Elementary Vocabulary
36,007 words and 29 expressions at the elementary level.
The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
b'ezrat hashem (Transliterated form of ב״ה, written at the top of documents).
Honorific form of Hebrew patronymic formula, indicating the individual’s father was a rabbi or otherwise worthy of respect.
Initialism of bed and breakfast (“guesthouse”).
plural of B&B
Abbreviation of bondage and discipline.
Initialism of breaking and entering; burglary in general.
Initialism of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Initialism of building and loan (association).
plural of B&L
Initialism of brick and mortar.
Initialism of black-and-white.
Initialism of breastfeed or its inflections.
third-person singular simple present indicative of b'f
plural of b
buddy; male friend; member of one's friend group
plural of b'y
An academic grade awarded by some institutions. Slightly better than a B and slightly worse than an A−.
plural of B+
Abbreviation of bondage and discipline.
Ellipsis of Rockwell B-1 Lancer.
plural of B-1
Ellipsis of Northrop B-2 Spirit; a stealth bomber plane used by the American military.
Ellipsis of Boeing B-29 Superfortress, an American bomber plane primarily used in World War II.
plural of B-2
Initialism of breastfeed or its inflections.
third-person singular simple present indicative of bf
Abbreviation of born.
Initialism of Bachelor of Arts (collegiate degree).
Alternative form of BC; initialism of Before Christ.
Abbreviation of bachelor of engineering.
Alternative form of BF.
Alternative form of BJ.
Initialism of Bachelor of Nursing.
Alternative form of BO.
Alternative form of BQ.
Alternative form of BS.
Abbreviation of backward compatibility.
Initialism of barrels per day.
Initialism of bill of exchange.
Initialism of boyfriend.
plural of b/f
Abbreviation of bill of lading.
Alternative form of o/b/o (“on behalf of”).
Abbreviation of backup.
Initialism of backed with, commonly used with old 45 and 78 RPM records, referring to the flip side (commonly called "B-side") of the record.
A motor vehicle fuel blend of 90% diesel and 10% biodiesel
A motor vehicle fuel composed of pure biodiesel.
plural of B10
Initialism of back-to-back.
Initialism of business-to-consumer.
Initialism of business-to-employee.
Initialism of business-to-government.
Abbreviation of business-to-institutions.
Abbreviation of buy-to-play (“that which can be played with a single, one-time purchase; pay-to-play”).
plural of B2P
Alternative letter-case form of B4 (“before”).
A household with a household income among the bottom 40% of household incomes nationally.
A motor vehicle fuel blend of 95% diesel and 5% biodiesel
plural of B5
Abbreviation of Be'er Sheva.
simple past and past participle of b8
plural of b@
A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
Alternative form of ba (“medieval football game played in Scotland”).
The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep.
Elongated form of baa.
Initialism of bachelor of aeronautical and astronautical engineering.
Initialism of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence in China.
A storm and fertility god of the Phoenician and Canaanite pantheons, reckoned as chief of the gods by the 1st millennium BC.
Bromoacetylalprenololmenthane.
One of the Ogoni languages of Nigeria.
A municipality and lake in Camarines Sur, Bicol Region, Luzon, Philippines.
A surname.
An employer, a boss (frequently used as a form of address).
A barangay of Bagulin, La Union, Philippines.
To fish for eels using a bab.
A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
A surname.
To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
A male given name or nickname
Alternative form of Bábí.
An international auxiliary language designed by Rikichi Okamoto.
A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
Initialism of British Approvals Board for Telecommunications.
A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man.
The state or period of infancy.
Like or suitable for a baby or a young child; childish
A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
A surname.
Clipping of baccalaureate.
A blow; a drubbing.
To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
A type of Italian chocolates made in Perugia.
At or near the rear.
Any pain or ache in the back.
The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
Alternative form of back door.
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
A stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.
A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.
Alternative spelling of back seat.
The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly
A backhanded stroke or blow.
Verbal impudence or argumentative discourse, given in response.
The state of being backward.
A municipality of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.
plural of bac
Abbreviation of bacteria.
Alternative spelling of baddie.
simple past of bid
To mark or distinguish with a badge.
To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.
The quality or degree of being bad.
plural of bad
A surname.
