BILL
First name BILL's origin is English. BILL means "nickname for william - resolute protector - often used as an independent name". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BILL below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bill.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BILL and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming BILL
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BİLL AS A WHOLE:
billie billy sebilleNAMES RHYMING WITH BİLL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ill) - Names That Ends with ill:
ailill will gill averill avrill cherrill darrill jill ardkill birdhill cyrill macneill merrill neill terrill verrill churchill derrillRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ll) - Names That Ends with ll:
barabell diorbhall snell pwyll sidwell kendall mitchell stockwell winchell dall kinnell neall angell howell abigall apryll arianell carroll chanell chantell chantrell cherell cherrell cheryll dannell darryll daryll donnell gabriell hazell janell jeannell joell jonell kindall kyndall lilybell luell lyndall nell pall poll raquell abell abriell amall amell amoll ansell arndell attewell attwell averell bell blaisdell boell burnell burrell cafall carnell carvell catrell chevell churchyll cingeswell cinwell circehyll conall connell cordell covyll crandell cromwell crowell dalyell danell dantrell darcell darnall darnell darrell denzellNAMES RHYMING WITH BİLL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bil) - Names That Begins with bil:
bilagaana bilal bilko bilqis bilyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bi) - Names That Begins with bi:
biaiardo bian bianca biast bibi bibiana bibsbebe bich bick bickford bicoir biddy bidelia bidina bidziil biecaford bienvenida biford bikr bimisi binah binata bing binga binge bingen binh bink binta binyamin bir birch birche bird birde birdena birdhil birdie birdine birdoswald birdy birgit birj birk birkett birkey birkhe birkhead birkhed birkita birley birney biron birr birte birtel birtle bisgu bishop bishr bitanig biton bittan bitten bittor bitya bixentaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BİLL:
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 beal beall bel beryl bethel betzalel blaecl blondell bodil bohumil boulboul bradwell bramwell brasil breasal breindel bressal brocl bssil burel burl byrtelEnglish Words Rhyming BILL
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BİLL AS A WHOLE:
antibillous | adjective (a.) Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness. |
babillard | noun (n.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler. |
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. |
billing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bill |
noun (a. & n.) Caressing; kissing. |
billage | noun (n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge. |
billard | noun (n.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. |
billbeetle | noun (n.) Alt. of Billbug |
billbug | noun (n.) A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio. |
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. |
billed | adjective (a.) Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Bill |
billet | noun (n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter. |
noun (n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence. | |
noun (n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood. | |
noun (n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron. | |
noun (n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round. | |
noun (n.) A strap which enters a buckle. | |
noun (n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. | |
noun (n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle. | |
noun (n.) Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig. | |
verb (v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. |
billeting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Billet |
billethead | noun (n.) A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off. |
billfish | noun (n.) A name applied to several distinct fishes |
noun (n.) The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species. | |
noun (n.) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). | |
noun (n.) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. | |
noun (n.) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus). |
billhead | noun (n.) A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts. |
billhook | noun (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter. |
billiard | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. |
billiards | noun (n.) A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished. |
billingsgate | noun (n.) A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language. |
noun (n.) Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry. |
billion | noun (n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration. |
billman | noun (n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. |
billon | noun (n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage. |
billot | noun (n.) Bullion in the bar or mass. |
billow | noun (n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. |
noun (n.) A great wave or flood of anything. | |
verb (v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. |
billowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Billow |
billowy | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. |
billposter | noun (n.) Alt. of Billsticker |
billsticker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places. |
billy | noun (n.) A club; esp., a policeman's club. |
noun (n.) A slubbing or roving machine. |
billyboy | noun (n.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. |
bluebill | noun (n.) A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck. |
boatbill | noun (n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost. |
noun (n.) A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus. |
broadbill | noun (n.) A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck. |
noun (n.) The shoveler. See Shoveler. |
billabong | noun (n.) In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source. |
crookbill | noun (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right. |
crossbill | noun (n.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak. |
() A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit. |
deshabille | noun (n.) An undress; a careless toilet. |
dishabille | noun (n.) An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. |
duckbill | noun (n.) See Duck mole, under Duck, n. |
duebill | noun (n.) A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note. |
flatbill | noun (n.) Any bird of the genus Flatyrynchus. They belong to the family of flycatchers. |
gerbille | noun (n.) One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe. |
gorebill | noun (n.) The garfish. |
handbill | noun (n.) A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand. |
noun (n.) A pruning hook. |
hawkbill | noun (n.) A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret. |
hornbill | noun (n.) Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals. |
inflammabillty | noun (n.) Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable. |
ingenerabillty | noun (n.) Incapacity of being engendered or produced. |
morbillous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BİLL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ill) - English Words That Ends with ill:
affodill | noun (n.) Asphodel. |
aspergill | noun (n.) Alt. of Aspergillum |
brill | noun (n.) A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret. |
chill | noun (n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. |
noun (n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever. | |
noun (n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly. | |
noun (n.) An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it. | |
noun (n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. | |
adjective (a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. | |
adjective (a.) Affected by cold. | |
adjective (a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception. | |
adjective (a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. | |
verb (v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. | |
verb (v. t.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron. | |
verb (v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others. |
cill | noun (n.) See Sill., n. a foundation. |
demivill | noun (n.) A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. |
dill | noun (n.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed. |
adjective (a.) To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain. |
distill | noun (n. & v) To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. |
