Over 800 adjectives in English begin with the letter B. We have compiled a list of words, together with definitions and example sentences, to help you learn new adjectives and expand your vocabulary. Enjoy!
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- Adjectives That Start with BA (139 Words)
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Adjectives That Start with BA (139 Words)
babelike | Like a baby especially in dependence. |
baboonish | Resembling a baboon. |
babylonian | Of or relating to the city of babylon or its people or culture. History of the babylonian captivity. |
baccate | Producing or bearing berries. |
bacchanal | Used of riotously drunken merrymaking. Steer roast is an annual bacchanal hosted by senior house. |
bacchanalian | Used of riotously drunken merrymaking. The bacchanalian man was not the one who committed the crime. |
bacchantic | Of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler. |
bacchic | Used of riotously drunken merrymaking. Dionysus then lured pentheus out to spy on the bacchic rites. |
bacciferous | Producing or bearing berries. |
baccivorous | Feeding on berries. |
bacillar | Relating to or produced by or containing bacilli. |
bacillary | Relating to or produced by or containing bacilli. Coccoid forms predominate in infected tissue and bacillary forms in culture. |
bacilliform | Formed like a bacillus. Conidia, if present, are short and bacilliform. |
back | Related to or located at the back. Someone tapped my shoulder behind my back. |
backbreaking | Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. They lived in constant and backbreaking poverty. |
backed | Located at or near the back of an animal. The cleaned ice slabs are dropped back in the channel behind the vessel. |
backhand | Having the letters slanting backward. Davydenko makes light of an insouciant flicked backhand from federer. |
backhanded | Made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke. It’s a backhanded apology designed to be funny. |
backless | Lacking a back. There are backless metal benches to sit on in this lobby. |
backmost | Located farthest to the rear. This section is located on the backmost page. |
backstage | Concealed from public view or attention. The music video of the song shows a concert of scooter and backstage material. |
backstair | Secret and sly or sordid- a.l.guerard. |
backstairs | Secret and sly or sordid- a.l.guerard. In practice backstairs intrigue was often brought to bear on the appointments. |
backswept | Used of hair. |
backward | Having made less than normal progress. The serpentine dipped backward, toward the firer, to ignite the priming. |
bacteremic | Of or relating to or having bacteremia. |
bactericidal | Preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms. General discussion bactericidal action. |
bacterioid | Resembling bacteria. |
bacterioidal | Resembling bacteria. |
bacteriologic | Of or relating to bacteriology. |
bacteriological | Of or relating to bacteriology. The ragossians have invaded the earth with a dastardly bacteriological weapon |
bacteriolytic | Of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis. |
bacteriophagic | Of or relating to bacteriophages. |
bacteriophagous | Of or relating to bacteriophages. |
bacteriostatic | Of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis. It has a strong bacteriostatic action against staphylococci and e. coli. |
bacteroid | Resembling bacteria. Here plant cells and their bacteroid contents are being degraded. |
bacteroidal | Resembling bacteria. |
baculiform | Formed like a bacillus. |
bad | Capable of harming. Edward frequently obtained bad marks due to quarrelsome and bad conduct. |
baggy | Not fitting closely; hanging loosely. I don’t feel the baldness and baggy shorts meets the cutoff. |
bahai | Of or relating to bahaism. Bahai has no relevence to this article. |
bahamian | Of or relating to or characteristic of the bahama islands or their inhabitants. Filled out the bahamian impact some. |
bahraini | Of or relating to or characteristic of bahrain or its people or language. Line of succession to the bahraini throne. |
bailable | Eligible for bail. Offences under the act are arrestable and non bailable. |
baked | Cooked by dry heat (as in an oven). The coated meat is then baked in the oven. |
balanced | Being in a state of proper equilibrium. The composition is balanced by the flowers in bloom. |
balconied | Having balconies or a balcony. The rotunda form provides balconied meeting and study spaces. |
bald | With no effort to conceal. Gelman played the bald bespectacled vinnie. |
balding | Getting bald. The reporter, a paunchy, balding man, scribbled furiously in his notebook. |
baleful | Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. Such are the confusions of subjectivism, a baleful but popular epistemology. |
balky | Stopping short and refusing to go on. It’s common knowledge that mattingly’s balky back caused his early retirement. |
ballistic | Relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity. The iskander ballistic missile is superior to its predecessor, the oka. |
bally | Informal intensifiers. Bally is well connected by road and rail. |
balmy | Mild and pleasant. The city enjoys a weather that remains balmy all year round. |
baltic | Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the baltic states or their peoples or languages. It was the first school in the baltic states to offer the ibo diploma programme. |
balzacian | Of or relating to honore de balzac or his writings. |
banal | Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Etiquette in the office seems rather banal to me. |
banausic | Ordinary and not refined. |
bandy | Have legs that curve outward at the knees. Bandy skates are used for playing the games of bandy and rink bandy. |
baneful | Deadly or sinister. The baneful man did not commit the horrid crime. |
bangladeshi | Of or relating to or characteristic of bangladesh or its people or language. A major figure in bangladeshi politics. |
bankable | Acceptable to or at a bank. James ulmer’s list of bankable stars is the a list. |
bankrupt | Financially ruined. After the dissolution of the ussr in 1991 rmif went bankrupt. |
banned | Forbidden by law. They banned the use of firearms. |
banner | Unusually good; outstanding. Tower one was chosen as the location to hang the banner. |
bantam | Very small. After that, the bantam main stage ignited. |
bantering | Cleverly amusing in tone. I’ve never been against bantering with my fellow wikipedians. |
bantoid | Relating to or designating languages that possess characteristics of bantu. |
bantu | Of or relating to the african people who speak one of the bantoid languages or to their culture. The bakweri are bantu in language and origin. |
baptised | Having undergone the christian ritual of baptism. A son was baptised with her as a father. |
baptismal | Of or relating to baptism. The old altar was replaced by the baptismal font. |
baptistic | Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the baptist church. Corban is theologically conservative and baptistic in thought. |
baptized | Having undergone the christian ritual of baptism. He preached to and baptized many. |
barbadian | Of or relating to or characteristic of barbados or its inhabitants. No one doubts the importance of the war to barbadian history. |
barbarian | Without civilizing influences-margaret meade. Some of the people included jordan the barbarian and his wife threnody. |
barbaric | Unrestrained and crudely rich. It is the mutilation that is said to be barbaric. |
barbarous | Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. Here also the barbarous words are ranged into a dictionary by themselves. |
barbate | Having hair on the cheeks and chin. The fishing port of barbate is on the edge of the park. |
barbellate | Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. The bristles of the pappus are scabrous, barbellate, or plumose. |
bare | Providing no shelter or sustenance. It regards the lifetime of the bare proton. |
bareback | Riding without a saddle. There is also bareback bronc riding in the sport of rodeo. |
barebacked | Riding without a saddle. |
bared | Providing no shelter or sustenance. Bare in mind my hectic and unsociable working pattern. |
barefaced | With no effort to conceal. So quite clearly, the user in question told a barefaced lie. |
barefoot | Without shoes. He was the son of king magnus barefoot. |
barefooted | Without shoes. He was led to the gallows barefoot and naked. |
barehanded | With bare hands. Though they are skilled with weapons, they are also formidable barehanded. |
bareheaded | Having the head uncovered. British troops never salute when bareheaded or out of uniform. |
barelegged | Having the legs uncovered by clothing. |
baric | Of or relating to or containing barium. Here are a couple of links to a phenomena called kineto baric effects. |
baritone | Lower in range than tenor and higher than bass. Appearing with him in the work was the brilliant baritone mattia battistini. |
barmy | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. A frightening prospect, though bad is good in my barmy mindset. |
barometric | Relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer. The lowest barometric pressure of 996.6 mb occurred at sea rim state park. |
baronial | Impressive in appearance. Fitzwalter was implicated in the baronial conspiracy of 1212. |
baroque | Of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in europe between 1600 and 1750. It was done in the baroque style of the markgraves. |
barred | Marked with stripes or bands. The barred tiger salamander is the state amphibian of kansas. |
barren | Providing no shelter or sustenance. A wide barren swath was torn through the forest. |
barytic | Of or relating to or containing baryta. |
