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  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
  • booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
  • boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
  • boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
  • boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
  • bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootloader — a bootstrap loader
  • border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
  • borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
  • bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
  • botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
  • bottletree — any of a genus (Brachychiton) of trees of the sterculia family, native to Australia, some of which have a swollen, bottle-shaped trunk
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
  • bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • brace root — prop root.
  • brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
  • brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
  • branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
  • brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • breastbone — Your breastbone is the long, flat bone which goes from your throat to the bottom of your ribs and to which your ribs are attached.
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
  • bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
  • bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
  • brightsome — bright or luminous
  • brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
  • broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
  • broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
  • brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
  • broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
  • bronchitic — acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke.
  • bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
  • brontobyte — 1027 or 290 bytes
  • brontosaur — apatosaurus
  • broomstaff — a broomstick
  • broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
  • brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
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