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  • blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
  • blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
  • blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
  • blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
  • blueblossom — a shrub, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, of the buckthorn family, abundant in the western U.S., having finely toothed oblong leaves and lilaclike clusters of blue flowers.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders
  • bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
  • bosom buddy — close friend
  • boss around — order about
  • boston bull — Boston terrier
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • boundedness — the quality of being bounded
  • bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
  • brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bulbous bow — a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence
  • bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
  • bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
  • bull's wool — nonsense
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
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