basal | Especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem. The ovary is inferior and has only one ovule, with basal placentation. |
base | Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality- edmund burke- shakespeare. A triangulate plate is attached to the bottom of the base. |
baseborn | Illegitimate. |
based | Having a base of operations (often used as a combining form). Community based services providing gainful employment. |
baseless | Without a basis in reason or fact. The list is fraud with baseless assumptions and guesswork. |
bashful | Disposed to avoid notice; (`blate’ is a scottish term for bashful). Hearing that he is staying a bashful abby can’t help but smile. |
basic | Serving as a base or starting point. Calorie is the basic unit of measurement. |
basidial | Relating to or characterized by basidia. |
basidiomycetous | Pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class basidiomycetes. It is a red basidiomycetous isolated from wood pulp from conifers. |
basidiosporous | Of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia. |
basifixed | Attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks). The ovate elliptic leaves are basifixed and held closely against the stems. |
basilar | Of or relating to or located at the base. Brayton was killed instantly of basilar skull fracture. |
basilary | Of or relating to or located at the base. |
basilican | Of or relating to or resembling a basilica. A raised dais called a’ bema’ formed part of many large basilican churches. |
basined | Enclosed in a basin. |
basipetal | Of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base. Usually the terminal flower matures first with subsequent basipetal maturation. |
basiscopic | Facing or on the side toward the base. |
basophilic | Staining readily with basic dyes. The other information on the redirect page can be incorporated into basophilic. |
bass | Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range. The album features bass guitar with only the accompaniment of vocals. |
bastard | Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance. The incubus sebastian is the bastard child of a succubus and the wizard koltak. |
bastardised | Deriving from more than one source or style. That really is a bastardised category. |
bastardized | Deriving from more than one source or style. Or, at least, a bastardized plagiarization at that. |
bastardly | Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance. Surely the daft bastard has not finally learnt to spell the word |
bated | Diminished or moderated. I won’t wait with bated breath though. |
bathetic | Effusively or insincerely emotional. That last three word phrase is leaden and bathetic. |
batholithic | Of or relating to a batholith. |
batholitic | Of or relating to a batholith. |
bathyal | Relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (corresponds to the continental slope). These snails occur from shallow waters to bathyal depths. |
bathymetric | Of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes. Bathymetric charts can also be converted to bathymetric profiles. |
bathymetrical | Of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes. |
batrachian | Relating to frogs and toads. The term batrachite is also used for a fossil batrachian. |
battered | Damaged especially by hard usage. The clothes are old and battered. |
battleful | Having or showing a ready disposition to fight. |
battlemented | Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement. The summit of the tower is battlemented. |
batty | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. Okay, this is officially driving me batty. |
batwing | Formed or shaped like a bat’s wing. There are batwing sails, but those don’t look like the bow ties. |
bauxitic | Resembling or containing bauxite. The process has particular application to non bauxitic ores. |
bavarian | Of or relating to or characteristic of bavaria or its people. The bavarian forest is getting attention steeply. |
bawdy | Humorously vulgar. The performance was considered to be very bawdy. |
bay | Of a moderate reddish-brown color. Already at these times both the sea and the bay sides were gravely polluted. |
bayesian | Of or relating to statistical methods based on bayes’ theorem. Bayesian statistics and probability logic. |
Adjectives That Start with BE (100 Words)
beaded | Covered with beads of liquid. The covering on the wall and ceiling is the original beaded pine. |
beadlike | Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button. |
beaming | Radiating or as if radiating light. What reasons exist to believe in an efficiency improvement in power beaming |
bearable | Capable of being borne though unpleasant. His progresses in a leisurely languor with ample abandonment are not bearable. |
beardless | Having no beard. Sometimes one figure is beardless, while the other two are bearded. |
beardown | With full strength. |
bearing | Withstanding a weight or strain. The horizontal direction of the display is bearing. |
bearish | Expecting prices to fall. Profunds also issues inverse performance for a bearish strategy on the index. |
beastly | Very unpleasant. It’s just a fact of life that people can be beastly. |
beat | Very tired. The partridge sleeps in the clover hearing its heart beat. |
beatable | Very tired. Auscultation of the chest can reveal displaced heart beat and valve prolapse. |
beaten | Very tired. They beat the giants in overtime. |
beatific | Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint. According to aquinas, the beatific vision surpasses both faith and reason. |
beautiful | Highly enjoyable. A beautiful and voluptuous woman who enjoys the high life of the elite. |
becalmed | Rendered motionless for lack of wind. He did not intend to enter but was becalmed and captured by the spanish. |
becoming | Displaying or setting off to best advantage. Is the internet becoming as antiseptic as television |
bedaubed | Ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion. |
bedewed | Wet with dew. |
bedfast | Confined to bed (by illness). He related that he was not expected to live and became bedfast at age 16. |
bedimmed | Made dim or indistinct. |
bedless | Without a bed. |
bedraggled | Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud. Then, a soaking and bedraggled alice emerges from the well. |
bedrid | Confined to bed (by illness). |
bedridden | Confined to bed (by illness). He is soon bedridden and in constant pain. |
beechen | Consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree. I listened the wind shook the green beechen trees, |
beethovenian | Of or relating to ludwig van beethoven or his music. Brahms yet again follows the beethovenian tradition of the expanded form. |
beetle | Jutting or overhanging. The dung beetle continues even after loosing the dung ball. |
beetling | Jutting or overhanging. |
befitting | Appropriate to. It is not befitting for the most gracious to beget a son. |
befogged | Stupefied by alcoholic drink. This is clearly contradictory to anyone not befogged with partiality. |
beforehand | Being ahead of time or need. They should have fixed the divagation beforehand. |
befouled | Made dirty or foul. On this befouled background visions began to flow and burn. |
beggarly | So small in amount as to deserve contempt. Beggarly always used number 82 on his cars. |
beginning | Serving to begin. The new year ritual reenacts the mythical beginning of the cosmos. |
begrimed | Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot. |
behavioral | Of or relating to behavior. Extraverts and introverts have a variety of behavioral differences. |
behaviorist | Of or relating to behaviorism. An abnormal behaviorist for paranormal people yeah. |
behavioristic | Of or relating to behaviorism. Her thinking shifted from behavioristic to cognitive during this time. |
behaviourist | Of or relating to behaviorism. Again, a behaviourist is not a dog trainer nor a whisperer. |
behaviouristic | Of or relating to behaviorism. That is a behaviouristic, a morally neutral meaning of the term. |
behind | Having the lower score or lagging position in a contest. Someone tapped my shoulder behind my back. |
behindhand | Behind schedule. Idea of czechoslovakism was injected behindhand and by very controversial way. |
beholden | Under a moral obligation to someone. When the man agreed, wiley found himself beholden to a violent criminal. |
beige | Of a light greyish-brown color. The drive is available in beige or black. |
belarusian | Of or pertaining to belarus or to the people or culture of belarus. The state owned company is the belarusian flag carrier. |
belated | After the expected or usual time; delayed. He sent me a belated birthday card. |
belemnitic | Of or relating to belemnites. |
belgian | Of or relating to or characteristic of belgium or the belgian people. Feelings of economic inequity were another cause of the belgian uprising. |
believable | Capable of being believed. The whole story just isn’t believable in the face of these facts. |
bellbottom | Having legs that flare at the bottom. |
belletristic | Written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content. Quotation dash is also used and is predominant in belletristic literature. |
bellicose | Having or showing a ready disposition to fight. They were a nomadic, bellicose people, fighting primarily as cavalry. |
belligerent | Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight. The enemy is belligerent and hostile. |
bellyless | Lacking a prominent belly. |
beloved | Dearly loved. By the way, there’s our beloved sloven again. |
belowground | Under the level of the ground. Belowground components of npp are difficult to measure. |
beltlike | Resembling a belt around something. |
bemused | Deeply absorbed in thought. The housekeepers were bemused by all the wires. |
bended | Used of the back and knees; stooped. Bended sounds awkward and childish in my opinion. |
