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- BARMYContaining, covered with, or pertaining to barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread”).
- BARNA building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- BARNACLEA marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
- BARNACLEDCrusted with barnacles.
- BARNEThair (on one's head)
- BARNEYA lark, a romp, some fun.
- BARNLIKEResembling a barn
- BARNYAlternative form of barney (“argument or fight”).
- BAROGNOSISThe ability to evaluate the weight of objects, or to differentiate objects of different weights by holding or lifting them.
- BAROMETERAn instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
- BAROMETRICOf or pertaining to atmospheric pressure.
- BAROMETRYThe art or process of making barometrical measurements.
- BAROMETZA purported zoophyte, half-animal and half-plant, said to grow in the form of a sheep.
- BARONThe male ruler of a barony.
- BARONAGEbarons or nobles collectively
- BARONESSThe wife of a baron.
- BARONETAGEBaronets collectively.
- BARONETCYThe rank of a baronet.
- BARONYThe domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire. Synonym of hundred, an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides
- BAROPHILEAn organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- BAROPHILICOf or relating to a barophile.
- BAROQUEOrnate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- BAROQUELYIn a baroque style.
- BAROSCOPEbarometer
- BAROUCHEA four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
- BARQUEA sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
- BARRIOA municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
- BARROWA mountain.
- BARROWFULThe amount that can fit in a barrow
- BARTENDTo tend a bar; to act as a barman.
- BARTISANA parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
- BARTONA farmyard.
- BARWOODRed wood of a leguminous African tree, Baphia nitida, used as a dyewood and for various other purposes such as ramrods, violin bows and handles for woodturning tools.
- BARYEA unit of pressure under the CGS system; symbol Ba; equal to 1 dyne per square centimeter. 1 Ba = 0.1 Pa = 0.1 N/m2 = 1x10 bar.
- BARYONA heavy subatomic particle created by the binding of quarks by gluons; a hadron containing three quarks. Baryons have half-odd integral spin and are thus fermions. This category in
- BARYONICOf, pertaining to, or composed of baryons.
- BARYTAAny of several compounds of barium, especially barium sulphate and barium hydroxide.
- BARYTEAlternative form of barite.
- BARYTESBarite.
- BARYTICOf or pertaining to baryta
- BARYTONA viol-like stringed instrument (chordophone) mainly played with a bow but with a set of plucked strings as well, originating in European music prior to the 1800s.
- BARYTONENot having an accent on the last syllable.
- BASALBasic, elementary; relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.
- BASALTA hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
- BASALTICOf or pertaining to basalt.
- BASALTINEConsisting of, or resembling, basalt.
- BASANITEA basaltic extrusive rock, similar to chert.
- BASCINETA light helmet, typically with a high, pointed skull, either open-faced (in early models) or made with a visor (later models).
- BASCULEA counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers.
- BASESomething from which other things extend; a foundation. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- BASEBALLA sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bas
- BASEDFounded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.
- BASELARDA type of heavy dagger popular in the 14th and 15th centuries.
- BASELINEA line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
- BASELINERA player who plays from the baseline, seldom moving to the net.
- BASELYIn a base manner.
- BASEMENTA floor of a building below ground level. Ellipsis of semi-basement, a floor mostly below grade
- BASENTo make or become base ; to lower
- BASEPLATEA solid piece of material that has enough strength and sturdiness to serve as the surface to which other things are attached to be supported. The foundation of a skateboard that mo
- BASHTo strike heavily; to beat.
- BASHAWA pasha.
- BASHEROne who bashes something, figuratively or literally. Before the days of pneumatic rivet guns, the member of a riveting team who hammered the rivet to upset the bucktail to form the
- BASHFULShy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.
- BASHFULLYIn a bashful manner.
- BASHLYKA protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.
- BASHMENTA party or rave.
- BASHOA sumo tournament of any kind.
- BASICNecessary, essential for life or some process.
- BASICALLYIn a fundamental, essential or basic manner.
- BASICITYThe condition of being basic.
- BASIDIOCARPA mushroom which contains basidia.
- BASIDIOMYCETOUSRelating to the basidiomycetes.
- BASIDIUMA small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.
- BASIFIXEDOf anthers: attached to the filament at the base and pointing away from the filament.
- BASIFUGALTending or proceeding away from the base.
- BASIFYTo make more basic (less acidic).
- BASILA plant (Ocimum basilicum).
- BASILAROf, pertaining to, or located at a base, but especially at the base of the skull or an organ of Corti.
- BASILARYAlternative form of basilar.
- BASILECTA variety of a language that differs substantially from the standard form, and is only considered suitable for very informal contexts by speakers.
- BASILICA basilica.
- BASILICAA Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
- BASILICANOf, relating to, or resembling a basilica; basilical.
- BASILICONAny of various ointments believed to have “sovereign” virtues.
- BASINA wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- BASINALof or relating to a basin
- BASINEDEnclosed in a basin.
- BASINFULAs much as a basin will hold.
- BASINLIKEResembling or characteristic of a basin.
- BASIONThe middle of the anterior margin of the foramen magnum of the skull.
- BASIPETALLYIn a basipetal manner.
- BASKTo bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
- BASKETA lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- BASKETBALLA sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
- BASKETFULThe amount that will fit into a basket
- BASKETRYThe process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.
- BASMATIA variety of long-grain rice, notable for its fragrance.
- BASOCHEA guild of legal clerks in pre-revolutionary France.
- BASOPHILAny cell that has granules stained by basic stains. A white blood cell responsible for inflammatory reactions during immune response. One of the endocrine basophilic cells of the a
- BASOPHILIAThe condition of being basophilic (“easily stained with basic [high-pH] dyes”).