Name Report For First Name BEL:
BEL
First name BEL's origin is French. BEL means "fair: lovely one". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BEL below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bel.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with BEL and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BEL - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BEL
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BEL AS A WHOLE:
bela abellona arabella abelia belisarda barabell cybele obelia maribel bella isabella ysabel mabel izabela barbel beluchi bellangere cymbeline cassibellaunus cymbelline beltane pinabel bellerophon abella amabella anabella anabelle annabel annabella annabelle belakane belen belina belinda belle belva bonnibelle christabel claribel isabel isabela isabelle isobel izabella izabelle jennabel jezebel josobelle kristabelle krystabelle lilybell mabelle mariabella maribella maribelle meheytabel mettabel mirabella norabel orabel orabelle tibelde tibeldie abel abell beldan beldane beldene beldon bell beltran mitcbel webbeleah campbell bellamy belden ysabelle bellance mehitabelle mehetabel isabell obelie tibeldi tibelda mirabelle amabelle belia abelard bellinus ubel belda marybellNAMES RHYMING WITH BEL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (el) - Names That Ends with el:
engel hadeel carmel trudel ya-el izel azekel basel daleel galeel gameel zameel asadel hilel crudel dodinel danel gabirel hoel kozel axel mikkel niel karel vogel nouel kermichael stoffel abiel haskel hillel vencel tlacaelel tlacelel anghel aurel costel apsel fishel yankel yossel abaigael ardel ariel ariellel averyel avriel aziel celestiel chanel chantel chauntel christel cindel ethel gael grizel gunnel haesel hazel karasel katriel kestrel lael laurel lauriel liezel liriel loriel lyriel madel maidel maricel meridel meriel moriel muiel murel muriel nicquel rachael rakel raquel raychel richael shawntel acel acwel adel adniel adriel adriyel andriel angel arregaithel audel aviel avniel azrael azrielNAMES RHYMING WITH BEL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (be) - Names That Begins with be:
beacan beacher beadu beadurinc beadurof beadutun beadwof beagan beagen beal bealantin beale beall bealohydig beaman beamard beamer bean bearacb bearach bearcban bearn bearnard bearrocscir beartlaidh beat beatha beathag beathan beathas beatie beaton beatrice beatricia beatrisa beatriz beattie beatty beau beaufort beaumains beauvais beb bebeodan bebhinn bebti becan becca beceere beck beckham becki becky beda bede bedegrayne bedivere bednar bedrosian bedver bedwyr beecher behdeti behrend behula beinvenido beircheart beiste beitris bek bekele bekki bem bemabe bemadette bembe bemeere bemelle bemia bemossed bemot ben ben-ami ben-aryeh ben-tziyon bena benat benci bendigeidfran bendision benecroft benedetta benedicto benedictson benen benes beniamino benicio benigna benitaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BEL:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'l':
baal badal baghel balmoral barabal bardol bartel bartol basil batal bathil batool batul beryl bethel betzalel bidziil bilal bill birdhil birdhill birtel blaecl blaisdell blondell bodil boell bohumil boulboul bradwell bramwell brasil breasal breindel bressal brocl bssil burel burl burnell burrell byrtelEnglish Words Rhyming BEL
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BEL AS A WHOLE:
| abele | noun (n.) The white poplar (Populus alba). |
| abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| abelite | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| abelmosk | noun (n.) An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow. |
| babel | noun (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. |
| noun (n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. |
| barbel | noun (n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished. |
| noun (n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels. | |
| noun (n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3. |
| barbellate | adjective (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. |
| barbellulate | adjective (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs. |
| bel | noun (n.) The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal. |
| noun (n.) A thorny rutaceous tree (Aegle marmelos) of India, and its aromatic, orange-like fruit; -- called also Bengal quince, golden apple, wood apple. The fruit is used medicinally, and the rind yields a perfume and a yellow dye. |
| belaboring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belabor |
| belamour | noun (n.) A lover. |
| noun (n.) A flower, but of what kind is unknown. |
| belamy | noun (n.) Good friend; dear friend. |
| belating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belate |
| belated | adjective (a.) Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Belate |
| belaying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belay |
| belching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belch |
| belch | noun (n.) The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation. |
| noun (n.) Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation. | |
| verb (v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct. | |
| verb (v. i.) To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent. | |
| verb (v. i.) To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To issue with spasmodic force or noise. |
| belcher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, belches. |
| beldam | noun (n.) Alt. of Beldame |
| beldame | noun (n.) Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire. |
| noun (n.) An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag. |
| beleaguering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beleaguer |
| beleaguerer | noun (n.) One who beleaguers. |
| belecturing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belecture |
| belemnite | noun (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. |
| belfry | noun (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense. |
| noun (n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile. | |
| noun (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose. | |
| noun (n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended. |
| belgard | noun (n.) A sweet or loving look. |
| belgian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Belgium. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Belgium. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Belgium. |
| belgic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium. |
| belgravian | adjective (a.) Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic. |
| belial | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. |
| belying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belie |
| belie | noun (n.) To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood. |
| noun (n.) To give a false representation or account of. | |
| noun (n.) To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander. | |
| noun (n.) To mimic; to counterfeit. | |
| noun (n.) To fill with lies. |
| belief | noun (n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses. |
| noun (n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. | |
| noun (n.) The thing believed; the object of belief. | |
| noun (n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. |
| beliefful | adjective (a.) Having belief or faith. |
