| blanket |
a thick, rectangular piece of woven material used on a bed for warmth or worn as a garment. [5 definitions] |
| blank verse |
unrhymed verse, usu. in iambic pentameter. |
| blare |
to sound loudly and harshly. [3 definitions] |
| blarney |
skillful or smooth talk, often with some deceit and in an effort to gain favor from the listener. [2 definitions] |
| Blarney stone |
a stone in Blarney Castle in Ireland, reputed to give the gift of blarney to those who kiss it. |
| blasé |
unstimulated or unimpressed, usu. due to a feeling that one has already experienced more or better. |
| blaspheme |
to speak with disrespect or impiety of (a deity or anything sacred). [2 definitions] |
| blasphemous |
containing or marked by blasphemy; irreligious. |
| blasphemy |
disrespect or irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable, esp. God. |
| -blast |
bud, embryo, cell layer, or other generative unit. |
| blast |
a powerful and sudden gust or stream. [12 definitions] |
| blasted |
ruined. [2 definitions] |
| blastema |
an undifferentiated or primitive mass of cells, as in an embryo or regenerating organ, that is capable of becoming organized into a specific tissue or organ. |
| blast furnace |
a large, vertical furnace in which metal, esp. iron, is smelted from ore by means of heat intensified by a blast of air forced in at the bottom. |
| blastocyst |
a blastula. |
| blastoff |
a launching of a rocket-driven missile or spacecraft. |
| blastomere |
any of the first cells produced when a fertilized ovum divides. |
| blastula |
an embryo in an early stage of development that consists of a single layer of cells forming a hollow sphere. |
| blat |
to give a cry of or like a sheep; bleat. [3 definitions] |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. [2 definitions] |
| blather |
meaningless or foolish chatter. [2 definitions] |