basis
A physical base or foundation.
A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
An underlying condition or circumstance.
A regular frequency.
The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.

basises
plural of basis

basketful
The amount that will fit into a basket

basketfuls
plural of basketful

basketsful
plural of basketful

basocytopenia
basopenia

batchsize
The number of items in a batch.

batchsizes
plural of batchsize

bathyphase
The time period in a cycle during which the cycle is low, especially the lower part of a sine wave fitted to a measurement of a circadian pattern or other biological rhythm.

bathyphases
plural of bathyphase

batton
Archaic spelling of batten.
Archaic spelling of baton.

battons
plural of batton

baubee
Alternative form of bawbee.

baubees
plural of baubee

bauds
plural of baud

baulkline
Alternative form of baulk line.

baulklines
plural of baulkline

bawbee
A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.
A copper; a small amount of money.

bawbees
plural of bawbee

bazillion
An unspecified large number (of).

bazillions
plural of bazillion

bcm
Initialism of billions of cubic metres.

beable
anything that could possibly be, in particular in any of a number of superimposed quantum states

beables
plural of beable

beadfuls
plural of beadful

beakerful
The amount that a beaker will hold.

beakerfuls
plural of beakerful

beakersful
plural of beakerful

beakment
A measure of a quarter of a peck.

beakments
plural of beakment

beamfuls
plural of beamful

beamtime
The amount of time allocated to a researcher for use of a beam of particles from a particular source.

beamtimes
plural of beamtime

beancount
A statistical measurement that is used as an indicator of something, but which does not capture the whole picture.

beancounts
plural of beancount

becquerel
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. Symbol: Bq

becquerels
plural of becquerel

bedful
The amount that can fit in a bed.
A sexual encounter.

bedfuls
plural of bedful

bedsful
plural of bedful

beegah
Alternative form of bigha.

beegahs
plural of beegah

beegha
Alternative form of bigha.

beeghas
plural of beegha

beeraholic
An alcoholic who drinks an excessive amount of beer.

beeraholics
plural of beeraholic

begah
Obsolete form of bigha.

begahs
plural of begah

behaviorceutical
An activity that can improve an individual's mental health.

behaviorceuticals
plural of behaviorceutical

behaviormetrics
The measurement of human behavior.

behaviourceutical
Commonwealth standard spelling of behaviorceutical.

behaviourceuticals
plural of behaviourceutical

beknottedness
The measure or degree to which a knot is complicated, i.e., a knot's complexity; the number of times that it is necessary to pass one part of the curve of the knot projected upon a plane through another in order to untie the knot.

belinkedness
The number of times one branch of a link must be passed through the other in order to undo it.

belliesful
plural of bellyful

bellwork
Alternative form of bell work.

bellyful
Enough to fill one's belly; a large portion of food eaten.
An undesirably large quantity of something.

bellyfuls
plural of bellyful

bellyload
The amount that will fit in one's belly.
The amount or number that will fit inside an aircraft.
A large amount or number (of something).

bellyloads
plural of bellyload

bels
plural of bel

benchmarkings
plural of benchmarking

benchwarmers
plural of benchwarmer

beneficialities
plural of beneficiality

beneficiality
The amount of benefit something has; how beneficial something is.

berkelium
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Bk) with an atomic number of 97.

bertillonage
An early form of biometric identification used on criminals by the French police, making use of distinguishing anthropometric measurements, such as head size, arm span and scars.
A similar form of identification of used on racing greyhounds.

berylium
Misspelling of beryllium.

beryllium
The chemical element (symbol Be) with an atomic number of 4; a soft silvery-white low density alkaline earth metal with specialist industrial applications.
An atom of this element.

berylliums
plural of beryllium

bestseller
A book or other product that has sold in large numbers.

bestsellers
plural of bestseller

bethe
A unit of energy equivalent to 10⁵¹ ergs, or 10⁴⁴ joules.

bethes
plural of bethe

betterness
The state or quality of being better; superiority.
The result or product of being better.
The amount by which a precious metal exceeds the standard of fineness.

betternesses
plural of betterness

betweeness
Misspelling of betweenness.

betweenness
The state or quality of being between.
A measure of the number of geodesic paths through a node or edge.

betweennesses
plural of betweenness

bhiga
A unit of land area used in India, Bangladesh, and Nepa that varies in size from one-third to one acre.

bibful
An amount of gossip or information that somebody lets slip.

bibfuls
plural of bibful.

bicharacter
A type of bilinear complex number

bicharacters
plural of bicharacter

bier
A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.

biers
plural of bier

bigah
Alternative form of bigha.

bigahs
plural of bigah

biggah
Alternative form of bigha.

biggahs
plural of biggah.

bigha
A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.

bighas
plural of bigha

bignum
A number whose digits of precision are limited only by available memory (as opposed to the usual fixed-point arithmetic).
A very large number.

bignums
plural of bignum

bijillion
An unspecified large number (of).

bijillions
plural of bijillion.

bilepton
A proposed form of gauge boson having a lepton number of two.

bileptons
plural of bilepton

billful
The amount that a bill can hold; a beakful.

billings
plural of billing

bincount
A count of the number of things in each element of an array

bincounts
plural of bincount

binomials
plural of binomial

binsize
The number of things in each element of an array

binsizes
plural of binsize

bioattack
An attack against a large number of people using bioweapons.

bioattacks
plural of bioattack

bioavailabilities
plural of bioavailability

bioavailability
The extent to which a substance is molecularly available to cells and tissues in a living organism, which depends on factors such as solubility, pH level, and presence of enzymes and cofactors; for example, even if one's ingestion of vitamin B₁₂ is average/typical, one might nonetheless have B₁₂ deficiency if one has poor metabolism of this particular vitamin.
The extent to which a substance is molecularly available to cells and tissues in a living organism, which depends on factors such as solubility, pH level, and presence of enzymes and cofactors; for example, even if one's ingestion of vitamin B₁₂ is average/typical, one might nonetheless have B₁₂ deficiency if one has poor metabolism of this particular vitamin.

bioavailibility
Misspelling of bioavailability.

bioball
A water-soluble sphere / ball containing a known number of microorganisms

bioballs
plural of bioball