British British is the adjectival form of Britain. In terms of etymology, it is derived from Pretannic, a term once used as collective description for the inhabitants of both Great Britain and Ireland. For full detail of its use see British Isles . The term can be seen in the following contexts:
	British Columbia British Columbia, often referred to as B.C. or BC , is the westernmost of Canada Provinces of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . It was the sixth province to join Confederation. Residents are referred to as British Columbians or BCers.
	British Empire The British Empire was the most World's largest empires in world history and for a substantial time was not only a major power but the foremost power in the world. It was a product of the European age of discovery, which began with the global maritime explorations of the Iberian states in the late 15th century, that inaugurated the era of the European global empires.
	British Guiana British Guiana was the name of the United Kingdom colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana. The area was originally settled by the The Netherlands as the colonies of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo, then captured by the British in 1796 and officially ceded in 1814, and consolidated into a single colony in 1831.
	British Honduras British Honduras was the former name of a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland colony on the east coast of Central America just to the southeast of Mexico, now the independent nation of Belize. Settled by Europeans since the 17th century, it was a crown colony from 1862 through 1964, when it became Self-governing colony.
	British House of Commons |align=left| *Parliament of the United Kingdom **State Opening of Parliament *British monarchy: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom *House of Lords **Lord Speaker: Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman *British House of Commons
	British Isles Great Britain, Ireland and several thousand smaller surrounding islands and islets form an archipelago off the northwest coast of continental Europe which is most commonly known as the British Isles. The term is rejected by some in Ireland—and at times avoided or replaced—in part because of the term's association with the modern British state.
	British Virgin Islands The British Virgin Islands is a British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands . The British Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke, along with over 50 other smaller islands and cays.
	Brittany Brittany is a former independent kingdom and duchy, then Provinces of France and, at the same time, one of the six Celtic Nations . It is also, more generally, the name of the cultural area whose limits correspond to the old province and independent duchy. The historical province of Brittany was split between two modern-day rgions of France.
	Brittle star Brittle stars are echinoderms, closely related to sea stars. They crawl across the sea-floor using their flexible arms as "legs" for locomotion. The ophiuroids generally have five long slender, whip-like arms which may reach up to 60 centimeters in length on the largest specimens.
	Brno Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic.
	Broad gauge Broad gauge railways use a rail gauge greater than the standard gauge of 4'8".
	Broadaxe A broadaxe is a large-headed axe. Usually one side is flat and the other side beveled, though sometimes both sides are beveled. With one bevel the handle may curve away from the flat side to allow a flush stroke when hewing a flat plane on a log. The flat blade is to make the flat surface, the curved handle to enable the user to wrap his hand around the handle without damaging his knuckles by hitting them against the object being worked on.
	Broadbill The broadbills are a family of small passerine bird species found in tropical southeast Asia, with a few species in Africa. Broadbills are brightly coloured birds that feed on fruit and also take insects in flycatcher fashion, snapping their broad bills. Their habitat is canopies of wet forests, so despite their colours, they are difficult to observe.
	Broadsheet Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages. Other newspaper formats include: *Tabloid *Berliner
	Broadside A broadside is the side of a ship; the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their simultaneous fire in naval warfare.
	Broccoli Broccoli is a plant of the Cabbage family, Brassicaceae . It is classified as the Italica Cultivar Group of the species Brassica oleracea. Other cultivar groups of Brassica oleracea include: cabbage , cauliflower , kale and collard greens , kohlrabi , and Brussels sprouts .
	BROCCOLI BROCCOLI Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that is synonmous with Gamers which their retail chain stores are named, but is not a separate company. BROCCOLI is the parent company of Broccoli Music Publishing, Broccoli International USA, and Anime Gamers USA Inc. BROCCOLI also publish manga under BROCCOLI Books.
	Brochure A brochure or pamphlet is a paper advertisement. Brochures may advertise locations, events, hotels, products, services, etc. They are usually succinct in language and eye-catching in design. Direct mail and trade shows are common ways to distribute brochures to introduce a product or service.
