Name Report For First Name BLY:
BLY
First name BLY's origin is Native American. BLY means "tall". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BLY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bly.(Brown names are of the same origin (Native American) with BLY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BLY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BLY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BLY AS A WHOLE:
blythe blyana blyss blysse blythNAMES RHYMING WITH BLY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ly) - Names That Ends with ly:
moly kim-ly bily wetherly skelly aisly aracely beverly carly chaisly charly cicely cicily cymberly daly dolly eily elly emily gormly jilly joely kally karly keely lilly lily marily molly nathaly neely nelly polly sally shelly tilly ashly billy blakely bradly brocly bromly burly caly connolly cranly crosly donnally donnelly dunly ely farly farnly greely hagly hanly hawly hrapenly huntly huxly karoly kealy kelly kenly kennelly kirkly laidly lawly lindly linly manly marly mihaly morly nally priestly rally reilly scully stanly tally thornly townly tully wally waverly weatherly willy yardly zachely gedaly hurly cully sully sheply seely ridgely everly kaly cathlyNAMES RHYMING WITH BLY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bl) - Names That Begins with bl:
blacey black blade bladud blaec blaecl blaecleah blaed blaeey blagdan blagden blagdon blaine blainey blair blaire blais blaisdell blaise blaize blake blakeley blakemore blakey blamor blanca blanch blanche blanchefleur blancheflo blancheflor blancheflour blanco blandford blandina blane blaney blanford blar blas blasa blase blathma blathnaid blayne blayney blayze blaze bleecker bleoberis blerung blessing bletsung blian bliant bliss blisse blithe bliths blondell blondelle blondene blossom blostm bluinseNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BLY:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'y':
bailey ballindeny bamey barclay barday barnaby barnahy barney barry barthelemy bartley bassey bay bayley beatty becky bellamy benjy benny benroy bentley berdy berkeley berkley bessy bethany betsey betsy betty beverley biddy birdy birkey birley birney bobby bocley bodaway body bonny bradey bradley brady bramley brandy brantley brawley breezy brentley brently brettany brinley briony britney brittaney brittany brittney brittny brlety brockley brody bromley bryony buckley buddy bundy burley burneyEnglish Words Rhyming BLY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BLY AS A WHOLE:
| amblygon | noun (n.) An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. |
| amblygonal | adjective (a.) Obtuse-angled. |
| amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
| amblyopy | noun (n.) Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis. |
| amblyopic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to amblyopy. |
| amblypoda | noun (n. pl.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States. |
| assembly | noun (n.) A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment. |
| noun (n.) A collection of inanimate objects. | |
| noun (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. |
| assemblyman | noun (n.) A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature. |
| brambly | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. |
| bubbly | adjective (a.) Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. |
| coxcombly | adjective (a.) like a coxcomb. |
| crumbly | adjective (a.) EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. |
| hobbly | adjective (a.) Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road. |
| marbly | adjective (a.) Containing, or resembling, marble. |
| pebbly | adjective (a.) Full of pebbles; pebbled. |
| rubbly | adjective (a.) Relating to, or containing, rubble. |
| stubbly | adjective (a.) Covered with stubble; stubbled. |
| wabbly | adjective (a.) Inclined to wabble; wabbling. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BLY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ly) - English Words That Ends with ly:
| acrocephaly | noun (n.) Loftiness of skull. |
| acromegaly | noun (n.) Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face. |
| aldermanly | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an alderman. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an alderman. |
| ally | noun (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw. |
| verb (v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. | |
| verb (v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. | |
| verb (v.) A relative; a kinsman. | |
| verb (v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. | |
| verb (v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary. | |
| verb (v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc. |
| alonely | adjective (a.) Exclusive. |
| adverb (adv.) Only; merely; singly. |
| amphiboly | noun (n.) Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. |
| anomaly | noun (n.) Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. |
| noun (n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform. | |
| noun (n.) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet. | |
| noun (n.) Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type. |
| authorly | adjective (a.) Authorial. |
| barruly | adjective (a.) Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field. |
| bastardly | adjective (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. |
| adverb (adv.) In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. |
| bayardly | adjective (a.) Blind; stupid. |
| beastly | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. |
| adjective (a.) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. | |
| adjective (a.) Abominable; as, beastly weather. |
| beggarly | adjective (a.) In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. |
| adjective (a.) Produced or occasioned by beggary. | |
| adverb (adv.) In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. |
| belly | noun (n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen. |
| noun (n.) The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. | |
| noun (n.) The womb. | |
| noun (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. | |
| noun (n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill. | |
| verb (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. |
| beseemly | adjective (a.) Fit; suitable; becoming. |
| bigly | adjective (a.) In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. |
| billy | noun (n.) A club; esp., a policeman's club. |
| noun (n.) A slubbing or roving machine. |
| bimonthly | noun (n.) A bimonthly publication. |
| adjective (a.) Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. | |
| adverb (adv.) Once in two months. |
| bishoply | adjective (a.) Bishoplike; episcopal. |
| adverb (adv.) In the manner of a bishop. |
| biweekly | noun (n.) A publication issued every two weeks. |
| adjective (a.) Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. |