| believable | adjective (a.) Capable of being believed; credible. |
| believing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Believe |
| adjective (a.) That believes; having belief. |
| believe | noun (n.) To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine. |
| verb (v. i.) To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith. | |
| verb (v. i.) To think; to suppose. |
| believer | noun (n.) One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing. |
| noun (n.) One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. | |
| noun (n.) One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction. |
| belittling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belittle |
| belive | adjective (a.) Forthwith; speedily; quickly. |
| bell | noun (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck. |
| noun (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved. | |
| noun (n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. | |
| noun (n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital. | |
| noun (n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube. | |
| verb (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter by bellowing. | |
| verb (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. |
| belling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bell |
| noun (n.) A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. |
| belladonna | noun (n.) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. |
| noun (n.) A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily. |
| bellbird | noun (n.) A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero. |
| noun (n.) The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia. |
| belle | noun (n.) A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady. |
| belled | adjective (a.) Hung with a bell or bells. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Bell |
| bellerophon | noun (n.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age. |
| belletristic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Belletristical |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BEL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (el) - English Words That Ends with el:
| aiel | noun (n.) See Ayle. |
| algazel | noun (n.) The true gazelle. |
| aludel | noun (n.) One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. |
| amsel | noun (n.) Alt. of Amzel |
| amzel | noun (n.) The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). |
| angel | noun (n.) A messenger. |
| noun (n.) A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers. | |
| noun (n.) One of a class of "fallen angels;" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels. | |
| noun (n.) A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. | |
| noun (n.) Attendant spirit; genius; demon. | |
| noun (n.) An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling. | |
| noun (n.) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s. |
| antechapel | noun (n.) The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. |
| antiparallel | adjective (a.) Running in a contrary direction. |
| apparel | noun (n.) External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. |
| noun (n.) A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments. | |
| noun (n.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress or clothe; to attire. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. |
| archangel | noun (n.) A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy. |
| noun (n.) A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.). |
| asphodel | noun (n.) A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers. |
| astel | noun (n.) An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine. |
| astrofel | noun (n.) Alt. of Astrofell |
| astrophel | noun (n.) See Astrofel. |
| auncel | noun (n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England. |
| appel | noun (n.) A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack. |
| ariel | noun (n.) In the Cabala, a water spirit; in later folklore, a light and graceful spirit of the air. |
| () Alt. of Ariel gazelle |
| barbastel | noun (n.) A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips. |
| barbicel | noun (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers. |
| barrel | noun (n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. |
| noun (n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds. | |
| noun (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled. | |
| noun (n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. | |
| noun (n.) A jar. | |
| noun (n.) The hollow basal part of a feather. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels. |
| battel | noun (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager. |
| noun (n.) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively. | |
| adjective (a.) Fertile; fruitful; productive. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make fertile. |
| bawrel | noun (n.) A kind of hawk. |
| bechamel | noun (n.) A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream. |
| bedel | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedell |
| besaiel | noun (n.) Alt. of Besayle |
| betel | noun (n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves. |
| bethel | noun (n.) A place of worship; a hallowed spot. |
| noun (n.) A chapel for dissenters. | |
| noun (n.) A house of worship for seamen. |
| bevel | noun (n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber. |
| noun (n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the slant of a bevel; slanting. | |
| adjective (a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant. |
| bezel | noun (n.) The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set. |
| boltel | noun (n.) See Boultel. |
| bonnibel | noun (n.) A handsome girl. |
| bonspiel | noun (n.) A cur/ing match between clubs. |
| bordel | noun (n.) Alt. of Bordello |
| borel | noun (n.) See Borrel. |
| borrel | noun (n.) Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. |
| noun (n.) A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool. | |
| noun (n.) Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity. |
| boultel | noun (n.) Alt. of Boultin |
| bowel | noun (n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. |
| noun (n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. | |
| noun (n.) The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. | |
| noun (n.) Offspring. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. |
| bowtel | noun (n.) See Boultel. |
| breastwheel | noun (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight. |
| bretzel | noun (n.) See Pretzel. |
| brocatel | noun (n.) A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc. |
| noun (n.) A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality. |
| brotel | adjective (a.) Brittle. |
| brothel | noun (n.) A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse. |
| bulbel | noun (n.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants. |
| bultel | noun (n.) A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran. |
| burel | noun (n. & a.) Same as Borrel. |
| burhel | noun (n.) Alt. of Burrhel |
| burrhel | noun (n.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel). |
| burrel | noun (n.) A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp. |
| noun (n.) Same as Borrel. |
| bushel | noun (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts. |
| noun (n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure. | |
