English to English Dictionary

Bursary

A grant or financial scholarship provided to a student to help pay for their education, typically awarded based on financial need.

Bursting-point

The critical limit or threshold beyond which a system, container, or individual can no longer withstand pressure or stress and gives way.

Bush-bash

A strenuous journey or trek on foot through dense, uncultivated scrub or brushland without established tracks.

Business-to-consumer

Relating to the commercial transactions between a company and individual end-users.

balderdash

Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.

barb

A sharp projection near the end of an arrow, fishhook, or similar item, angled away from the main point so as to make extraction difficult.

benign

Gentle and kind.

benignity

Kindness or tolerance arising from mildness or gentleness of disposition.

benzene

A colorless, volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbon that is a important industrial solvent and starting material for many organic compounds.

biennial

Taking place once every two years.

bistable

Having two stable states.

blistering

Extreme, very intense, or rapid.