Name Report For First Name BELL:
BELL
First name BELL's origin is French. BELL means "handsome". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BELL below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bell.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with BELL and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BELL - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BELL
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BELL AS A WHOLE:
abellona arabella barabell bella isabella bellangere cassibellaunus cymbelline bellerophon abella amabella anabella anabelle annabella annabelle belle bonnibelle isabelle izabella izabelle josobelle kristabelle krystabelle lilybell mabelle mariabella maribella maribelle mirabella orabelle abell campbell bellamy ysabelle bellance mehitabelle isabell mirabelle amabelle bellinus marybellNAMES RHYMING WITH BELL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ell) - Names That Ends with ell:
snell sidwell mitchell stockwell winchell kinnell angell howell arianell chanell chantell chantrell cherell cherrell dannell donnell gabriell hazell janell jeannell joell jonell luell nell raquell abriell amell ansell arndell attewell attwell averell blaisdell boell burnell burrell carnell carvell catrell chevell cingeswell cinwell connell cordell crandell cromwell crowell dalyell danell dantrell darcell darnell darrell denzell donell dontell dontrell driskell durell durrell engjell farrell ferrell fonzell hallwell harrell holwell jarell jarrell jaykell jerrell johnell jorell jorrell kendell kentrell kordell kyrell larnell lendell lennell lindell lornell lovell lowell lydell macdonell markell martell maxwell montrell morell odell oswell parnell pepperell pernell randell ranell rendellNAMES RHYMING WITH BELL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bel) - Names That Begins with bel:
bel bela belakane belda beldan beldane belden beldene beldon belen belia belina belinda belisarda beltane beltran beluchi belvaRhyming 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 benNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BELL:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'l':
baal badal baghel balmoral barabal barbel bardol bartel bartol basel basil batal bathil batool batul beryl bethel betzalel bidziil bilal bill birdhil birdhill birtel blaecl blondell bodil bohumil boulboul bradwell bramwell brasil breasal breindel bressal brocl bssil burel burl byrtelEnglish Words Rhyming BELL
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BELL AS A WHOLE:
| barbellate | adjective (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. |
| barbellulate | adjective (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs. |
| 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 |
| belletristical | adjective (a.) Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. |
| bellflower | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers. |
| noun (n.) A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. |
| bellibone | noun (n.) A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. |
| bellic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bellical |
| bellical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. |
| bellicose | adjective (a.) Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious. |
| bellicous | adjective (a.) Bellicose. |
| bellied | adjective (a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Belly |
| belligerence | noun (n.) Alt. of Belligerency |
| belligerency | noun (n.) The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare. |
| belligerent | noun (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare. |
| (p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war. | |
| (p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights. |
| bellman | noun (n.) A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. |
| bellon | noun (n.) Lead colic. |
| bellona | noun (n.) The goddess of war. |
| bellowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bellow |
| bellow | noun (n.) A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar. |
| verb (v.) To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull. | |
| verb (v.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. | |
| verb (v.) To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. | |
| verb (v. t.) To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out. |
| bellower | noun (n.) One who, or that which, bellows. |
| bellows | noun (n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. |
| belluine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. |
| bellwether | noun (n.) A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck. |
| noun (n.) Hence: A leader. |
| bellwort | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers. |
| 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. |
| bellying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belly |
| bellyache | noun (n.) Pain in the bowels; colic. |
| bellyband | noun (n.) A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth. |
| noun (n.) A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly. | |
| noun (n.) A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail. |
| bellybound | adjective (a.) Costive; constipated. |
| bellycheat | noun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person. |
| bellycheer | noun (n.) Good cheer; viands. |
| verb (v. i.) To revel; to feast. |
| bellyful | noun (n.) As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. |
| biflabellate | adjective (a.) Flabellate on both sides. |
| bluebell | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell. |
| noun (n.) A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans). |
| bonibell | noun (n.) See Bonnibel. |
| bowbell | noun (n.) One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney. |
| bellarmine | noun (n.) A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard. |
| campbellite | noun (n.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3. |
| cerebellar | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cerebellous |
| cerebellous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the cerebellum. |
| cerebellum | noun (n.) The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain. |
| claribella | noun (n.) A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BELL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ell) - English Words That Ends with ell:
| astrofell | noun (n.) A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort. |
| bedell | noun (n.) Same as Beadle. |
| bombshell | noun (n.) A bomb. See Bomb, n. |
| bridewell | noun (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse. |
| cell | noun (n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. |
| noun (n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. | |
| noun (n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place. | |
| noun (n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Cella. | |
| noun (n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. | |
| noun (n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell. |
| cockleshell | noun (n.) One of the shells or valves of a cockle. |
