English words starting with b - page 327

Meanings of Buttonhook:

noun

A small hook with a long handle for fastening tight buttons (often formerly on buttoned boots).

Usage examples:

A combination buttonhook and zipper puller having a tapered elongated portion can be inserted in bu…

Meanings of Buttoning:

verb

Fasten (clothing) with buttons.

Usage examples:

I buttoned my shirt and knotted my tie

noun

A small disc or knob sewn on to a garment, either to fasten it by being pushed through a slit made for the purpose or for decoration.

Usage examples:

At this stage, they'll also check your garments for slits, broken buttons or zippers, and any other…

Meanings of Buttons:

noun

A nickname for a liveried pageboy, now normally only in pantomimes.

Usage examples:

Teenager scott garnham, star of last october's half a sixpence, is equally at home in comedy roles,…

verb

A small disc or knob sewn on to a garment, either to fasten it by being pushed through a slit made for the purpose or for decoration.

Meanings of Buttonweed:

noun

Any of several herbaceous plants of (or formerly included in) the related genera spermacoce and diodia (family rubiaceae), which are native to tropical and subtropical areas of the americas and frequently regarded as noxious weeds, having small white or pinkish-purple flowers with four lobes and elliptical, pointed leaves (also with distinguishing word).

Meanings of Buttonwood:

noun

An american plane tree.

Usage examples:

The reduction of the famous battle of fallen timbers in august 1794, when wayne defeated the maumee…

Meanings of Buttony:

adjective

Resembling a button, especially in being small and round.

Meanings of Buttress:

noun

A structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it.

Usage examples:

The cathedral's massive buttresses

verb

Provide (a building or structure) with buttresses.

Usage examples:

We buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse

Meanings of Buttressed:

adjective

(of a building or structure) strengthened or supported with a buttress.

Usage examples:

A buttressed wall

verb

Provide (a building or structure) with buttresses.

Usage examples:

We buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse

Meanings of Buttresses:

noun

A structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it.

Usage examples:

The cathedral's massive buttresses

verb

Provide (a building or structure) with buttresses.

Usage examples:

We buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse

Meanings of Buttressing:

verb

Provide (a building or structure) with buttresses.

Usage examples:

We buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse

noun

A structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it.

Usage examples:

The cathedral's massive buttresses

Meanings of Butts:

verb

(of a person or animal) hit (someone or something) with the head or horns.

Usage examples:

She butted him in the chest

noun

A push or blow, especially one given with the head.

Usage examples:

The characters can fight hand to hand using punches, kicks, nudges, butts, combos…

Meanings of Buttstock:

noun

The broad end of a firearm which rests on the shooter's shoulder when firing, and to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached.

Meanings of Butty:

noun

A filled or open sandwich.

Usage examples:

A bacon butty

Meanings of Butut:

noun

A monetary unit of gambia, equal to one hundredth of a dalasi.

Usage examples:

There are banknotes of 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 gambian dalasis, as well as coins of 1, 5, 10, 25 and …

Meanings of Bututs:

noun

A monetary unit of gambia, equal to one hundredth of a dalasi.

Usage examples:

There are banknotes of 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 gambian dalasis, as well as coins of 1, 5, 10, 25 and …

Meanings of Butyl:

noun

Of or denoting an alkyl radical —c4h9, derived from butane.

Usage examples:

Butyl acetate

Meanings of Butyne:

noun

Originally, each of four isomeric unsaturated hydrocarbons with chemical formula c₄ h₆; (in later use specifically) either of the two isomers which are alkynes, used in chemical synthesis.

Meanings of Butyrate:

noun

A salt or ester of butyric acid.

Usage examples:

The mixed ester, cellulose acetate butyrate, has better weatherabilitly and finds use as pipe and t…

Meanings of Butyrates:

noun

A salt or ester of butyric acid.

Usage examples:

The mixed ester, cellulose acetate butyrate, has better weatherabilitly and finds use as pipe and t…

Meanings of Butyrolactone:

noun

A liquid compound used as a solvent and sometimes taken as a recreational drug (being metabolized in the body to produce the active substance ghb).

Meanings of Buxom:

adjective

(of a woman) plump, with a full figure and large breasts.

Usage examples:

A buxom blonde

Meanings of Buy:

verb

Obtain in exchange for payment.

Usage examples:

She bought six first-class stamps

noun

A purchase.

Usage examples:

Wine is rarely a good buy in duty-free shops

Meanings of Buy a pig in a poke:

phrase

Something that is bought or accepted without first being seen or assessed.

Usage examples:

The unwary were apt to buy a pig in the poke

Meanings of Buy in:

phrasal verb

Amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use

noun

A situation in which a person or group buys enough shares in a company to get control of it

Usage examples:

She subsequently led a buy-in of the group and is now its director., the company completed a buy-in…

Meanings of Buy time:

phrase

Delay an event temporarily so as to have longer to improve one's own position.

Usage examples:

He also realised that britain was not well prepared for war and that he needed to buy time to impro…

idiom

To do something that allows you to have more time to finish something

Usage examples:

He tried to buy time by saying he wasn't feeling well.