| noun (n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples. | |
| noun (n.) A large indefinite quantity. | |
| noun (n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To mend or repair, as men's garments; to repair garments. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BEL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (be) - Words That Begins with be:
| beauxite | noun (n.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat. |
| noun (n.) See Bauxite. |
| being | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Be |
| noun (n.) Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. | |
| noun (n.) That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings. | |
| noun (n.) Lifetime; mortal existence. | |
| noun (n.) An abode; a cottage. | |
| adverb (adv.) Since; inasmuch as. | |
| (p. pr.) Existing. |
| beach | noun (n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle. |
| noun (n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. | |
| verb (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship. |
| beaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beach |
| beached | adjective (p. p. & a.) Bordered by a beach. |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beach |
| beachy | adjective (a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. |
| beacon | noun (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. |
| noun (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners. | |
| noun (n.) A high hill near the shore. | |
| noun (n.) That which gives notice of danger. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons. |
| beaconing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beacon |
| beaconage | noun (n.) Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively. |
| beaconless | adjective (a.) Having no beacon. |
| bead | noun (n.) A prayer. |
| noun (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer. | |
| noun (n.) Any small globular body | |
| noun (n.) A bubble in spirits. | |
| noun (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. | |
| noun (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). | |
| noun (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments. | |
| noun (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles. |
| beading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bead |
| noun (n.) Molding in imitation of beads. | |
| noun (n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky. |
| beadhouse | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedehouse |
| bedehouse | noun (n.) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. |
| noun (n.) Same as Beadhouse. |
| beadlery | noun (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle. |
| beadleship | noun (n.) The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle. |
| beadroll | noun (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. |
| beadsman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman |
| bedesman | noun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. |
| noun (n.) Same as Beadsman. |
| beadsnake | noun (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black. |
| beadswoman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman |
| bedeswoman | noun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman. |
| beadwork | noun (n.) Ornamental work in beads. |
| beady | adjective (a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. |
| adjective (a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads. | |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor. |
| beagle | noun (n.) A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable. |
| beak | noun (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. |
| noun (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. | |
| noun (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. | |
| noun (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. | |
| noun (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. | |
| noun (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. | |
| noun (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. | |
| noun (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. | |
| noun (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. | |
| noun (n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.). | |
| noun (n.) A magistrate or policeman. |
| beaked | adjective (a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. |
| adjective (a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. |
| beaker | noun (n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard. |
| noun (n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. |
| beakhead | noun (n.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. |
| noun (n.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Beak, 3. |
| beakiron | noun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil. |
| bealing | noun (p. pr & vb. n.) of Beal |
| beam | noun (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
| noun (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. | |
| noun (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. | |
| noun (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. | |
| noun (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. | |
| noun (n.) The pole of a carriage. | |
| noun (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. | |
| noun (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. | |
| noun (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. | |
| noun (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam. | |
| noun (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. | |
| noun (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light. | |
| verb (v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
| beaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beam |
| adjective (a.) Emitting beams; radiant. |
| beambird | noun (n.) A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building. |
| beamed | adjective (a.) Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beam |
| beamful | adjective (a.) Beamy; radiant. |
| beaminess | noun (n.) The state of being beamy. |
| beamless | adjective (a.) Not having a beam. |
| adjective (a.) Not emitting light. |
| beamlet | noun (n.) A small beam of light. |
| beamy | adjective (a.) Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. | |
| adjective (a.) Having horns, or antlers. |
| bean | noun (n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs. |
| noun (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. |
| bearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
| noun (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. | |
| noun (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. | |
| noun (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. | |
| noun (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. | |
| noun (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. | |
| noun (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall. | |
| noun (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. | |
| noun (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. | |
| noun (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. | |
| noun (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. | |
| noun (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. | |
| noun (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. | |
| noun (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. | |
