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Bland diet
The bland diet, also known as the soft diet, is a therapeutic eating plan of soft, easily digestible, low-fiber, nonspicy foods prescribed for ulcers, heartburn, and nausea.
Bland embolization
Bland embolization, also called transarterial embolization (TAE), is an interventional radiology procedure that blocks a tumor's blood supply with inert particles, without added chemotherapy or radiation.
Bland–Allison Act
The Bland–Allison Act was an 1878 US federal law requiring the Treasury to buy $2–4 million of silver monthly and coin it into legal-tender silver dollars, passed over Hayes's veto.
Bland–Altman plot
The Bland–Altman plot, also called Tukey mean-difference plot, compares two measurement methods by plotting differences against averages, showing bias and the 95% limits of agreement.
Blandford–Znajek process
The Blandford–Znajek process extracts rotational energy from a rotating black hole through magnetic field lines threading its horizon; proposed in 1977, it is widely believed to power relativistic jets.
Blandine Dancette
Blandine Dancette, French right wing handballer (born 1988, Firminy), Nîmes, Chambray and Nantes player; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020, silver Rio 2016, world champion 2017 with France; retired 2021.
Blanding's turtle
Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) is a medium-sized, semi-aquatic freshwater turtle of the upper Midwestern United States, New England, and southern Canada, recognized by a bright yellow chin and throat.
Blaney–Criddle method
The Blaney–Criddle method is a temperature-based empirical formula estimating crop evapotranspiration from mean temperature and day length, developed by H. F. Blaney and W. D. Criddle in 1950.
Blank (2019 film)
Blank (2019) is a Hindi action thriller, Behzad Khambata's directorial debut, starring Sunny Deol as ATS chief SS Dewan and debutant Karan Kapadia as an amnesiac suicide bomber tied to 24 bombs in Mumbai; released 3 May 2019, it flopped commercially and was panned by critics.
Blank (cartridge)
A blank, or blank round, is a cartridge with a primer and propellant but no projectile, used for salutes, training, signaling, and gunfire in film.
Blank Check (film)
Blank Check is a 1994 American family comedy from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Rupert Wainwright, in which an 11-year-old boy cashes a blank check for $1 million.
Blank Face LP
Blank Face LP, fourth studio album by ScHoolboy Q (Quincy Hanley), released July 8, 2016 on TDE/Interscope; 17 tracks of West Coast gangsta rap, Grammy-nominated, Metacritic 81.
Blank Space
Blank Space is a 2014 Taylor Swift song from 1989, written with Max Martin and Shellback, a satire of her media image as a serial dater; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks and peaked at number 4 in the UK.
Blank verse
Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter, also called heroic verse. Introduced to England by the Earl of Surrey (c. 1554), it became the meter of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's Paradise Lost, distinct from free verse.
Blanka
Blanka: green-skinned Brazilian beast-man of Street Fighter II (1991), charge-character with Rolling Attack and Electric Thunder; bottom tier in ST, 4th in SF6 meta; Jason Momoa plays him in the 2026 film.
Blankenheim
Blankenheim, a town in the Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia (Kreis Euskirchen), first recorded as Blancio in 721; seat of the counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim, with Burg Blankenheim (1115), the Ahr source, and the Römervilla, one of the largest Roman villas in the Rhineland.
Blanket
A blanket is a large piece of soft fabric, usually rectangular, used to cover a person or animal for warmth, most commonly as a bed covering.
Blanket bog
A blanket bog is a rain-fed peatland that blankets the underlying topography across large areas, forming mainly in oceanic climates with over 1,000 mm of annual rainfall.
Blanket octopus
The blanket octopus (Tremoctopus) is an open-ocean octopus whose cape-like webs and 2 m females contrast with 2.4 cm males, the most extreme size difference known among non-microscopic animals.
Blankety Blank
Blankety Blank: British comedy panel game show adapted from Match Game, first broadcast on BBC One on 18 January 1979. Hosted by Terry Wogan, Les Dawson, Lily Savage, and Bradley Walsh; famous for cheap prizes, the chequebook-and-pen consolation, and cancellation by the BBC in July 2026.
Blankman
Blankman is a 1994 American superhero comedy parody film directed by Mike Binder, starring and co-written by Damon Wayans as nerdy inventor Darryl Walker, based on his In Living Color Handi-Man character; a Columbia Pictures box office flop with cult followings.
Blantyre
Blantyre is Malawi's second-largest city and its commercial and industrial capital, in the Shire Highlands. Founded by Scottish missionaries in 1876 and named after David Livingstone's birthplace.
Blantyre District
Blantyre District, Southern Region Malawi district containing Blantyre city, the commercial capital; about 2,012 km2, 1.38 million people (2023 projection), agriculture-based rural economy, governed by Blantyre District Council.
Blaqbonez
Blaqbonez (Akumefule Chukwuemeka George) is a Nigerian rapper and singer-songwriter signed to Chocolate City Music, known for his "Best Rapper in Africa" persona and his 2018 breakthrough Bad Boy Blaq.
Blaque
Blaque (Blaque Ivory), Atlanta R&B girl group formed 1996 with Shamari DeVoe, Natina Reed, and Brandi Williams, mentored by TLC's Left Eye; platinum 1999 debut with "808" and "Bring It All to Me."
Blarcamesine
Blarcamesine (ANAVEX2-73) is an investigational oral activator of the sigma-1 receptor developed by Anavex as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, which the EMA recommended rejecting in December 2025.
Blarina
Blarina, the short-tailed shrews, a genus of four venomous North American soricid species including B. brevicauda, B. carolinensis, and B. hylophaga, known for salivary blarina toxin (BLTX).
Blarney Castle
Blarney Castle (Caisleán na Blarnan) is a medieval tower house near Cork, Ireland, built by the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry and home of the Blarney Stone.
Blarney Stone
The Blarney Stone, or Stone of Eloquence, is a limestone block in Blarney Castle near Cork, Ireland, said to grant eloquence to anyone who kisses it.
Blas Cabrera
Blas Cabrera, born 1946 in Paris to Spanish refugees, is a Stanford low-temperature physicist known for superconducting monopole detectors and leading the SuperCDMS dark-matter search.