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  • bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
  • birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
  • birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
  • bit of fluff — a girl or young woman
  • black africa — Black Africa is the part of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert.
  • black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
  • black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
  • blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
  • blissfulness — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
  • bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • buffalo bill — nickname of William Frederick Cody. 1846–1917, US showman who toured Europe and the US with his famous Wild West Show
  • buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
  • buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
  • bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
  • cafe au lait — coffee with milk
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • center field — the middle area of the outfield
  • central-fire — center-fire.
  • chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
  • childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
  • chill factor — windchill factor
  • chinese leaf — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
  • chlorpyrifos — a broad-spectrum insecticide, C 9 H 11 Cl 3 NO 3 PS, used on lawns and ornamental plants.
  • cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
  • circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
  • circumflexes — Plural form of circumflex.
  • circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
  • circumfluous — flowing all around
  • circumfusile — able to be diffused or poured around
  • classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
  • cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
  • cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
  • cliffhanging — Present participle of cliffhang.
  • climbingfish — climbing perch.
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
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