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- b chromosome — a type of densely staining chromosome of uncertain biological function, found in many plant and animal species.
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- balkan frame — an overhead frame, fastened to a bed, from which a splinted, fractured leg or arm is suspended and held in traction.
- ballad metre — the metre of a ballad stanza
- ballottement — a technique of feeling for a movable object in the body, esp confirmation of pregnancy by feeling the rebound of the fetus following a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus
- barnstormers — Plural form of barnstormer.
- barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
- barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
- basementless — without a basement
- battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
- beche-de-mer — trepang
- bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- belittlement — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
- bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
- bequeathment — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
- bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
- bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
- biotelemetry — the monitoring of biological functions in humans or animals by means of a miniature transmitter that sends data to a distant point to be read by electronic instruments
- bitter melon — balsam pear.
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black medick — a small European leguminous plant, Medicago lupulina, with trifoliate leaves, small yellow flowers, and black pods
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blood volume — the total quantity of blood in the body
- blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
- blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- board member — a member of board of directors
- bonus scheme — a scheme in a company or other organization according to which employees receive a bonus if they meet specified targets
- booch method — (programming) A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
- boomer state — Oklahoma
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
- bromomethane — methyl bromide.
- bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
- bubblegummer — a young teenager; adolescent.
- burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
- by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
- by any means — in any way possible; at all; somehow
- cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
- calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
- call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
- call-by-name — (reduction) (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.