benedictine | Of or relating to saint benedict or his works. The school works under the auspice of the benedictine monasterio de tibati. |
benedictive | Expressing benediction. Pbuh is a benedictive pious addition. |
benefic | Exerting a favorable or beneficent influence. Brihaspati is considered to be the greatest benefic of any of the planets. |
beneficed | Having a benefice. A staunch royalist, he was ordained in 1673 and became a beneficed clergyman. |
beneficent | Generous in assistance to the poor. While the motives were beneficent, the effects were maleficent. |
beneficial | Promoting or enhancing well-being. Saving remittances and investing money is beneficial for development. |
beneficiary | Having or arising from a benefice. A ‘donee beneficiary’ can sue the promisor directly to enforce the promise. |
benevolent | Generous in providing aid to others. Firstly, manumission may present itself as a sentimental and benevolent gesture. |
bengali | Of or relating to or characteristic of bengal or its people. The maidan in the bengali psyche. |
benighted | Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture. This benighted project would do well to learn from them. |
benign | Not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor). Benign tumors in the lung include hamartomas and chondromas. |
benignant | Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence. Her countenance was keen and nervous, but benignant. |
beninese | Of or relating to or characteristic of benin or its people. He later switched to beninese citizenship the same year. |
bent | Used of the back and knees; stooped. Soon, he bent a leonine face toward a girl. |
benthal | Of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water. In the getaway the cockneys are refered to as the benthal green mob. |
benthic | Of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water. Some are benthic, but most are pelagic. |
benthonic | Of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water. Microfauna include benthonic and fewer planktonic foraminifera. |
bentonitic | Of or relating to or containing bentonite. All the above seem to have been bentonitic clays. |
benumbed | Lacking sensation. |
benzenoid | Similar to benzene in structure or linkage. |
benzoic | Containing or derived from benzoic acid or benzoin. It is formed by the condensation of methanol and benzoic acid. |
benzylic | Relating to benzyl. Benzylic oxidation has been noted in a number of cases. |
bereaved | Sorrowful through loss or deprivation. This district is often bereaved by natural calamities. |
bereft | Sorrowful through loss or deprivation. A chaste knight at the end of a weary road, bereft of strength or certitude. |
bermudan | Of or relating to or characteristic of bermuda or its inhabitants. Most exotic interest rate options are of bermudan style. |
berrylike | Resembling a berry. Fruit a capsule, fleshy or dry, dehiscent or indehiscent, sometimes berrylike. |
berserk | Frenzied as if possessed by a demon. He got lost in the power and went berserk. |
besotted | Very drunk. With time the young huntsmen became quite besotted, and then indiscreet. |
bespectacled | Wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass. In human form, he is a mild mannered, bespectacled man with blond hair. |
besprent | Sprinkled over. |
best | Wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable. As an ichthyologist and an editor, i try my best to make some articles better. |
bestial | Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility. It is also much more savage and bestial. |
bestubbled | Having a short growth of beard. |
beta | Preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product. To be picky, the label is alpha, not beta. |
better | Changed for the better in health or fitness. The better the practice of religious theory, the better the harmony in society. |
bettering | Superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another. The better the practice of religious theory, the better the harmony in society. |
betulaceous | Of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family. |
bewhiskered | Having hair on the cheeks and chin. He has large, baby like eyes, a small bewhiskered nose, and a perpetual smile. |
bewildered | Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment. The perplexed and bewildered priest winked his eyes. |
bewitched | Under a spell. It is not wrong to say the victim is bewitched. |
bewitching | Capturing interest as if by a spell. Not in the classical sense maybe, but her eyes are fascinating and bewitching. |
Adjective That Starts with BH (1 Word)
bhutanese | Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Bhutan or its people or culture or language. It is the staple rice of the Bhutanese people. |
Adjectives That Start with BI (177 Words)
biannual | Occurring or payable twice each year. The article says that the group has biannual meetings. |
bias | Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric. They acknowledge the bias of the term and present arguments for the bias. |
biased | Favoring one person or side over another. The article is biased from the beginning. |
biaural | Relating to or having or hearing with two ears. |
biauricular | Relating to the two auditory openings. |
biaxal | Having two axes. |
biaxate | Having two axes. |
biaxial | Having two axes. A crystal which has only two optic axes is called biaxial crystal and so on. |
bibbed | Having a bib. They had stiff white collars and cuffs and a white bibbed apron. |
bibless | Lacking a bib. |
biblical | Of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the bible. The biblical cadence of these words resonates in memory. |
bibliolatrous | Given to bible-worship. |
bibliomaniacal | Characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania. |
bibliophilic | Of or relating to bibliophiles. Only few examples, that turned a bibliophilic rarity, are known. |
bibliopolic | Of or relating to bibliopoles. |
bibliothecal | Of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian. |
bibliothecarial | Of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian. |
bibliotic | Of or relating to bibliotics. |
bibulous | Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol. People did not regard the bibulous man as the blabber mouth. |
bicameral | Composed of two legislative bodies. The parliament was bicameral, consisting of a house of commons and a senate. |
bicapsular | Divided into two capsules or having a two-part capsule. |
bicentenary | Of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years. The college celebrated it’s bicentenary in 1993. |
bicentennial | Of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years. Eade represented the vfa in the 1988 adelaide bicentennial carnival. |
bicentric | Having two centers. All triangles and all regular polygons are bicentric. |
bicephalous | Having two heads. The bird often holds a bicephalous snake in its beak. |
bichromated | Treated or combined with bichromate. |
bichrome | Having two colors. The lateral walls continued without the bichrome decoration. |
bicipital | Having two heads or points of origin as a biceps. The medial bicipital groove is seen on the surface anatomy of the upper arm. |
bicolor | Having two colors. Bicolor may also appear in the skin color. |
bicolored | Having two colors. The tail of the pocket mouse can either be distinctly or indistinctly bicolored. |
bicolour | Having two colors. It has the ns police ‘nemesis’ logo on a light blue over white bicolour. |
bicoloured | Having two colors. He also wears a bicoloured cape. |
biconcave | Concave on both sides. It is biconcave in structure and attaches to the condyle medially and laterally. |
biconvex | Convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil. The lens has an ellipsoid, biconvex shape. |
bicorn | Having two horns or horn-shaped parts. Those bicorn like arcs are real and they should be acknowledged. |
bicornate | Having two horns or horn-shaped parts. Each half of the bicornate uterus functions during alternate breeding cycles. |
bicorned | Having two horns or horn-shaped parts. |
bicornuate | Having two horns or horn-shaped parts. There are many degrees of a bicornuate uterus. |
bicornuous | Having two horns or horn-shaped parts. |
bicuspid | Having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth). A deficiency can be associated with bicuspid aortic valve. |
bicuspidate | Having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth). |
bicyclic | Having molecules consisting of two fused rings. It is classified as a bicyclic diterpene alcohol. |
bicylindrical | Having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes. |
biddable | Willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest. Coca renders all unbalanced hands with a major suit biddable. |
bidentate | Having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed. As the ligand is bidentate a tetrahedral structure might be expected. |
bidirectional | Reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions. Right to left and bidirectional text. |
biedermeier | Of or relating to a style of furniture developed in germany in the 19th century. Interiers of the palace are designed in biedermeier and art nouveau. |
biennial | Having a life cycle lasting two seasons. It is also the site of the biennial australian international airshow. |
biface | Having two faces or fronts. For the latter reason, handaxes are, along with cleavers, known as biface tools. |
bifacial | Having two faces or fronts. All obsidian bifacial thinning flakes were found in a royal or elite context. |
bifid | Divided into two lobes. A bifid uvula is a split or cleft uvula. |
bifilar | Having or using two filaments. Each of the bifilar transmission lines has first and second conductors. |
biflagellate | Having two flagella. |
bifocal | Having two foci. Bifocal and varifocal lenses can be used to correct presbyopia. |