A surname.
Initialism of British Aerospace.
simple past and past participle of bae
A surname from Korean.
A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos.
A surname from German.
plural of bae
A surname.
British Allergy Foundation
A Cape Verdean seafood stew.
To bark; yelp.
Alternative form of abaft.
To achieve a score of 6–0 (as the winner) in a tennis set.
The amount that fills a bag.
A surname.
A small bag, especially a small, clear, plastic bag.
Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
A type of enclosed garden common in south and south-eastern Asia.
A voodoo sanctuary or sacred chamber.
A city in Myanmar near Yangon, formerly known as Pegu.
One who plays the bagpipes.
third-person singular simple present indicative of bag
A barangay of Abulug, Cagayan, Philippines.
Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.
Abbreviation of Bahamas.
A male given name from Arabic.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
plural of bah
The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.
A daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married.
A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
A village in Vărădia de Mureș, Arad County, Romania.
A surname.
A surname.
Ready; willing.
A surname.
plural of bai
To attract with bait; to entice.
plural of bait
A surname from Spanish.
A city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.
Synonym of chiura (“beaten rice”).
A traditional Malay jacket worn with a sarong.
A wooden clapper used in Korean courts and rituals
An evil spirit in Haitian belief, often in the form of an animal.
The act of cooking food by baking.
A shop where baked goods are made and sold.
A barangay of Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
The capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The surface of a mine.
A small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH9235).
One who, or that which, balances.
An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
A person whose head is bald.
present participle and gerund of bald
The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
A province of Indonesia, primarily made up of the island of Bali.
A classical form of dance.
Alternative spelling of ball game.
A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is played.
Alternative form of ball player.
Ellipsis of ballpoint pen; the nib thereof, containing the ball.
A large room used for dancing and banquets.
plural of bal
An ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
A Yao autonomous county in Hechi, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Initialism of black, Asian, and minority ethnic.
Alternative form of bammy (“Jamaican cassava flatbread”).
Initialism of Binary Application Markup Language.
Initialism of By Any Means Necessary.
Alternative form of Bhamo (“Burmese city”).
An idiotic and ill-mannered person.
plural of bam
Those of the Fali people who inhabit Nigeria.
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment.
To fasten with a band.
A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
Alternative spelling of bandana.
To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
A small, open-air platform or enclosure for bands to play on, usually roofed.
Right, directly.
A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
A surname.
plural of ban (currency)
Hashish or henbane.
An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
The business of managing a bank.
A river in County Down, County Armagh, County Antrim and County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, which flows through Lough Neagh.
A surname.
A large celebratory meal; a feast.
plural of ban
A surname.
Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine
money, food, or other provisions taken to school, work, or on a journey.
Initialism of British Army of the Rhine.
plural of BAO
plural of bap
Abbreviation of baptism.
A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.
father
To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
Alternative form of bary-.
Abbreviation of baritone horn.
A genre of homoerotic media, usually also pornographic, typically created by gay men and targeted at gay men in Japan.
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.
Alternative spelling of barbed wire.
The surface, the (bare) skin.
Wearing nothing on the feet.
Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
Acronym of Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones And Raw Food, a raw food diet for dogs or cats.
An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds themself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds themself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Bari and the region of Apulia, Italy.
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
bosom
The yard associated with or surrounding a barn.
A surname.
A gewog of Punakha District, Bhutan.
To make the sound of an elephant.
A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
plural of bar
Alternative form of bar stool.
Abbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).
One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.
A fibrous substance derived from the sugar palm (Arenga pinnata) used as caulk.
An indigenous people of northwest Brazil and Venezuela.
Alternative form of Bari.
plural of ba
Kiss.
The catfish Pangasius bocourti.
Abbreviation of Bachelor of Applied Science.
Low in height; short.
A player positioned at or near a base: first baseman, second baseman or third baseman.
A German chemical manufacturer.
To abash (make ashamed)
Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.
The quality or property of being bashful
plural of basic
To place in a basket or baskets.
A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
The amount that will fit into a basket
Initialism of Black American Sign Language.
Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
Inner bark of a tree from which rope is traditionally made.
Alternative form of Bose.
Belonging to or associated with Batman; sometimes said of bat-themed objects used by him.
