Word origins

• BarabraThe Nubian peoples of northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
• baro-pressure
• bary-Weight or pressure.
• baryliteAn orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing barium, beryllium, oxygen, and silicon.
• baryo-baryon
• baryonyxBaryonyx walkeri, a theropod from the Cretaceous period discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England by William Walker, believed to be an ancestor of Spinosaurus.
• barysiliteA trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing lead, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
• barytesBarite.
• barythymiaA depressed state of mind.
• barytonesisThe shift of accent from the last syllable of a stem or word to a preceding syllable.
• basiceriteThe second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
• basidiumA small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.
• basihyalEither of two small bones that form the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
• basileanA royalist; a partisan of a king.
• basileiolatryWorship of the king.
• basileolatrybasileiolatry
• basiliconAny of various ointments believed to have “sovereign” virtues.
• basilolatrybasileiolatry
• basophobiaInability to walk or stand erect, due to emotional causes.
• bathmismA supposed growth force in vitalism.
• bathmophobiaThe fear of stairs and steep slopes.
• bathukolpicDeep-bosomed.
• bathy-deep, especially deep sea
• batologistA botanist who studies the genus Rubus, i.e. brambles.
• batologyThe scientific study of plants in the genus Rubus, commonly known as brambles.
• batrachologyThe study of amphibians
• batrachophagousFeeding on frogs.
• batrachophobiaFear of frogs.
• battologyContinual unnecessary reiteration of the same words, phrases, or ideas.
• baubonA dildo.
• baylisascariasisinfection with Baylisascaris nematodes
• bdellatomyThe snipping off the tail of a leech engaged in sucking human blood, in order to let the blood run out of it and so increase its powers of drawing blood.
• bdellinAny of a class of proteinase inhibitors found in leeches.
• bdelloidOf or pertaining to rotifers of the subclass Bdelloidea
• bdelloid rotiferOne of a class of rotifers in the class Bdelloidea, found in freshwater and moist soil.
• bdelygmiaAbnormal disgust at or loathing of food.
• BeerothA biblical city seven miles northwest of Jerusalem; an ancient Hivite settlement, mentioned in Joshua 9:17, 18:25, 2 Samuel 4:2-3, Ezra 2:25 and Nehemiah 7:29.
• beloidResembling an arrow, particularly in having a narrow and pointed shape; arrowlike.
• belomancyStudying the flight of arrows, an ancient form of divination used by the Greeks and Arabs.
• beloniteA miniscule acicular or dendritic crystallite sometimes found in glassy volcanic rocks.
• belonoidShaped like a needle.
• bentho-Benthic, related to the benthos.
• beside oneselfOvercome; consumed by an emotion.
• bi-Two in number.
• biastophileOne who has biastophilia.
• biastophiliaA paraphilia involving sexual arousal from committing rape.
• biastophiliacOne who has biastophilia.
• biastophilicOf or relating to biastophilia.
• biblio-book
• bibliochresisThe use of books.
• bibliokleptA person who steals books.
• bibliologyThe study of the history of books and the art of printing.
• bibliopegyThe art of bookbinding.
• bibliophageA person who loves to read books; a bookworm.
• bibliopoesyThe making of books.
• bikontA eukaryotic cell with two flagella; thought to be the ancestor of all plants.
• biochoreA group of similar biotopes.
• -biontForms nouns for a discrete living organism that has a specified mode of living.
• biopedturbationThe mixing or disturbance of soil by living organisms, as opposed to disturbance of other media such as sediment or leaf litter.
• biotaxyThe classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.
• -bioticUsed to form adjectives describing a method of living.
• -blastan immature cell or tissue
• blast cellA cell that produces something, such as a fibroblast or osteoblast.
• blastemaA clump of undifferentiated cells or blasts, from which an organ or body part will develop, either during the normal growth of an embryo or in the regeneration of a lost body part.
• blastesisBudding or growth of new mineral crystals in solid rock.
• blasto-bud; budding; germination
• blastophthoriaDegeneration of the germ cells as a result of poisoning by syphilis, lead, alcohol, opium, etc.
• blenno-Mucus.
• blennophobeA person who has blennophobia.
• blennophobiaThe irrational fear of slime.
• blennorrhoeaA flow of mucus.
• blepharalRelating to the eyelids
• blepharo-Eyelid.
• blepharoneyelid.
• bloodflowerAny plant in the genus Haemanthus, bulbous African plants of the amaryllis family.
• BoanergesA vociferous preacher or orator.
• BoedromionA month of the ancient Attic calendar, approximately September/October.
• BoikiSynonym of White Serbia.
• bomphiologiaExaggeration done in a self-aggrandizing manner, as a braggart; pompous, bombastic speech wherein small or trivial things are described with great, gasping words.
• boneseedAn upright shrub in the sunflower family (Osteospermum moniliferum, syn. Chrysanthemoides monilifera), native to South Africa but is an invasive pest in Australia and New Zealand.
• BorborianA Borborite.
• borborigmusA rumbling sound made by the movement of gas in the intestines.
• BorboriteA member of an ancient libertine Gnostic sect, said to be descended from the Nicolaitans.
• boreo-northern
• born to the purpleBorn and raised in a royal family.
• bothriumA protruding cup or small groove used for adhesion, especially in cestodes.
• bothrosAn artificial hole or depression in the ground, used for washing and libations, etc. in ancient times.
• botry-Cluster of grapes.
• botryogenA hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral.
• botryoidA determinate inflorescence, similar to a raceme, taking the form of flowers arranged alongside an axis.
• botryoliteA variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.
• boukólos ruleA rule of the Proto-Indo-European reconstructed language that states that a labiovelar stop (*kʷ, *gʷ, *gʷʰ) dissimilates to an ordinary velar stop (*k, *g, *gʰ) next to the vowel *u or its corresponding glide *w.
• bouleuterionA building in Ancient Greece, housing the boule (council of citizens), where public affairs were discussed.
• bouleutescounsellor
• bouleuticPertaining to the curial class from which were drawn councils in Ancient Greece.
• boustrophedicSynonym of boustrophedonic (“written as a boustrophedon”).
• boustrophedicallySynonym of boustrophedonically (“as a boustrophedon or in a boustrophedonic manner”).
• boustrophedonText written such that its direction alternates on each line, resulting in a continuous stream of characters spanning multiple lines; frequently also involving the corresponding alternation of letter directionality using mirrored letters, indicating the direction of the text at any given point.
• boustrophedonallySynonym of boustrophedonically (“as a boustrophedon or in a boustrophedonic manner”).
• boustrophedonicWritten as a boustrophedon (such that the text directionality alternates on each line, resulting in a continuous stream of characters spanning multiple lines).