bifoliate | Having two leaves. |
biform | Having or combining two forms. |
bifurcate | Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches. Thatcher, pete does raise a very good question about the motion to bifurcate. |
bifurcated | Divided into or made up of two parts. He did not resist going to bifurcated road. |
big | Marked by intense physical force. How big is the tarn |
bigeminal | Occurring in pairs. If every other beat is abnormal, you can describe it as bigeminal. |
bigeneric | Resulting from a cross between species of different genera. |
bigger | Very intense. How big is the tarn |
biggish | Given or giving freely. The movie was a big hit and made dada’s simpleton image a huge success. |
bigheaded | Overly conceited or arrogant-laurent le sage. But i’m not gonna put it in my signature, as that would make me bigheaded… |
bighearted | Given or giving freely. Clumsy and bighearted, he enjoys eating and playing games among other things. |
bigmouthed | Unwisely talking too much. |
bignoniaceous | Of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family bignoniaceae. |
bigoted | Blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others. I find it bigoted in the extreme. |
bilabial | Of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips. On the contrary, b is the sound of voiced bilabial plosive. |
bilabiate | Having two lips. Note the dark blue anther tubes and the bilabiate styles. |
bilateral | Having identical parts on each side of an axis. The electrodes are implanted in the bilateral suboccipital region. |
bilgy | Smelling like bilge water. |
biliary | Relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder. Functional biliary type pain syndrome. |
bilinear | Linear with respect to each of two variables or positions. See discussion at bilinear form. |
bilingual | Using or knowing two languages. The instruction booklet and the cover need to be bilingual. |
bilious | Irritable as if suffering from indigestion. If you’re involved in this bilious process, stop. |
billiard | Of or relating to billiards. The dynamics is similar to the sinai billiard. |
billion | Denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the united states. Facebook could quintuple revenue to $20 billion in five years. |
billionth | The ordinal number of one billion in counting order. Geogre’s law confirmed for the billionth time. |
billowing | Characterized by great swelling waves or surges. The landscape is often a billowing cloud. |
billowy | Characterized by great swelling waves or surges. |
bilobate | Having two lobes. The floors of the lower levels are less noticeably bilobate. |
bilobated | Having two lobes. |
bilobed | Having two lobes. They are protected by small, bilobed indusia that are scale like in appearance. |
bilocular | Divided into or containing two cells or chambers. |
biloculate | Divided into or containing two cells or chambers. |
bimanual | Requiring two hands or designed for two people. The sma is implicated in the planning of motor actions and bimanual control. |
bimestrial | Two months long; lasting two months. |
bimetal | Formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together. The cheap ones use a bimetal strip. |
bimetallic | Formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together. However, there are other common bimetallic objects. |
bimetallistic | Pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals. |
bimillenial | Of or relating to a bimillennium. |
bimodal | Of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes. Open drainage and bimodal compression. |
bimolecular | Relating to or affecting two molecules. On bimolecular layers of lipoids on the chromocytes of the blood. |
bimonthly | Occurring twice a month. News about the bimonthly art magazine spread across the nation. |
bimorphemic | Consisting of two morphemes. Only regular past tenses that end in ‘ ed’ are bimorphemic. |
bimotored | Having two motors. |
binary | Of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base. The computer frequently misread the binary digits. |
binate | Growing in two parts or in pairs. I think we have the wrong definition of binate. |
binaural | Relating to or having or hearing with two ears. It was made as a binaural recording. |
bindable | Capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond. |
binding | Executed with proper legal authority. It’s making the collation of a binding consensus a logistical nightmare. |
binocular | Relating to both eyes. In modern animals, binocular vision is found mainly in predators. |
binomial | Having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies. Multiply the binomial with the polynomial. |
binominal | Having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies. I admit, the words ‘binomial’ as well as ‘binominal’ are in the dictionary. |
binuclear | Having two nuclei. Mononuclear and binuclear manganese carbonyl hydrides. |
binucleate | Having two nuclei. This amount is similar to ciliates, but ciliates tend to be binucleate. |
binucleated | Having two nuclei. |
biocatalytic | Of or relating to biocatalysts. |
biochemical | Of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms. In 1985 succeeded the biochemical identification of amyloid beta. |
bioclimatic | Of or concerned with the relations of climate and living organisms. All the houses have been designed based on bioclimatic architecture criteria. |
biodegradable | Capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria. The liquid detergent composition is biodegradable. |
biogenetic | Of or relating to the production of living organisms from other living organisms. The force requires a full biogenetic body to be used to it’s fullest potential. |
biogenic | Produced by living organisms or biological processes. A ‘biogenic amine’ is a biogenic substance with an amine group. |
biogenous | Producing or produced by living things. |
biogeographic | Of or relating to or involved with biogeography. First, no single biogeographic framework is optimal for all taxa. |
biogeographical | Of or relating to or involved with biogeography. Part of the biotic province of yucatan in the biogeographical region yalahau. |
biographic | Of or relating to or being biography. The text contains offensive biographic details. |
biographical | Of or relating to or being biography. The biographical debrief focuses on an individual’s life or career. |
biologic | Pertaining to biology or to life and living things. A common example of sensory deprivation due to biologic factors is blindness. |
biological | Pertaining to biology or to life and living things. Here are some homely examples of the biological aspect. |
biologistic | Of or relating to biologism. That’s obviously an very biologistic argument. |
bioluminescent | Emitting light. Many bioluminescent organisms live in this zone. |
biomedical | Relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine. The new campus is also the seat of several biomedical spin off companies. |
bionic | Having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components. The machine was also known as the bionic beaver . |
bionomic | Of or relating to the science of ecology. |
bionomical | Of or relating to the science of ecology. |
biosynthetic | Of or relating to biosynthesis. Opiates belong to the large biosynthetic group of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids. |
biosystematic | Of or relating to biosystematics. |
biotic | Of or relating to living organisms. Biotic components are the living things that shape an ecosystem. |
biotitic | Relating to or involving biotite. |
biotypic | Of or relating to a biotype. |
biovular | Derived from two separate fertilized ova. The two eggs, or ova, form two zygotes, hence the terms dizygotic and biovular. |
biparous | Producing two offspring at a time. |
bipartisan | Supported by both sides. Bipartisan applause for a documentary of the gipper’s life and times. |
bipartite | Divided into two portions almost to the base. Computing the bipartite dimension. |
bipartizan | Supported by both sides. |
biped | Having two feet. The dinosaur is depicted as a biped. |
bipedal | Having two feet. They are bipedal and are entirely tailless and wingless. |
bipinnate | Of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns). Leaves with larger leaflets commonly bipinnate. |
bipinnatifid | Pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid. |
bipolar | Of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions. Some important symptoms of the bipolar disorder. |
biquadratic | Of or relating to the fourth power. Euler made the first conjectures about biquadratic reciprocity. |
biracial | Consisting of or combining two races. Beals plays a biracial woman passing for white. |
biradial | Showing both bilateral and radial symmetry. Ctenophores show biradial symmetry. |
biramous | Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches. I realised today that we’ve got separate articles for biramous and uniramous. |
birch | Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree. Forest is sparse and consists of craggy pine and birch. |
birchen | Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree. Mighty bald eagles preen themselves in birch trees. |
birefringent | Relating to or characterized by double refraction. The rnfl isn’t the only form birefringent structure in the eye. |
birken | Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree. Of course, birken also has a post office box. |
biserrate | Having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched. |
bisexual | Sexually attracted to both sexes. It is the oldest and largest bisexual group in the san francisco bay area. |
bismarckian | Of or relating to prince otto von bismarck or his accomplishments. It is compulsory communism of the bismarckian stamp that we combat. |
bismuthal | Of or relating to bismuth. |
