BALLARD

Name Report For First Name BALLARD:

First name BALLARD's origin is German. BALLARD means "bold, strong". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BALLARD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ballard.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with BALLARD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with BALLARD - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BALLARD

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BALLARD AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH BALLARD (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (allard) - Names That Ends with allard:

eallard allard

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (llard) - Names That Ends with llard:

willard millard ellard

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (lard) - Names That Ends with lard:

adalard alard abelard

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ard) - Names That Ends with ard:

cyneheard bard gotthard ceneward bayard cinnard kinnard reynard rikard hildegard irmgard irmigard stockhard stokkard adalhard adelhard aegelweard aethelhard aethelweard alhhard athelward bamard bayhard beamard bearnard berinhard bernard bernhard branhard burghard ceard cenehard cynhard deerward deorward eadgard eadward eadweard ealhhard edgard eduard edvard edward eferhard eideard einhard ekhard erhard everard everhard evrard eward garrard gaspard gehard gerhard gifuhard goddard hagaward heahweard hobard hobbard hoireabard hubbard hulbard maynard meinyard rainhard reginhard reinhard ricard rickard ricweard rikkard rikward riobard riocard risteard roibeard ruhdugeard ryszard saeweard seaward steward ward weard willhard wudoweard wynward meinhard gerard eginhard

NAMES RHYMING WITH BALLARD (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (ballar) - Names That Begins with ballar:

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (balla) - Names That Begins with balla:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (ball) - Names That Begins with ball:

ballinamore ballindeny

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bal) - Names That Begins with bal:

baladi baladie balasi balbina baldassare baldassario baldemar balder baldhart baldhere baldlice baldric baldrik balduin baldulf baldwin baldwyn baleigh balen balere balfour balgair balgaire balie balin balinda balisarda balmoral balqis baltasar balthazar baltsaros

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ba) - Names That Begins with ba:

baal bab baba babafemi babatunde babette babu babukar bac baccaus baccus backstere bacstair badal badawi bader badi'a badr badra badriyyah badru badu baduna baecere baen baerhloew baethan bagdemagus baghel baha baheera bahir bahira bahiti bahiya baibin baibre baigh bailee bailefour bailey bailintin baillidh bailoch bain bainbridge bainbrydge bairbre baird bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn bakari baker bakkir bama bambi bamey ban bana banain banaing banan banbhan banbrigge bancroft bane

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BALLARD:

First Names which starts with 'bal' and ends with 'ard':

First Names which starts with 'ba' and ends with 'rd':

barnard

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'd':

bannruod barend bathild behrend bemossed beortbtraed beorthtraed berchtwald berend beresford berford bernd berthold bertrand bhraghad bickford biecaford biford bird birdoswald birkhead birkhed bladud blaed blandford blanford blathnaid bofind bond boulad boyd brad bradd bradford brainard brainerd brand bred brid brighid brigid brimlad brunhild brygid bud budd burchard burford burhford burnard byford byrd byrtwold

English Words Rhyming BALLARD

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BALLARD AS A WHOLE:

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BALLARD (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (allard) - English Words That Ends with allard:

mallard	adjective (a.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.
	adjective (a.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.

Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (llard) - English Words That Ends with llard:

babillard

noun (n.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

billard

noun (n.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.

bollard

noun (n.) An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

dullard	noun (n.) A stupid person; a dunce.
	adjective (a.) Stupid.

gaillard

adjective (a.) Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.

lollard	noun (n.) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
	noun (n.) One of the followers of Wyclif in England.

pollard	noun (n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
	noun (n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
	noun (n.) A fish, the chub.
	noun (n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
	noun (n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
	verb (v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (lard) - English Words That Ends with lard:

baselard

noun (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.

foulard

noun (n.) A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

lard	noun (n.) Bacon; the flesh of swine.
	noun (n.) The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.
	noun (n.) To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry.
	noun (n.) To fatten; to enrich.
	noun (n.) To smear with lard or fat.
	noun (n.) To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
	verb (v. i.) To grow fat.

poulard

noun (n.) A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening; hence, a fat pullet.

shovelard

noun (n.) Shoveler.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ard) - English Words That Ends with ard:

adward

noun (n.) Award.

afeard

adjective (p. a.) Afraid.