noun (n. & v) To flow gently, or in a small stream. | |
noun (n. & v) To practice the art of distillation. | |
verb (v. t.) To let fall or send down in drops. | |
verb (v. t.) To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water. | |
verb (v. t.) To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To dissolve or melt. |
doorsill | noun (n.) The sill or threshold of a door. |
downhill | noun (n.) Declivity; descent; slope. |
adjective (a.) Declivous; descending; sloping. | |
adverb (adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill. |
drill | noun (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press. |
noun (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. | |
noun (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. | |
noun (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. | |
noun (n.) A small trickling stream; a rill. | |
noun (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. | |
noun (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. | |
noun (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow. | |
noun (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). | |
noun (n.) Same as Drilling. | |
verb (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. | |
verb (v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. | |
verb (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. | |
verb (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. | |
verb (v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. | |
verb (v. i.) To trickle. | |
verb (v. i.) To sow in drills. |
dunghill | noun (n.) A heap of dung. |
noun (n.) Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode. |
fill | noun (n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. |
noun (n.) That which fills; filling; specif., an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled. | |
adjective (a.) To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of. | |
adjective (a.) To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun. | |
adjective (a.) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. | |
adjective (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair. | |
adjective (a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy. | |
adjective (a.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails. | |
adjective (a.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails. | |
adjective (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. | |
verb (v. i.) To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind. | |
verb (v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking. | |
verb (v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction. |
foothill | noun (n.) A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains. |
forrill | noun (n.) Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. |
freewill | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering. |
gill | noun (n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. |
noun (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom. | |
noun (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle. | |
noun (n.) The flesh under or about the chin. | |
noun (n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. | |
noun (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. | |
noun (n.) A leech. | |
noun (n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. | |
noun (n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint. | |
noun (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. | |
noun (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names. | |
noun (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. |
greengill | noun (n.) An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood. |
grill | noun (n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron. |
noun (n.) To torment, as if by broiling. | |
noun (n.) A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps. | |
noun (n.) A grillroom. | |
verb (v. t.) A gridiron. | |
verb (v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To stamp or mark with a grill. | |
verb (v. i.) To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil. |
gristmill | noun (n.) A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. |
gromill | noun (n.) See Gromwell. |
groundsill | noun (n.) See Ground plate (a), under Ground |
hill | noun (n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. |
noun (n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t. | |
verb (v. t.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. | |
verb (v. t.) To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn. |
ill | noun (n.) Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity. |
noun (n.) Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil. | |
adjective (a.) Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. | |
adjective (a.) Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper. | |
adjective (a.) Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever. | |
adjective (a.) Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant. | |
adverb (adv.) In a ill manner; badly; weakly. |
jill | noun (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill. |
kill | noun (n.) A kiln. |
noun (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc. | |
noun (n.) The act of killing. | |
noun (n.) An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey. | |
verb (v. t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay. | |
verb (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. | |
verb (v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid. |
lambkill | noun (n.) A small American ericaceous shrub (Kalmia angustifolia); -- called also calfkill, sheepkill, sheep laurel, etc. It is supposed to poison sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food. |
mandrill | noun (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red. |
mill | noun (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
noun (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. | |
noun (n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill. | |
noun (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. | |
noun (n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc. | |
noun (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill. | |
noun (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. | |
noun (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. | |
noun (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. | |
noun (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. | |
noun (n.) A pugilistic. | |
noun (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. | |
noun (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. | |
noun (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin. | |
noun (n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. | |
noun (n.) To beat with the fists. | |
noun (n.) To roll into bars, as steel. | |
noun (n.) Short for Treadmill. | |
noun (n.) The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw. | |
verb (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. | |
verb (v. i.) To undergo hulling, as maize. | |
verb (v. i.) To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain. | |
verb (v. i.) To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales. | |
verb (v. i.) To take part in a mill; to box. | |
verb (v. t.) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle. |
molehill | noun (n.) A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty. |
mudsill | noun (n.) The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill. |
noun (n.) Fig.: A person of the lowest stratum of society; -- a term of opprobrium or contempt. |
nill | noun (n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass. |
noun (n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge. | |
verb (v. t.) Not to will; to refuse; to reject. | |
verb (v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act. |
openbill | noun (n.) A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open-beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak. |
quill | noun (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather. |
noun (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill. | |
noun (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine. | |
noun (n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen. | |
noun (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments. | |
noun (n.) The tube of a musical instrument. | |
noun (n.) Something having the form of a quill | |
noun (n.) The fold or plain of a ruff. | |
noun (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle. | |
noun (n.) A hollow spindle. | |
noun (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather. | |
noun (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill. | |