| noun (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
| bear | noun (n.) A bier. |
| noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. | |
| noun (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. | |
| noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. | |
| noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. | |
| noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. | |
| noun (n.) A portable punching machine. | |
| noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Bere | |
| verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey. | |
| verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. | |
| verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. | |
| verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. | |
| verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor | |
| verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gain or win. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. | |
| verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. | |
| verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. | |
| verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct. | |
| verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. | |
| verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. | |
| verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. | |
| verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient. | |
| verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. | |
| verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? | |
| verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. | |
| verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
| bere | noun (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). |
| noun (n.) See Bear, barley. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce. |
| bearable | adjective (a.) Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. |
| bearberry | noun (n.) A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond. |
| bearbind | noun (n.) The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). |
| beard | noun (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. |
| noun (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. | |
| noun (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds | |
| noun (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. | |
| noun (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. | |
| noun (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. | |
| noun (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. | |
| noun (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. | |
| noun (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. | |
| noun (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. | |
| noun (n.) An imposition; a trick. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. | |
| verb (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish. |
| bearding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beard |
| bearded | adjective (a.) Having a beard. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beard |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BEL:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'l':
| baal | noun (n.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations. |
| noun (n.) The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied. |
| babylonical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings. |
| adjective (a.) Tumultuous; disorderly. |
| bacchanal | noun (n.) A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. |
| noun (n.) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia. | |
| noun (n.) Drunken revelry; an orgy. | |
| noun (n.) A song or dance in honor of Bacchus. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to Bacchus or his festival. | |
| adjective (a.) Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy. |
| bacchical | adjective (a.) Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication. |
| backfall | noun (n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling. |
| bacterial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacteria. |
| bactericidal | adjective (a.) Destructive of bacteria. |
| bacteriological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies. |
| bacteroidal | adjective (a.) Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles. |
| bail | noun (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. |
| noun (n.) Custody; keeping. | |
| noun (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court. | |
| noun (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one. | |
| noun (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. | |
| noun (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. | |
| noun (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court. | |
| noun (n.) A certain limit within a forest. | |
| noun (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable. | |
| noun (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat. | |
| verb (v./t.) To deliver; to release. | |
| verb (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed. | |
| verb (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. |
| baleful | adjective (a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive. |
| adjective (a.) Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad. |
| ball | noun (n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. |
| noun (n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. | |
| noun (n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets. | |
| noun (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball. | |
| noun (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller. | |
| noun (n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot. | |
| noun (n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. | |
| noun (n.) The globe or earth. | |
| noun (n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing. | |
| noun (n.) A pitched ball, not struck at by the batsman, which fails to pass over the home base at a height not greater than the batsman's shoulder nor less than his knee. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton. |
| balmoral | noun (n.) A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress. |
| noun (n.) A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. |
| balneal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a bath. |
| balsamical | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative. |
| banal | adjective (a.) Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite. |
| bandrol | noun (n.) A little banner, flag, or streamer. |
| noun (n.) Same as Banderole. |
| baneful | adjective (a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. |
| bannerol | noun (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole. |
| baptismal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows. |
| baptistical | adjective (a.) Baptistic. |
| barful | adjective (a.) Full of obstructions. |
| barmecidal | adjective (a.) Unreal; illusory. |
| barometrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations. |
| baronial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a baron or a barony. |
| baroscopical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope. |
| basal | adjective (a.) Relating to, or forming, the base. |
| baseball | noun (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball. |
| noun (n.) The ball used in this game. |
| bashful | adjective (a.) Abashed; daunted; dismayed. |
