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  • brandenburg — a state in NE Germany, part of East Germany until 1990. A former electorate, it expanded under the Hohenzollerns to become the kingdom of Prussia (1701). The district east of the Oder River became Polish in 1945. Capital: Potsdam. Pop: 2 575 000 (2003 est). Area: 29 481 sq km (11 219 sq miles)
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brusqueness — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
  • buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
  • burn center — a specialized medical facility that provides comprehensive care for patients with burn injuries.
  • burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
  • burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
  • burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • burnt umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
  • button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
  • button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
  • candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
  • carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
  • carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
  • clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
  • code number — a number used to identify something
  • conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
  • construable — that can be construed
  • contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
  • contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
  • contubernal — occupying the same tent
  • cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
  • counterbase — a double bass
  • counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
  • counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
  • crab nebula — the expanding remnant of the supernova observed in 1054 ad, lying in the constellation Taurus at an approximate distance of 6500 light years
  • cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
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