Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 5

Bolide: an exploding meteor

(Pages 57–70 this week)

⚛ Units of the Week
    Bicron: one billionth of a meter
    Billion: a number
    Binit: a unit of computer information
    Bioherm: a mass of marine fossils
    Biomass: an amount of living matter
    Birr: a monetary unit of Ethiopia
    Bittock: a small amount
    Bolivar: a monetary unit of Venezuela
    Boson: a subatomic particle

!!! Words of the Week
    Biffy: a toilet
    Bigeminy: the state of having a double pulse
    Bilbo/bilboa: a finely tempered sword (nod to LotR and the Tolkien Hegemony)
    Bilobate: having two lobes. I assume trilobate means three-lobed?
    Biochip: a hypothetical computer component that uses proteins to store or process data
    Biocide: a substance destructive to living organisms.
    Biogen: a hypothetical protein molecule
    Birl: to rotate a floating log
    Bitting: an indentation in a key (always wanted to know what that was called!)
    Bleb: a blister
    Blellum: a babbler
    Blinkard: one who habitually blinks (guilty!)
    Blucher: a half boot (what’s a full boot?)
    Bludge: to avoid work
    Blindgut: a cecum (a bodily cavity with only 1 opening)
    Bluenose: a puritanical person (as opposed to brown nose)
    Blunger: one that blunges (mixes clay with water)
    Boffin: a scientific expert
    Boggle: to hesitate
    Boggler: one that causes another to boggle (why isn’t it someone who hesitates?     Boggles my mind)
    Bogy: a goblin (cp. bogeyman)
    Bohemian: an unconventional person
    Bolide: an exploding meteor
    Bomblet: a small bomb
    Boobird: a fan who boos players of the home team
    Bothrium: a groove on a tapeworm
    Bowyer: a maker of archery bows
    Boyla: a witch doctor

👀 Other Observations
    This week was antelope-tastic! Check out all these antelopeds:

    Bidarka/bidarkee: an Inuit canoe (Eskimo is not an appropriate term anymore outside of Alaska and Siberia; I'd recommend this and this to brush up on your PC-ness, especially if you come to Canada.)   

    Blue things! Mostly trees, fish, and flowers.

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Bifidity: the state of being divided into two parts
    Biogeny: the development of life from preexisting life
    Biota: flora and fauna
    Bise/bize: a cold wind
    Bitable: capable of being bitten
    Bitchery: malicious behavior
    Blat: to bleat
    Bleakish: somewhat bleak
    Bloviate: to speak pompously
    Boff/boffo/boffola: a hearty laugh
    Booklore: book learning
    Bora: a cold wind
    Boreas: the north wind
    Botchery: something botched
    Bovinity: the state of being a bovine

(I think I have a subconscious love for words that end in -ity and -ery. We'll see if that's true in the course of the year.)