Words in english starting with B

• Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu — Noun – English ～ French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
• Bernard Law Montgomery — Noun – English ～ English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976)
• broad-leaved montia — Noun – English ～ succulent plant with mostly basal leaves; stem bears 1 pair of broadly ovate or heart-shaped leaves and a loose raceme of 3-10 white flowers; western North America
• blue moon — Noun – English ～ a long time; "something that happens once in blue moon almost never happens"
• black morel — Noun – English ～ a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age
• bell morel — Noun – English ～ a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top
• beefsteak morel — Noun – English ～ a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown
• Bombyx mori — Noun – English ～ stocky creamy-white Asiatic moth found almost entirely under human care; the source of most of the silk commerce
• beach morning glory — Noun – English ～ a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas
• bound morpheme — Noun – English ～ a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
• bricks and mortar — Noun – English ～ building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them
• black moss — Noun – English ～ dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
• bog moss — Noun – English ～ any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
• beard moss — Noun – English ～ greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees
• bon mot — Noun – English ～ a clever remark
• bombycid moth — Noun – English ～ moderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk
• bee moth — Noun – English ～ moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs
• Brownian motion — Noun – English ～ the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid
• burial mound — Noun – English ～ (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
• Bernese mountain dog — Noun – English ～ large powerful long-haired black-coated Swiss dog with deep tan or russet markings on legs and white blaze and feet and chest marking; formerly used for draft

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