| noun (n.) A light boat. |
| corbell | noun (n.) A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel. |
| noun (n.) Small gabions. |
| dell | noun (n.) A small, retired valley; a ravine. |
| noun (n.) A young woman; a wench. |
| eggshell | noun (n.) The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell. |
| noun (n.) A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form. |
| ell | noun (n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37. |
| noun (n.) See L. |
| eysell | noun (n.) Same as Eisel. |
| farewell | noun (n.) A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu. |
| noun (n.) Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something. | |
| adjective (a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow. | |
| (interj.) Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell. |
| fell | noun (n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. |
| noun (n.) A barren or rocky hill. | |
| noun (n.) A wild field; a moor. | |
| noun (n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting. | |
| noun (n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses. | |
| noun (n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. | |
| adjective (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. | |
| adjective (a.) Eager; earnest; intent. | |
| adjective (a.) Gall; anger; melancholy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams. | |
| (imp.) of Fall | |
| () imp. of Fall. |
| femerell | noun (n.) A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke. |
| formell | noun (n.) The female of a hawk or falcon. |
| frogshell | noun (n.) One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera. |
| fumerell | noun (n.) See Femerell. |
| gougeshell | noun (n.) A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus. |
| gromwell | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. |
| hairbell | noun (n.) See Harebell. |
| harebell | noun (n.) A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell. |
| howell | noun (n.) The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. |
| kell | noun (n.) A kiln. |
| noun (n.) A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2. | |
| noun (n.) The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film. | |
| noun (n.) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect. |
| knell | noun (n.) The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything. |
| noun (n.) To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen. | |
| verb (v. t.) To summon, as by a knell. |
| lowbell | noun (n.) A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net. |
| noun (n.) A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep. | |
| verb (v. t.) To frighten, as with a lowbell. |
| mell | noun (n.) Honey. |
| noun (n.) A mill. | |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To mix; to meddle. |
| nutshell | noun (n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed. |
| noun (n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value. | |
| noun (n.) A shell of the genus Nucula. |
| ovicell | noun (n.) One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma. |
| quell | noun (n.) Murder. |
| noun (n.) Murder. | |
| verb (v. i.) To die. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take the life of; to kill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to put down. | |
| verb (v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul. | |
| verb (v. i.) To die. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take the life of; to kill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to put down. | |
| verb (v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul. |
| pell | noun (n.) A skin or hide; a pelt. |
| noun (n.) A roll of parchment; a parchment record. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pelt; to knock about. |
| rakehell | noun (n.) A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Rakehelly |
| sancte bell | noun (n.) See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus. |
| scamell | noun (n.) Alt. of Scammel |
| seashell | noun (n.) The shell of any marine mollusk. |
| sell | noun (n.) Self. |
| noun (n.) A sill. | |
| noun (n.) A cell; a house. | |
| noun (n.) A saddle for a horse. | |
| noun (n.) A throne or lofty seat. | |
| noun (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To practice selling commodities. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price. |
| shell | noun (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal. |
| noun (n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell. | |
| noun (n.) A pod. | |
| noun (n.) The hard covering of an egg. | |
| noun (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering. | |
| noun (n.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb. | |
| noun (n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms. | |
| noun (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house. | |
| noun (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell. | |
| noun (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works. | |
| noun (n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve. | |
| noun (n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell. | |
| noun (n.) Something similar in form or action to an ordnance shell; | |
| noun (n.) A case or cartridge containing a charge of explosive material, which bursts after having been thrown high into the air. It is often elevated through the agency of a larger firework in which it is contained. | |
| noun (n.) A torpedo. | |
| noun (n.) A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape. | |
| noun (n.) A gouge bit or shell bit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping. |
| smell | noun (n.) To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes. |
| noun (n.) To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out. | |
| noun (n.) To give heed to. | |
| verb (v. i.) To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. | |
| verb (v. i.) To exercise the sense of smell. | |
| verb (v. i.) To exercise sagacity. | |
| verb (v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense. | |
| verb (v. t.) The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint. |
| snell | noun (n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line. |
| adjective (a.) Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp. |
| speedwell | noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off. |
| spell | noun (n.) A spelk, or splinter. |
| noun (n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead. | |
| noun (n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks. | |
| noun (n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells. | |
| noun (n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell. | |
| noun (n.) A story; a tale. | |
| noun (n.) A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm. | |
| verb (v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tell; to relate; to teach. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. | |
| verb (v. t.) To constitute; to measure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography. | |