| blowfly | noun (n.) Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products. |
| bobfly | noun (n.) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly. |
| bodily | adjective (a.) Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. | |
| adjective (a.) Real; actual; put in execution. | |
| adverb (adv.) Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. | |
| adverb (adv.) In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below." |
| booly | noun (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. |
| botcherly | adjective (a.) Bungling; awkward. |
| botfly | noun (n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly. |
| brachycephaly | noun (n.) Alt. of Brachycephalism |
| breeze fly | noun (n.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. |
| bristly | adjective (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. |
| brokerly | adjective (a.) Mean; servile. |
| brotherly | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love. |
| adverb (adv.) Like a brother; affectionately; kindly. |
| buffoonly | adjective (a.) Low; vulgar. |
| bull fly | noun (n.) Alt. of Bullfly |
| bullfly | noun (n.) Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies. |
| bully | noun (n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. |
| noun (n.) A brisk, dashing fellow. | |
| adjective (a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing. | |
| adjective (a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act as a bully. | |
| verb (v.) Alt. of Bully beef |
| burly | adjective (a.) Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. |
| adjective (a.) Coarse and rough; boisterous. |
| butcherly | adjective (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. |
| butterfly | noun (n.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. |
| blolly | noun (n.) A shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies (Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit. |
| noun (n.) The rubiaceous shrub Chicocca racemosa, of the same region. |
| capercally | noun (n.) A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. |
| caracoly | noun (n.) An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made. |
| catchfly | noun (n.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly. |
| causally | noun (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing. |
| adverb (adv.) According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes. |
| causticily | noun (n.) The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. |
| noun (n.) Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark. |
| cavally | noun (n.) A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.] |
| chandlerly | adjective (a.) Like a chandler; in a petty way. |
| cheerly | adjective (a.) Gay; cheerful. |
| adverb (adv.) Cheerily. |
| chely | noun (n.) A claw. See Chela. |
| childly | adjective (a.) Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child. |
| adverb (adv.) Like a child. |
| chilly | adjective (a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BLY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (bl) - Words That Begins with bl:
| blabbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blab |
| blab | noun (n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. |
| verb (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales. |
| blabber | noun (n.) A tattler; a telltale. |
| black | noun (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. |
| noun (n.) A black pigment or dye. | |
| noun (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races. | |
| noun (n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black | |
| noun (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. | |
| noun (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. | |
| noun (n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. | |
| adjective (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. | |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. | |
| adjective (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. | |
| adjective (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. | |
| adjective (a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush. | |
| adverb (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness. |
| blacking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Black |
| noun (n.) Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves. | |
| noun (n.) The act or process of making black. |
| blackamoor | noun (n.) A negro or negress. |
| blackball | noun (n.) A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work. |
| noun (n.) A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words. | |
| verb (v. t.) To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. | |
| verb (v. t.) To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking. |
| blackballing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackball |
| blackband | noun (n.) An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore. |
| blackberry | noun (n.) The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds. |
| blackbird | noun (n.) In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing. |
| noun (n.) Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian. | |
| noun (n.) A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called also Kanaka. |
| blackboard | noun (n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools. |
| blackcap | noun (n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale. |
| noun (n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee. | |
| noun (n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard. | |
| noun (n.) The black raspberry. |
| blackcoat | noun (n.) A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat. |
| blackcock | noun (n.) The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse. |
| blackening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blacken |
| blackener | noun (n.) One who blackens. |
| blackfeet | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers. |
| blackfin | noun (n.) See Bluefin. |
| blackfish | noun (n.) A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size. |
| noun (n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga). | |
| noun (n.) The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry. | |
| noun (n.) A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family. | |
| noun (n.) The female salmon in the spawning season. |
| blackfoot | noun (n.) A Blackfoot Indian. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. |
| blackguard | noun (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. |
| noun (n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. | |
| noun (n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. | |
| noun (n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. | |
| adjective (a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. | |
| verb (v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. |
| blackguarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackguard |
| blackguardism | noun (n.) The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism. |
| blackhead | noun (n.) The scaup duck. |
| blackheart | noun (n.) A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin. |
| blackish | adjective (a.) Somewhat black. |
| blackleg | noun (n.) A notorious gambler. |
| noun (n.) A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. |
| blackmail | noun (n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. |
| noun (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure. | |
| noun (n.) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver. | |
| verb (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. |
| blackmailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackmail |
| noun (n.) The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation. |
| blackmailer | noun (n.) One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing. |
| blackmoor | noun (n.) See Blackamoor. |
| blackness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. |
| blackpoll | noun (n.) A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata). |
| blackroot | noun (n.) See Colicroot. |
| blacks | noun (n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press. |
| noun (n. pl.) Soot flying in the air. | |
| noun (n. pl.) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4. |
| blacksalter | noun (n.) One who makes crude potash, or black salts. |
| blacksmith | noun (n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. |
| noun (n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color. |
| black snake | noun (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake |
| blacksnake | noun (n.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. |
| blackstrap | noun (n.) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses. |
| noun (n.) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors. |
| blacktail | noun (n.) A fish; the ruff or pope. |
| noun (n.) The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer. |
| blackthorn | noun (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. |
| noun (n.) A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges. |
| black wash | noun (n.) Alt. of Blackwash |
| blackwash | noun (n.) A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water. |
| noun (n.) A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. |
| blackwood | noun (n.) A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. |
| blackwork | noun (n.) Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. |
| bladder | noun (n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. |
| noun (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. | |
| noun (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp. | |
| noun (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. | |
| verb (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard. |
| bladdering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladder |
| bladderwort | noun (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BLY:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'y':
| babblery | noun (n.) Babble. |
| babery | noun (n.) Finery of a kind to please a child. |
| baboonery | noun (n.) Baboonish behavior. |
| baby | noun (n.) An infant or young child of either sex; a babe. |
| noun (n.) A small image of an infant; a doll. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans. | |
| verb (v. i.) To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle. |
| bachelry | noun (n.) The body of young aspirants for knighthood. |
| bacillary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacilli; produced by, or containing, bacilli; bacillar; as, a bacillary disease. |
| backstay | noun (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast. |
| noun (n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion. |
| bacteriology | noun (n.) The science relating to bacteria. |
| bacterioscopy | noun (n.) The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water. |
| noun (n.) Microscopic examination or investigation of bacteria. |
| baculometry | noun (n.) Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs. |
| baggy | adjective (a.) Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks. |
| bailey | noun (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. |
| noun (n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. | |
| noun (n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. |
| bakery | noun (n.) The trade of a baker. |
| noun (n.) The place for baking bread; a bakehouse. |
| balcony | noun (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater. |
| noun (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships. |
| balky | adjective (a.) Apt to balk; as, a balky horse. |
| balladry | noun (n.) Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. |
| ballatry | noun (n.) See Balladry. |
| balloonry | noun (n.) The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics. |
| balmy | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild. |
| adjective (a.) Producing balm. | |
| adjective (a.) Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. |
| balneary | noun (n.) A bathing room. |
| balneatory | adjective (a.) Belonging to a bath. |
| balneography | noun (n.) A description of baths. |
| balneology | noun (n.) A treatise on baths; the science of bathing. |
| balneotherapy | noun (n.) The treatment of disease by baths. |
| banality | noun (n.) Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. |
| bandy | noun (n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks. |
| noun (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. | |
| noun (n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball. | |
| adjective (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. | |
| verb (v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. |
| baneberry | noun (n.) A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous. |
| bankruptcy | noun (n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt. |
| noun (n.) The act or process of becoming a bankrupt. | |
| noun (n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of. |
| baptistery | noun (n.) Alt. of Baptistry |
| baptistry | noun (n.) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near. |
| noun (n.) A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services. |
| barbarity | noun (n.) The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization. |
| noun (n.) Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. | |
| noun (n.) A barbarous or cruel act. | |
| noun (n.) Barbarism; impurity of speech. |
| barbary | noun (n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon. |
| barberry | noun (n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. |
| barkery | noun (n.) A tanhouse. |
| barky | adjective (a.) Covered with, or containing, bark. |
| barley | noun (n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. |
| barology | noun (n.) The science of weight or gravity. |
| barometry | noun (n.) The art or process of making barometrical measurements. |