noun (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine. | |
noun (n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen. | |
noun (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments. | |
noun (n.) The tube of a musical instrument. | |
noun (n.) Something having the form of a quill | |
noun (n.) The fold or plain of a ruff. | |
noun (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle. | |
noun (n.) A hollow spindle. | |
noun (n.) A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona. | |
verb (v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. | |
verb (v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. | |
verb (v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. | |
verb (v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. |
pill | noun (n.) The peel or skin. |
noun (n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole. | |
noun (n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. | |
verb (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes. | |
verb (v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald. | |
verb (v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. |
playbill | noun (n.) A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors. |
powdermill | noun (n.) A mill in which gunpowder is made. |
prill | noun (n.) The brill. |
noun (n.) A stream. | |
noun (n.) A nugget of virgin metal. | |
noun (n.) Ore selected for excellence. | |
noun (n.) The button of metal from an assay. | |
verb (v. i.) To flow. |
razorbill | noun (n.) A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix. |
noun (n.) See Cutwater, 3. |
rill | noun (n.) A very small brook; a streamlet. |
noun (n.) See Rille. | |
verb (v. i.) To run a small stream. |
ringbill | noun (n.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup. |
saberbill | noun (n.) Alt. of Sabrebill |
sabrebill | noun (n.) The curlew. |
sawbill | noun (n.) The merganser. |
sawmill | noun (n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber. |
scissorsbill | noun (n.) See Skimmer. |
shearbill | noun (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer. |
sheathbill | noun (n.) Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas. |
shoebill | noun (n.) A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak. |
shovelbill | noun (n.) The shoveler. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BİLL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bil) - Words That Begins with bil:
bilabiate | adjective (a.) Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers. |
bilaciniate | adjective (a.) Doubly fringed. |
bilalo | noun (n.) A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila. |
bilamellate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bilamellated |
bilamellated | adjective (a.) Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers. |
bilaminar | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bilaminate |
bilaminate | adjective (a.) Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates. |
biland | noun (n.) A byland. |
bilander | noun (n.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. |
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. |
bilaterality | noun (n.) State of being bilateral. |
bilberry | noun (n.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. |
noun (n.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum. |
bilbo | noun (n.) A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain. |
noun (n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships. |
bilboquet | noun (n.) The toy called cup and ball. |
bilcock | noun (n.) The European water rail. |
bildstein | noun (n.) Same as Agalmatolite. |
bile | noun (n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters. |
noun (n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. | |
noun (n.) A boil. |
bilection | noun (n.) That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection. |
bilestone | noun (n.) A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. |
bilge | noun (n.) The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle. |
noun (n.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground. | |
noun (n.) Bilge water. | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge. | |
verb (v. i.) To bulge. | |
verb (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel). | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to bulge. |
bilging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bilge |
bilgy | adjective (a.) Having the smell of bilge water. |
biliary | adjective (a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. |
biliation | noun (n.) The production and excretion of bile. |
biliferous | adjective (a.) Generating bile. |
bilifuscin | noun (n.) A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin. |
bilimbi | noun (n.) Alt. of Bilimbing |
bilimbing | noun (n.) The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. |
biliment | noun (n.) A woman's ornament; habiliment. |
bilin | noun (n.) A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids. |
bilinear | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates. |
bilingual | adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. |
bilingualism | noun (n.) Quality of being bilingual. |
bilinguar | adjective (a.) See Bilingual. |
bilinguist | noun (n.) One versed in two languages. |
bilinguous | adjective (a.) Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. |
bilious | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the bile. |
adjective (a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms. | |
adjective (a.) Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. |
biliousness | noun (n.) The state of being bilious. |
biliprasin | noun (n.) A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones. |
bilirubin | noun (n.) A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment. |
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. |
biliteralism | noun (n.) The property or state of being biliteral. |
biliverdin | noun (n.) A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation. |
bilking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bilk |
bilk | noun (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk. |
noun (n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax. | |
noun (n.) Nonsense; vain words. | |
noun (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person. | |
verb (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. |
bilobate | adjective (a.) Divided into two lobes or segments. |
bilobed | adjective (a.) Bilobate. |
bilocation | noun (n.) Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. |
bilocular | adjective (a.) Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. |
bilsted | noun (n.) See Sweet gum. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BİLL:
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 |
bedell | noun (n.) Same as Beadle. |
befoul | adjective (a.) To make foul; to soil. |
adjective (a.) To entangle or run against so as to impede motion. |
beheadal | noun (n.) Beheading. |
behooveful | adjective (a.) Advantageous; useful; profitable. |
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. |
belial | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. |
beliefful | adjective (a.) Having belief or faith. |
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. |
belletristical | adjective (a.) Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. |
bellical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. |
bellyful | noun (n.) As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. |
bemol | noun (n.) The sign /; the same as B flat. |
benedictional | noun (n.) A book of benedictions. |
beneficential | adjective (a.) Relating to beneficence. |
beneficial | adjective (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to. |
adjective (a.) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. | |
adjective (a.) King. |
bengal | noun (n.) A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. |
noun (n.) A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. | |
noun (n.) Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. |
benthal | adjective (a.) Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean. |
benzal | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination. |
benzol | noun (n.) An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene. |
benzoyl | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. |
benzyl | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively. |
bequeathal | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. |
bergmeal | noun (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite. |
beryl | noun (n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium. |
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. |