bismuthic | Containing bismuth (especially in the pentavalent state). |
bisontine | Relating to or characteristic of bison. |
bistered | Colored with or as if with bister. |
bistred | Colored with or as if with bister. |
bistroic | Of or relating to or resembling a bistro. |
bisulcate | Split, divided. These two species share a distinctive morphology of the posterior male metasternum, which is strongly depressed and bisulcate, indicating a sister species relationship. |
biting | Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold. Biting wind made me extremely cold. |
bitter | Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold. The water extract is slightly bitter to the taste. |
bitterish | Somewhat bitter. |
bittersweet | Tinged with sadness. Kind of a bittersweet performance for me. |
bittie | Very small. The new source bit is a wee bittie thin though. |
bitty | Very small. It seemed quite bitty and without a flow. |
bitumenoid | Like bitumen. |
bituminoid | Like bitumen. |
bituminous | Resembling or containing bitumen. Article needs more focus on bituminous coal. |
bivalent | Having a valence of two or having two valences. An older term for divalent is ‘bivalent’. |
bivalve | Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.). Arcticidae is a family of bivalve molluscs in the order veneroida. |
bivalved | Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.). Clam shrimp are bivalved animals which have lived since at least the devonian. |
bivariate | Having two variables. Bivariate mapping is an important technique in cartography. |
biweekly | Occurring every two weeks. A biweekly fine arts supplement is published. |
biyearly | Occurring every second year. I wonder if this is the end of biyearly marathons of the show. |
bizarre | Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual. The marathon was the most bizarre event of the year. |
bizonal | Relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones. |
Adjectives That Start with BL (87 Words)
blabbermouthed | Prone to communicate confidential information. |
blabby | Unwisely talking too much. |
black | Marked by anger or resentment or hostility. Achromatic means black and white to me. |
blackguardly | Lacking principles or scruples – w.m. thackaray. |
blackish | Made black especially as with suffused blood. The rest of the gown is black and red. |
bladelike | Shaped like a sword blade. Teeth usually bladelike with one cusp. |
blae | Of bluish-black or grey-blue. |
blamable | Expletives used informally as intensifiers. He was spared the blame and ignominy. |
blame | Expletives used informally as intensifiers. I blame it on the kiwi inferiority complex. |
blameable | Expletives used informally as intensifiers. Cashmere shares the blame, though. |
blamed | Expletives used informally as intensifiers. Police blamed the violence on the demonstrators. |
blameful | Expletives used informally as intensifiers. Cashmere shares the blame, though. |
blameless | Free of guilt; not subject to blame. But that doesn’t mean that zelaya’s blameless in all of this. |
blameworthy | Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious. You think you are morally blameworthy for not saving him. |
bland | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication. The dish is typically bland in nature. |
blank | Not written or printed on. A cut and scored foldable blank and the field box is formed from the blank. |
blanket | Broad in scope or content- t.g.winner. They encased the blanket around themselves. |
blanketed | Broad in scope or content- t.g.winner. It may serve as a bedspread, blanket, or carpet. |
blase | Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world. Gunter blase began igus in october 1964 in a double garage in cologne. |
blasphemous | Characterized by profanity or cursing. Is this is a contest of who can be the most blasphemous |
blastemal | Of or relating to blastemata. |
blastematic | Of or relating to blastemata. |
blastemic | Of or relating to blastemata. |
blastocoelic | Of or relating to a segmentation cavity. |
blastodermatic | Of or relating to a blastoderm. |
blastodermic | Of or relating to a blastoderm. |
blastogenetic | Of or relating to blastogenesis. |
blastomeric | Of or relating to a blastomere. |
blastomycotic | Of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis. |
blastoporal | Of or relating to a blastopore. |
blastoporic | Of or relating to a blastopore. |
blastospheric | Of or relating to a blastula. |
blastular | Of or relating to a blastula. |
blatant | Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious. That is a blatant travesty of the facts. |
blate | Disposed to avoid notice; (`blate’ is a scottish term for bashful). |
bleak | Offering little or no hope- j.m.synge. Rivington and bleak hill are the main primary schools in the area. |
blear | Tired to the point of exhaustion. Our smudge and blear and soil, he proposes, do not efface the glory. |
bleary | Tired to the point of exhaustion. And i was also tired and bleary eyed from not enough sleep for 3 nights. |
blebbed | Marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material. |
blebby | Covered with small blisters. |
blended | Combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable. In the northern rhone the grape is sometimes blended with chardonnay. |
blessed | Characterized by happiness and good fortune. The parched land was blessed with showers. |
blest | Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace). The isles of the blest were often thought of as being far to the west… |
blighted | Affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity. Much of his time as player was blighted by injury. |
blimpish | Pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic. |
blind | Not based on reason or evidence. Community patriotism makes its votaries blind. |
blinded | Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand. The metropolis operates the school for the blind. |
blindfold | Wearing a blindfold. Blindfold has a unique speech pattern. |
blindfolded | Wearing a blindfold. But the people are still blindfolded. |
blinding | Unable to see–kenneth jernigan. The metropolis operates the school for the blind. |
blinking | Closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly. The player is aided with the beats by the blinking of the bar. |
blissful | Completely happy and contented. The match was far from being blissful. |
blistering | Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed. Blistering, bruising and necrosis may be extensive. |
blistery | Hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters. |
blithe | Lacking or showing a lack of due concern. Pooh is guileless, blithe, good natured, democratic. |
blithesome | Carefree and happy and lighthearted. |
blocked | Closed to traffic. Who blocked the access to the site |
blockheaded | Stupid. It’s not just users in general, but blockheaded administrators in the specific. |
blond | Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes. He is a mild mannered, bespectacled man with blond hair. |
blonde | Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes. He immediately takes an interest in the saucy blonde. |
bloodcurdling | Extremely alarming. It’s a pretty eerily bloodcurdling tale. |
blooded | Of unmixed ancestry. The greeks are not pure blooded. |
bloodguilty | Guilty of murder or bloodshed. |
bloodless | Anemic looking from illness or emotion- mary w. shelley. The recuperation of tarapaca was a bloodless event. |
bloodshot | Reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed. An old and dangerous japanese scientist who created the bloodshot procedure. |
bloodstained | Covered with blood. He has white, bloodstained wings. |
bloodsucking | Drawing blood from the body of another. The primary goal was to get rid of the bloodsucking tsars. |
bloodthirsty | Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed-g.w.johnson. He is a known as a bloodthirsty pirate. |
bloody | Having or covered with or accompanied by blood. It just seems like obdurate bloody mindedness to me. |
blooming | Informal intensifiers. The village of washingtonville is within the town of blooming grove. |
blotched | Marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots. They are sometimes blotched and sometimes solid colored. |
blotchy | Marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots. In between the stripes on the pattern are rows with blotchy spots. |
blotto | Very drunk. Please review the history of blotto adrift. |
blowsy | Characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women. Ophelia is often described in the book as a blowsy old cog . |
blowy | Abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes. |
blowzy | Characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women. |
blubbery | Swollen with fat. |
blue | Filled with melancholy and despondency. The shirt was green and blue plaid, and the pants were these black skinnies. |
blue-eyed | Favorite. Visual media often portray the ingenue as a fawn eyed innocent. |
blueish | Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky- helen hunt jackson. Bills are olive grey and legs blueish grey, with zygodactyl toes.. |
bluff | Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front. It includes wit, bluff and a lot of foolery. |
bluish | Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky- helen hunt jackson. Seaja was covered in tentacled limbs and was colored bluish grey. |
blunt | Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion. He’s a blunt and plainspoken guy. |
blunted | Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment. The profile of the snout is blunt. |
blunting | Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion. Her work is described as direct, blunt, and plainspoken. |
blurred | Indistinct or hazy in outline. In subsequent years, the application of the title became blurred. |