A ceremonial double-headed drum played in triplet in the religion of santería, especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico, originally from the Yoruba of Nigeria.
A boy employed to watch over the bats, and assist the players in retrieving them during play.
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
To reduce the force of something; to abate.
Initialism of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (now the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives).
One who bathes (cleans oneself with water, for example in a bathtub).
Alternative spelling of bath mat.
A robe usually made of terrycloth intended to be worn when one is still damp from bathing or when there is no immediate need to dress fully.
Alternative form of batty (“buttocks, anus; homosexual man”).
A municipality of Catanduanes, Philippines.
A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
plural of bat
Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
A park in Manhattan, New York City.
A contest, a struggle.
The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.
A location where a battle may be fought, or has been fought.
A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
A Mongolian male given name, notably borne by Batu Khan, a Mongol ruler.
A surname.
A batzen (former small copper coin from Germany and Switzerland).
Alternative spelling of bata.
A surname.
Alternative spelling of boff (to have sexual intercourse).
One of a class of a syncretic religious sect of hardy, mystic minstrels from rural Bengal.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname from French.
A surname.
plural of Bau
A surname from French.
silkworm thread extruded as brins from the two glands and stuck together with sericin proteins
A surname.
Alternative form of bok (“clucking sound of a chicken”).
A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
A kind of free reed wind instrument from China that is shaped like a flute.
A surname.
A surname.
A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
Ploceus philippinus, a weaverbird of southern Asia.
Obsolete form of bay.
A district of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
A barangay of Calbayog, Samar, Philippines.
plural of bay
Obsolete form of bait.
A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar.
Any of three species of small, crested hawks in the genus Aviceda.
To stupefy; frighten; alarm.
Alternative letter-case form of BaZi
A barangay of Legazpi, Albay, Philippines.
Alternative form of Baal.
Initialism of baseband.
Initialism of balanced budget amendment.
Initialism of British Best All-Rounder: an annual British cycle-racing competition.
Initialism of Better Business Bureau.
Bilateral bundle branch block.
Initialism of battleship battle group.
Initialism of bareback blowjob: fellatio without a condom.
Initialism of big beautiful black man.
plural of BBB
Initialism of big beautiful black woman.
Initialism of British Broadcasting Corporation.
plural of BBC
Initialism of bigger better deal: a potentially better romantic or sexual partner than one's current partner, for whom one may be on the lookout.
plural of BBD
Initialism of best before end: used to indicate a use-by date at the end of a specified month.
Initialism of big bad evil guy.
Initialism of British Board of Film Classification.
Initialism of Broadcasting Board of Governors.
plural of BBG
Initialism of brain–brain interface.
plural of BBI
Volumes of crude oil pumped, stored, or sold (in bulk).
plural of bbl
Initialism of BlackBerry Messenger.
third-person singular simple present indicative of BBM
Initialism of Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
plural of BBN
Initialism of benzyl butyl phthalate.
Abbreviation of barbecue.
third-person singular simple present indicative of BBQ
plural of BB
plural of BBS
Initialism of bank bill swap rate.
Initialism of Big Bang Theory, a US sitcom first aired in 2007.
Initialism of big beautiful woman, used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive.
plural of BBW
Initialism of Before Christ.
Initialism of British Central Africa.
Initialism of branched-chain amino acid.
Abbreviation of British Civil Airworthiness Requirements.
plural of BCA.
Initialism of Blue Cross Blue Shield (Association), a federation of health insurance companies in the USA.
Alternative letter-case form of bcc; initialism of blind carbon copy.
Initialism of British Columbia Court of Appeal.
Initialism of Board of Control for Cricket in India.
plural of bcc
Initialism of blue compact dwarf.
Acronym of Bases Conversion and Development Authority.
plural of BCD
Initialism of Before the Common Era, Before the Current Era, or Before the Christian Era.
Abbreviation of British Columbian.
Initialism of bromochlorodifluoromethane.
Initialism of bacillus of Calmette and Guérin (“Bacille Calmette-Guérin”), a vaccine for tuberculosis developed by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin.
Abbreviation of butyrylcholinesterase.
A solution stack consisting of the OpenBSD operating system, C programming language, httpd web server, and SQLite database.
