Nouns
Words that name people, places, things, or ideas
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boule
noun
an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and...
boulevardier
noun
a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris)
boulle
noun
an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and...
boundedness
noun
the quality of being finite
boundlessness
noun
the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit
bounteousness
noun
generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely
bountifulness
noun
the property of copious abundance
bourtree
noun
a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe an...
boucle
noun
a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect
bougainville
noun
French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by...
bougainvillaea
noun
ornamental tropical woody vines
boustrophedon
noun
an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in...
bowdlerism
noun
censorship in the form of prudish expurgation
bowdlerization
noun
written material that has been bowdlerized
bowlder
noun
a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origi...
bowditch
noun
United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his wor...
bowknot
noun
a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
bowerbird
noun
any of various birds of the Australian region whose males bu...
bowfin
noun
primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a ver...
bowleg
noun
a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee)
bowsprit
noun
a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel
boxfish
noun
any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head e...
boxberry
noun
spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
boxwood
noun
very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (...
boxthorn
noun
any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with show...
boyishness
noun
being characteristic of a boy
bodoni
noun
Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813)
bodensee
noun
a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the S...
bogy
noun
an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
bohemianism
noun
conduct characteristic of a bohemian
bohme
noun
German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy;...
boliviano
noun
the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos
bolide
noun
an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)
bolometer
noun
an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensit...
bolograph
noun
record or recording made by a bolometer
boloney
noun
pretentious or silly talk or writing
borate
noun
a salt or ester of boric acid
bootes
noun
a constellation in the northern hemisphere near Ursa Major
boreas
noun
a wind that blows from the north
borosilicate
noun
a salt of boric and silicic acids
borodino
noun
Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle a...
bpi
noun
a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage...
brachydactylia
noun
abnormal shortness of fingers and toes
brachyuran
noun
typical crabs
brachycephaly
noun
the quality of being brachycephalic
brachydactyly
noun
abnormal shortness of fingers and toes
brackishness
noun
the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water
bract
noun
a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting a...
bractlet
noun
a small bract
bracteole
noun
a small bract