5-letter words containing B
Embark on an exploration of 5-letter words that contain the letter B. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate B within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| about | 7 | used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | wandering about with no place to go |
| maybe | 12 | by chance | - |
| being | 8 | the state or fact of existing | a point of view gradually coming into being |
| bring | 8 | bestow a quality on | She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings |
| bitch | 12 | informal terms for objecting | - |
| break | 11 | (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving | he was up two breaks in the second set |
| blood | 8 | a dissolute man in fashionable society | - |
| black | 13 | make or become black | The smoke blackened the ceiling |
| broke | 11 | lacking funds | - |
| buddy | 12 | a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | - |
| table | 7 | flat tableland with steep edges | - |
| brain | 7 | that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | - |
| begin | 8 | have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | The DMZ begins right over the hill |
| doubt | 8 | uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | - |
| board | 8 | get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.) | - |
| above | 10 | (in writing) at an earlier place | see above |
| balls | 7 | - | - |
| blame | 9 | an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | the police laid the blame on the driver |
| blind | 8 | something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | the holding company was just a blind |
| beach | 12 | an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
| built | 7 | (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | the built liquid detergents |
| build | 8 | make by combining materials and parts | - |
| bunch | 12 | an informal body of friends | - |
| began | 8 | - | - |
| birth | 10 | the process of giving birth | - |
| bobby | 14 | an informal term for a British policeman | - |
| billy | 10 | a short stout club used primarily by policemen | - |
| bread | 8 | informal terms for money | - |
| brave | 10 | possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring |
| bless | 7 | render holy by means of religious rites | - |
| block | 13 | an obstruction in a pipe or tube | we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe |
| brown | 10 | a university in Rhode Island | - |
| bucks | 13 | - | - |
| based | 8 | having a base | firmly based ice |
| badly | 11 | in a disobedient or naughty way | he behaved badly in school |
| below | 10 | further down | - |
| bones | 7 | (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | - |
| bride | 8 | Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523) | - |
| bored | 8 | tired of the world | bored with life |
| beast | 7 | a cruelly rapacious person | - |
| bravo | 10 | a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | - |
| climb | 11 | go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house? |
| bible | 9 | the sacred writings of the Christian religions | - |
| brand | 8 | a name given to a product or service | - |
| boots | 7 | - | - |
| banks | 11 | English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820) | - |
| belly | 10 | the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | - |
| bound | 8 | form the boundary of; be contiguous to | - |
| album | 9 | one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc | - |
| betty | 10 | - | - |
| basic | 9 | reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | a basic story line |
| beats | 7 | a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | - |
| noble | 7 | impressive in appearance | a noble tree |
| blast | 7 | hit hard | - |
| habit | 10 | an established custom | it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening |
| begun | 8 | - | - |
| blown | 10 | breathing laboriously or convulsively | - |
| blade | 8 | especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole | - |
| barry | 10 | - | - |
| burnt | 7 | ruined by overcooking | she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits |
| burns | 7 | celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796) | - |
| robot | 7 | a mechanism that can move automatically | - |
| benny | 10 | United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974) | - |
| cable | 9 | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver | - |
| brush | 10 | the act of brushing your teeth | the dentist recommended two brushes a day |
| cabin | 9 | a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area | - |
| bingo | 8 | a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | - |
| booze | 16 | an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | - |
| bunny | 10 | a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit | - |
| beard | 8 | tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | - |
| basis | 7 | the most important or necessary part of something | the basis of this drink is orange juice |
| abuse | 7 | cruel or inhumane treatment | the child showed signs of physical abuse |
| brief | 10 | a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case | - |