Initialism of bit-count integrity.
plural of BCI
Abbreviation of Buckinghamshire.
Initialism of Bachelor of Civil Law.
plural of BCL
Initialism of bank cubic meter, a measure of the original volume of excavated material as it was in the ground, prior to removal.
Initialism of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian treated commonly (Serbo-Croatian).
Initialism of Baja California Norte: a state of Mexico.
Initialism of Boyce-Codd normal form.
Initialism of bis-chloroethylnitrosourea (also called carmustine).
Initialism of British Commonwealth Occupation Force, a force which occupied Japan 1946-1952.
Initialism of Book of Common Prayer.
Initialism of British Columbia Provincial Court.
Initialism of Baltimore County Police Department
Initialism of Basic Combined Programming Language: a programming language of the 1960s intended for writing compilers and on which the later language C was based.
Initialism of bovine contagious pleuropneumonia.
plural of BCP
B cell receptor
plural of BCR
Initialism of best-case scenario.
Initialism of British Columbia Supreme Court.
Initialism of basic call state model.
Initialism of brigade combat team.
Initialism of British Columbia Teachers' Federation.
plural of BCT
Initialism of big close-up.
Initialism of Best Corrected Visual Acuity.
Abbreviation of blood culture.
Abbreviation of boulevard.
Initialism of Blu-ray Disc Java.
Abbreviation of board.
Initialism of British Dental Association.
Abbreviation of benzyldimethylhexadecylammonium chloride.
plural of BDA
The station code of Vrindavan railway station in India.
Initialism of bullet drop compensation.
plural of BDC
Initialism of binary decision diagram.
plural of BDD
Initialism of bond dissociation energy.
plural of BDE
Initialism of Bahrain Defence Force.
Abbreviation of Bedfordshire or Bedford.
Initialism of benevolent dictator for life.
plural of BDF
Abbreviation of board foot.
Initialism of Beck Depression Inventory
Abbreviation of bundle.
Abbreviation of bundle.
Abbreviation of Brandon: a city in Manitoba, Canada.
branched DNA - an assay that reveals the presence of DNA or RNA fragments (from hepatitis C) in the bloodstream
Initialism of brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
Initialism of Big Dumb Object.
plural of BDO
Initialism of Botswana Democratic Party.
Initialism of bidirectional reflectance distribution function.
Abbreviation of bedroom.
plural of BD
A variety of often erotic practices involving bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, dominance and submission, and other related interpersonal dynamics.
Initialism of British Double Summer Time.
Initialism of British Dependent Territories Citizen, a type of British national with ties to a British overseas territory.
Initialism of battle dress uniform.
Initialism of Big Design Up Front.
Initialism of backing diagonally to the wall.
A diminutive of the female given name Beatrice.
Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.
Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
simple past and past participle of bead
Decorative work involving beads.
A ring.
To strike with the beak.
A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.
To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
Able to be borne; tolerable; endurable.
Having a beard; involving a beard.
Lacking a beard.
Bearded.
One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
Having physical or temperamental characteristics like those of a bear.
The pelt of a bear, especially when used as a rug.
A river of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in northern India, rising in the Himalayas and emptying into the Sutlej.
A beatnik.
Able to be beaten or bettered.
A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
A female given name.
Initialism of business email compromise, a kind of cyberattack.
A stream or small river.
Acronym of booster engine cut-off.
begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
plural of BEC
Obsolete form of Vedda.
A small nocturnal insect pest of humans, of species Cimex lectularius (common bedbug) and Cimex hemipterus (tropical bedbug) that feeds on the blood of humans during sleep.
Sheets, blankets, quilts or other coverings used on a bed.
The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
Prayer, request, supplication
University of Bedfordshire, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
A surname.
To shut; make or put to.
Any of the four upright supports of a bedstead.
A roll of bedding that can be carried when hiking or camping etc.
plural of bed
A position at the side of one's bed.
The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket.
Alternative form of bedouin.
A city in central Maharashtra, India.
Pronunciation spelling of big, imitating certain foreign accents.
To fill (a place) with busy activity.
A diminutive of the male given name BJ.
To expose to a source of heat for warmth and pleasure.
A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.
a lake-like wetland with static water in a flood plain
A surname.