Words ending
in B.

A cloth or plastic shield tied under a child's chin to keep clothes clean.

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A taxi; also, the part of a truck or train where the driver sits.

Origin: A shortening of cabriolet

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A young bear, lion, fox or wolf.

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The flowing out of the tide away from the shore; also, to slowly grow less.

Origin: Old English ebba

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A piece of work; also, the work a person does to earn money.

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A laboratory, a room for science experiments; also, a Labrador retriever dog.

Origin: A shortening of laboratory

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A ball or sphere, such as the sun or a planet.

Origin: Latin orbis (circle)

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One of the curved bones around the chest.

Origin: Old English ribb

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To move something back and forth while pressing on it.

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A wide, open container, such as a bathtub.

Origin: Middle Dutch or Middle Low German tubbe

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A net of fine threads spun by a spider; also, the World Wide Web.

Origin: Old English webb

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A device made to explode.

Origin: French bombe or Italian or Spanish bomba

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The glass part of an electric lamp; also, the round underground part of a plant such as an onion or tulip.

Origin: Latin bulbus, from Greek bolbos

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A heavy stick; also, a group of people who meet for a shared interest.

Origin: Old Norse klubba

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A strip with a row of teeth for tidying hair; the b is silent.

Origin: Old English camb

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A sea animal with a hard shell, ten legs and large claws.

Origin: Old English crabba

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A small bed with high sides for a baby.

Origin: Old English cribb

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The raised edge of a street (British: kerb); also, to hold something back.

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A plant whose leaves are used in cooking or medicine, such as basil or mint.

Origin: Latin herba (grass, plant)

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A round handle, as on a door or drawer.

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A young sheep; the b is silent.

Origin: Old English lamb

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An arm, a leg or a wing; also, a large branch of a tree.

Origin: Old English lim

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Unable to feel anything, often from cold.

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A grave or a building where a dead person is buried.

Origin: Anglo-French tumbe, from Late Latin tumba

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A word that names an action or a state, such as run or be.

Origin: Latin verbum (word)

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A short piece of writing praising a book, often printed on its cover.

Origin: Coined by the American humorist Gelett Burgess

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A tree whose sweet pods are used as a chocolate substitute.

Origin: Middle French carobe, from Arabic kharrūb

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An informal word for a celebrity.

Origin: A shortening of celebrity

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To go up something using your hands and feet; the b is silent.

Origin: Old English climban

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A very small piece of bread, cake or biscuit.

Origin: Old English cruma

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An area outside a city, beyond its suburbs, where people live.

Origin: ex- + suburb

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A variant spelling of kebab.

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Cubes of meat, often cooked with vegetables on a skewer.

Origin: Arabic or Persian kabāb, from Turkish kebap

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Exactly straight up and down; also, to measure how deep something is.

Origin: Latin plumbum (lead)

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To rub something hard to clean it.

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A woody plant smaller than a tree, with several stems; a bush.

Origin: Old English scrybb

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A young pigeon.

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To beat or pulse strongly, as a sore finger can.

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The short, thick finger at the side of the hand; the b is silent.

Origin: Old English thūma

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To soak up a liquid; also, to take in information.

Origin: Latin absorbēre, through French

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A word that tells how, when or where, such as quickly or soon.

Origin: Latin adverbium

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Calm confidence, especially in a difficult situation.

Origin: French, from à plomb (straight up and down)

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An angel, often shown in art as a chubby child with wings.

Origin: Hebrew kərūbh, through Greek and Latin

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A spider's web, especially an old dusty one.

Origin: Middle English coppeweb, from coppe (spider) + web

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To place in a tomb.

Origin: en- + tomb

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A lot of noise and busy activity.

Origin: Perhaps of Irish origin

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A large beetle that was sacred to the ancient Egyptians.

Origin: Latin scarabaeus

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An area where people live on the edge of a city.

Origin: Latin suburbium

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Excellent; of the very highest quality.

Origin: Latin superbus (proud)

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A large tub that you fill with water to wash your body.

Origin: bath + tub

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A crumb of bread; the b at the end is silent.

Origin: bread + crumb

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An underground cemetery of tunnels with places for tombs.

Origin: Middle French catacombe, probably from Old Italian catacomba

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To interrupt someone; also, to worry or upset someone.

Origin: Latin disturbare

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A knob that you turn to open a door.

Origin: door + knob

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A mass of six-sided wax cells made by bees to hold honey.

Origin: honey + comb

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The glass bulb that gives off light in an electric lamp; also spelled light bulb.

Origin: light + bulb

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A short, well-known saying with advice, such as "Look before you leap".

Origin: Latin proverbium

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A plant whose red or pink stalks are cooked and eaten.

Origin: Medieval Latin rheubarbarum

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To give in to something too strong to resist.

Origin: Latin succumbere

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A car with a driver that you pay to take you somewhere; a taxi.

Origin: taxi(meter) + cab(riolet)

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