builder
1: a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action [syn: {detergent builder}] 2: someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) [syn: {constructor...
building
1: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" [syn: {edifice}] 2: the act of...
building block
1: a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids" [syn: {unit}] 2: a block of material used in construction work
building code
1: set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings
building complex
1: a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures [syn: {complex}]
building department
1: the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant [syn: {plant department}]
building permit
1: a document authorizing the holder to construct a building of a particular kind on a particular lot
building site
1: a lot on which there are no permanent buildings [syn: {vacant lot}]
building society
1: British equivalent of United States savings and loan association
building supply house
1: a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures [syn: {building supply store}]
building supply store
1: a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures [syn: {building supply house}]
buildup
1: the act of building up an accumulation; "I envied his rapid buildup of assets"; "a military buildup in preparation for the invasion" 2: the result of the process of accumulation; "the buildup of le...
built in bed
1: a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: {berth}, {bunk}]
built-in
1: existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth" [syn: {constitutional}, {inbu...
built-soap powder
1: soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders [syn: {soap powder}, {washing powder}]
built-up
1: peopled with settlers; "the built-up areas"
buirdly
1: muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term" [syn: {beefy}, {burly}, {hus...
Bujumbura
1: the capital and largest city of Burundi; "Usumbura was renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962" [syn: {Usumbura}, {capital of Burundi}]
Bukharin
1: Bolshevik leader in Russia who advocated gradual collectivism of the farms; was executed in a purge by Stalin (1888-1938) [syn: {Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin}]
Bulawayo
1: industrial city in southwestern Zimbabwe
bulb
1: a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure 2: electric lamp consisting of a glass bulb containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that...
bulbar
1: involving the medulla oblongata; "bulbar paralysis"
bulbar conjunctiva
1: the part of the conjunctiva covering the anterior face of the sclera and the surface epithelium of the cornea [syn: {conjunctival layer of bulb}, {tunica conjunctiva bulbi}]
bulbil
1: small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers [syn: {bulblet}]
bulblet
1: small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers [syn: {bulbil}]
bulblet bladder fern
1: North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets [syn: {bulblet fern}, {berry fern}, {Cystopteris bulbifera}]
bulblet fern
1: North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets [syn: {bulblet bladder fern}, {berry fern}, {Cystopteris bulbifera}]
bulblike
1: like a bulb [syn: {bulbous}]
bulbourethral gland
1: either of two glands that discharge a component of seminal fluid into the urethra; homologous to Bartholin's gland in the female [syn: {Cowper's gland}]
bulbous
1: like a bulb [syn: {bulblike}] 2: curving outward [syn: {bellied}, {bellying}, {bulging}, {bulgy}, {protuberant}]
bulbous iris
1: any of various irises having a rootstock formed like a bulb
bulbul
1: nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry
Bulgaria
1: a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe [syn: {Republic of Bulgaria}]
Bulgarian
1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bulgaria or its people; "the Bulgarian capital is Sofia" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Bulgaria 2: a Slavic language spoken in Bulgaria
Bulgarian capital
1: capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria [syn: {Sofia}, {Serdica}]
bulge
1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form [syn: {bump}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness}, {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion}, {excrescence}] ...
bulge out
1: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: {protrude}, {pop}, {pop out}, {bulge}, {bug out}, {come out}]
bulghur
1: parched crushed wheat [syn: {bulgur}, {bulgur wheat}]
bulginess
1: the property possessed by a rounded convexity [syn: {roundedness}]
bulging
1: curving or bulging outward [syn: {convex}] [ant: {concave}] 2: curving outward [syn: {bellied}, {bellying}, {bulbous}, {bulgy}, {protuberant}]
bulgur
1: parched crushed wheat [syn: {bulghur}, {bulgur wheat}]
bulgur pilaf
1: pilaf made with bulgur wheat instead of rice and usually without meat
bulgur wheat
1: parched crushed wheat [syn: {bulgur}, {bulghur}]
bulgy
1: curving outward [syn: {bellied}, {bellying}, {bulbous}, {bulging}, {protuberant}]
bulima nervosa
1: a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting [...
bulimarexia
1: a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting [...
bulimia
1: a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation [syn: {binge-eating syndrome}] 2: pathologically insatiable hunger (espe...
bulimic
1: suffering from bulimia n : a person suffering from bulimia
bulk
1: the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished" [syn: {majority}] [...
