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  • bayonet bulb — an electric light bulb which is inserted into the socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
  • bean counter — You can describe people such as accountants and business managers as bean counters if you disapprove of them because you think they are only interested in money.
  • bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • beat up (on) — to give a beating to; thrash
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • belly button — Your belly button is the small round thing in the centre of your stomach.
  • beyond doubt — You say that something is beyond doubt or beyond reasonable doubt when you are certain that it is true and it cannot be contradicted or disproved.
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • black tongue — canine pellagra.
  • blue norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
  • bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • brown butter — beurre noir.
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
  • cater-cousin — a close friend
  • cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
  • cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
  • centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
  • centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
  • cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
  • chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
  • chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
  • chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
  • circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
  • co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • coconut tree — palm tree: bears coconuts
  • come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
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