bullion
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
Base or uncurrent coin.
Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.

bullions
plural of bullion

bumload
A large amount.

bumloads
plural of bumload

bungarotoxin
Any of a number of bacterial toxins derived from the venom of kraits, including Bungarus multicinctus.

bungarotoxins
plural of bungarotoxin

bungaroxin
Misspelling of bungarotoxin.

bungeiside
Any of a group of glucosides found in a number of plants including Aster batangensis, Cynanchum bungei and Artemisia capillaris.

buprestidan
Any of a number of jewel beetles of the family Buprestidae, usually with shiny metallic colours.

buprestidans
plural of buprestidan

burgernomics
An informal measurement of the purchasing power parity between currencies, based on the price of a Big Mac in various countries.

burgwall
A hillfort, a walled fortification.

burgwalls
plural of burgwall

burlaw
Obsolete form of bylaw.

burlaws
plural of burlaw

burner
Someone or something that burns.
An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
Ellipsis of burner account.
An elaborate piece of graffiti.
A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
A gun.
Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).

burners
plural of burner

burnup
A measure of the consumption of fuel in a nuclear reactor.
A high-speed ride in or on a motorcycle or other vehicle.

burnups
plural of burnup

busesful
plural of busful

busful
An amount sufficient to fill a bus.

busfuls
plural of busful

bushchat
Any of a number of small insect-eating birds in the muscicapid genus Saxicola.
Any of several African birds in the genus Cercotrichas.

bushchats
plural of bushchat

bushelage
A duty payable on goods by the bushel.
A quantity of bushels.

bushelages
plural of bushelage

bushlark
Any of a number of species of larks in the genus Mirafra native to areas ranging from Africa through southern Asia to Australia.

bushlarks
plural of bushlark

busload
The amount that can fit on a bus.

busloads
plural of busload

buttload
A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.
A large amount carried in a butt.
Any large but unspecific amount.

buttloads
plural of buttload

butut
A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi.

bututs
plural of butut

buyback
The repurchase of something previously sold, especially of stock by the company that issued it.
A government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction in firearm numbers.
A free drink given to a patron by a bartender.

buybacks
plural of buyback

byelaw
Alternative spelling of bylaw.

byelaws
plural of byelaw

bylaw
A local custom or law of a settlement or district.
A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business).

bylaws
plural of bylaw

byoyomi
A system of time control in some board games, especially go and shogi, in which the player is assigned a number of additional periods (of a fixed time per move) when their initial allotted time runs out.

byrlaw
Obsolete form of bylaw.

byrlaws
plural of byrlaw

byter
A chunk of data having a size of so many bytes.

byters
plural of byter

caban
A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.

cabans
plural of caban

cabinful
The amount that fits in a cabin.

cabinfuls
plural of cabinful

cabinsful
plural of cabinful

cabside
The side of a railway engine cab.
A number plate displayed on the side of a railway engine cab.

cabsides
plural of cabside

cacique
A tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies.
A local political leader in Latin America, Spain, or the Philippines.
Any of a number of tropical birds from Central America and South America in the genera Cacicus, Cassiculus, and Amblycercus.

caciques
plural of cacique

caesium
The chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal.

caesura
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

caesurae
plural of caesura

caesuras
plural of caesura

caffiso
Alternative form of cafiso, particularly in Italian contexts.

caffisos
plural of caffiso

cafiso
Alternative form of qafiz (particularly in Italian contexts)

cafisos
plural of cafiso

cafisso
Alternative form of cafiso, qafiz, particularly in Italian contexts.

cafissos
plural of cafisso

cafiz
Alternative form of qafiz, particularly in Tunisian contexts

cafizes
plural of cafiz

cahier
A roll of sheets of paper put loosely together, especially one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.

cahiers
plural of cahier

cahiz
A traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 665.8 L.
A traditional measure of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a cahiz of seed.

cahizada
Synonym of cahiz as a measure of land.

cahizadas
plural of cahizada

cahizes
plural of cahiz

cahys
Obsolete form of cahiz (“traditional Spanish unit of dry measure”).

cahyses
plural of cahys

cajuela
A large container for gathering coffee cherries in Central America.
The amount that this container can hold, typically 17 liters (4.5 gallons).

cajuelas
plural of cajuela

calcium
The chemical element with atomic number 20: a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
An atom of this element.

calciums
plural of calcium

caliber
Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands.
The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet, a projectile, or a column.
A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other measurements such as cartridge length or black powder capacity. Eg 7.62×39 or 38.40.
Unit of measure used to express the length of the bore of a weapon. The number of calibres is determined by dividing the length of the bore of the weapon, from the breech face of the tube to the muzzle, by the diameter of its bore. A gun tube the bore of which is 40 feet (480 inches) long and 12 inches in diameter is said to be 40 calibers long.
Relative size, importance, magnitude.
Capacity or compass of mind.
Degree of importance or station in society.
Movement of a timepiece.

calibers
plural of caliber

calibre
Alternative form of caliber.

calibres
plural of calibre

californium
A strongly radioactive and highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cf) with an atomic number of 98.