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| banana oil |
a clear synthetic liquid with a bananalike odor, used as a flavoring or paint solvent, and in the making of lacquers; amyl acetate. |
| baste2 |
to moisten (esp. meat) with a liquid during cooking. |
| bath |
the water or other liquid in which one soaks one's body or a part of one's body. [2/5 definitions] |
| batter2 |
a thick mixture of liquid, flour, eggs, and other ingredients, often baked into bread or cake. |
| bay rum |
a fragrant liquid made from bay leaves and rum or bay leaf oil mixed with alcohol and water, used esp. in toiletries. |
| bead |
a small, spherical object or quantity, such as a drop of liquid or a gas bubble. [1/8 definitions] |
| benzene |
a colorless, volatile, flammable liquid, obtained from petroleum and coal tar and used in or to make a wide variety of chemical products, such as insecticides, motor fuels, and solvents. |
| benzine |
a colorless, liquid mixture of flammable hydrocarbons, used as a solvent in cleaning and dyeing and as a motor fuel. |
| beverage |
any drinkable liquid, usu. excluding water or medicine. |
| bitters |
a liquid flavoring or tonic, often alcoholic, made by steeping bitter roots or herbs, used esp. in cocktails. |
| bladder |
an expandable sac or pouch in humans and animals in which gas or liquid, esp. urine, collects. [1/3 definitions] |
| bleed |
to cause to lose or exude (usu. a liquid or gas). [1/7 definitions] |
| blender |
a machine used to prepare liquid foods by combining, chopping, and mixing at high speeds. |
| blowout |
the sudden bursting of a vessel containing air or liquid under pressure, esp. an automobile tire. [2 definitions] |
| boil1 |
of a liquid, to produce bubbles of vapor when heated to a high enough temperature. [3/8 definitions] |
| boiling point |
the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals atmospheric pressure and the liquid boils. [1/2 definitions] |
| braise |
to cook slowly in a small amount of liquid in a covered pot, esp. after sauteeing in fat. |
| broach |
to create or enlarge (a hole), esp. in order to draw out liquid, as from a cask. [1/7 definitions] |
| bromine |
a chemical element of the halogen group that has thirty-five protons in each nucleus, occurring as a toxic, volatile, dark reddish brown liquid or in various compounds such as acids and salts. (symbol: Br) |
| bubble |
an approximately spherical volume of gas bounded by a liquid or a solid. [3/7 definitions] |
| bubble bath |
a bath with an added liquid, crystal, or powder preparation that creates thick suds and perfumes and softens the water. [2 definitions] |
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