| robin | 7 | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | - |
| burst | 7 | force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | - |
| labor | 7 | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field |
| broad | 8 | showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | a broad political stance |
| thumb | 12 | look through a book or other written material | He thumbed through the report |
| badge | 9 | an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.) | they checked everyone's badge before letting them in |
| blank | 11 | a blank gap or missing part | - |
| beers | 7 | - | - |
| bloke | 11 | a boy or man | he's a good bloke |
| baker | 11 | someone who bakes bread or cake | - |
| brick | 13 | a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
| bleed | 8 | lose blood from one's body | - |
| sober | 7 | become sober after excessive alcohol consumption | Keep him in bed until he sobers up |
| label | 7 | trade name of a company that produces musical recordings | the artists and repertoire department of a recording label is responsible for finding new talent |
| bonus | 7 | an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | - |
| booth | 10 | United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865) | - |
| amber | 9 | of a medium to dark brownish yellow color | - |
| backs | 13 | - | - |
| bench | 12 | persons who administer justice | - |
| tribe | 7 | group of people related by blood or marriage | - |
| lobby | 12 | detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | - |
| brake | 11 | large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | - |
| hobby | 15 | a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | - |
| blond | 8 | a light grayish yellow to near white | - |
| bloom | 9 | produce or yield flowers | The cherry tree bloomed |
| bully | 10 | discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | - |
| bacon | 9 | English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292) | - |
| brass | 7 | the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | - |
| alibi | 7 | a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job |
| rabbi | 9 | a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher | - |
| blues | 7 | a state of depression | he had a bad case of the blues |
| breed | 8 | call forth | - |
| bribe | 9 | payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | - |
| rebel | 7 | break with established customs | - |
| boxer | 14 | someone who fights with his fists for sport | - |
| baked | 12 | dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | land lying baked in the heat |
| rehab | 10 | - | - |
| globe | 8 | the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | - |
| booty | 10 | goods or money obtained illegally | - |
| blink | 11 | keep back by blinking | blink away tears |
| bliss | 7 | a state of extreme happiness | - |
| urban | 7 | located in or characteristic of a city or city life | urban property owners |
| baron | 7 | a very wealthy or powerful businessman | an oil baron |
| orbit | 7 | the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another | he plotted the orbit of the moon |
| buses | 7 | - | - |
| buyer | 10 | a person who buys | - |
| butch | 12 | (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | - |
| crabs | 9 | infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice | - |
| burke | 11 | United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903) | - |
| berry | 10 | United States rock singer (born in 1931) | - |
| abort | 7 | cease development, die, and be aborted | an aborting fetus |
| bathe | 10 | cleanse the entire body | bathe daily |
| elbow | 10 | hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | - |
| hubby | 15 | a married man; a woman's partner in marriage | - |
| broom | 9 | sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | - |
| belle | 7 | a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | she was the belle of the ball |
| cobra | 9 | venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood | - |
| scrub | 9 | dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | - |
| samba | 9 | large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | - |
| brute | 7 | a cruelly rapacious person | - |
| blunt | 7 | make numb or insensitive | - |
| blend | 8 | combine into one | blend the nuts and raisins together |
| tubes | 7 | - | - |
| boost | 7 | an increase in cost | - |
| bowls | 10 | a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack | - |
| probe | 9 | an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | there was a congressional probe into the scandal |
| brace | 9 | a structural member used to stiffen a framework | - |
| bluff | 13 | deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand | - |
| debut | 8 | the act of beginning something new | they looked forward to the debut of their new product line |
| bleep | 9 | a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | - |
| batch | 12 | a collection of things or persons to be handled together | - |
| barge | 8 | a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | - |
| brent | 7 | small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | - |
| abyss | 10 | a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively) | - |
| baton | 7 | a short stout club used primarily by policemen | - |
| fiber | 10 | any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | - |
| abbey | 12 | a church associated with a monastery or convent | - |
| basil | 7 | leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried | - |
| rugby | 11 | a form of football played with an oval ball | - |
| bling | 8 | flashy, ostentatious jewelry | the rapper was loaded with bling |
| baths | 10 | - | - |
| bases | 7 | - | - |
| jumbo | 16 | of great mass; huge and bulky | a jumbo jet |
| bangs | 8 | - | - |
| sahib | 10 | formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name | - |
| mambo | 11 | a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba | - |
| brock | 13 | - | - |
| boner | 7 | an embarrassing mistake | - |
| brink | 11 | a region marking a boundary | - |
| beads | 8 | several beads threaded together on a string | - |
| blaze | 16 | move rapidly and as if blazing | The spaceship blazed out into space |
| bowie | 10 | United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836) | - |
| blush | 10 | turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by |
| budge | 9 | United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000) | - |
| combo | 11 | a small band of jazz musicians | - |
| abide | 8 | put up with something or somebody unpleasant | - |
| gabby | 13 | full of trivial conversation | kept from her housework by gabby neighbors |
| bosom | 9 | a close affectionate and protective acceptance | in the bosom of the family |
| bogus | 8 | fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | - |
| bubba | 11 | - | - |
| broth | 10 | liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | - |
| bates | 7 | - | - |
| zebra | 16 | any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines | - |
| basin | 7 | a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face |
| derby | 11 | a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | - |
| colby | 12 | - | - |
| kirby | 14 | - | - |
| bends | 8 | pain resulting from rapid change in pressure | - |
| pubic | 11 | relating or near the pubis | pubic bones |
| baldy | 11 | a person whose head is bald or shaved | - |
| biker | 11 | a person who rides a bicycle | - |
| banjo | 14 | a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body | - |
| booby | 12 | an ignorant or foolish person | - |
| bumpy | 14 | causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | - |
| buggy | 12 | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | - |
| bambi | 11 | - | - |
| bimbo | 11 | a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men | - |
| bison | 7 | any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | - |
| taboo | 7 | a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature | - |
| borne | 7 | - | - |
| bonny | 10 | very pleasing to the eye | my bonny lass |
| bowel | 10 | the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | - |
| brawl | 10 | to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | - |
| beige | 8 | a very light brown | - |
| bleak | 11 | providing no shelter or sustenance | the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes |
| abode | 8 | any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | - |
| boast | 7 | speaking of yourself in superlatives | - |
| dumbo | 10 | - | - |
| bossy | 10 | offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | a bossy way of ordering others around |
| brits | 7 | the people of Great Britain | - |
| baggy | 12 | not fitting closely; hanging loosely | baggy trousers |
| rabid | 8 | marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | rabid isolationist |
| scuba | 9 | a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | - |
| biggs | 9 | - | - |
| betel | 7 | Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians | - |
| saber | 7 | cut or injure with a saber | - |
| turbo | 7 | - | - |
| kebab | 13 | cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | - |
| bijou | 14 | a small and delicately worked piece | - |
| bitty | 10 | (used informally) very small | - |
| birch | 12 | a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment | my father never spared the birch |
| saheb | 10 | - | - |
| vibes | 10 | a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | - |
| bagel | 8 | (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | - |
| abbot | 9 | the superior of an abbey of monks | - |
| britt | 7 | the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish | - |
| brood | 8 | be in a huff; be silent or sullen | - |
| cubic | 11 | having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions | - |
| nawab | 10 | a governor in India during the Mogul empire | - |
| bugle | 8 | any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | - |
| brook | 11 | put up with something or somebody unpleasant | - |
| bland | 8 | lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | a bland little drama |
| limbo | 9 | the state of being disregarded or forgotten | - |
| pubes | 9 | the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | - |
| boxed | 15 | enclosed in or as if in a box | boxed cigars |