afterguard

noun (n.) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails.

aukward

adjective (a.) See Awkward.

awkward	adjective (a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.
	adjective (a.) Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
	adjective (a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward.

backboard	noun (n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;
	noun (n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.
	noun (n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
	noun (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.
	noun (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

backward	noun (n.) The state behind or past.
	adjective (a.) Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
	adjective (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
	adjective (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
	adjective (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
	adjective (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
	adjective (a.) Already past or gone; bygone.
	adverb (adv.) Alt. of Backwards
	verb (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder.

bard	noun (n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
	noun (n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
	noun (n.) Alt. of Barde
	noun (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
	noun (n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.
	verb (v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

bargeboard

noun (n.) A vergeboard.

barnyard

noun (n.) A yard belonging to a barn.

baseboard

noun (n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.

bastard	noun (n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
	noun (n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
	noun (n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
	noun (n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
	noun (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
	noun (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
	noun (n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
	noun (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
	adjective (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
	verb (v. t.) To bastardize.

bayard	adjective (a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
	adjective (a.) A stupid, clownish fellow.

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.

bearward

noun (n.) A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.

becard

noun (n.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

beghard

noun (n.) Alt. of Beguard

beguard

noun (n.) One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.

belgard

noun (n.) A sweet or loving look.

billboard	noun (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.
	noun (n.) A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.

billiard

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.

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.

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.

blancard

noun (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

blinkard	noun (n.) One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.
	noun (n.) That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.

blizzard

noun (n.) A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.

bluebeard

noun (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.

board	noun (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
	noun (n.) A table to put food upon.
	noun (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
	noun (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
	noun (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
	noun (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
	noun (n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
	noun (n.) The border or side of anything.
	noun (n.) The side of a ship.
	noun (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
	noun (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
	noun (n.) To enter, as a railway car.
	noun (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
	noun (n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
	verb (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
	verb (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
	verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

bodyguard	noun (n.) A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
	noun (n.) Retinue; attendance; following.

boggard

noun (n.) A bogey.

bombard	noun (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
	noun (n.) A bombardment.
	noun (n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
	noun (n.) Padded breeches.
	noun (n.) See Bombardo.
	verb (v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

boulevard	noun (n.) Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
	noun (n.) A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

boyard

noun (n.) A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

brancard

noun (n.) A litter on which a person may be carried.

brickyard

noun (n.) A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

bridgeboard	noun (n.) A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
	noun (n.) A board or plank used as a bridge.

brocard

noun (n.) An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.

buckboard

noun (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

bustard

noun (n.) A bird of the genus Otis.

buzzard	noun (n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
	noun (n.) A blockhead; a dunce.
	adjective (a.) Senseless; stupid.

byard

noun (n.) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

camelopard

noun (n.) An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe.

camisard

noun (n.) One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

canard

noun (n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

card	noun (n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
	noun (n.) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
	noun (n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
	noun (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
	noun (n.) An indicator card. See under Indicator.
	noun (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.
	noun (n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
	verb (v. i.) To play at cards; to game.
	verb (v. t.) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
	verb (v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
	verb (v. t.) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

cardboard

noun (n.) A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

castleward

noun (n.) Same as Castleguard.

centerboard

noun (n.) Alt. of Centreboard

centreboard

noun (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States

chard	noun (n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.
	noun (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BALLARD (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (ballar) - Words That Begins with ballar:

Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (balla) - Words That Begins with balla:

ballad	noun (n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
	verb (v. i.) To make or sing ballads.
	verb (v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.

ballade

noun (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

ballader

noun (n.) A writer of ballads.

balladry

noun (n.) Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.

ballahoo

noun (n.) Alt. of Ballahou

ballahou

noun (n.) A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

ballast	adjective (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
	adjective (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
	adjective (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
	adjective (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
	adjective (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
	verb (v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
	verb (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
	verb (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.

ballasting	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ballast
	noun (n.) That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

ballastage

noun (n.) A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

ballatry

noun (n.) See Balladry.

