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- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- bang into — a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
- bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
- bar-stool — a high backless seat found chiefly in bars, at the serving counter
- barberton — a city in NE Ohio.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- baritonal — of or relating to a baritone
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- barrators — a person who commits barratry.
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- battology — the unnecessary repetition of words
- bean town — Boston, Mass. (used as a nickname).
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- bebington — a town in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: docks and chemical works. Pop: 57 066 (2001)
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belitoeng — an island in Indonesia, between Borneo and Sumatra. 1866 sq. mi. (4833 sq. km).
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- benevento — a city in S Italy, in N Campania: at various times under Samnite, Roman, Lombard, Saracen, Norman, and papal rule. Pop: 61 791 (2001)
- benitoite — a rare mineral, barium titanium silicate, BaTiSi 3 O 9 , occurring in blue hexagonal crystals exhibiting dichroism.
- bentonite — a valuable clay, formed by the decomposition of volcanic ash, that swells as it absorbs water: used as a filler in the building, paper, and pharmaceutical industries
- betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
- betterton — Thomas, 1635?–1710, English actor and dramatist.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- bilestone — gallstone.
- bimotored — having two engines.
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
- blowtorch — A blowtorch is the same as a blowlamp.
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- bluetooth — Bluetooth is a technology that allows computers, mobile phones and other devices to communicate with each other without being connected by wires.
- bohr atom — See under Bohr theory.
- bondstone — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
- bonington — Sir Chris(tian John Storey). born 1934, British mountaineer and writer; led 1970 Annapurna I and 1975 Everest expeditions; reached Everest summit in 1985
- book into — to reserve a room for (oneself or someone else) at (a hotel)
- bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
- boom town — A boom town is a town which has rapidly become very rich and full of people, usually because industry or business has developed there.
- boot-tops — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- bottom-up — from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
- bottoming — the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure
- box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
- box store — a retail store that sells a limited assortment of basic grocery items, often, as at a warehouse, displayed in their original cartons in order to lower costs and prices.