bedaub

bedaub (vt)

1. to smear all over; besmear; soil.

2. to ornament gaudily or excessively.

bellicose

bellicose (adj)

1. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.

2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

boustrophedon

boustrophedon (adv)

1. Of writing, in a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right every line.

boustrophedon (adj)

1. Written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

2. (figurative) Changing direction, going back and forth.

brume

brume (n)

1. (literary) Mist, fog, vapor.

bedlamite

bedlamite (n)

1. (obsolete) A lunatic.

berdache

berdache (n)

1. (Anthropology) Among North American Indians, a transvestite or transgendered person.

beignet

beignet (n)

1. A type of fried donut or fritter covered in powdered sugar.

Baritsu

Bartitsu (n)

1. A form of martial arts based on jujitsu and also incorporating elements of boxing, savate, and stick fighting, popularized by E.W. Barton-Wright in late-Victorian London.

barbule

barbule (n)

1. Any of the secondary barbs that form a fringe of small projections on a feather.

ballotade

ballotade (n)

1. (dressage) A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or on a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.

bactericidin

bactericidin (n)

1. Any antibody that, together with a complement, can kill bacteria.

balustrade

balustrade (n)

1. A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

bandolier

bandolier (n)

1. A pocketed belt for holding ammunition, worn over the shoulder.

bairn

bairn (n)

1. (Northern English dialect, Geordie) A child or baby.

brobdingnagian

brobdingnagian (n)

1. A creature from Brobdingnag (a country in Jonathan Swift's novel entitled Gulliver's Travels).
2. (figuratively) A giant.

brobdingnagian (adj)

1. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.

2. Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.