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (ball) - Words That Begins with ball:

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.

balling

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ball

ballet	noun (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
	noun (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
	noun (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
	noun (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

ballista

noun (n.) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

ballister

noun (n.) A crossbow.

ballistic	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile.

ballistics

noun (n.) The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.

ballium

noun (n.) See Bailey.

balloon	noun (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
	noun (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
	noun (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
	noun (n.) A bomb or shell.
	noun (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
	noun (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
	verb (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
	verb (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
	verb (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

ballooned

adjective (a.) Swelled out like a balloon.

ballooner

noun (n.) One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.

ballooning	noun (n.) The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
	noun (n.) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.

balloonist

noun (n.) An aeronaut.

balloonry

noun (n.) The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.

ballot	noun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
	noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
	noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
	noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
	verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

balloting

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ballot

ballotation

noun (n.) Voting by ballot.

balloter

noun (n.) One who votes by ballot.

ballotin

noun (n.) An officer who has charge of a ballot box.

ballow

noun (n.) A cudgel.

ballproof

adjective (a.) Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.

ballroom

noun (n.) A room for balls or dancing.

ballistite

noun (n.) A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

ballotage

noun (n.) In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bal) - Words That Begins with bal:

balaam

noun (n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.

balachong

noun (n.) A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.

balaenoidea

noun (n.) A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

balance	noun (n.) An apparatus for weighing.
	noun (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
	noun (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
	noun (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
	noun (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
	noun (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
	noun (n.) The constellation Libra.
	noun (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
	noun (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
	noun (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
	noun (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
	noun (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
	noun (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
	noun (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
	noun (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
	noun (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
	noun (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
	noun (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
	verb (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
	verb (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
	verb (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.

balancing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Balance

balanceable

adjective (a.) Such as can be balanced.

balancement

noun (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

balancer	noun (n.) One who balances, or uses a balance.
	noun (n.) In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.

balancereef

noun (n.) The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

balaniferous

adjective (a.) Bearing or producing acorns.

balanite

noun (n.) A fossil balanoid shell.

balanoglossus

noun (n.) A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.

balanoid

adjective (a.) Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

balaustine

noun (n.) The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

balbuties

noun (n.) The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.

balcon

noun (n.) A balcony.

balconied

adjective (a.) Having balconies.

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.

bald	adjective (a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.
	adjective (a.) Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
	adjective (a.) Undisguised.
	adjective (a.) Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.
	adjective (a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
	adjective (a.) Destitute of the natural covering.
	adjective (a.) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.

baldachin	noun (n.) A rich brocade; baudekin.
	noun (n.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.
	noun (n.) A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession.

balder

noun (n.) The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.

balderdash	noun (n.) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
	noun (n.) Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
	verb (v. t.) To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

baldhead	noun (n.) A person whose head is bald.
	noun (n.) A white-headed variety of pigeon.

baldheaded

adjective (a.) Having a bald head.

baldness

noun (n.) The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.

baldpate	noun (n.) A baldheaded person.
	noun (n.) The American widgeon (Anas Americana).
	adjective (a.) Alt. of Baldpated

baldpated

adjective (a.) Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded.

baldrib

noun (n.) A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.

baldric

noun (n.) A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.

baldwin

noun (n.) A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.

bale	noun (n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
	noun (n.) Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
	noun (n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury.
	verb (v. t.) To make up in a bale.
	verb (v. t.) See Bail, v. t., to lade.

baling

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bale

balearic

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.

baleen

noun (n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

balefire

noun (n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.

baleful	adjective (a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
	adjective (a.) Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.

balefulness

noun (n.) The quality or state of being baleful.

balisaur

noun (n.) A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).

balister

noun (n.) A crossbow.

balistoid

adjective (a.) Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidae. See Filefish.

balistraria

noun (n.) A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

balize

noun (n.) A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

balking

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Balk

balker	noun (n.) One who, or that which balks.
	noun (n.) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

balkish

adjective (a.) Uneven; ridgy.

balky

adjective (a.) Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.

balm	noun (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.
	noun (n.) The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs.
	noun (n.) Any fragrant ointment.
	noun (n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.
	verb (v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate.

balmoral	noun (n.) A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
	noun (n.) A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.

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.

balneal

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a bath.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BALLARD:

English Words which starts with 'bal' and ends with 'ard':

English Words which starts with 'ba' and ends with 'rd':

backsword	noun (n.) A sword with one sharp edge.
	noun (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick.

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