blurry | Indistinct or hazy in outline. Moreover, the text of the articles are too blurry to read. |
Adjectives That Start with BO (101 Words)
boastful | Exhibiting self-importance. Cassiopeia was vain and boastful. |
bobtail | Having a short or shortened tail. An 1811 dictionary has it as tag rag and bobtail. |
bobtailed | Having a short or shortened tail. Many of these dogs were born bobtailed and this gave rise to the word curtail. |
bodacious | Unrestrained by convention or propriety- los angeles times. A few days later bodacious was retired from profesional bull riding for ever. |
bodiless | Not having a material body. It is the bodiless telepathic brain that dominates the planet of camazotz. |
bodily | Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit. Shape shifters refer to a strong and weak form of bodily transference. |
bodyless | Having no trunk or main part. These are repaint godmasters who transformed into bodyless engines. |
boeotian | Of or relating to ancient boeotia or its people or to the dialect spoken there in classical times. No reference has been found on the status of the diphthongs in boeotian. |
boffo | Resoundingly successful and popular. Information about boffo and its games can still be found on the site however. |
bogartian | Of or relating to or in the style of humphrey bogart. |
bogus | Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance. The touchstone is bogus accusations and exaggeration. |
bohemian | Unconventional in especially appearance and behavior. Enlightened rule destroyed the few remaining vestiges of the bohemian kingdom. |
boisterous | Violently agitated and turbulent- ezra pound. Eddie’s video is typically boisterous and frisky. |
bold | Clear and distinct. The man needed to bold the angularity. |
bolivian | Of or relating to or characteristic of bolivia or its people. Around the shield there are three bolivian flags on each side. |
bolographic | Of or relating to a bolograph. |
bolometric | Of or relating to a bolometer. The luminosity thus obtained is known as the bolometric luminosity. |
bolshevik | Of or relating to bolshevism. I’m communist, bolshevik and russian revolutionist. |
bolshevist | Of or relating to bolshevism. The bolshevist coup in october changed the situation drastically. |
bolshevistic | Of or relating to bolshevism. |
bolshy | Obstreperous. It isn’t likewikipedia with a lot of bolshy users. |
bombastic | Ostentatiously lofty in style. Dunne is bombastic and imposing. |
bombproof | Able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells. The fort was a small, unflanked enclosure with a bombproof and a magazine. |
bone | Consisting of or made up of bone. Most of the skull consisted of bone struts. |
boned | Consisting of or made up of bone. It is the smallest bone in the distal row. |
boneless | Consisting of or made up of bone. The bone was damaged. |
bonelike | Resembling bone. An artificial bonelike graft is disclosed. |
boney | Having bones especially many or prominent bones. Both are two of the largest boney fish species. |
bonkers | Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. Look for the facts, not some bonkers make believe. |
bonnie | Very pleasing to the eye. Bonnie can and should be trimmed. |
bonny | Very pleasing to the eye. Bonny disappears from the record entirely. |
bony | Composed of or containing bone. A large paunch, or a bony or angular frame are discouraged. |
bonzer | Remarkable or wonderful. Many consider the bonzer design to be the archetype of the modern surfboard. |
bookable | Subject to being reserved or booked. Bcp also sells pre bookable central london parking. |
bookish | Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading. Reading lights are also appreciated by us bookish types. |
boolean | Of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by george boole that combines propositions with the logical operators and and or and if then and except and not. Compare it to how boolean logic treats intuitionism. |
booming | Used of the voice. At the time of the price war, sales were booming. |
boon | Very close and convivial. The boon works if he remains celibate. |
boorish | Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance. His behavior was indeed immature and boorish. |
bootleg | Distributed or sold illicitly. Bootleg recordings of the majority of them exist. |
bootless | Unproductive of success. They did their best to turn the bootless work into a useful one. |
bootlicking | Attempting to win favor by flattery. Fascists and their bootlicking toadies. |
boozy | Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol. The single faced a slight controversy due to its boozy lyrics. |
boracic | Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron. |
borated | Mixed or impregnated with borax. The borated plastic shield was used in the detection of fast neutrons. |
borderline | Of questionable or minimal quality. It is borderline offensive and borderline personal insult. |
boreal | Toward or located in the north. In winter, there is a strong wind in the boreal forest. |
bored | Tired of the world. Pearl is becoming bored with her humdrum life. |
boric | Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron. Titration of fluoride with boric acid. |
boring | So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. Boring is the program without the challenge. |
born | Brought into existence. He was the last born and was a puny child. |
boronic | Of or relating to boron. Boronic esters result from the condensation of boronic acids with alcohols. |
boskopoid | Belonging or relating to or resembling boskop man. |
bosky | Covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets- jack beatty. How bloodily the sun begins to peerabove yon bosky hill |
bosnian | Of or relating to or characteristic of bosnia-herzegovina or the people of bosnia. Croatian and bosnian are internationally accepted. |
bosomed | Having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds. |
boss | Exceptionally good. My boss and i importuned the buyer. |
bossy | Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power. Debbie is bossy and a planner… |
botanic | Of or relating to plants or botany. The bridge is near the botanic gardens and the local swimming pool. |
botanical | Of or relating to plants or botany. This has the musky botanical smell of hay and autumn leaves. |
botchy | Poorly done. |
both | Two considered together; the two. Both the bullet and the target consisted of multiple rings stacked together. |
bothersome | Causing irritation or annoyance. It’s the amount of space we’re devoting that is bothersome. |
botonee | Having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm. |
botonnee | Having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm. |
botryoid | Resembling a cluster of grapes in form. The botryoid odontogenic cyst is a variant of the lateral periodontal cyst. |
botryoidal | Resembling a cluster of grapes in form. It forms botryoidal to mammillary clay like masses. |
botswanan | Of or pertaining to botswana or the people of botswana. River fish are also part of botswanan cuisine. |
bottom | The lowest rank. The attendant winds down the ring rails to the bottom. |
bottomed | The lowest rank. The openings extend down to the base of the interior convex bottom wall. |
bottomless | Extremely deep. Otherwise this page could be bottomless. |
bottommost | Farthest down. The bottommost led on the right side indicated hard disk activity. |
botuliform | Shaped like a sausage. |
botulinal | Of or relating to or produced by the botulinus. All patients were hospitalized and 33 received trivalent botulinal antitoxin. |
bouffant | Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing. Bill sports a bouffant hairdo, platform shoes and ridiculous false chin. |
boughless | Having no boughs (of trees). |
boughten | Purchased; not homemade. I can not remember boughten from any novel or magazine. |
bouldered | Abounding in rocks or stones. I’ve bouldered over many a tailings pile in my day. |
bouncing | Vigorously healthy. It is also the site where the bouncing bomb was built. |
bouncy | Elastic; rebounds readily. Mr. bergeret drew playing of bouncy refinement from the orchestra. |
bound | Bound by contract. The ashram’s peace and tranquillity can spell bound anyone. |
bounded | Confined in the bowels. Deoxyhemoglobin is the form of hemoglobin without the bound oxygen. |
bounden | Morally obligatory. It is our bounden duty now to protect the national interest at all costs. |
bounderish | Lacking in refinement or grace. |
boundless | Seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent. The cultural opportunities at wikipedia are boundless. |
bounteous | Given or giving freely. They did not know the man was a bounteous person. |
bountied | Rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty. |
bountiful | Given or giving freely. It stands along the nagara river, creating bountiful nature within the city. |
bourgeois | Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class. In an industrial bourgeois society, the genre is the novel, a moll flanders. |
boustrophedonic | Of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions. |
bovid | Of or relating to or belonging to the genus bos (cattle). A bovid hybrid is a hybrid of two different members of the bovid family. |
bovine | Of or relating to or belonging to the genus bos (cattle). It is the principal form of calcium found in bovine milk. |
bowed | Have legs that curve outward at the knees. Bowed stringed instruments include the kabak kemane and the kemenche. |
bowery | Like a bower; leafy and shady. Mega development on the bowery, an avenue changing very quickly. |
bowfront | Having an outward curving front. |
bowleg | Have legs that curve outward at the knees. It is also known as bandy leg, bowleg, bow leg, and tibia vara. |
