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  • bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
  • bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
  • boothose — a protective stocking or boot liner fashionable in the 17th century
  • borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
  • branches — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
  • breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
  • breeches — Breeches are trousers which reach as far as your knees.
  • britches — breeches (sense 2)
  • brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
  • buckshee — without charge; free
  • bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
  • bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
  • bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
  • bushless — devoid of vegetation
  • bushlike — resembling a bush
  • bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
  • bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
  • bushnellDavid, 1742?–1824, U.S. inventor: pioneered in submarine construction.
  • butchest — butch haircut.
  • c-scheme — MIT Scheme
  • caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
  • caliches — Plural form of caliche.
  • camelish — similar to a camel
  • campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • capsheaf — The top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.
  • capuches — Plural form of capuche.
  • caroches — Plural form of caroche.
  • carshare — to take turns in driving fellow commuters to and from work or friends' children to school and back, so as to avoid the unnecessary use of several underoccupied vehicles
  • cashable — Able to be converted into cash.
  • cashiers — Plural form of cashier.
  • cashless — Cashless payments are made using cards or electronic methods rather than physical money.
  • cashmere — Cashmere is a kind of very fine, soft wool.
  • catchers — Plural form of catcher.
  • catheads — Plural form of cathead.
  • cathects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cathect.
  • cathetus — a straight line or radius positioned perpendicular to another line or radius
  • cathexes — Plural form of cathexis.
  • cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
  • cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
  • cathouse — a house of prostitution
  • cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
  • ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
  • cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
  • cephalus — the husband of Procris.
  • chabasie — Dated form of chabazite.
  • chackles — to chatter; jabber.
  • chadless — (of a keypunch) not producing chads
  • chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
  • chalices — Plural form of chalice.
  • chalmersAlexander, 1759–1834, Scottish biographer, editor, and journalist.
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