BROCK
First name BROCK's origin is German. BROCK means "variant of brook". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BROCK below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of brock.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with BROCK and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming BROCK
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BROCK AS A WHOLE:
brockleyNAMES RHYMING WITH BROCK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (rock) - Names That Ends with rock:
darrock rockRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ock) - Names That Ends with ock:
braddock jock maddock murdock pollock riddock shaddock whitlock ullock stock sherlock hillockRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ck) - Names That Ends with ck:
dirck bardrick kenrick shattuck starbuck breck alarick aldrick aleck alhrick alrick aranck arick arrick audrick aurick barrick benwick bick brick broderick brodrick carrick chick chuck cormack cormick dack darick darrick dedrick delrick derrick dick diedrick dierck domenick dominick eddrick edrick eldrick elrick frederick friedrick garrick henrick jack jamarick jerick jerrick keddrick kedrick kendrick kerrick maccormack mackendrick maverick mavrick merrick mick nick orick osrick rick roderick rodrick sedgewick tarick tedrick vareck wanrrick wolfrick zack vick warwick warrick stanwick ruck orrick meldrick frick fitzpatrick emerick chadwick buck blackNAMES RHYMING WITH BROCK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (broc) - Names That Begins with broc:
broc brochan brocl brocleah brocleigh broclyRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bro) - Names That Begins with bro:
broden broderic broderik brodie brodr brodric brodrig brodrik brody broehain broga brogan broi broin brok bromle bromleah bromleigh bromley bromly bron brona brone bronson bronwen bronwyn bronya brook brooke brookelyn brooklyn brooklynn brooklynne brooks brookson brooksone brothaigh brougher broughton brownRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (br) - Names That Begins with br:
bra brachah brad bradach bradaigh bradamate bradan bradana bradbourne bradburn bradd braddon brademagus braden bradene bradey bradford bradig bradleah bradlee bradley bradly bradon bradshaw bradwell brady bradyn braeden braedon braedyn braelyn braemwiella braiana braiden brain brainard brainerd brale braleah bram bramley bramwell bran brand branda brandan branddun brande brandee brandeis brandeles brandelis brandelyn brandenNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BROCK:
First Names which starts with 'br' and ends with 'ck':
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'k':
baldrik barak bardarik barrak beck bek bercilak berk bernlak berwick berwyk bink birk borak brik burbank burhbankEnglish Words Rhyming BROCK
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BROCK AS A WHOLE:
brock | noun (n.) A badger. |
noun (n.) A brocket. |
brocket | noun (n.) A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock. |
noun (n.) A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus). |
brockish | adjective (a.) Beastly; brutal. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BROCK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rock) - English Words That Ends with rock:
bullyrock | noun (n.) A bully. |
burrock | noun (n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. |
crock | noun (n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth. |
noun (n.) A low stool. | |
noun (n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. | |
verb (v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. | |
verb (v. i.) To give off crock or smut. | |
verb (v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. |
drock | noun (n.) A water course. |
frock | noun (n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock. |
noun (n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. | |
verb (v. t.) To clothe in a frock. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock. |
girrock | noun (n.) A garfish. |
gritrock | noun (n.) Alt. of Gritstone |
laverock | noun (n.) The lark. |
lavrock | noun (n.) Same as Laverock. |
leverock | noun (n.) A lark. |
parrock | noun (n.) A croft, or small field; a paddock. |
purrock | noun (n.) See Puddock, and Parrock. |
rendrock | noun (n.) A kind of dynamite used in blasting. |
rock | noun (n.) See Roc. |
noun (n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning. | |
noun (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone. | |
noun (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. | |
noun (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. | |
noun (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. | |
verb (v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet. | |
verb (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter. | |
verb (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair. |
rackarock | noun (n.) A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono-nitrobenzene. |
shamrock | noun (n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity. |
sharock | noun (n.) An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents. |
tarrock | noun (n.) The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt. |
noun (n.) The common guillemot. | |
noun (n.) The common tern. |
torrock | noun (n.) A gull. |
woodrock | noun (n.) A compact woodlike variety of asbestus. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ock) - English Words That Ends with ock:
abricock | noun (n.) See Apricot. |
alpenstock | noun (n.) A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. |
bannock | noun (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. |
bassock | noun (n.) A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2. |
bawcock | noun (n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment. |
bedstock | noun (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. |
beetlestock | noun (n.) The handle of a beetle. |
bibcock | noun (n.) A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. |
bilcock | noun (n.) The European water rail. |
bitstock | noun (n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace. |
bittock | noun (n.) A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. |
blackcock | noun (n.) The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse. |
block | noun (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor. |
noun (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each. | |
noun (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat. | |
noun (n.) In Australia, one of the large lots into which public land, when opened to settlers, is divided by the government surveyors. | |
noun (n.) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket. | |
noun (n.) A block hole. | |
noun (n.) The popping crease. | |
verb (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. | |
verb (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. | |
verb (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat. | |
verb (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops. | |
verb (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. | |
verb (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles. | |
verb (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. | |
verb (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way. | |
verb (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. | |
verb (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high. | |
verb (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. | |
verb (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. |
bodock | noun (n.) The Osage orange. |
breechblock | noun (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired. |
bullock | noun (n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind. |
noun (n.) An ox, steer, or stag. | |
verb (v. t.) To bully. |
burdock | noun (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals. |
buttock | noun (n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump. |
noun (n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. |
bergstock | noun (n.) A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock. |
cammock | noun (n.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock. |
candock | noun (n.) A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum). |
carlock | noun (n.) A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine. |
cassock | noun (n.) A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform. |
noun (n.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment. |
charlock | noun (n.) A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. |
chock | noun (n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it. |
noun (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc. | |
noun (n.) An encounter. | |
verb (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask. | |
verb (v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity. | |
adverb (adv.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft. | |
verb (v. t.) To encounter. |
chockablock | adjective (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting. |
clock | noun (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. |
noun (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes. | |
noun (n.) The striking of a clock. | |
noun (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. | |
noun (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius). | |
verb (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck. |
cock | noun (n.) The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls. |
noun (n.) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. | |
noun (n.) A chief man; a leader or master. | |
noun (n.) The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. | |
noun (n.) A faucet or valve. | |
noun (n.) The style of gnomon of a dial. | |
noun (n.) The indicator of a balance. | |
noun (n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. | |
noun (n.) The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock. | |
noun (n.) The notch of an arrow or crossbow. | |
noun (n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm. | |
noun (n.) A small concial pile of hay. | |
noun (n.) A small boat. | |
noun (n.) A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths. | |
verb (v. t.) To set erect; to turn up. | |
verb (v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim. | |
verb (v. t.) To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner. | |
verb (v. t.) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation. | |
verb (v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing. | |
verb (v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing. | |
verb (v. t.) To put into cocks or heaps, as hay. |
counterstock | noun (n.) See Counterfoil. |
cowpock | noun (n.) See Cowpox. |
daddock | noun (n.) The rotten body of a tree. |
daglock | noun (n.) A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock. |
deadlock | noun (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward. |
noun (n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action. |
diestock | noun (n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws. |
dock | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination. |
noun (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. | |
noun (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse. | |
noun (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide. | |
noun (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock. | |
noun (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands. | |
verb (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc. |
dornock | noun (n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. |
drillstock | noun (n.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. |
dunnock | adjective (a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. |
earlock | noun (n.) A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock. |
earthshock | noun (n.) An earthquake. |
elflock | noun (n.) Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves. |
fetlock | noun (n.) The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. |
firelock | noun (n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock. |
flintlock | noun (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming. |
noun (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies. |
flock | noun (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. |
noun (n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. | |
noun (n.) A lock of wool or hair. | |
noun (n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture. | |
verb (v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds. | |
verb (v. t.) To flock to; to crowd. | |
verb (v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock. | |
(sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. |
forelock | noun (n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head. |
noun (n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun. |
futtock | noun (n.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. |
gablock | noun (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. |
gamecock | noun (n.) The male game fowl. |
gapingstock | noun (n.) One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BROCK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (broc) - Words That Begins with broc:
brocade | noun (n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. |
brocaded | adjective (a.) Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc. |
adjective (a.) Dressed in brocade. |
brocage | noun (n.) See Brokkerage. |
brocard | noun (n.) An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. |
brocatel | noun (n.) A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc. |
noun (n.) A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality. |
brocatello | noun (n.) Same as Brocatel. |
broccoli | noun (n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food. |
brochantite | noun (n.) A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals. |
broche | noun (n.) See Broach, n. |
adjective (a.) Woven with a figure; as, broche goods. | |
adjective (a.) Stitched; -- said of a book with no cover or only a paper one. |
brochette | noun (n.) A small spit or skewer. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bro) - Words That Begins with bro:
broach | noun (n.) A spit. |
noun (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. | |
noun (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper. | |
noun (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift. | |
noun (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting. | |
noun (n.) A spire rising from a tower. | |
noun (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch. | |
noun (n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag. | |
noun (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. | |
noun (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key. | |
noun (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit. | |
noun (n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. | |
noun (n.) To open for the first time, as stores. | |
noun (n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. | |
noun (n.) To cause to begin or break out. | |
noun (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. | |
noun (n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. |
broaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broach |
broacher | noun (n.) A spit; a broach. |
noun (n.) One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. |
broad | noun (n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar. |
noun (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. | |
noun (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. | |
superlative (superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad. | |
superlative (superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean. | |
superlative (superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. | |
superlative (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. | |
superlative (superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. | |
superlative (superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint. | |
superlative (superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined. | |
superlative (superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. | |
superlative (superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor. | |
superlative (superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. |
broadax broadaxe | noun (n.) An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax. |
noun (n.) An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber. |
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. |
broadbrim | noun (n.) A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends. |
noun (n.) A member of the society of Friends; a Quaker. |
broadcast | noun (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing. |
adjective (a.) Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused. | |
adjective (a.) Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows. | |
adverb (adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press. |
broadcloth | noun (n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. |
broadening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broaden |
broaden | adjective (a.) To grow broad; to become broader or wider. |
verb (v. t.) To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive. |
broadish | adjective (a.) Rather broad; moderately broad. |
broadleaf | noun (n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit. |
broadmouth | noun (n.) One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds. |
broadness | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness. |
broadpiece | noun (n.) An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus. |
broadside | noun (n.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter. |
noun (n.) A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time. | |
noun (n.) A volley of abuse or denunciation. | |
noun (n.) A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet. |
broadspread | adjective (a.) Widespread. |
broadspreading | adjective (a.) Spreading widely. |
broadsword | noun (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. |
brob | noun (n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping. |
brobdingnagian | noun (n.) A giant. |
adjective (a.) Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. |
brodekin | noun (n.) A buskin or half-boot. |
brog | noun (n.) A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick. |
verb (v. t.) To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle. |
brogan | noun (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue. |
broggle | noun (n.) To sniggle, or fish with a brog. |
brogue | noun (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan. |
verb (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English. |
brogues | noun (n. pl.) Breeches. |
broiderer | noun (n.) One who embroiders. |
broidery | noun (n.) Embroidery. |
broil | noun (n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state. |
verb (v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals. | |
verb (v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat. | |
verb (v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat. |
broiling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broil |
noun (n.) The act of causing anything to broil. | |
adjective (a.) Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. |
broiler | noun (n.) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. |
noun (n.) One who broils, or cooks by broiling. | |
noun (n.) A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling. | |
noun (n.) A chicken or other bird fit for broiling. |
brokage | noun (n.) See Brokerage. |
brokenness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. |
noun (n.) Contrition; as, brokenness of heart. |
brokerage | noun (n.) The business or employment of a broker. |
noun (n.) The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker. |
brokerly | adjective (a.) Mean; servile. |
brokery | noun (n.) The business of a broker. |
broking | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. |
broma | noun (n.) Aliment; food. |
noun (n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it. |
bromal | noun (n.) An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol. |
bromate | noun (n.) A salt of bromic acid. |
verb (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor. |
bromatologist | noun (n.) One versed in the science of foods. |
bromatology | noun (n.) The science of aliments. |
brome | noun (n.) See Bromine. |
bromeliaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family. |
bromic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid. |
bromide | noun (n.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical. |
noun (n.) A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. [Slang] | |
() Alt. of Bromid, paper |
bromine | noun (n.) One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite. |
bromism | noun (n.) A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BROCK:
English Words which starts with 'br' and ends with 'ck':
brack | noun (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. |
noun (n.) Salt or brackish water. |
brainsick | adjective (a.) Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. |
breakneck | noun (n.) A fall that breaks the neck. |
noun (n.) A steep place endangering the neck. | |
adjective (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed. |
brick | noun (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. |
noun (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. | |
noun (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). | |
noun (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. | |
verb (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks. | |
verb (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. |
broomstick | noun (n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom. |
brownback | noun (n.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher. |