bowlegged | Have legs that curve outward at the knees. This resembles the realigning of a bowlegged knee to a knock kneed position. |
boxlike | Resembling a box in rectangularity. The ride is safe but uncomfortable, the carriages being small and boxlike. |
boyish | Befitting or characteristic of a young boy. He’s also relatively young and has a boyish face. |
boylike | Befitting or characteristic of a young boy. |
boytrose | Resembling a cluster of grapes in form. |
Adjectives That Start with BR (116 Words)
brachial | Of or relating to an arm. It has been used in the evaluation of brachial plexus birth palsy. |
brachiate | Having widely spreading paired branches. |
brachiopod | Of or belonging to the phylum brachiopoda. Fish and crustaceans seem to find brachiopod flesh distasteful. |
brachiopodous | Of or belonging to the phylum brachiopoda. |
brachycephalic | Having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80. The skull is brachycephalic, mostly of moderate size and height. |
brachycranial | Having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80. |
brachycranic | Having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80. |
brachydactylic | Having abnormally short finger or toes. |
brachydactylous | Having abnormally short finger or toes. |
brachypterous | Having very short or rudimentary wings. It is 5 mm long and occurs in both the macropterous and brachypterous condition. |
brachyurous | Of or belonging to the suborder brachyura. |
bracing | Imparting vitality and energy. An adjustable device for rigid bracing of the ladder sections is provided. |
brackish | Slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water). The reason for this is the brackish nature of the water. |
bracteal | Pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract. |
bracteate | Having bracts. Flowers are small and white, radial, and arranged in a compound bracteate cymbe. |
bracted | Having bracts. |
bracteolate | Having bracteoles. Partial peduncles are bracteolate and two flowered. |
brag | Exceptionally good. Is another impertinent, and apt to brag a little |
braggart | Exhibiting self-importance. Four flusher can also refer to a welcher, piker, or braggart. |
bragging | Exhibiting self-importance. It is a matter of waiting for the right bragging around. |
braggy | Exhibiting self-importance. They deicided to vote out zoe for being too braggy. |
brahminic | Of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin. Rituals take place in reverse order during brahminic funeral services. |
brahminical | Of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin. He refused to undergo the brahminical thread ceremony. |
braided | Woven by (or as if by) braiding. The hair is then braided until the desired position for the parandi is reached. |
brainish | Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; (`brainish’ is archaic). |
brainless | Not using intelligence. Disappointed here due to brainless admin. |
brainsick | Affected with madness or insanity. |
braised | Cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container. It is commonly braised with pork or beef. |
braky | Covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth. |
braless | Having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity. First of all, it’s not so uncommon nor a shock for a woman to go braless. |
brambly | Covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth. It’s a steep fall to a very hard and brambly bottom. |
branchial | Of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills). The branchial plates are responsible for oxygenation. |
branchiate | Provided with gills. |
branchiopod | Of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass branchiopoda. It is one of eight known branchiopod species found only in northern california. |
branchiopodan | Of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass branchiopoda. |
branchiopodous | Of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass branchiopoda. |
brash | Offensively bold. He appears brash, arrogant and short tempered early on in the story. |
brassbound | Having trim or fittings of brass. |
brasslike | Resembling the sound of a brass instrument. |
brassy | Resembling the sound of a brass instrument. Maudre is blonde and brassy, but with a definite soft side. |
bratty | Impolitely unruly. She is also known to be shallow and ‘bratty’ to others. |
brave | Brightly colored and showy. He was renowned for being incorruptible, outspoken and brave. |
braw | Brightly colored and showy. |
brawny | Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful. Outdoor sports began with brawny men in lumber camps throwing axes for fun. |
brazen | Unrestrained by convention or propriety- los angeles times. Crimson gore spattered the temples of khaine and stained his brazen idols. |
brazilian | Of or relating to or characteristic of brazil or the people of brazil. In fact, the area of brazilian composers is rather underdeveloped. |
breakable | Capable of being broken or damaged. Changbaiite is nonmagnetic and breakable. |
breakaway | Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude. The race lead was assured to transfer to one in the breakaway. |
breakneck | Moving at very high speed. Once there the team searches for the breakneck and it’s cargo of missiles. |
breastless | Without a breast. |
breathing | Passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination. Inhaling is one of the acts of breathing. |
breathless | Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse. And also made it even less breathless… |
breathtaking | Tending to cause suspension of regular breathing. In some spots, the views are breathtaking. |
breeched | Dressed in trousers. I have not breeched the 1rr please check again my edits. |
breeding | Producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring. It is fairly gregarious outside the breeding season. |
bregmatic | Of or relating to the bregma of the skull. |
briary | Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. |
brickle | Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped. His father would always have a butter brickle cone. |
brickly | Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped. |
bridal | Of or pertaining to a bride. The chair with perhaps the greatest importance was the bridal chair. |
brief | Very short. The encounters are brief but uncommonly vivid. |
briefless | Lacking clients. |
briery | Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. |
bright | Full or promise. Bright colors can be insulting to the eye and disrupt the theme of the image. |
brilliant | Having striking color. She is known as her brilliant wile. |
brimfull | Filled to capacity. |
brinded | Having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats. An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc. |
brindle | Having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats. The coat is wheaten, blue, or brindle in colour. |
brindled | Having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats. It is usually found in brindled or peppered variety. |
briny | Slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water). The acidity of the lemon juices can make the oysters seem less briny. |
brisant | Of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive. |
brisk | Imparting vitality and energy. Both the acid and alkali reactions are brisk and vigorous. |
bristled | Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. They have long forefeet for burrowing, and bristled hind feet for grooming. |
bristlelike | Resembling a bristle. |
britannic | Of britain. The ethiopian army became more effective by what britannic colonial forces. |
british | Of or relating to or characteristic of great britain or its people or culture. British geography is a delectation. |
briton | Characteristic of or associated with the britons. A transplanted briton, he is the scourge of the monarchy. |
brittle | Not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured. One of the main effects of cadmium poisoning is weak and brittle bones. |
broad | Broad in scope or content- t.g.winner. The purview of miff foundation is very broad. |
broadband | Of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video). The broadband sector has the lowest score in the aggregate. |
broadleaf | Having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves. It is common and occurs on both broadleaf trees and conifers. |
broadloom | Woven full width. It is considered the largest broadloom carpet maker in the world. |
broadnosed | Of or related to new world monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses. |
broadside | Toward a full side. It was published as a broadside ballad. |
brobdingnagian | Huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of brobdingnag. He was tall and plump, perhaps one might even call him brobdingnagian. |
broke | Lacking funds. The war broke out spontaneously. |
broken | Tamed or trained to obey. All he found was a broken hyoid. |
brokenhearted | Full of sorrow. The song was very dramatic, it captured the brokenhearted side of nina. |
bromic | Relating to or containing bromine (especially pentavalent bromine). Bromic acid is a key reagent in the belousov zhabotinsky oscillating reaction. |
bromidic | Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality. Each expresses the crystallized thought of her particular bromidic group. |
bronchial | Relating to or associated with the bronchi. Bronchial asthma is the more correct name for the common form of asthma. |
bronchiolar | Of or relating to or involving bronchioles. |
bronchoscopic | Of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi. It is the technique of choice nowadays for most bronchoscopic procedures. |
bronze | Of the color of bronze. He won the bronze medal in the single sculls. |
bronzed | Having a tan color from exposure to the sun. The wing coverts and mantle are slightly bronzed. |
