Words in english starting with B

• broom snakeweed — Noun – English ～ low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
• body snatcher — Noun – English ～ someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
• brandy snifter — Noun – English ～ a globular glass with a small top; used for serving brandy
• Baron Snow of Leicester — Noun – English ～ English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
• bar soap — Noun – English ～ soap in the form of a bar
• bath soap — Noun – English ～ soap used as a toiletry
• built-soap powder — Noun – English ～ soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders
• building society — Noun – English ～ British equivalent of United States savings and loan association
• bobby-socker — Noun – English ～ an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)
• ball-and-socket joint — Noun – English ～ a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone
• ball-and-socket joint — Noun – English ～ a joint that can rotate within a socket
• Begonia socotrana — Noun – English ～ semi-tuberous begonia having peltate leaves and rose-pink flowers; Yemen
• baking soda — Noun – English ～ a white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid
• bicarbonate of soda — Noun – English ～ a white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid
• benzoate of soda — Noun – English ～ a white crystalline salt used as a food preservative and antiseptic
• brown soft scale — Noun – English ～ pest on citrus trees
• beta software — Noun – English ～ software that has not yet been released but has received an alpha test and still has more bugs than a regular release; "beta software is usually available only to particular users who will test it"
• bog soil — Noun – English ～ poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation
• battle of Soissons-Reims — Noun – English ～ a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure
• battle of Solferino — Noun – English ～ an indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

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