Words in english starting with B

• ballast resistor — Noun – English ～ a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
• blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging — Noun – English ～ functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation
• bed rest — Noun – English ～ confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick or injured persons)
• beat a retreat — Verb – English ～ depart hastily
• Burmeisteria retusa — Noun – English ～ of southern South America
• Book of Revelation — Noun – English ～ the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle
• book review — Noun – English ～ a critical review of a book (usually a recently published book)
• bill of review — Noun – English ～ a proceeding brought to obtain an explanation or an alteration or a reversal of a decree by the court that rendered it
• Bloodless Revolution — Noun – English ～ the revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (1688-1689)
• Balaeniceps rex — Noun – English ～ large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe
• Begonia rex — Noun – English ～ any of numerous usually rhizomatous hybrid begonias derived from an East Indian plant having rough-textured leaves patterned in silver and bronze and purple and red-brown with inconspicuous flowers
• black rhinoceros — Noun – English ～ African rhino; in danger of extinction
• bog rhubarb — Noun – English ～ small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas
• baba au rhum — Noun – English ～ a baba soaked in rum
• beginning rhyme — Noun – English ～ use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"
• beta rhythm — Noun – English ～ the normal brainwave in the encephalogram of a person who is awake and alert; occurs with a frequency between 12 and 30 hertz
• blue-ribbon — Adjective – English ～ selected or chosen for special qualifications; "the blue-ribbon event of the season"
• blue ribbon — Noun – English ～ an honor or award gained for excellence
• blue ribbon committee — Noun – English ～ an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue
• blue ribbon jury — Noun – English ～ a jury whose members are selected for special knowledge for a case involving complicated issues

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