	Broken Broken is an extended play by Nine Inch Nails released in 1992. Broken is the fifth official Nine Inch Nails release. Although it is an EP, it is usually considered to be the band's second major release because it consists of new material. It was preceded by Pretty Hate Machine and was followed later in 1992 by Fixed, a companion EP that is largely remixes of the same material.
	Bromelia Bromelia is a genus of tropical Americas plants characterized by flowers with a deeply cleft calyx, of the family Bromeliaceae, named after the Sweden botany Olaf Bromelius. It includes the following species: * Bromelia alsodes * Bromelia alta
	Bromeliaceae Bromeliaceae is a large family of flowering plants native to the tropical and warm temperate New World. The family includes both epiphytes, such as Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides, and ground plants, such as the Pineapple Ananas comosus. Christopher Columbus was the first European to come into contact with the pineapple and took it back to Europe after his first voyage.
	Bromo-Seltzer Bromo-Seltzer, is an antacid used to pain reliever occurring together with heartburn, upset stomach, or acid indigestion. Originally produced by the Emerson Drug Company, Bromo-Seltzer is sold in the United States in the form of effervescent which must be mixed with water before ingestion.
	Bromoform Bromoform is a pale yellowish liquid with a sweet odor, a halomethane. Small amounts are formed naturally by plants in the ocean. It is somewhat soluble in water and readily evaporates into the air. Most of the bromoform that enters the environment is formed as byproducts when chlorine is added to drinking water to kill bacteria.
	Bromophenol blue Bromophenol blue, Tetrabromophenolsulfonephthalein, is an acid-base pH indicator whose useful range as an indicator lies between pH 3.0 and 4.6. It changes from yellow at pH 3.0 to purple at pH 4.6; this reaction is reversible. Bromophenol blue is also used as a color marker to monitor the process of agarose gel electrophoresis and SDS PAGE.
	Bromothymol blue Bromothymol blue is a chemical pH indicator for weak acids and bases. The bromothymol blue acts as a weak acid in solution and therefore can be in acid or base forms which appear yellow and blue respectively. It is green in neutral solution. Bromothymol blue is typically sold in solid form as the sodium salt of the acid indicator.
	Bromus Bromus is a large genus of the grass family Poaceae with about 160 species. Estimates in the scientific literature of the number of species have ranged from 100 to 400. Commonly known as brome grasses, Bromus species occur in many habitats in temperate regions of the world, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
	Brontė The Bront sisters—Charlotte Bront, Emily Bront, and Anne Bront, were England writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature.
	Brontosaurus Brontosaurus, meaning "thunder lizard", is a Deprecation genus of sauropod dinosaurs. The Brontosaurus was misidentified by its discoverer Othniel Charles Marsh, in 1879 and the designation persisted as the official term in the literature until at least 1974.
	Bronze Bronze refers to a broad range of copper alloys, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other chemical element such as phosphorus, manganese, aluminium, or silicon. It is strong and tough and has myriad uses in industry. It was particularly significant in antiquity, giving its name to the Bronze Age.
	Bronze Age The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use) included techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and cast them into bronze artifacts.
	Bronze Star Medal The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual Awards and decorations of the United States military and is the fourth-highest award for bravery, heroism or meritorious service.
	Brooch A brooch is a decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments. It is usually made of metal, often silver or gold but sometimes bronze or some other material. Brooches are frequently decorated with vitreous enamel or with gemstones and may be solely for ornament or sometimes serve a practical function as a fastening, perhaps for a cloak.
	Brook trout The brook trout is a species of fish in the salmon family_(biology) of order_(biology) Salmoniformes. In many parts of its range, it is known by the name speckled trout.
	Brooklyn Brooklyn is one of the Borough of New York City. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York's most populous borough, with nearly 2.5 million residents. The borough of Brooklyn is coterminous with Kings County, which is also the most populous Political subdivisions of New York State#County in New York State.
	Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge , one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches 5,989 feet over the East River connecting the New York City borough s of Manhattan and Brooklyn. On completion, it was the List of largest suspension bridges and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.
	Brookweed Brookweeds, or water pimpernels, are plants of the genus Samolus, a nearly cosmopolitan genus of about 15 species of water-loving herbs. It was formerly treated as part of the Primulaceae or Theophrastaceae, but is now often placed in its own Family, the Samolaceae.
	Broom A broom is a cleaning tool consisting of stiff fibres attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylinder handle, the broomstick. In the context of witchcraft, "broomstick" is likely to refer to the broom as a whole. A smaller whisk broom or brush is sometimes called a duster.
	Brotula Brotulas are a family, Bythitidae, of ophidiiform fishes, also known as viviparous brotulas as they viviparity. They are found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world. They are small fishes that live in surface waters or around reefs. A few species are freshwater: for example, the Mexican blind brotula, Ogilbia pearsei, is found in caves and sinkholes in the Yucatįn Peninsula, Mexico.
	Broussonetia Broussonetia is a genus of four species of trees in the family Moraceae, native to eastern Asia. References
	Brown algae The brown algae or phaeophytes are a large group of multicellular algae, including many notable seaweeds. They play an important role in marine environments. For instance Macrocystis kelp, which may reach 60 metres in length, form prominent underwater kelp forests.
	Brown Bear The Brown Bear is a species of bear that can reach masses of 130700kg . Alongside the Polar Bear, the larger races of brown bear qualify as the largest extant land carnivores. The grizzly bear , the Kodiak bear, and the Mexican brown bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear.
	Brown bullhead The brown bullhead is a fish of the Ictaluridae family that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead and yellow bullhead. The brown bullhead is also widely known as the "Mudpout" or "Hornpout". The brown bullhead is important as a clan symbol of the Ojibwe group of North American Indians.
	Brown Creeper The Brown Creeper, also known as the American Tree Creeper, is a small songbird, the only North American member of the Certhiidae family Certhiidae. Adults are brown on the upperparts with light spotting, resembling a piece of tree bark, with white underparts. They have a long thin bill with a slight downward curve and a long tail.
	Brown Rat The Brown Rat or Norway Rat is one of the best-known and common rats, and also one of the largest. It is not known for certain why it is named Rattus norvegicus since it doesn't originate from Norway, but John Berkenhour, the author of the 1769 book Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain, is most likely responsible for the misnomer.
	Brown sauce Brown sauce can refer to one of two different things: in the United Kingdom it generally refers to a vinegar, fruit and spice-based condiment, whereas in France cuisine it means a meat stock-based gravy-like sauce. It can occasionally be found in the United States as A1 Steak Sauce.
	Brown sugar Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content or produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar.
	Brown Swiss Brown Swiss is the breed of dairy cattle that produces the second largest quantity of milk per annum. The milk contains on average 4% butterfat and 3.5% protein, making their milk excellent for production of cheese. The Brown Swiss is known for a long gestation period, immense size, large furry ears, and an extremely docile temperament.
	Brown Thrasher The Brown Thrasher is a species of thrasher, part of a family of New World birds that includes New World catbirds and mockingbirds. The Brown Thrasher is, as the name suggests, mostly brown or reddish-brown above, with a white breast and throat streaked with brown, and two white bars on each wing.
	Brown trout The Brown Trout and the Sea Trout are fish of the same species distinguished chiefly by the fact that the brown trout is largely a fresh water fish, while the sea trout shows anadromous reproduction, migrating to the oceans for much of its life and returning to freshwater only to spawning.
	Brown University Brown University is a university located in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as Rhode Island College, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and the Colonial colleges in the United States. It is a member of the Ivy League. Brown was the first college in the nation to accept students of all religious affiliations.
	Brownian motion The term Brownian motion refers to either # The physical phenomenon where minute particles, immersed in a fluid or floating on its surface, move about randomly; or # The mathematical models used to describe such random movements. The mathematical model can also be used to describe many phenomena not resembling the random movements of minute particles.
	Browning Automatic Rifle The Browning Automatic Rifle is a family of automatic rifles and light machine guns used by the United States and other countries during the 20th century. It was designed in 1917 by the weapons designer John Browning, primarily as a replacement for, and improvement on, the French-made Chauchat and Hotchkiss machine gun.
	Brownstone Brownstone is a brown Triassic sandstone which was once a popular building material. While brownstone is often popularly associated in the United States of America with New York City, the stone was used widely, around the world, until it fell out of favour around 1900. The quarry used for the early brownstones of New York City were in New Jersey, and in the Connecticut River area.
	Bruce Lee Bruce Jun Fan Lee ; born November 27, 1940 in San Francisco - died July 20, 1973 in Hong Kong was an United States-born Han Chinese martial artist, teacher and actor, who practiced Kung Fu and founded the Jeet Kune Do martial arts system.
	Brucella Brucella is a genus of Gram-negative bacterium. They are small, non-motile, encapsulated coccobacillus. Slow-growing, Brucella species require complex media for isolation. Brucella is the cause of Brucellosis, a true zoonosis-disease.
	Brucine Brucine is a bitter alkaloid closely related to strychnine. It can be found in some plant species, the most well-known variety being the Strychnos nux-vomica tree, found in South-East Asia. While brucine is related to strychnine it is not as poisonous. If a human consumes over 2 milligrams of pure brucine they will almost certainly suffer symptoms resembling strychnine poisoning.
	Bruges Bruges is the historic capital of the province of West Flanders, Flanders being one of the three regions of Belgium. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful towns in Europe. The municipality comprises the city of Bruges proper and the towns of Assebroek, Dudzele, Koolkerke, Lissewege, Sint-Andries, Sint-Jozef, Sint-Kruis, Sint-Michiels, Sint-Pieters, Zeebrugge, and Zwankendamme.
	Brugmansia Brugmansia is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae, native to subtropical regions of South America, along the Andes from Colombia to northern Chile, and also in southeastern Brazil. They are known as Angel's Trumpets, sharing that name with the closely related genus Datura.
	Bruise A bruise or contusion or ecchymosis is a kind of injury, usually caused by blunt impact, in which the capillary are damaged, allowing blood to seep into the surrounding Biological tissue. They often induce pain but are not normally dangerous.
	Brumaire Brumaire was the second month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the French language word brume which occurs frequently at that time of the year. Brumaire was the second month of the autumn quarter. It started between October 22 and October 24.
	Brunei Brunei, officially the Sultanate of Brunei , is a country located on the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, East Malaysia.
	Brunei dollar The dollar, has been the currency of Brunei since 1967. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively B$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is divided into 100 sen. The Brunei dollar is Fixed exchange rate to the Singapore dollar at a 1:1 ratio.
	Bruno Walter Bruno Walter was a Germany-born Conducting and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. His original name was Bruno Walter Schlesinger, but he began using Walter as surname in 1896.
	Brunswick stew Brunswick stew is a traditional dish from the U.S. Southern states. The origin of the dish is uncertain, and there are two competing claims as to the place in the South from which it hails.
	Brush The term brush refers to a variety of devices mainly with bristles, wire or other filament of any possible material used mainly for cleaning, grooming hair, painting, deburring and other kinds of surface finishing, but also for many other purposes like seals, alternative traction systems and any other use imaginable for this tool.
	Brush-tailed porcupine The brush-tailed porcupines are a group of Old World porcupines in the genus Atherurus.
	Brussels Brussels is the capital of Belgium, the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Community, the Flemish Region and the main seat of the European Union's institutions. Brussels is, first of all, a city located in the centre of Belgium and is its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the largest municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region.
	Brussels sprout The Brussels sprout is a cultivar of Brassica oleracea cultivated for its small leafy green heads, which resemble miniature cabbages.
	Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within the park is Bryce Canyon. Despite its name, this is not actually a canyon, but rather a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.