Nouns starting with B

• Bolivian monetary unit — Noun – English ～ monetary unit in Bolivia
• Board of Trade unit — Noun – English ～ a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of 1000 watts operating for one hour
• Belarusian monetary unit — Noun – English ～ monetary unit in Belarus
• Bulgarian monetary unit — Noun – English ～ monetary unit in Bulgaria
• British thermal unit — Noun – English ～ a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure; equivalent to 251.997 calories
• British monetary unit — Noun – English ～ monetary unit in Great Britain
• British capacity unit — Noun – English ～ a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet
• Brazilian monetary unit — Noun – English ～ monetary unit in Brazil
• Brown University — Noun – English ～ a university in Rhode Island
• balls-up — Noun – English ～ something badly botched or muddled
• booze-up — Noun – English ～ revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
• blowing up — Noun – English ～ a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him"
• bringing up — Noun – English ～ helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
• bust-up — Noun – English ～ a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)
• bust-up takeover — Noun – English ～ a leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover
• built-up-tag — Noun – Danish ～ fladt tag af tagpap og med meget svag hældning
• battle of Valmy — Noun – English ～ the French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery)
• book value — Noun – English ～ the value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet; equals cost minus accumulated depreciation
• ball valve — Noun – English ～ any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball
• bicuspid valve — Noun – English ～ valve with two cusps; situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle

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