Words in english starting with B

• battle of the Philippine Sea — Noun – English ～ a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte
• Battle of the Spanish Armada — Noun – English ～ in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England
• Battle of the Ardennes Bulge — Noun – English ～ a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
• Battle of the Bulge — Noun – English ～ a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
• battle of the Chemin-des-Dames — 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 the Marne — Noun – English ～ a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918
• Battle of the Little Bighorn — Noun – English ～ a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
• Book of the Prophet Daniel — Noun – English ～ an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar
• Billie the Kid — Noun – English ～ United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881)
• Bel and the Dragon — Noun – English ～ an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel
• Bearer of the Sword — Noun – English ～ a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping; "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives"
• Bureau of the Census — Noun – English ～ the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States
• burning at the stake — Noun – English ～ execution by fire
• Boy Orator of the Platte — Noun – English ～ United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
• bottom of the inning — Noun – English ～ the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
• break of the day — Noun – English ～ the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"
• breach of the peace — Noun – English ～ any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled
• Breughel the Elder — Noun – English ～ Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569)
• Bachelor of Theology — Noun – English ～ a bachelor's degree in theology
• Bayes' theorem — Noun – English ～ (statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause

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