| verb (v. t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing. | |
| verb (v. i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study. |
| spoutshell | noun (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. |
| swell | noun (n.) The act of swelling. |
| noun (n.) Gradual increase. | |
| noun (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance. | |
| noun (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise. | |
| noun (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound. | |
| noun (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. | |
| noun (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells. | |
| noun (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor. | |
| noun (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign. | |
| noun (n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. | |
| verb (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style. | |
| verb (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. | |
| verb (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population. | |
| verb (v. t.) To aggravate; to heighten. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness. | |
| verb (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note. |
| tell | noun (n.) That which is told; tale; account. |
| noun (n.) A hill or mound. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. | |
| verb (v. t.) To order; to request; to command. | |
| verb (v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give an account; to make report. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells. |
| tinternell | noun (n.) A certain old dance. |
| toothshell | noun (n.) Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth-shaped shell. See Dentalium. |
| unwell | adjective (a.) Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing. |
| adjective (a.) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant. |
| vell | noun (n.) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag. |
| noun (n.) To cut the turf from, as for burning. |
| yell | noun (n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry. |
| verb (v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone. |
| well | adjective (a.) Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that the mistake was discovered. |
| adjective (a.) Being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well. | |
| adjective (a.) Being in favor; favored; fortunate. | |
| adjective (a.) Safe; as, a chip warranted well at a certain day and place. | |
| verb (v. i.) An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. | |
| verb (v. i.) A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in. | |
| verb (v. i.) A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine. | |
| verb (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring. | |
| verb (v. i.) An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection. | |
| verb (v. i.) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market. | |
| verb (v. i.) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water. | |
| verb (v. i.) A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit. | |
| verb (v. i.) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. | |
| verb (v. i.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. | |
| verb (v. i.) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. | |
| verb (v. i.) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pour forth, as from a well. | |
| verb (v. t.) In a good or proper manner; justly; rightly; not ill or wickedly. | |
| verb (v. t.) Suitably to one's condition, to the occasion, or to a proposed end or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately; thoroughly. | |
| verb (v. t.) Fully or about; -- used with numbers. | |
| verb (v. t.) In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently. | |
| verb (v. t.) Considerably; not a little; far. |
| woofell | noun (n.) The European blackbird. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BELL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bel) - Words That Begins with bel:
| 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. |
| 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. |
| belonging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belong |
| noun (n.) That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. | |
| noun (n.) That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. | |
| noun (n.) Family; relations; household. |
| belonite | noun (n.) Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks. |
| belooche beloochee | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. |
| beloved | noun (n.) One greatly loved. |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Greatly loved; dear to the heart. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Belove |
| belsire | noun (n.) A grandfather, or ancestor. |
| belswagger | noun (n.) A lewd man; also, a bully. |
| belt | noun (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. |
| noun (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle. | |
| noun (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt. | |
| noun (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea. | |
| noun (n.) A token or badge of knightly rank. | |
| noun (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other. | |
| noun (n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges. | |
| verb (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. |
| belting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belt |
| noun (n.) The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively. |
| beltane | noun (n.) The first day of May (Old Style). |
| noun (n.) A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland. |
| belted | adjective (a.) Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl. |
| adjective (a.) Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk. | |
| adjective (a.) Worn in, or suspended from, the belt. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Belt |
| beltein | noun (n.) Alt. of Beltin |
| beltin | noun (n.) See Beltane. |
| beluga | noun (n.) A cetacean allied to the dolphins. |
| beluting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belute |
| belvedere | noun (n.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect. |
| belzebuth | noun (n.) A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BELL:
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| barbastel | noun (n.) A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips. |
| 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. |
| barbicel | noun (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| bawrel | noun (n.) A kind of hawk. |
| 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. |
| beamful | adjective (a.) Beamy; radiant. |
| 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. |
| bechamel | noun (n.) A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream. |
| bedel | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedell |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| besaiel | noun (n.) Alt. of Besayle |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
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