bulk large
1: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn: {brood}, {hover}, {loom}]
bulk mail
1: mail consisting of large numbers of identical items (circulars or advertisements) sent to individual addresses at less than 1st-class rates and paid for in one lot
bulk modulus
1: the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume
bulkhead
1: a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments
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bulkiness
1: an unwieldy largeness [syn: {massiveness}]
bulky
1: of large size for its weight [also: {bulkiest}, {bulkier}]
bull
1: uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle 2: a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got" [syn: {bruiser}, {strapper}, {S...
bull bay
1: evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers [syn: {southern magnolia}, {evergreen magnolia}, {large-flowering magnolia}, {Magnoli...
bull fiddle
1: largest and lowest member of the violin family [syn: {bass fiddle}, {bass viol}, {double bass}, {contrabass}, {string bass}]
bull market
1: a market characterized by rising prices for securities
bull mastiff
1: large powerful breed developed by crossing the bulldog and the mastiff
Bull Moose Party
1: a former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912; its emblem was a picture of a bull moose [syn: {Progressive Party}]
bull nettle
1: coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States [syn: {horse nettle}, {ball nettle}, {ball nightshade}, {Solanum caro...
bull nose
1: a disease of pigs resulting in swelling of the snout
bull pine
1: common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature [syn: {ponderosa}, {ponderos...
Bull Run
1: either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles [syn: {Battle of Bull Run}]
bull shark
1: a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous [syn: {cub shark}, {Carcharhinus leucas}]
bull snake
1: any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes [syn: {bull-snake}]
bull terrier
1: a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers [syn: {bullterrier}]
bull thistle
1: European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States [syn: {boar thistle}, {spear thistle}, {Cirsium vulgare}, {Cirsium lanceolatum}]
bull through
1: push or force; "He bulled through his demands" [syn: {bull}]
bull tongue
1: a heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields
bull's eye
1: in target shooting: a score made by hitting the center of the target; "in repeated sets of five shots his numbers of bull's-eyes varied" 2: the center of a target [syn: {bull}] 3: something that ex...
bull-snake
1: any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes [syn: {bull snake}]
bulla
1: (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: {blister}, {bleb}] 2: the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull [also: {bullae} (pl)]
bullace
1: small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters [syn: {Prunus insititia}]
bullace grape
1: dull-purple grape of southern United States [syn: {muscadine}]
bullate
1: of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered
bullbat
1: mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker [syn: {nighthawk}, {mosquito hawk}]
bullbrier
1: a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shin...
bulldog
1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "...
bulldog ant
1: any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia
bulldog clip
1: a clip with a spring that closes the metal jaws [syn: {alligator clip}]
bulldog wrench
1: a wrench designed to provide a firm grip on something
bulldoze
1: flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
bulldozer
1: large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground [syn: {dozer}]
bullet
1: a projectile that is fired from a gun [syn: {slug}] 2: a high-speed passenger train [syn: {bullet train}] 3: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he sh...
bullet fingerprinting
1: identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it [syn: {ballistic identification}, {ba...
bullet hole
1: a hole made by a bullet passing through it
bullet train
1: a high-speed passenger train [syn: {bullet}]
bullet vote
1: vote cumulatively and distribute the votes according to some principle
bullet-headed
1: obstinate and stupid [syn: {bullheaded}, {pigheaded}] 2: having a small round head
bulletin
1: a brief report especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast v : make public by bulletin
bulletin board
1: a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest [syn: {bulletin board system}, {electronic bulletin board}, {bbs}] 2: a board that...
bulletin board system
1: a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest [syn: {bulletin board}, {electronic bulletin board}, {bbs}]
bulletproof
1: without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a watertight alibi"; "a bulletproof argument" [syn: {ironclad}, {unassailable}, {unshakable}, {watertight}] 2: not penetrable by bullets; "bulle...
bullfight
1: a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators [syn: {corrida}]
bullfighter
1: someone who fights bulls [syn: {toreador}]
Bullfinch
1: United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844) [syn: {Charles Bullfinch}] 2: common Euro...
bullfrog
1: largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice [syn: {Rana catesbeiana}]
bullhead
1: freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines 2: any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States
bullheaded
1: obstinate and stupid [syn: {bullet-headed}, {pigheaded}]
bullheadedness
1: resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires [syn: {stubbornness}, {obstinacy}, {obstinance}, {pigheadedness}, {self-will}]
bullhorn
1: a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier [syn: {loud-hailer}]
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