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Word Unit: Bacronyms or Backronyms Listed (a reverse acronym or a regular word that also doubles as an acronym using the same procedures as with acronyms, except that the letters of a word are presented to form a phrase which defines the word or for humorous reasons ).
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Word Unit: Bibliography or Lists of
Word Unit: Bibliophile and his words, Part 1 (Dr. Rocke Robertson collected more than 600 dictionaries and many other books; a true dictionary bibliophile).
Word Unit: Bibliophile and his words, Part 2 (Dr. Rocke Robertson collected more than 600 dictionaries and many other books; a true dictionary bibliophile).
Word Unit: Bibliophile and his words, Part 3 (Dr. Rocke Robertson collected more than 600 dictionaries and many other books; a true dictionary bibliophile).
Word Unit: Bibliophile and his words, Part 4 (more information about Dr. Harold Rocke Robertson donated by his son, Ian Robertson).
Word Unit: Biofuels (Algenol, an algae strain of microscopic plantlike organisms that feed off sunlight and carbon dioxide; a biofuel greener and cheaper than oil or corn-fed ethanol).
Word Unit: Biomass Elements and Uses + (a collective term for all organic substances of relatively recent, non-geological, origin which can be used for energy production).
Word Unit: Blagojevich Scandal (delusional, narcissistic, vengeful, and profane).
Word Unit: Blends of Words: Portmanteaus or Portmanteaux + (many blended words have entered English since the 1800's; a significant number of which are corporate brand names).
Word Unit: Brain Bucket + (what resembles an odd marriage between Trojan battle gear and Medusa is actually part of the most powerful brain scanner ever made).
Word Unit: Brain enemies + (the most deadly five "enemies" of the brain: depression, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, stroke, and autism).
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