- balk: To stop short and refuse to continue
- ballast: A structure that helps to stabilize
- beatific: Exhibiting calmness and joy; pertaining to a state of celestial happiness
- becalm: To soothe; to halt the progress of
- becloud: To blur or obsure; to make less visible or clear
- bedraggle: Dilapidated; wet and limp; soiled; dirty
- beget: To produce as an effect; to "bring about"
- behemoth: Something gigantic in size/power; monstrous creature
- beneficient: Relating to kindness
- berate: To scold harshly; reprimand
- bilious: Ill-tempered; sickly
- blasphemious: Cursing; extremely disrespectful or inconsiderate
- blatant: Very obvious and easily noticed, usually in an offensive, rude manner
- blithely: Merrily; lighthearted or carefree manner
- bombastic: Superior-sounding, but not significant at all; lofty in style
- bovine: Relating to cows; having characteristics of a cow (sluggishness or dullness)
- braggart: Someone who boasts in a loud but empty manner
- broach: To mention for the very first time
- bucolic: Rural; simple
- burnish: To polish; make glossy or smooth
- bursar: A treasurer or keeper of money/funds