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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Breathalyzer (trademark)
Bren gun (light machine gun)
Breton (Brittany or its people)
Brie (whole-milk cheese with a whitish rind and a soft)
Brinell hardness (relative hardness of metals and alloys)
Brinell hardness number (numerical value)
Bristol board (smooth)
Brit (British person)
Britannia (female personification of Great Britain)
Britannic (British)
Briticism (word)
British (Great Britain or its people)
British English (English language)
British thermal unit (quantity of heat)
Britisher (native or inhabitant of Great Britain)
Briton (native or inhabitant of Great Britain)
Brittany spaniel (pointing spaniel)
Brittonic (subdivision of the Insular Celtic languages)
Brix scale (hydrometer scale)
Broad-Church (members of the Anglican Communion)
Brobdingnagian (Immense)
Bronx cheer (loud sound)
Bronze Age (period of human culture)
Bronze Star (U.S. military decoration)
Brown Swiss (One of a hardy breed of large brown dairy cattle)
Brownie point (amount of credit)
Browning automatic rifle (automatic or semiautomatic)
Browning machine gun (automatic belt-fed)
Brulé (Native American people)
Brunhild (queen)
Brussels carpet (machine-made carpet)
Brussels lace (Net lace with an appliqué design)
Brussels sprouts (vegetable)
Brutalism (architectural style of the mid-20th century)
Brynhild (Valkyrie)
Brython (ancient Celtic Briton)
Brythonic (Brythons)
Bt (insecticide)
Bubble-Jet Printer (trademark for a printer)
Bucephalus (Alexander the Great's war horse)
Buddhahood (state of spiritual enlightenment)