| adjective (a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression. |
| basifugal | noun (n.) Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth. |
| basihyal | adjective (a.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch. |
| basil | noun (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. |
| noun (n.) The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum). | |
| noun (n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark. | |
| verb (v. t.) To grind or form the edge of to an angle. |
| basilical | adjective (a.) Royal; kingly; also, basilican. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. |
| basioccipital | noun (n.) The basioccipital bone. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. |
| basisphenoidal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult. |
| basketful | noun (n.) As much as a basket will contain. |
| bateful | adjective (a.) Exciting contention; contentious. |
| bathymetrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea. |
| bawl | noun (n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry. |
| verb (v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. |
| beatifical | adjective (a.) Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. |
| beautiful | adjective (a.) Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. |
| bedell | noun (n.) Same as Beadle. |
| befoul | adjective (a.) To make foul; to soil. |
| adjective (a.) To entangle or run against so as to impede motion. |
| beheadal | noun (n.) Beheading. |
| behooveful | adjective (a.) Advantageous; useful; profitable. |
| belletristical | adjective (a.) Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. |
| bellical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. |
| bellyful | noun (n.) As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. |
| bemol | noun (n.) The sign /; the same as B flat. |
| benedictional | noun (n.) A book of benedictions. |
| beneficential | adjective (a.) Relating to beneficence. |
| beneficial | adjective (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to. |
| adjective (a.) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. | |
| adjective (a.) King. |
| bengal | noun (n.) A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. |
| noun (n.) A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. | |
| noun (n.) Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. |
| benthal | adjective (a.) Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean. |
| benzal | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination. |
| benzol | noun (n.) An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene. |
| benzoyl | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. |
| benzyl | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively. |
| bequeathal | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. |
| bergmeal | noun (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite. |
| beryl | noun (n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium. |
| bestial | noun (n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. |
| bestowal | noun (n.) The act of bestowing; disposal. |
| betrayal | noun (n.) The act or the result of betraying. |
| betrothal | noun (n.) The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. |
| bezoartical | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. |
| biaxal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Biaxial |
| biaxial | adjective (a.) Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization. |
| biblical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority. |
| bibliographical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books. |
| bibliological | adjective (a.) Relating to bibliology. |
| bibliomaniacal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac. |
| bibliothecal | adjective (a.) Belonging to a library. |
| bicameral | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. |
| bicaudal | adjective (a.) Having, or terminating in, two tails. |
| bicentennial | noun (n.) The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of two hundred years. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring every two hundred years. |
| bicipital | adjective (a.) Having two heads or origins, as a muscle. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm. | |
| adjective (a.) Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree. |
| bicorporal | adjective (a.) Having two bodies. |
| bicrural | adjective (a.) Having two legs. |
| bidental | adjective (a.) Having two teeth. |
| biennial | noun (n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination. |
| noun (n.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years. | |
| adjective (a.) Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election. | |
| adjective (a.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second. |
| bifacial | adjective (a.) Having the opposite surfaces alike. |
| bigential | adjective (a.) Including two tribes or races of men. |
| bilateral | adjective (a.) Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body. |
| bilingual | adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. |
| biliteral | noun (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. |
| bill | noun (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. |
| noun (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern | |
| noun (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill. | |
| noun (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff. | |
| noun (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman. | |
| noun (n.) A pickax, or mattock. | |
| noun (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke. | |
| noun (n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law. | |
| noun (n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. | |
| noun (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. | |
| noun (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. | |
| noun (n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill. | |
| noun (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To strike; to peck. | |
| verb (v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. | |
| verb (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice. | |
| verb (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods. | |
| () An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. |
| bimedial | adjective (a.) Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square). |
| bimembral | adjective (a.) Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence. |
| bimensal | adjective (a.) See Bimonthly, a. |
| bimestrial | adjective (a.) Continuing two months. |
| binal | adjective (a.) Twofold; double. |
| binaural | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears. |
| binomial | noun (n.) An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root. | |
| adjective (a.) Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs. |
| binominal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to two names; binomial. |
| biographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography. |
| biological | adjective (a.) Of or relating to biology. |
| biparietal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other. |
| bipedal | noun (n.) Having two feet; biped. |
| noun (n.) Pertaining to a biped. |
| bipunctual | adjective (a.) Having two points. |
Poke My Birthday
The Funny sites whice pokes birthday and interesting & surprising facts about the day you were born.
Enter Your Birthday:
