| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| broached | imp. & past participle | of Broach |
| broacher | noun | A spit; a broach., One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. |
| broadish | adjective | Rather broad; moderately broad. |
| brocaded | adjective | Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc., Dressed in brocade. |
| brocatel | noun | A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc., A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality. |
| broccoli | noun | A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The “curd,” or flowering head, is the part used for food. |
| brochure | verb t. | A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet. |
| brockish | adjective | Beastly; brutal. |
| brodekin | noun | A buskin or half-boot. |
| broidery | noun | Embroidery. |
| broiling | present participle & vb. noun | of Broil, Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun., The act of causing anything to broil. |
| brokenly | adverb | In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. |
| brokerly | adjective | Mean; servile. |
| bromlife | noun | A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; — called also alstonite. |
| bromuret | noun | See Bromide. |
| bronchia | noun pl. | The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. |
| bronchic | adjective | Bronchial. |
| bronchus | noun | One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions. |
| bronzing | present participle & vb. noun | of Bronze, The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes., A material for bronzing. |
| bronzine | noun | A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze., Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike. |
| bronzist | noun | One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes. |
| bronzite | noun | A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family. |
| brooding | present participle & vb. noun | of Brood |
| brooking | present participle & vb. noun | of Brook |
| brookite | noun | A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. |
| brooklet | noun | A small brook. |
| brothers | plural | of Brother, of Brother |
| brougham | noun | A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short. |
| browbeat | imp. | of Browbeat, To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. |
| browdyng | noun | Embroidery. |
| browless | adjective | Without shame. |
| browning | present participle & vb. noun | of Brown, The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc., A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster. |
| brownian | adjective | Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. |
| brownish | adjective | Somewhat brown. |
| brownism | noun | The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists., The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian. |
| brownist | noun | A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers., One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine. |
| browpost | noun | A beam that goes across a building. |
| browsing | present participle & vb. noun | of Browse, Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. |
| browspot | noun | A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland. |