bronzy | Made from or consisting of bronze. Contemporaneous bronze reductions of the monument exist. |
broody | Deeply or seriously thoughtful;. The hens are regularly broody and are known to be good sitters. |
brotherlike | Like or characteristic of or befitting a brother. |
brotherly | Like or characteristic of or befitting a brother. Pakistan has brotherly relations with malaysia. |
brown | Deeply suntanned. Brown also constantly refuted the idea of black inferiority. |
brown, | Deeply suntanned. The color of the naiad is mottled green and brown. |
browned | Deeply suntanned. The color of the naiad is mottled green and brown. |
brownish | Of a color similar to that of wood or earth. The shell is translucent and pale brownish in color. |
brumal | Characteristic of or relating to winter. |
brummagem | Cheap and showy. The beer seller’s costume includes examples of cheap brummagem jewellery. |
brumous | Filled or abounding with fog or mist. |
brunet | Marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes. Jules brunet in front, second from right. |
brunette | Marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes. Sam is a brunette with brown eyes. |
brushed | Touched lightly in passing; grazed against. A significant amount of the ashes were brushed under the rug. |
brusk | Marked by rude or peremptory shortness. Why are your edits so frequently brusk and ill mannered |
brusque | Marked by rude or peremptory shortness. Brusque is the word i was looking for. |
brut | Extremely dry. Exercises ranging from the art brut until hyperrealism. |
brutal | Harsh. News of the brutal murders swept across the world. |
brute | Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility. The game heavily encourages the use of stealth over brute force. |
brutish | Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility. The crocodile headed sebeki are a brutish and brutal race. |
bryophytic | Relating to plants of the division bryophyta. |
Adjectives That Start with BU (77 Words)
bubaline | Relating to or resembling a buffalo. |
bubonic | Of or evidencing buboes. Bubonic plague can progress to lethal septicemic plague in some cases. |
buccal | Lying within the mouth. A buccal mask is a mask covering the buccal area and mouth. |
buckram | Rigidly formal. The photo depicts a variety of buckram color swatches. |
buckshee | Free of charge- economist. |
bucolic | Idyllically rustic. Raza was initially enamored of the bucolic countryside of rural france. |
buddhist | Of or relating to or supporting buddhism. See the buddhist philosophy of emptiness. |
buddhistic | Of or relating to or supporting buddhism. They consist of a buddhistic monastery and two stupas. |
budding | Beginning to develop. The piece documents in cinema verite the early stages of a budding politician. |
budgetary | Of or relating to a budget. Recent budgetary constraints led to the cutting of russian language classes. |
buff | Of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather. The students are buff with chocolates. |
buffoonish | Like a clown. It still makes you look buffoonish. |
buggy | Infested with bugs. The rear section of the buggy can carry mission specific equipment. |
buirdly | Muscular and heavily built. |
bulbaceous | Producing or growing from bulbs. |
bulbar | Involving the medulla oblongata. Bulbar throat muscle weakness is a main feature of nemaline myopathy. |
bulblike | Shaped like a bulb. |
bulbous | Shaped like a bulb. The melon is particularly bulbous. |
bulgarian | Of or relating to or characteristic of bulgaria or its people. The knoll is named after the bulgarian town of gabrovo. |
bulimic | Suffering from bulimia. She had a potassium imbalance because she was bulimic. |
bulky | Of large size for its weight. I removed the bulky and encyclopedic lists from the page. |
bullate | Of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered. These scales may be either small and fringed or bullate. |
bulletproof | Without flaws or loopholes. Bulletproof vests are made of cloth. |
bullheaded | Obstinate and stupid. I have no further interest in this bullheaded nonsense. |
bullish | Expecting a rise in prices. He appears to be rude, patronising and bullish. |
bullnecked | Having a thick short powerful neck. |
bullocky | Resembling a bullock in strength and power. The bullock whip was used by an australian bullock team driver bullocky . |
bully | Very good. Then the bully starts teasing both pepe and ana. |
bullying | Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others. The culture here is one of bullying and mediocrity. |
bum | Of very poor quality; flimsy. Bounteous says that her new husband is probably a bum. |
bumbling | Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands- mary h.. The bumbling assistant reveals the illusion. |
bumptious | Offensively self-assertive. Just wanted to make folk awares hope it didn’t sound bumptious. |
bumpy | Covered with or full of bumps. The roads were both narrow and bumpy, and the staggering. |
bungaloid | Characterized by bungalows. |
bunglesome | Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape. |
bungling | Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands- mary h.. I am afraid of bungling so am appealing for assistance. |
buoyant | Characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness. Buoyant outrigger tanks adjust the attitude of the apparatus over the pipeline. |
burbling | Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm. You can’t go calling a man a burbling pixie without lowering his morale. |
burbly | Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm. They sound nice, too, they emit a very burbly, low grumble. |
burdenless | Not encumbered with a physical burden or load. |
burdensome | Not easily borne; wearing. Eulogius comments repeatedly on the burdensome tax. |
bureaucratic | Of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy. He bests the bureaucratic fools. |
burglarproof | Secure against burglary. |
burked | Suppressed quietly or indirectly. The issue of his background has been burked. |
burled | Have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl. The interior was fitted with leather seats and burled walnut accents. |
burlesque | Relating to or characteristic of a burlesque. With his burlesque songs, he healed the oppression of the panamanians. |
burly | Muscular and heavily built. The fight scene plagarizes burly brawl from the matrix reloaded. |
burmese | Of or relating to or characteristic of myanmar or its people. Burmese is a tonal and analytic language. |
burnable | Capable of burning. He had used a burnable connector that ran from candle to candle. |
burning | Of immediate import. Did the sun stop burning or the laws of gravitation repeal themselves |
burnt | Ruined by overcooking. The two barely escape as the flames burnt the body. |
burred | Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. Finally, andrey gubin decided to realize himself in music though he burred. |
burrlike | Resembling a burr; especially in being prickly. |
burry | Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. A diversion is in place along the burry port relief road. |
bursal | Relating to or affecting a bursa. In some patients the disease process may involve tendon sheaths and bursal sacs. |
bursiform | Shaped like a pouch. |
burundi | Of or relating to or characteristic of burundi or its people. It is the only public university in burundi. |
burundian | Of or relating to or characteristic of burundi or its people. People of burundian nationality murdered in a place other than burundi. |
bush | Not of the highest quality or sophistication. Bush dominated the east part of the state. |
bushed | Very tired. So close that the tip of their wings bushed the side of my head. |
bushwhacking | Lying in ambush. He was found guilty of bushwhacking, or of being a guerilla. |
bushy | Resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading. The growth habit is very vigorous, the plant being much branched and bushy. |
businesslike | Not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal. He’s more businesslike about doing his job. |
bust | Lacking funds. The obverse depicts the crowned bust of isabella of spain. |
busted | Lacking funds. The bronze have the imperial bust on the obverse. |
bustling | Full of energetic and noisy activity. He was born in the bustling harbor city of nantes in western france. |
busty | Having a large bosom and pleasing curves. She is very busty and has orange hair. |
busy | Unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged’ is a british term for a busy telephone line). I’d apologize but i’m too busy campaigning against moral turpitude. |
busybodied | Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner. |
butch | Used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner. Butch hides the ham behind a sofa. |
buteonine | Relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus buteo. |
butterfingered | Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands- mary h.. |
buttonlike | Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button. |
buttressed | Held up by braces or buttresses. There are sandbag buttressed guardposts at the gates. |
butyraceous | Having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter. |
butyric | Relating to or producing butyric acid. It is the sodium salt of butyric acid. |
buxom | Having a large bosom and pleasing curves. Frazetta’s men were burlier, his women more buxom than jones’s. |
Adjectives That Start with BY (3 Words)
bygone | Well in the past; former. The whole church emanates the atmosphere of bygone days. |
bypast | Well in the past; former. |
byzantine | Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. This was the true beginning of feudalism in the byzantine empire. |
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