Words in english starting with B

• box wrench — Noun – English ～ a wrench with a closed loop (a socket) that fits over a nut or bolt head
• brace wrench — Noun – English ～ a wrench shaped like a brace (has a handle shaped like a crank) and a socket head
• Bishop Wulfila — Noun – English ～ a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)
• Benedict XIV — Noun – English ～ pope who was a patron of the arts and who denounced the cruelty to the indigenous peoples of South America (1675-1758)
• Benedict XV — Noun – English ～ pope who founded the Vatican service for prisoners of war during World War I (1854-1922)
• bissextile year — Noun – English ～ a calendar year with an extra day added in February
• baker's yeast — Noun – English ～ used as a leaven in baking and brewing
• bottom fermenting yeast — Noun – English ～ brewer's yeast used in bottom fermentation of lager
• brewer's yeast — Noun – English ～ used as a leaven in baking and brewing
• brewer's yeast — Noun – English ～ yeast used in fermenting beer
• brownish-yellow — Adjective – English ～ of a medium to dark brownish yellow color
• brownish yellow — Noun – English ～ a yellow color of low lightness with a brownish tinge
• bastard yellowwood — Noun – English ～ medium-sized tree of South Africa
• Burmese-Yi — Noun – English ～ the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnan
• blueberry yogurt — Noun – English ～ yogurt with sweetened blueberries or blueberry jam
• Brigham Young — Noun – English ～ United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)
• bloom of youth — Noun – English ～ the best time of youth
• battle of Ypres — Noun – English ～ battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
• battle of Ypres — Noun – English ～ battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
• battle of Ypres — Noun – English ～ battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others

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