- BARD - A strolling minstrel.
- BAROQUE - Elaborately and heavily ornamented.
- BARON - Member of lowest order of British nobility.
- BARRAGE - Artificial bar across the river.
- BARRISTER - Advocate in higher court.
- BARTENDER - One who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
- BASK - Lie in the sunshine.
- BASSOON - A musical instrument.
- BASTION - A projecting part of the fortification.
- BATE - Wait anxiously.
- BATHOS - An anticlimax.
- BAUBLE - A child's plaything.
- BAWDY - Vulgar.
- BEATIFIC - Blissful.
- BECOMING - Appropriate, fitting.
- BEDIZEN - To dress gaudily.
- BEDRAGGLE - Drench, soak.
- BEFUDDLE - Confuse, muddle, baffle.
- BEGRUDGE - To envy, to grudge.
- BEHEMOTH - Huge, gigantic.