| baronetcy | noun (n.) The rank or patent of a baronet. |
| barony | noun (n.) The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron. |
| noun (n.) In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. |
| barratry | noun (n.) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. |
| noun (n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo. | |
| noun (n.) The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment. |
| barry | adjective (a.) Divided into bars; -- said of the field. |
| bartery | noun (n.) Barter. |
| barway | noun (n.) A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts. |
| baryphony | noun (n.) Difficulty of speech. |
| basicity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being a base. |
| noun (n.) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid. |
| basilary | noun (n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base. |
| noun (n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. |
| basketry | noun (n.) The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively. |
| bastardy | noun (n.) The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. |
| noun (n.) The procreation of a bastard child. |
| bathymetry | noun (n.) The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea. |
| batrachomyomachy | noun (n.) The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship. |
| battology | noun (n.) A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. |
| batty | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. |
| bavaroy | noun (n.) A kind of cloak or surtout. |
| bawdry | noun (n.) The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. |
| noun (n.) Illicit intercourse; fornication. | |
| noun (n.) Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. |
| bawdy | adjective (a.) Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. |
| adjective (a.) Obscene; filthy; unchaste. |
| bay | noun (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character. |
| noun (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay. | |
| noun (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers. | |
| noun (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. | |
| noun (n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel. | |
| noun (n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel. | |
| noun (n.) A tract covered with bay trees. | |
| noun (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water. | |
| adjective (a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear. | |
| verb (v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking. | |
| verb (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bathe. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back. |
| bayberry | noun (n.) The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis. |
| noun (n.) A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris). | |
| noun (n.) The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. |
| beachy | adjective (a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. |
| beadlery | noun (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| beauty | noun (n.) An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense. |
| noun (n.) A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature. | |
| noun (n.) A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman. | |
| noun (n.) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. |
| bedelry | noun (n.) Beadleship. |
| bedewy | adjective (a.) Moist with dew; dewy. |
| bedkey | noun (n.) An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead. |
| beechy | adjective (a.) Of or relating to beeches. |
| beefy | adjective (a.) Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy. |
| beery | adjective (a.) Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin. |
| beggary | noun (n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. |
| noun (n.) Beggarly appearance. | |
| adjective (a.) Beggarly. |
| belamy | noun (n.) Good friend; dear friend. |
| 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. |
| belligerency | noun (n.) The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare. |
| belomancy | noun (n.) A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. |
| bendy | adjective (a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. |
| benedictionary | noun (n.) A collected series of benedictions. |
| benedictory | adjective (a.) Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. |
| beneficiary | noun (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds. |
| noun (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. | |
| adjective (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. | |
| adjective (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts. |
| benignancy | noun (n.) Benignant quality; kindliness. |
| benignity | noun (n.) The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. |
| noun (n.) Mildness; gentleness. | |
| noun (n.) Salubrity; wholesome quality. |
| benty | adjective (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling bent. |
| berberry | noun (n.) See Barberry. |
| berry | noun (n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc. |
| noun (n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. | |
| noun (n.) The coffee bean. | |
| noun (n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish. | |
| noun (n.) A mound; a hillock. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bear or produce berries. |
| bestiality | noun (n.) The state or quality of being bestial. |
| noun (n.) Unnatural connection with a beast. |
| betony | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.). |
| betty | noun (n.) A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. |
| noun (n.) A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters. | |
| noun (n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. |
| bevy | noun (n.) A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. |
| noun (n.) A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes. |
| bewitchery | noun (n.) The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. |
| bey | noun (n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis. |
| bibacity | noun (n.) The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. |
| bibitory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling. |
| biblicality | noun (n.) The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject. |
| bibliography | noun (n.) A history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc. |
| bibliolatry | noun (n.) Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures. |
| bibliology | noun (n.) An account of books; book lore; bibliography. |
| noun (n.) The literature or doctrine of the Bible. |
| bibliomancy | noun (n.) A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events. |
| bibliopegy | noun (n.) The art of binding books. |
| bibliothecary | noun (n.) A librarian. |
| bicentenary | noun (n.) The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. |
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