| tubby | 12 | short and plump | - |
| blitz | 16 | a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | - |
| obese | 7 | excessively fat | - |
| bilbo | 9 | - | - |
| sybil | 10 | - | - |
| bowed | 11 | forming or resembling an arch | - |
| banal | 7 | repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | - |
| ebony | 10 | a very dark black | - |
| bough | 11 | any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
| boned | 8 | having had the bones removed | a boned (or deboned) fish |
| gable | 8 | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof | - |
| braid | 8 | form or weave into a braid or braids | braid hair |
| bogey | 11 | an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | - |
| berth | 10 | a job in an organization | - |
| bower | 10 | a framework that supports climbing plants | - |
| crumb | 11 | a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | - |
| bayou | 10 | a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana) | - |
| binge | 8 | any act of immoderate indulgence | an emotional binge |
| baste | 7 | strike violently and repeatedly | - |
| batty | 10 | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | - |
| brisk | 11 | become brisk | business brisked up |
| bulge | 8 | swell or protrude outwards | His stomach bulged after the huge meal |
| bigot | 8 | a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own | - |
| sable | 7 | a very dark black | - |
| weber | 10 | German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826) | - |
| beret | 7 | a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth | - |
| tabby | 12 | female cat | - |
| rumba | 9 | a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | - |
| fable | 10 | a short moral story (often with animal characters) | - |
| yobbo | 12 | a cruel and brutal fellow | - |
| gumbo | 10 | any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water | - |
| briar | 7 | Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | - |
| beaut | 7 | an outstanding example of its kind | his roses were beauties |
| tibia | 7 | the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | - |
| bongo | 8 | large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns | - |
| bakes | 11 | - | - |
| fibre | 10 | any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | - |
| dobby | 13 | - | - |
| blurt | 7 | utter impulsively | He blurted out the secret |
| bitte | 7 | - | - |
| brava | 10 | - | - |
| brawn | 10 | possessing muscular strength | - |
| cabby | 14 | someone who drives a taxi for a living | - |
| banda | 8 | - | - |
| bluey | 10 | - | - |
| bushy | 13 | used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | bushy locks |
| combs | 11 | - | - |
| bandy | 11 | discuss lightly | - |
| biter | 7 | someone who bites | - |
| debit | 8 | an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing | - |
| dweeb | 11 | an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | - |
| bream | 9 | any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae | - |
| bulky | 14 | of large size for its weight | - |
| beget | 8 | make (offspring) by reproduction | - |
| sambo | 9 | - | - |
| babel | 9 | (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another | - |
| bidet | 8 | a basin for washing genitals and anal area | - |
| beech | 12 | any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions | - |
| labia | 7 | - | - |
| belay | 10 | fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
| belch | 12 | a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | - |
| benni | 7 | East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | - |
| libra | 7 | the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22 | - |
| cubby | 14 | a small secluded room | - |
| abhor | 10 | find repugnant | She abhors cats |
| aback | 13 | - | - |
| garbo | 8 | United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990) | - |
| bogie | 8 | an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | - |
| boney | 10 | having bones especially many or prominent bones | - |
| bilge | 8 | water accumulated in the bilge of a ship | - |
| libel | 7 | a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person | - |
| brunt | 7 | main force of a blow etc | bore the brunt of the attack |
| arbor | 7 | a framework that supports climbing plants | the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park |
| biddy | 12 | young bird especially of domestic fowl | - |
| belie | 7 | be in contradiction with | - |
| beefy | 13 | muscular and heavily built | a beefy wrestler |
| plumb | 11 | exactly | fell plumb in the middle of the puddle |
| bwana | 10 | - | - |
| blare | 7 | make a loud noise | The horns of the taxis blared |
| cabal | 9 | a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | - |
| brash | 10 | offensively bold | a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club |
| brine | 7 | water containing salts | - |
| bodhi | 11 | - | - |
| brier | 7 | Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | - |
| debby | 13 | - | - |
| burly | 10 | muscular and heavily built | had a tall burly frame |
| begat | 8 | - | - |
| ruble | 7 | the basic unit of money in Russia | - |
| burry | 10 | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | - |
| burro | 7 | small donkey used as a pack animal | - |
| bared | 8 | having the head uncovered | with bared head |
| blimp | 11 | a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | - |
| bloat | 7 | become bloated or swollen or puff up | The dead man's stomach was bloated |
| beady | 11 | covered with beads or jewels or sequins | - |
| simba | 9 | - | - |
| yerba | 10 | - | - |
| balmy | 12 | mild and pleasant | balmy days and nights |
| bigos | 8 | a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
| barre | 7 | - | - |
| abram | 9 | - | - |
| throb | 10 | expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | - |
| bleat | 7 | cry plaintively | The lambs were bleating |
| barca | 9 | - | - |
| plebe | 9 | a military trainee (as at a military academy) | - |
| mamba | 11 | arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal | - |
| butte | 7 | a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
| beset | 7 | decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | - |
| betta | 7 | - | - |
| biped | 10 | having two feet | - |
| botch | 12 | make a mess of, destroy or ruin | I botched the dinner and we had to eat out |
| brill | 7 | European food fish | - |
| burka | 11 | a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | - |
| burqa | 16 | a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | the Taliban forced all women to wear the burqa |
| busty | 10 | (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | - |
| dobie | 8 | - | - |
| bucko | 13 | - | - |
| beaux | 14 | - | - |
| abate | 7 | become less in amount or intensity | The storm abated |
| sabre | 7 | cut or injure with a saber | - |
| shrub | 10 | a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | - |
| squib | 16 | firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise | - |
| ember | 9 | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | - |
| biggy | 12 | - | - |
| squab | 16 | short and fat | - |
| bluer | 7 | - | - |
| bonne | 7 | - | - |
| beryl | 10 | the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems | - |
| barmy | 12 | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | - |
| embed | 10 | fix or set securely or deeply | - |
| jambo | 16 | - | - |
| bazar | 16 | a shop where a variety of goods are sold | - |
| abuzz | 25 | noisy like the sound of a bee | the room was abuzz over the latest scandal |
| nobly | 10 | in a noble manner | she has behaved nobly |
| blurb | 9 | a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book |
| celeb | 9 | - | - |
| bylaw | 13 | a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members | - |
| bally | 10 | informal intensifiers | what a bally (or blinking) nuisance |
| bawdy | 14 | lewd or obscene talk or writing | they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy |
| bebop | 11 | dance the bebop | - |
| rabat | 7 | the capital of Morocco; located in the northwestern on the Atlantic coast | - |
| blain | 7 | an inflammatory swelling or sore | - |
| bated | 8 | diminished or moderated | our bated enthusiasm |
| baser | 7 | - | - |
| bursa | 7 | a city in northwestern Turkey | - |
| begot | 8 | - | - |
| benes | 7 | - | - |
| adobe | 8 | sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates | - |
| bayer | 10 | the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets | - |
| melba | 9 | Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931) | - |
| brant | 7 | small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | - |
| broil | 7 | be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | The town was broiling in the sun |
| burgh | 11 | a borough in Scotland | - |
| batik | 11 | a dyed fabric; a removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted | - |
| basti | 7 | - | - |
| banns | 7 | a public announcement of a proposed marriage | - |
| begum | 10 | a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan | - |
| beedi | 8 | - | - |
| pubis | 9 | one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis | - |
| robed | 8 | dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | professors robed in crimson |
| tuber | 7 | type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles | - |
| vocab | 12 | - | - |
| beals | 7 | - | - |
| flyby | 16 | - | - |
| hijab | 17 | a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face | - |
| blowy | 13 | abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | blowy weather |
| bahut | 10 | - | - |
| baddy | 12 | - | - |
| bendy | 11 | - | - |
| sabra | 7 | a native-born Israeli | - |
| tubal | 7 | of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube | tubal ligation |
| liber | 7 | - | - |
| briny | 10 | any very large body of (salt) water | - |
| bunco | 9 | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | - |
| bubby | 14 | - | - |
| bulla | 7 | (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | - |
| bevvy | 16 | - | - |
| baric | 9 | of or relating to or containing barium | - |
| basho | 10 | - | - |
| befit | 10 | accord or comport with | - |
| amble | 9 | walk leisurely | - |
| rebut | 7 | overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | - |
| sabot | 7 | a shoe carved from a single block of wood | - |
