BORT
First name BORT's origin is English. BORT means "fortified". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BORT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bort.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BORT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming BORT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BORT AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH BORT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ort) - Names That Ends with ort:
bohort cort heort kort comfort beaufortRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rt) - Names That Ends with rt:
meht-urt mert beircheart cuthbert sigebert domingart everhart hart radbert wilbert aubert florismart robert raibeart taggart hobart rambert adelbert baldhart stockhart adalbert aethelbert ailbert albert alburt art auhert bart bert burkhart burt calbert calvert colbert colvert culbart culbert curt dealbert delbert eadburt eawart elbert englebert evert ewart fitzgilbert gilburt gilibeirt gilleabart giselbert guilbert halbart halburt herlbert hubert hulbart hurlbart inglebert kuhlbert kulbart kulbert kurt lambart lambert odbart odhert orbart osbart osburt pert radburt ramhart seaburt sebert sigenert stewart stuart tabbart tahbert talbert urquhart wilbart wilburt wilpert wurt tabbert rupert rainart odbert orbert hulbert englbehrt bogartNAMES RHYMING WITH BORT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bor) - Names That Begins with bor:
bora borak borbala bordan borden boreas borre bors borsalaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bo) - Names That Begins with bo:
boadhagh boadicea boarte boas boaz bob bobbi bobbie bobby bobo boc bocleah bocley boda bodaway boden bodgan bodi bodiccea bodicea bodicia bodil bodwyn body boell boethius bofind bogdan boghos bogohardt bohannon bohdan bohdana bohous bohumil bokhari bolaji boldizsar bolton bomani bond bondig bonie boniface bonifacio bonifacius bonifaco bonita bonnar bonni bonnibelle bonnie bonnie-jo bonny bonny-jean bonny-lee boone booth boothe bosworth botan botewolf both bothain bothan bothe botolf botolff botwolf boudicea boukra boulad boulboul boulus bourkan bourke bourn bourne bow bowden bowdyn bowen bowie bowyn boyce boyd boyden boyne boynton bozena boziNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BORT:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':
bancroft barnet barnett barret barrett bartlett bast bastet batt beat bemot benat benecroft bennet bennett bent beorht beornet berit bernot berowalt biast birgit birkett bliant brant brendt brent bret brett briant bridget bridgett briet brit bryant burcet burdett burhardt burkett burnet burnettEnglish Words Rhyming BORT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BORT AS A WHOLE:
abort | noun (n.) An untimely birth. |
noun (n.) An aborted offspring. | |
verb (v. i.) To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely. | |
verb (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile. |
aborted | adjective (a.) Brought forth prematurely. |
adjective (a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. |
aborticide | noun (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. |
abortifacient | noun (n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery. |
verb (v.) Producing miscarriage. |
abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. | |
noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. | |
noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
abortional | adjective (a.) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. |
abortionist | noun (n.) One who procures abortion or miscarriage. |
abortive | noun (n.) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. |
noun (n.) A fruitless effort or issue. | |
noun (n.) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. | |
verb (v.) Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child. | |
verb (v.) Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. | |
verb (v.) Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. | |
verb (v.) Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. | |
verb (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc. | |
verb (v.) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. | |
verb (v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever. |
abortiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being abortive. |
abortment | noun (n.) Abortion. |
bort | noun (n.) Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work. |
dukhobortsy | noun (n. pl.) A Russian religious sect founded about the middle of the 18th century at Kharkov. They believe that Christ was wholly human, but that his soul reappears from time to time in mortals. They accept the Ten Commandments and the "useful" portions of the Bible, but deny the need of rulers, priests, or churches, and have no confessions, icons, or marriage ceremonies. They are communistic, opposed to any violence, and unwilling to use the labor of animals. Driven out of Russia proper, many have emigrated to Cyprus and Canada. See Raskolnik, below. |
volborthite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BORT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ort) - English Words That Ends with ort:
adderwort | noun (n.) The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta). |
alamort | adjective (a.) To the death; mortally. |
amort | adjective (a.) As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. |
anteport | noun (n.) An outer port, gate, or door. |
awlwort | noun (n.) A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves. |
banewort | noun (n.) Deadly nightshade. |
barrenwort | noun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific. |
bellwort | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers. |
besort | noun (n.) Befitting associates or attendants. |
verb (v. t.) To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. |
birthwort | noun (n.) A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. |
bistort | noun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent. |
bitterwort | noun (n.) The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste. |
bladderwort | noun (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium. |
bloodwort | noun (n.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing. |
boort | noun (n.) See Bort. |
boragewort | noun (n.) Plant of the Borage family. |
brownwort | noun (n.) A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers. |
bruisewort | noun (n.) A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. |
bugwort | noun (n.) Bugbane. |
bullwort | noun (n.) See Bishop's-weed. |
burstwort | noun (n.) A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture. |
butterwort | noun (n.) A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone. |
cohort | noun (n.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion. |
noun (n.) Any band or body of warriors. | |
noun (n.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class. |
colewort | noun (n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head. |
noun (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm. |
comfort | noun (n.) Assistance; relief; support. |
noun (n.) Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation. | |
noun (n.) A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition. | |
noun (n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. | |
noun (n.) Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy. | |
verb (v. t.) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. | |
verb (v. t.) To assist or help; to aid. | |
verb (v. t.) To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer. |
comport | noun (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. |
verb (v. i.) To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. | |
verb (v. i.) To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun. |
consort | noun (n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. |
noun (n.) A ship keeping company with another. | |
noun (n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. | |
noun (n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination. | |
noun (n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. | |
verb (v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with. | |
verb (v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. | |
verb (v. t.) To attend; to accompany. |
coralwort | noun (n.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root. |
counterfort | noun (n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall. |
noun (n.) A spur or projection of a mountain. |
crosswort | noun (n.) A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc. |
damewort | noun (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. |
danewort | noun (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.] |
davenport | noun (n.) A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir. |
deport | noun (n.) Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment. |
verb (v. t.) To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. |
distort | adjective (a.) Distorted; misshapen. |
verb (v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. | |
verb (v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. | |
verb (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. |
dropwort | noun (n.) An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves. |
effort | noun (n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall. |
noun (n.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. | |
verb (v. t.) To stimulate. |
elderwort | noun (n.) Danewort. |
escort | noun (n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. |
noun (n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend. | |
noun (n.) To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon. |
exhort | noun (n.) Exhortation. |
verb (v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. | |
verb (v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds. |
export | noun (n.) The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco. |
noun (n.) That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry away; to remove. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc. |
extort | adjective (p. p. & a.) Extorted. |
verb (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt. | |
verb (v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2. | |
verb (v. i.) To practice extortion. |
felonwort | noun (n.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet. |
felwort | noun (n.) A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family. |
feuillemort | adjective (a.) Having the color of a faded leaf. |
feverwort | noun (n.) See Fever root, under Fever. |
figwort | noun (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort. |
fleawort | noun (n.) An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds. |
foliomort | adjective (a.) See Feuillemort. |
fort | noun (n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BORT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bor) - Words That Begins with bor:
borable | adjective (a.) Capable of being bored. |
borachte | noun (n.) A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. |
boracic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid. |
boracite | noun (n.) A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride. |
boracous | adjective (a.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax. |
borage | noun (n.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic. |
boraginaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants. |
boragineous | adjective (a.) Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous. |
boramez | noun (n.) See Barometz. |
borate | noun (n.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical. |
borax | noun (n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O. |
borborygm | noun (n.) A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. |
bord | noun (n.) A board; a table. |
noun (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures. | |
noun (n.) See Bourd. |
bordage | noun (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage. |
bordar | noun (n.) A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. |
bordeaux | noun (n.) A claret wine from Bordeaux. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. |
bordel | noun (n.) Alt. of Bordello |
bordello | noun (n.) A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. |
bordelais | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux. |
bordeller | noun (n.) A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. |
border | noun (n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. |
noun (n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district. | |
noun (n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish. | |
noun (n.) A narrow flower bed. | |
verb (v. i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts. | |
verb (v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden. | |
verb (v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest. | |
verb (v. t.) To confine within bounds; to limit. |
bordering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Border |
borderer | noun (n.) One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. |
bordland | noun (n.) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. |
bordlode | noun (n.) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. |
bordman | noun (n.) A bordar; a tenant in bordage. |
bordrag | noun (n.) Alt. of Bordraging |
bordraging | noun (n.) An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. |
bordure | noun (n.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged. |
boring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bore |
noun (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. | |
noun (n.) A hole made by boring. | |
noun (n.) The chips or fragments made by boring. |
bore | noun (n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation. |
noun (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. | |
noun (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber. | |
noun (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. | |
noun (n.) Caliber; importance. | |
noun (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. | |
noun (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China. | |
noun (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel. | |
verb (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank. | |
verb (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. | |
verb (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. | |
verb (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. | |
verb (v. t.) To befool; to trick. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects). | |
verb (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore. | |
verb (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. | |
verb (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse. | |
(imp.) of Bear | |
() imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. |
boreal | adjective (a.) Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. |
adjective (a.) Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18¡ C. (= 64.4¡ F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and Boreal zone, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones. |
boreas | noun (n.) The north wind; -- usually a personification. |
borecole | noun (n.) A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale. |
boredom | noun (n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. |
noun (n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively. |
boree | noun (n.) Same as BourrEe. |
borel | noun (n.) See Borrel. |
borele | noun (n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis). |
borer | noun (n.) One that bores; an instrument for boring. |
noun (n.) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo. | |
noun (n.) Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances. | |
noun (n.) One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple. | |
noun (n.) The hagfish (Myxine). |
boric | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron. |
boride | noun (n.) A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret. |
borneol | noun (n.) A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol. |
bornite | noun (n.) A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface. |
borofluoride | noun (n.) A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate. |
boroglyceride | noun (n.) A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic. |
boron | noun (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B. |
borosilicate | noun (n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc. |
borough | noun (n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. |
noun (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. | |
noun (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. | |
noun (n.) The pledge or surety thus given. |
boroughhead | noun (n.) See Headborough. |
boroughholder | noun (n.) A headborough; a borsholder. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BORT:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':
baalist | noun (n.) Alt. of Baalite |
babblement | noun (n.) Babble. |
babist | noun (n.) A believer in Babism. |
baccarat | noun (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters. |
bacchant | noun (n.) A priest of Bacchus. |
noun (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler. | |
adjective (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. |
backcast | noun (n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. |
backjoint | noun (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling. |
backset | noun (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback. |
noun (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. | |
verb (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. |
backsight | noun (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3. |
bacteriologist | noun (n.) One skilled in bacteriology. |
bacterioscopist | noun (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations. |
bafflement | noun (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check. |
baft | noun (n.) Same as Bafta. |
baguet | noun (n.) Alt. of Baguette |
bailment | noun (n.) The action of bailing a person accused. |
noun (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. |
bakemeat | noun (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat |
balancement | noun (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. |
ballast | adjective (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing. |
adjective (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness. | |
adjective (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid. | |
adjective (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete. | |
adjective (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security. | |
verb (v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold. | |
verb (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid. | |
verb (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally. |
ballet | noun (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing. |
noun (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet. | |
noun (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers. | |
noun (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color. |
balloonist | noun (n.) An aeronaut. |
ballot | noun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. |
noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. | |
noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. | |
noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate. | |
verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to. |
banat | noun (n.) The territory governed by a ban. |
bandelet | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandlet |
bandlet | noun (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. |
noun (n.) Same as Bandelet. |
bandicoot | noun (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. |
noun (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania. |
bandit | noun (n.) An outlaw; a brigand. |
banishment | noun (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. |
bankrupt | noun (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. |
noun (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person. | |
noun (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities. | |
adjective (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant. | |
adjective (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury. | |
adjective (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy. | |
adjective (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). | |
verb (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish. |
banneret | noun (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank. |
noun (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank. | |
noun (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons. | |
noun (n.) A small banner. |
banquet | noun (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches. |
noun (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. | |
verb (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast. | |
verb (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast. |
baphomet | noun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites. |
baptist | noun (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ. |
noun (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist. |
baptizement | noun (n.) The act of baptizing. |
barbet | noun (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair. |
noun (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa. | |
noun (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides. |
barghest | noun (n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune. |
barillet | noun (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one. |
baronet | noun (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. |
barouchet | noun (n.) A kind of light barouche. |
barpost | noun (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field. |
barret | noun (n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics. |
barringout | noun (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. |
barrowist | noun (n.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953. |
barrulet | noun (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width. |
bartlett | noun (n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. |
basalt | noun (n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated. |
noun (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain. |
bascinet | noun (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. |
basement | adjective (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. |
basenet | noun (n.) See Bascinet. |
basinet | noun (n.) Same as Bascinet. |
basket | noun (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. |
noun (n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. | |
noun (n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. | |
noun (n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. | |
verb (v. t.) To put into a basket. |
basnet | noun (n.) Same as Bascinet. |
basset | noun (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice. |
noun (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop. | |
adjective (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata. | |
verb (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets. |
bassinet | noun (n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle. |
noun (n.) See Bascinet. |
bassoonist | noun (n.) A performer on the bassoon. |
bast | noun (n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom. |
noun (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2. |
bat | noun (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc. |
noun (n.) Shale or bituminous shale. | |
noun (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting. | |
noun (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end. | |
noun (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. | |
noun (n.) Same as Tical, n., 1. | |
noun (n.) In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket. | |
noun (n.) A stroke; a sharp blow. | |
noun (n.) A stroke of work. | |
noun (n.) Rate of motion; speed. | |
noun (n.) A spree; a jollification. | |
noun (n.) Manner; rate; condition; state of health. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. | |
verb (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To wink. |
batement | noun (n.) Abatement; diminution. |
batlet | noun (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. |
battailant | noun (n.) A combatant. |
verb (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. |
battlement | noun (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. |
noun (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches. |
battologist | noun (n.) One who battologizes. |
baybolt | noun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank. |
bayonet | noun (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense. |
noun (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. | |
verb (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet. | |
verb (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet. |
beamlet | noun (n.) A small beam of light. |
beast | noun (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. |
noun (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. | |
noun (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow. | |
noun (n.) A game at cards similar to loo. | |
noun (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. |
beat | noun (n.) A stroke; a blow. |
noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. | |
noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. | |
noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. | |
noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8. | |
noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. | |
noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing | |
noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop. | |
noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. | |
noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. | |
adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. | |
verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash. | |
verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. | |
verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. | |
verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path. | |
verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. | |
verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. | |
verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. | |
verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. | |
verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing. | |
verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. | |
verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt. | |
verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. | |
verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. | |
verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. | |
verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort. | |
verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. | |
(imp.) of Beat | |
(p. p.) of Beat |
beaufet | noun (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. |
beauseant | noun (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars. |
becket | noun (n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope. |
noun (n.) A spade for digging turf. |
bedagat | noun (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. |
bedevilment | noun (n.) The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. |
bedizenment | noun (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily. |
bedpost | noun (n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead. |
noun (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. |
bedquilt | noun (n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet. |
beechnut | noun (n.) The nut of the beech tree. |
beet | noun (n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year. |
noun (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar. |
befriendment | noun (n.) Act of befriending. |
beguilement | noun (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled. |
behest | noun (n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. |
noun (n.) A vow; a promise. | |
verb (v. t.) To vow. |
behight | noun (n.) A vow; a promise. |
verb (v.) To promise; to vow. | |
verb (v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. | |
verb (v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority. | |
verb (v.) To mean, or intend. | |
verb (v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. | |
verb (v.) To call; to name; to address. | |
verb (v.) To command; to order. | |
(imp.) of Behight | |
(p. p.) of Behight |
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. |
bellycheat | noun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person. |
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. |
bendlet | noun (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend. |
benedict | noun (n.) Alt. of Benedick |
adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities. |
benedight | adjective (a.) Blessed. |
beneficent | adjective (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. |
beneficient | adjective (a.) Beneficent. |
benefit | noun (n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred. |
noun (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit. | |
noun (n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use. | |
noun (n.) Beneficence; liberality. | |
noun (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments. | |
verb (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit. | |
verb (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change. |
benevolent | adjective (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. |
benightment | noun (n.) The condition of being benighted. |
benignant | adjective (a.) Kind; gracious; favorable. |
bennet | adjective (a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc. |
bent | noun (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. |
noun (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America. | |
noun (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. | |
adjective (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever. | |
adjective (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief. | |
verb (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow. | |
verb (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill. | |
verb (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim. | |
verb (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. | |
verb (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure. | |
verb (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. | |
() of Bend | |
() imp. & p. p. of Bend. |
benumbment | noun (n.) Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. |
bequeathment | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest. |
bequest | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B. |
noun (n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift. | |
verb (v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy. |
bereavement | noun (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death. |
bergamot | noun (n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. |
noun (n.) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata). | |
noun (n.) The essence or perfume made from the fruit. | |
noun (n.) A variety of pear. | |
noun (n.) A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. | |
noun (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. |
bergeret | noun (n.) A pastoral song. |