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- BIGOTEDHaving the characteristics of a bigot; strongly prejudiced; forming negative opinions about others without just cause.
- BIGOTEDLYIn a bigoted manner.
- BIGOTRYThe condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
- BIGTIMEOf major significance or importance.
- BIGUANIDEThe compound imidodicarbonimidic diamide derived from guanidine
- BIHOURLYOccurring once every two hours.
- BIJECTIONA one-to-one correspondence, a function which is both a surjection and an injection.
- BIJOUA jewel.
- BIJOUTERIESmall articles of jewellery, trinkets, etc.
- BIJUGATEOf a compound leaf, having two pairs of leaflets
- BIJUGOUSbijugate
- BIJWONERA member of a class of poor white people who were permitted to inhabit shanties on the property of well-to-do Boers in return for semifeudal payments.
- BIKEClipping of bicycle.
- BIKERA person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.
- BIKEWAYA bicycle lane or path.
- BIKIEA motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker.
- BIKINGSClipping of bicycle.
- BILANDERA small two-masted merchant vessel, used near the coast or in canals, mostly in the Netherlands.
- BILATERALHaving two sides.
- BILAYERAny structure consisting of two layers of molecules
- BILBOA device for punishment. See bilboes.
- BILBOESAn iron bar placed around the ankles of prisoners, and having sliding shackles.
- BILBYAn Australian desert marsupial of the only extant species Macrotis lagotis with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
- BILEA bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
- BILESTONEA gallstone, or biliary calculus.
- BILGEThe rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
- BILGEWATERWater which collects in the bilges of a ship.
- BILGYContaining, or resembling, bilge.
- BILHARZIAThe parasitic disease schistosomiasis.
- BILIARYOf or pertaining to bile or the bile duct
- BILINEARLinear (preserving linear combinations) in each variable.
- BILIOUSOf or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
- BILIOUSLYIn a bilious way.
- BILKThe spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
- BILKERA cheat, especially one who evades payment.
- BILLA written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- BILLBOOKA wallet; a pocketbook.
- BILLERAn issuer of a bill.
- BILLETA short informal letter.
- BILLFISHAny of several fish, of the families Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae, that have an elongated jaw.
- BILLHOOKA medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill.
- BILLIONTHThe ordinal form of the number one billion.
- BILLONAny of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.
- BILLOWA large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.
- BILLOWYSwelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
- BILLYA fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
- BILOBARHaving or involving two lobes, such as two lobes of the liver or two lobes of a lung.
- BILOBATEHaving two lobes
- BILOBEDHaving two lobes.
- BILOBULARInvolving or relating to two lobules.
- BILOCATIONThe ability to be, or fact of being, in two places at once.
- BILOCULARHaving two locules or loculi (chambers, cells, or compartments).
- BILTONGA South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky.
- BIMAThe raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.
- BIMANOUSHaving two hands (rather than any other distal part of a forelimb).
- BIMANUALInvolving or using both hands
- BIMBOA physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
- BIMETALConsisting of two metals.
- BIMETHYLSynonym of dimethyl.
- BIMETHYLSSynonym of dimethyl.
- BIMODALHaving two modes or forms.
- BIMODALITYA bimodal condition
- BIMOLECULARinvolving two molecules
- BIMONTHLYOccurring once every two months
- BIMORPHA cantilever that consists of two active layers: piezoelectric and metal.
- BINALtwofold; double
- BINARISMA pair of opposites; a specific binary.
- BINARYBeing in one of two mutually exclusive states.
- BINATEDouble; growing in pairs or couples.
- BINAURALOf, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with two ears.
- BINAURALLYIn a binaural fashion; using or pertaining to both ears.
- BINDTo tie; to confine by any ligature.
- BINDERSomeone who binds. Someone who binds books; a bookbinder.
- BINDERYA workshop or factory where books are bound.
- BINDIThe “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of Hindu women.
- BINDLEA length of cord, rope, twine, etc, used to bind something.
- BINEA twining vine which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support. As distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers.
- BINERabbreviation of carabiner
- BINGSolitary confinement.
- BINGEA short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
- BINGERSomeone who binges.
- BINGLEA minor collision, especially between motor vehicles.
- BINGOA game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" a
- BINGOESA game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" a
- BINGYOf milk or butter: ropy; having gone bad or soured.
- BINIOUA set of traditional Breton bagpipes.
- BINKA bench.
- BINOCLEA kind of double-barrelled field glass or opera glass.
- BINOCSbinoculars
- BINOCULARUsing two eyes or viewpoints; especially, using two eyes or viewpoints to ascertain distance.
- BINOCULARITYBinocular vision.
- BINOCULARSA hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.
- BINOMIALConsisting of two terms, or parts.
- BINTA woman, a girl.
- BINUCLEATEDbinucleate
- BIOACTIVEBiologically active; having a biological effect.
- BIOAERATIONA form of the activated sludge process in which air is blown through the raw sewage.
- BIOCHEMISTA chemist whose speciality is biochemistry
- BIOCHEMISTRYThe chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism; the study of such chemistry.
- BIOCHIPA microchip made from biological macromolecules (especially DNA) rather than a semiconductor.