| sibyl | 10 | (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet | - |
| tabla | 7 | - | - |
| boche | 12 | offensive term for a person of German descent | - |
| boozy | 19 | given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | his boozy drinking companions |
| bonce | 9 | informal terms for a human head | - |
| bolus | 7 | a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine | - |
| bunce | 9 | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | - |
| busby | 12 | tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | - |
| baler | 7 | - | - |
| balsa | 7 | forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts | - |
| blase | 7 | very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond' |
| bantu | 7 | a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent | - |
| plebs | 9 | - | - |
| umber | 9 | a medium brown to dark-brown color | - |
| kabob | 13 | cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | - |
| imbue | 9 | spread or diffuse through | - |
| debug | 9 | locate and correct errors in a computer program code | debug this program |
| brach | 12 | - | - |
| borax | 14 | an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent | - |
| boggy | 12 | (of soil) soft and watery | the ground was boggy under foot |
| bulgy | 11 | curving outward | - |
| buxom | 16 | (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | - |
| corby | 12 | - | - |
| bhang | 11 | a preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant; much used in India | - |
| bialy | 10 | flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | - |
| bever | 10 | - | - |
| bezel | 16 | a sloping edge on a cutting tool | - |
| basal | 7 | especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | basal placentation |
| benet | 7 | United States poet; brother of William Rose Benet (1898-1943) | - |
| ambit | 9 | an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | the ambit of municipal legislation |
| taber | 7 | - | - |
| obeah | 10 | (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | - |
| nobby | 12 | - | - |
| webby | 15 | having open interstices or resembling a web | - |
| jambe | 16 | - | - |
| bourg | 8 | - | - |
| bourn | 7 | an archaic term for a goal or destination | - |
| brise | 7 | - | - |
| bronc | 9 | an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | - |
| bocce | 11 | Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | - |
| blest | 7 | highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | - |
| borer | 7 | a drill for penetrating rock | - |
| burin | 7 | a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving | - |
| baccy | 14 | leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | - |
| barbe | 9 | - | - |
| beaky | 14 | - | - |
| beano | 7 | a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | - |
| adobo | 8 | a dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice | - |
| ombre | 9 | - | - |
| zebec | 18 | - | - |
| jebel | 14 | - | - |
| dobro | 8 | - | - |
| bosun | 7 | a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | - |
| brule | 7 | a member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux | - |
| carob | 9 | long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute | - |
| bairn | 7 | a child: son or daughter | - |
| berks | 11 | - | - |
| barky | 14 | resembling the rough bark of a tree | the rattlesnake's barky scales |
| beaus | 7 | - | - |
| abase | 7 | cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | - |
| tabor | 7 | a small drum with one head of soft calfskin | - |
| gamba | 10 | viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello | - |
| gobby | 13 | - | - |
| grebe | 8 | small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet | - |
| boyar | 10 | - | - |
| braze | 16 | solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point | - |
| boeuf | 10 | meat from an adult domestic bovine | - |
| bunko | 11 | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | - |
| butty | 10 | a sandwich | a bacon butty |
| bight | 11 | a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| bevel | 10 | cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | bevel the surface |
| blahs | 10 | a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction | - |
| basso | 7 | the lowest adult male singing voice | - |
| beery | 10 | smelling of beer | - |
| rebus | 7 | a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words | - |
| tubed | 8 | of a tire; having an inner tube | - |
| zombi | 18 | someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | - |
| hamba | 12 | - | - |
| herby | 13 | - | - |
| imbed | 10 | fix or set securely or deeply | - |
| labra | 7 | - | - |
| looby | 10 | - | - |
| demob | 10 | retire from military service | - |
| boron | 7 | a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder | - |
| bosky | 14 | covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | `bosky' is a literary term |
| broch | 12 | - | - |
| breve | 10 | a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | - |
| boric | 9 | of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | boric acid |
| boffo | 13 | resoundingly successful and popular | for years he was a boffo box office certainty |
| bolas | 7 | - | - |
