This page gathers the 1,271 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Uncommon” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 2 of 13: from “ballet” to “cashless”.
- ballet noun A (small) ball i.e. roundel on a coat of arms, called a bezant, plate, etc., according to colour.
- banal adj Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.
- bankfare noun Support for banks from government or other institutions.
- bannal adj Uncommon form of banal.
- Baskerville effect noun The alleged self-fulfilling prophecy that there is an increase in rate of mortality through heart attacks on days considered unlucky…
- batheable adj Able to be bathed.
- bathos noun A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
- battle rifle noun Any service rifle that fires a full power rifle round.
- beaglepuss noun A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
- bean-fed adj Physically nourished by a diet containing beans.
- beanhead noun A person whose head is shaped like a kidney bean.
- beanie noun A cap that fits the head closely, usually knitted from wool.
- bear verb To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- beavage noun The triangle created by the hem of a miniskirt and a woman's legs when she is sitting; the physical feature between a woman's legs…
- bedroom deal noun Any business transaction conducted while in the bedroom, particularly during sexual intimacy.
- beef noun A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
- before noun That which occurred or existed previously.
- beloathed adj Much loathed, fiercely loathed.
- bethatch verb To cover with thatch; to thatch.
- betterment noun An improvement or amelioration.
- bi noun A biceps muscle.
- bibble noun A bit.
- bibliovore noun Someone or something that consumes books.
- biddy noun An attractive girl.
- bin noun Jail or prison.
- birth-to-potty nappy noun Synonym of one-size diaper (“a type of cloth diaper which can be adjusted and lengthened to match the baby's growth, thus allowing the…
- biscuit noun A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
- bitch bag noun A bag sized for a party woman to contain her provisions of a licentious night, a standard back pack or weekender.
- bitching adj Awful, terrible.
- black measles noun Synonym of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- black top noun A middle-market tabloid; a tabloid newspaper aimed at the middle class, perceived as having intermediate journalistic standards between a…
- black-eyed pea noun A member of the American musical group Black Eyed Peas.
- blood test verb To administer or conduct a blood test (on someone).
- blood transfusion noun A refreshing or reinvigoration of something.
- blort noun A snort of mucus or liquid out through the nose, as in response to something unexpected or funny, or the sound of blowing one's nose; also…
- blue cat noun Synonym of blue catfish.
- blurt verb To spurt.
- boardshort noun Boardshorts.
- bobblehead noun An Indian.
- bomb noun Alternative form of boom (“barrier used to obstruct navigation for military or other purposes”)
- Bonglish noun A crossover of Bengali and English language.
- bonism noun Synonym of Bon (“a Tibetan indigenous religion”).
- bonus hole noun The vulva or vagina of a trans man.
- book stuffing noun The practice employed by some self-published authors of artificially inflating the length of their e-books by adding irrelevant content…
- book world noun The world of literature or publishing.
- book-hunt verb To seek out rare or valuable books.
- bookism noun Discrimination against a book based on its content, cover, or authorship.
- bosal noun Alternative form of bozal or bossale (slave born in Africa and recently brought to a colony).
- botherance noun Something that bothers; bother, annoyance, nuisance
- botless adj Without bots; without a bot participating or running. (a piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one)…
- bottling plant noun A factory where other fluids, such as cleaners, are bottled.
- bottom liner noun A performer whose name is listed in the lowest position of the bill advertising a performance.
- boucherie noun A butchershop, especially one in a French-speaking area, and especially one which specializes in pork.
- boustrophedon adj Synonym of boustrophedonic (“written as a boustrophedon”).
- boxer short noun Boxer shorts.
- boy hole noun The vagina of a trans man.
- bozal noun Alternative form of bosal (“noseband on a horse”).
- brain drain verb Of a nation or society, to be deprived of educated or talented people, who in turn migrate to larger cities or more developed nations.
- brainial adj Of or pertaining to the brain.
- Brazilification noun A process in which a nation or society gradually becomes multiracial or multiethnic, depriving it of its former homogeneity.
- bread ticket noun A meal ticket.
- breathe one's last verb To be defeated.
- breathhold noun The act of holding breath.
- breathing apparatus noun The respiratory system of a person or animal.
- breezeful adj Having breezes.
- brick veneer noun A building with such a veneer.
- brillo pad verb To clean, scrub, or scour a surface, specifically pots, pans, or metals, using a brillo pad.
- bristle verb To cause (someone) to be on one's guard or raise one's defenses.
- broad brush noun A style or approach that deals with something in very general, sweeping terms, without attention to fine details or subtle nuances.
- broski noun A Polish person.
- brother-in-law noun The brother of the spouse of one's sibling.
- brownout noun A moment or period where something is weakened, diminished or less effective.
- brune adj Brunette.
- bubblicious adj Relating to a speculative bubble.
- bucket noun A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
- budgetize verb To adapt to, or incorporate into, a budget.
- bulbhead noun A Somali person.
- bulimarexia noun Synonym of bulimia nervosa.
- bullshittism noun The belief that everything is nonsense or untrue; the belief that attempting to be truthful is pointless.
- bundle of joy noun A pet.
- burn out verb To end one's shift at a job.
- burrita noun A Latin American dish of meat and cheese in a tortilla, especially if folded rather than rolled like a burrito.
- butcher boy noun A male prostitute.
- butterfinger noun Synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”).
- bya symbol billion years ago (long scale):10¹² years ago: a trillion years ago (short scale).
- cahoot noun A company or partnership.
- cahoots noun plural of cahoot (“a company or partnership; a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason, hence, a collaboration or…
- calceated adj Synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders.
- calico bean noun A kidney bean.
- camp noun Clipping of campus
- Canadian bacon noun Canadian police officers.
- candidate verb To stand as a candidate for an office, typically for a religious one.
- carbon verb To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
- cardamom noun Synonym of grains of paradise, seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, of East Africa.
- cardboard box noun Someone who is very dull and uninteresting.
- caretaker noun Synonym of caregiver (“a person who provides care to another”).
- carriage noun The act of conveying; carrying.
- carrus noun A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
- casebook adj Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon; a textbook example.
- cashless adj Having no money.