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- blue gas — water gas.
- blue gum — a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
- blue ice — the oldest and densest ice in a glacier, distinguished by a pale-blue color.
- blue jay — a common, crested North American jay (Cyanocitta cristata) with a blue upper body and head
- blue jet — a faint discharge of blue light from the top of a thunderstorm cloud that propagates upward: extends approximately from the bottom to the top of the stratosphere and is not detectable from the ground.
- blue law — any of the strict puritanical laws prevalent in colonial New England
- blue mud — a deep-sea sediment of fine silt and clay that derives its bluish color from organic material and iron sulfide.
- blue rod — officer of the Order of St Michael and St George
- blue run — an easy run, suitable for beginners
- blue sky — fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
- blue tit — A blue tit is a small European bird with a blue head, wings, and tail, and a yellow front.
- blue-leg — blewit.
- blue-red — a color about midway between blue and red in the spectrum; purplish.
- blue-sky — of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- blueball — a European herb
- bluebead — corn lily (def 2).
- bluebeat — a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s; a precursor of reggae
- bluebell — Bluebells are plants that have blue bell-shaped flowers on thin upright stems. Bluebells flower in the spring.
- bluebill — any of various American ducks with bluish bills; esp., the scaup
- bluebird — any North American songbird of the genus Sialia, having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
- bluebook — (in Britain) a government publication bound in a stiff blue paper cover: usually the report of a royal commission or a committee
- bluebush — any of various blue-grey herbaceous Australian shrubs of the genus Maireana
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bluegill — a common North American freshwater sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus: an important food and game fish
- bluegown — a bedesman of the king or, in Scotland, a licensed beggar, who traditionally wore a blue gown
- bluehead — either of two fish of the wrasse family, Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- blueline — a blue-toned photographic print used as a proof for platemaking
- blueness — the quality or state of being blue.
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- bluetick — a type of coonhound commonly bred in the southern United States
- blueweed — a bristly weed (Echium vulgare) of the borage family with blue flowers and pink buds
- bluewing — a variety of teal, Anas discors, native to the Americas
- bluewood — a kind of shrub of the buckthorn family, Condalia obovata, found in Texas and northern Mexico
- blumberg — Baruch Samuel.1925–2011, US physician, noted for work on antigens: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1976
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- blunkett — David, Baron. born 1947, British Labour politician: home secretary (2001–04)
- blurrier — blurred; indistinct.
- blustery — Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction.
- boulogne — a port in N France, on the English Channel. Pop: 45 036 (2006)
- breloque — an ornament or charm attached to a watch chain
- breughel — Jan Bruegel
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- brueghel — Jan (jɑn). 1568–1625, Flemish painter, noted for his detailed still lifes and landscapes
- brummell — George Bryan, called Beau Brummell. 1778–1840, English dandy: leader of fashion in the Regency period
- brussels — the capital of Belgium, in the central part: became capital of Belgium in 1830; seat of the European Commission. Pop: 999 899 (2004 est)