle & vb. noun | of Blush, Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate., The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks. |
| blushful | adjective | Full of blushes. |