Nouns starting with B

• Barthold George Niebuhr — Noun – English ～ German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831)
• Bonfire Night — Noun – English ～ effigies of Guy Fawkes are burned on this night
• black-crowned night heron — Noun – English ～ night heron of both Old and New Worlds
• ball nightshade — Noun – English ～ coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States
• bittersweet nightshade — Noun – English ～ poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
• black nightshade — Noun – English ～ Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
• Ballota nigra — Noun – English ～ ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
• Betula nigra — Noun – English ～ birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
• Brassica nigra — Noun – English ～ widespread Eurasian annual plant cultivated for its pungent seeds; a principal source of table mustard
• Blue Nile — Noun – English ～ a headstream of the Nile; joins the White Nile at Khartoum to form the Nile
• Brigit Nilsson — Noun – English ～ Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918)
• Baphia nitida — Noun – English ～ small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
• butyl nitrite — Noun – English ～ a colorless pungent liquid sometimes used as a stimulant drug by drug abusers
• Boehmeria nivea — Noun – English ～ tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax
• bete noire — Noun – English ～ a detested person; "he is an anathema to me"
• background noise — Noun – English ～ extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal
• beurre noisette — Noun – English ～ clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers
• breakfast nook — Noun – English ～ a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen); "the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats"
• basse-normandie — Noun – English ～ a division of Normandy
• Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. — Noun – English ～ United States writer (1870-1902)

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