Finnish–English dictionary

balustradi

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

banaali

Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.

banaalius

(uncountable) The quality of being banal.

banaani

A prohibition.

banaanikasvi

The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves. [from 1697]

banaaninkeltainen

(uncountable) A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin. [from 1923]

banaanitasavalta

(politics, idiom, pejorative) A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.

banaanivaltio

(politics, idiom, pejorative) A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.

banaliteetti

(countable) Something which is banal.

bändäri

(by extension, informal) Any dedicated fan of something.

banderolli

Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric.

bändi

A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.

bandiitti

One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.

bängeri

(music, slang) A powerfully energetic and/or very good song, especially in hip-hop and dance music.

Bangkok

(exonym) The capital city of Thailand.

Bangladesh

A country in South Asia. Official name: People's Republic of Bangladesh. Capital: Dhaka.

banian

A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.

banianviikuna

A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.

banjo

A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

banketti

A large celebratory meal; a feast.

bannata

(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

banneri

(Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.

banni

A prohibition.

banshee

(Scotland, Ireland, , folklore) A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.

banyan

A type of loose gown worn in India.

baptisti

Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.

Barack

A en given name.

barbaari

(archaic) A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian. [from 16th c.]

barbaarimainen

Relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.

barbaarinen

Relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.

barbaarisuus

(uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality

barbaarius

A barbaric act.

Barbados

An island and country in the Caribbean.

Barbara

A en given name.

barbaria

(uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality

barbarismi

The condition of existing barbarically.

barbi

A tall, slender female fashion doll.

Barbie

A tall, slender female fashion doll.

Barcelona

The capital city of Catalonia, Spain.

bardi

A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

bardo

(Tibetan, _, Buddhism) The state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation.

baretti

(headwear) A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.

barista

A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers.

baritoni

The male voice between tenor and bass.

baritonitorvi

A brass instrument similar to the euphonium, but with a cylindrical bore instead of a conical one; a baritone saxhorn.

barium

The chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal.

Barnabas

(biblical character) An early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem

barni

(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres.

barokki

(arts, music) A period in Western architecture, art, and music from c. 1600–1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.

barokkinen

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

barometri

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

baronetti

The bearer of a hereditary title, below a peerage and senior to most knighthoods.

barrakuda

Any large marine fish of the genus Sphyraena that have elongated bodies, a projecting lower jaw, displaying prominent fang-shaped teeth, and are aggressive predators.

barreli

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.

barrikadi

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence

Bartolomeus

An Apostle, identified with Nathanael. (biblical character)

barytoni

The male voice between tenor and bass.

basaali

(chiefly, systematics) In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier. The earliest clade to branch in a larger clade.

basaalinen

(chiefly, systematics) In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier. The earliest clade to branch in a larger clade.

basaari

A fair or temporary market, often for charity.

basaltti

(mineral) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.

baseball

The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

baseball-pallo

The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

baseballin sisäkenttä

(baseball) The infield of a baseball field.

baseballkenttä

(baseball) The infield of a baseball field.

BASIC

Any of a family of third-generation programming languages.

basilika

Any other species in the genus Ocimum.

basis

(agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.

basisti

A musician who plays a bass instrument, especially the bass guitar.

baskeri

(headwear) A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.

baski

Relating to the Basque people or their language.

baskilainen

Relating to the Basque people or their language.

baskin kieli

The language of the Basque people.

baskinkielinen

Relating to the Basque people or their language.

bassoavain

(music) a clef which indicates the position of F below middle C in a given staff.

bassokaiutin

A loudspeaker that produces low-frequency sound.

bastardijänne

(heraldiccharge) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.

Bastilji

A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.

bastioni

(architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.

Batseba

(biblical character) In the Old Testament, the wife of Uriah and later of David.

batsi

A Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh family, spoken in Georgia.

batyskafi

A self-propelled deep-sea diving submersible for exploring the ocean depths, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere suspended below a float filled with a buoyant liquid such as petrol.

bavarois

A pudding similar to pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or cornstarch, and flavoured with liqueur.

BBC

(preceded by “the”) Initialism of w:British Broadcasting Corporation.

BDSM

Sexual or non-sexual practices or activities involving bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism, or acts of domination and submission.

beagle

A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.

Beatles

An extremely successful and influential British rock music quartet that operated primarily in the 1960s.

beatnik

A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.

bebop

(music genre) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.

becquerel

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. Symbol: Bq

beduiini

A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.

bee

(programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

beesi

Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

beeta

(of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.

Beethoven

A surname from German [in turn from Dutch], usually applying to Ludwig van Beethoven.

beg

(history) .

behemot

(Bible) A great and mighty beast which God shows to Job in Job 40:15–24.

beibi

A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address e.g. one's girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse.

beige

Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

Beirut

The capital and largest city of Lebanon.

Belfast

The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.

belgi

(historical) A group of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel and the west bank of the Rhine, from at least the 3rd century BC.

Belgia

A country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Official name: Kingdom of Belgium. Capital and largest city: Brussels.

belgialainen

Of, from, or pertaining to Belgium or the Belgian people.

Belgrad

The capital city of Serbia; the former capital of Yugoslavia; the former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.

Belize

An English-speaking country in Central America, formerly called British Honduras.

beluga

A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean.

bemari

A manufacturer of motor vehicles (Bayerische Motoren-Werke (Bavarian Motor Works)).

bemmi

A manufacturer of motor vehicles (Bayerische Motoren-Werke (Bavarian Motor Works)).

bemu

(slang) A BMW motorcycle or automobile.

Benelux

An economic and customs union made up of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Bengal

A geographic region in the northeast of South Asia today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal).

bengali

Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.

bengalilainen

Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.

Bengasi

A port city in eastern Libya.

Benin

A country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey.

Benjamin

(biblical character) The youngest of the sons of Jacob and Rachel in the Bible.

bensa

(uncountable, North America, New Zealand, Philippines) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.

bensiini

(uncountable, North America, New Zealand, Philippines) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.

bensiinilaatu

(uncountable, North America) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.

bentseeni

(organic compound) An aromatic hydrocarbon of formula C6H6 whose structure consists of a ring of alternate single and double bonds.

Beowulf

(poetic) An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of the poem, or to the poem itself.

berberi

Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.

Berberia

(historical) The Mediterranean coastal areas of North Africa that were used as a base by pirates in the 16th to 19th centuries.

berberikieli

A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.

berliiniläinen

A native or inhabitant of Berlin.

Bermuda

An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean, 580 nautical miles (1074 kilometers) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

berserkki

(historical) Synonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”).

Bertta

A en given name.

berylli

(uncountable, mineral) A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone (molecular formula Be3Al2Si6O18).

beryllium

(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol Be) with an atomic number of 4; a soft silvery-white low density alkaline earth metal with specialist industrial applications.

besoaari

A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.

besserwisser

(chiefly, US, pejorative) Someone who claims to be knowledgeable or an expert in something, obnoxiously dismissing the opinions, advice, suggestions, etc. of others.

bestis

An especially close and trusted friend.

bestselleri

A book or other product that has sold in large numbers.

betel

A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan.

betoni

(countable, uncountable) A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

betoni-

(not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).

betoninen

(not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).

betonoida

(usually, transitive) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).

bey

(historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions.

Bharat

(chiefly, India, poetic) India: the Republic of India.

Bhutan

A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.

bi

(LGBTQ, slang) Bisexual.

bi-

Double, twice the quantity.

bibliofiili

One who loves books.

bibliografia

A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.

bidee

A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.

biennaali

A biennial celebration or exhibition

bifurkaatio

(biology) A division into two branches.