Words that start with B

Bis forBrother

Your brother is a boy who has the same mother or father as you do.

Bis forBrow

Your brow is the ridge over your eyes that protects them from sun, sweat and dust. The hair that grows there is called the eyebrow.

Body parts

Michael Coghlan / CC BY-SA

Many animals are brown, and dirt is brown. The colour brown can be made by mixing a few other colours of paint together without thinking, you'll usually get brown this way! The horse in the picture is brown.

Colors

Conall / CC BY-SA

Bis forBrowned

Something is browned if it develops a brownish tint as it is baked. Browning is the very first stages of something being burnt, and usually means that the food is just cooked enough.

Food preparation, Adjectives

hhhalberto / CC BY-SA

Bis forBrowse

An animal is browsing if they are eating leaves above the ground, rather than grazing on grass or plants near the ground. Someone who is just looking at things before they buy them is also browsing.

Crayola Rabbit / CC BY-SA

Bis forBruise

When you fall and hurt yourself or hit yourself hard on something else, you often get a dark purple or blue bruise. A bruise happens when the blood vessels under your skin get broken and you bleed under your skin. Bruises can take several days to go away.

Medical

Bill Stilwell / CC BY-SA

Bis forBrumby

Brumbies are wild, feral horses in Australia. They are descended from escaped or dumped horses. They cause a lot of damage to the native environment. Every so often they are rounded up and captured or culled, and can be trained as show ponies or other domestic uses.

Horses