Dictionary
Found: 5,663 words.
Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.
Producing balsam.
The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.
Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam.
To stick together.
Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.
Alt. of Baltimore oriole
A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.
A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.
Having balusters.
A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
Bam
2 defs
An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Bambino
2 defs
A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.
Bamboo
2 defs
A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
of Bamboozle
A swindler; one who deceives by trickery.
of Bamboozle
Ban
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A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussi...
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
of Banality
Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
The territory governed by a ban.
Alt. of Bank
A bank, especially that of Venice.
Alt. of Bank
Band
20 defs
A belt or strap.
A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.
Bandage
3 defs
A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
of Bandage
of Bandage
A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).
Bandana
2 defs
A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
Alt. of Bandana
A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.
A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress.
of Bandeau
of Band
Alt. of Bandlet
One banded with others.
Alt. of Bandrol
Bandicoot
2 defs
A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
of Bandy
of Bandy
of Band
A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.
An outlaw; a brigand.
of Bandit