Words starting with b

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baby minder means: a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working

baby oil means: an ointment for babies

baby powder means: powder used to prevent a baby's diaper from chafing

baby rose means: vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock

baby shoe means: a shoe designed to be worn by infants

baby sitting means: the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home

baby talk means: the developing speech of a young child

baby talk means: an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child

baby tears means: prostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves

baby tooth means: one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children)

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anchusa riparia means: anchusa of southern Africa having blue to red-purple flowers

approvingly means: in an approving manner

bradley method means: a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth by providing education and exercises and nutrition and techniques of breathing and relaxation (with the assistance of the father)

categorematic means: of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition

debile means: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

decimal notation means: any notation that uses 10 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 9)

emeritus means: a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties

emeritus means: honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'

genus tolmiea means: one species: pickaback plant

gilbert islands means: a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979

ill-natured means: having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

illogic means: invalid or incorrect reasoning

infarction means: localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply

isotropically means: in an isotropic manner

lens cortex means: the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus

manat means: the basic unit of money in Azerbaijan

manat means: the basic unit of money in Turkmenistan

powder technique means: a process for identifying minerals or crystals; a small rod is coated with a powdered form of the substance and subjected to suitably modified X-rays; the pattern of diffracted rings is used for identification

pyocyanase means: a yellow-green mixture of antibiotics obtained from the bacillus of green pus

ss means: special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps