Name Report For First Name BANA:
BANA
First name BANA's origin is Other. BANA means "slayer". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BANA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bana.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with BANA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BANA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BANA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BANA AS A WHOLE:
banain estebana sabana banan banaingNAMES RHYMING WITH BANA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ana) - Names That Ends with ana:
ayana fana hasana tarana hana rihana sana' thana' aitana agana jana jaana durandana luana philana stephana iolana kaimana malana mana moana oliana ivana dhana zigana drisana pithasthana rana andreana fabiana liliana sebastiana chu'mana huyana lenmana nahimana adriana ileana ioana loredana mariana oana roxana stefana tatiana bohdana bwana hakizimana mukhwana kana kohana abriana adana ahana aileana aiyana alana alhana aliyana allana ana andeana ariana arlana arleana aryana assana audreana audriana aureliana aviana ayiana bibiana blyana bradana braiana breana bree-ana brezziana briana caliana caroliana cavana chana chiana christana christiana cipriana corazana daiana damiana dana daviana deana deeana diana duana dyana edana elanaNAMES RHYMING WITH BANA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ban) - Names That Begins with ban:
ban banbhan banbrigge bancroft bane bankole bannan banner banning bannruodRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ba) - Names That Begins with ba:
baal bab baba babafemi babatunde babette babu babukar bac baccaus baccus backstere bacstair badal badawi bader badi'a badr badra badriyyah badru badu baduna baecere baen baerhloew baethan bagdemagus baghel baha baheera bahir bahira bahiti bahiya baibin baibre baigh bailee bailefour bailey bailintin baillidh bailoch bain bainbridge bainbrydge bairbre baird bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn bakari baker bakkir baladi baladie balasi balbina baldassare baldassario baldemar balder baldhart baldhere baldlice baldric baldrik balduin baldulf baldwin baldwyn baleigh balen balere balfour balgair balgaire balie balin balinda balisarda ballard ballinamore ballindeny balmoral balqis baltasar balthazar baltsaros bamaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BANA:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'a':
baptista baraka barbara barbra barda barika barkarna barra barta baseema basheera bashiga bashira basilia bathilda bathsheba battista batula batya bautista beatha beatricia beatrisa becca beda behula bela belda belia belina belinda belisarda bella belva bemia bena benedetta benigna benita beomia beornia berangaria berdina berengaria bernadea bernadina bernarda bernetta bernia bernicia bernita berta bertha bertilda bertina bertuska beta betha bethanna bethea bethia bethsaida bethseda bethsheba betia bettina beula bha bhadraa bhagiratha bianca bidelia bidina bienvenida bilagaana binata binga binta birdena birkita bitya bixenta blanca blandina blasa blathma boadicea boda bodiccea bodicea bodicia bonita bora borbala borsala boudicea boukra bozena bra braemwiellaEnglish Words Rhyming BANA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BANA AS A WHOLE:
| banal | adjective (a.) Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite. |
| banality | noun (n.) Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. |
| banana | noun (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa. |
| banat | noun (n.) The territory governed by a ban. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BANA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ana) - English Words That Ends with ana:
| bandana | noun (n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form. |
| noun (n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. |
| bimana | noun (n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia. |
| campana | noun (n.) A church bell. |
| noun (n.) The pasque flower. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Gutta. |
| curtana | noun (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor. |
| damiana | noun (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac. |
| diana | noun (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. |
| dulciana | noun (n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ. |
| guana | noun (n.) See Iguana. |
| guarana | noun (n.) A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache. |
| gitana | noun (n. masc.) Alt. of Gitano |
| havana | noun (n.) An Havana cigar. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar |
| iguana | noun (n.) Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits. |
| jacana | noun (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird. |
| jambolana | noun (n.) A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit. |
| kerana | noun (n.) A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians. |
| levana | noun (n.) A goddess who protected newborn infants. |
| liana | noun (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. |
| nicotiana | noun (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco. |
| nirvana | noun (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism. |
| nagana | noun (n.) The disease caused by the tsetse fly. |
| quadrumana | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone. |
| noun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone. |
| pedimana | noun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums. |
| poinciana | noun (n.) A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments. |
| pozzuolana | noun (n.) Alt. of Pozzolana |
| pozzolana | noun (n.) Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water. |
| purana | noun (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas. |
| puzzolana | noun (n.) See Pozzuolana. |
| ramayana | noun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
| rana | noun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs. |
| salangana | noun (n.) The salagane. |
| sultana | noun (n.) The wife of a sultan; a sultaness. |
| noun (n.) A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. |
| tana | noun (n.) Same as Banxring. |
| thana | noun (n.) A police station. |
| torana | noun (n.) A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple. |
| tramontana | noun (n.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic. |
| zenana | noun (n.) The part of a dwelling appropriated to women. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BANA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ban) - Words That Begins with ban:
| ban | noun (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation. |
| noun (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army. | |
| noun (n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense). | |
| noun (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. | |
| noun (n.) A curse or anathema. | |
| noun (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. | |
| noun (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia. | |
| verb (v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To forbid; to interdict. | |
| verb (v. i.) To curse; to swear. |
| banning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ban |
| banc | noun (n.) Alt. of Bank |
| bancus | noun (n.) Alt. of Bank |
| bank | noun (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. |
| noun (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. | |
| noun (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. | |
| noun (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. | |
| noun (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. | |
| noun (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working. | |
| noun (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. | |
| noun (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. | |
| noun (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. | |
| noun (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. | |
| noun (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. | |
| noun (n.) A sort of table used by printers. | |
| noun (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. | |
| noun (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity. | |
| noun (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes. | |
| noun (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. | |
| noun (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. | |
| noun (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. | |
| noun (n.) A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The lateral inclination of an aeroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45¡ is easy; a bank of 90¡ is dangerous. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass by the banks of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deposit in a bank. | |
| verb (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. | |
| verb (v. i.) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aerocurve, or the like. |
| banco | noun (n.) A bank, especially that of Venice. |
| banding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Band |
| bandage | noun (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. |
| noun (n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes. |
| bandaging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bandage |
| bandala | noun (n.) A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis). |
| bandanna | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandana |
| bandbox | noun (n.) A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc. |
| bandeau | noun (n.) A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress. |
| noun (n.) A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc. |
| 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. |
| bander | noun (n.) One banded with others. |
| banderole | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandrol |
| bandrol | noun (n.) A little banner, flag, or streamer. |
| noun (n.) Same as Banderole. |
| 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. |
| bandle | noun (n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length. |
| bandmaster | noun (n.) The conductor of a musical band. |
| bandog | noun (n.) A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. |
| bandoleer | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandolier |
| bandolier | noun (n.) A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt. |
| noun (n.) One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. |
| bandoline | noun (n.) A glutinous pomatum for the fair. |
| bandon | noun (n.) Disposal; control; license. |
| bandore | noun (n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore. |
| bandy | noun (n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks. |
| noun (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. | |
| noun (n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball. | |
| adjective (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. | |
| verb (v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. |
| bandying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bandy |
| bane | noun (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. |
| noun (n.) Destruction; death. | |
| noun (n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. | |
| noun (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin. |
| baneberry | noun (n.) A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous. |
| baneful | adjective (a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. |
| banewort | noun (n.) Deadly nightshade. |
| banging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bang |
| adjective (a.) Huge; great in size. |
| bang | noun (n.) A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. |
| noun (n.) The sound produced by a sudden concussion. | |
| noun (n.) The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Bangue | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). |
| bangue | noun (n.) See Bhang. |
| bangle | noun (n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. |
| verb (v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away. |
| banian | noun (n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. |
| noun (n.) A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians. | |
| noun (n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan. |
| banishing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Banish |
| banisher | noun (n.) One who banishes. |
| banishment | noun (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. |
| banister | noun (n.) A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands. |
| banking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bank |
| noun (n.) The business of a bank or of a banker. |
| bankable | adjective (a.) Receivable at a bank. |
| banker | noun (n.) One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc. |
| noun (n.) A money changer. | |
| noun (n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. | |
| noun (n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. | |
| noun (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger. | |
| noun (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. |
| bankeress | noun (n.) A female banker. |
| 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. |
| bankrupting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bankrupt |
| bankruptcy | noun (n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt. |
| noun (n.) The act or process of becoming a bankrupt. | |
| noun (n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BANA:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'a':
| baa | noun (n.) The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat. |
| verb (v. i.) To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep. |
| baba | noun (n.) A kind of plum cake. |
| babiroussa | noun (n.) Alt. of Babirussa |
| babirussa | noun (n.) A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, / Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved. |
| babyroussa | noun (n.) Alt. of Babyrussa |
| babyrussa | noun (n.) See Babyroussa. |
| baccara | noun (n.) Alt. of Baccarat |
| bacchanalia | noun (n. pl.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. |
| bacteria | noun (n.p.) See Bacterium. |
| (pl. ) of Bacterium |
| badiaga | noun (n.) A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises. |
| bafta | noun (n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export. |
| baggala | noun (n.) A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean. |
| balaenoidea | noun (n.) A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen. |
| balistraria | noun (n.) A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged. |
| ballista | noun (n.) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. |
| balsa | noun (n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America. |
| barbara | noun (n.) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. |
| baria | noun (n.) Baryta. |
| barilla | noun (n.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. |
| noun (n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. | |
| noun (n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. |
| barracuda | noun (n.) Alt. of Barracouata |
| noun (n.) Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyraena and family Sphyraenidae. The great barracuda (S. barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. S. Argentea of the Pacific coast and S. sphyraena of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food. |
| barracouata | noun (n.) A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyraena, sometimes used as food. |
| noun (n.) A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun). |
| barranca | noun (n.) A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse. |
| baryta | noun (n.) An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4. |
| basilica | noun (n.) Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose. |
| noun (n.) A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached. | |
| noun (n.) A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction. | |
| noun (n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century. |
| basommatophora | noun (n. pl.) A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails. |
| bassa | noun (n.) Alt. of Bassaw |
| batata | noun (n.) An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas). |
| batrachia | noun (n. pl.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia. |
| batta | noun (n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. |
| noun (n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins. |
| battalia | noun (n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. |
| noun (n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. |
| battuta | noun (n.) The measuring of time by beating. |
| baya | noun (n.) The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus). |
| bdelloidea | noun (n. pl.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea. |
| bdellomorpha | noun (n.) An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams. |
| beccabunga | noun (n.) See Brooklime. |
| becuna | noun (n.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda. |
| bega | noun (n.) See Bigha. |
| begonia | noun (n.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors. |
| belladonna | noun (n.) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. |
| noun (n.) A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily. |
| bellona | noun (n.) The goddess of war. |
| beluga | noun (n.) A cetacean allied to the dolphins. |
| bema | noun (n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. |
| noun (n.) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel. | |
| noun (n.) Erroneously: A pulpit. |
| bengola | noun (n.) A Bengal light. |
| beretta | noun (n.) Same as Berretta. |
| berretta | noun (n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. |
| bertha | noun (n.) A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies. |
| beteela | noun (n.) An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. |
| bibliomania | noun (n.) A mania for acquiring books. |
| bibliophobia | noun (n.) A dread of books. |
| bibliotheca | noun (n.) A library. |
| biga | noun (n.) A two-horse chariot. |
| bigha | noun (n.) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre. |
| bignonia | noun (n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus. |
| bipinnaria | noun (n.) The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage. |
| biretta | noun (n.) Same as Berretta. |
| blastema | noun (n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows. |
| blastoidea | noun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form. |
| blastula | noun (n.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm. |
| blea | noun (n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood. |
| blennorrhea | noun (n.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. |
| noun (n.) Gonorrhea. |
| boa | noun (n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques). |
| noun (n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor. |
| bocca | noun (n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. |
| bohea | noun (n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea. |
| bohemia | noun (n.) A country of central Europe. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3. |
| bologna | noun (n.) A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects. |
| noun (n.) A Bologna sausage. |
| bonanza | noun (n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. |
| bonetta | noun (n.) See Bonito. |
| bosa | noun (n.) A drink, used in the East. See Boza. |
| bothrenchyma | noun (n.) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood. |
| bougainvillaea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts. |
| boza | noun (n.) An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water. |
| brachelytra | noun (n. pl.) A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles. |
| brachia | noun (n. pl.) See Brachium. |
| brachiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea. |
| brachiolaria | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia. |
| brachiopoda | noun (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle. |
| brachyptera | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles. |
| brachyura | noun (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| bractea | noun (n.) A bract. |
| brahma | noun (n.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. |
| noun (n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra. |
| brama | noun (n.) See Brahma. |
| branchia | noun (n.) A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have. |
| branchiogastropoda | noun (n. pl.) Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata. |
| branchiopoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense. |
| branchiostoma | noun (n.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. |
| branchiura | noun (n. pl.) A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus). |
| brassica | noun (n.) A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc. |
| bravura | noun (n.) A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. |
| breccia | noun (n.) A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors. |
| bregma | noun (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull. |
| bretwalda | noun (n.) The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. |
| britannia | noun (n.) A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal. |
| britzska | noun (n.) A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey. |
| broma | noun (n.) Aliment; food. |
| noun (n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it. |
| bronchia | noun (n. pl.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. |
| bruta | noun (n.) See Edentata. |
| bryophyta | noun (n. pl.) See Cryptogamia. |
| bryozoa | noun (n. pl.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa. |
| buckra | noun (n.) A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc. |
| adjective (a.) White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam. |
| buddha | noun (n.) The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism. |
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