BURN

Name Report For First Name BURN:

First name BURN's origin is Other. BURN means "from the brook". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BURN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of burn.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with BURN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with BURN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BURN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BURN AS A WHOLE:

caliburn ashburn burnett rayburn aesoburne alburn burne burneig burnell burney chadburne clayburn melburn mylnburne osburn raedburne sherburne waescburne washburne welburn wiellaburne wellburn washburn reyburn radburn milburn chadburn burns burnet bradburn burnard burnette coburn wilburn

NAMES RHYMING WITH BURN (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (urn) - Names That Ends with urn:

bourn rayhurn reyhurn sherbourn

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rn) - Names That Ends with rn:

edern padarn vortigern gwern thorn ahern eachthighearn kern bern fern lavern rhearn aethelbeorn bjorn brarn claiborn elvern hern kearn melborn severn stearn torn usbeorn welborn arn stern sanborn osborn farn dearborn albern kentigern ahearn bearn beorn trahern vern

NAMES RHYMING WITH BURN (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bur) - Names That Begins with bur:

burbank burcet burch burchard burdett burdette burdon bureig burel burford burgeis burgess burghard burghere burgtun burhan burhardt burhbank burhdon burhford burhleag burhtun burian burke burkett burkhart burl burle burleig burleigh burley burlin burly burrell bursone bursuq burt burton

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bu) - Names That Begins with bu:

buach buadhachan buagh buan buchanan buchi buciac buck buckley bud budd buddy buena buinton buiron bundy bupe bushra busiris buthayna buthaynah butrus

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BURN:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'n':

baen baethan baibin bailintin bain bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn balduin baldwin baldwyn balen balin ban banain banan banbhan bannan baran bardan barden bardon baron barran barrington barron bartalan barton bastiaan bastien battseeyon battzion bawdewyn bayen baylen beacan beadutun beagan beagen bealantin beaman bean bearcban beathan beaton bebeodan bebhinn becan bedrosian beldan belden beldon belen bellerophon beltran ben ben-tziyon bendigeidfran bendision benedictson benen benjamin benkamin benn benon benson benton benzion beomann beorhttun beretun berihun berlyn bernardyn berneen bernon berrin bertin berton bestandan besyrwan bethann bevan bevin bevyn bharain bheathain bhradain bian bingen binyamin biron biton bittan bitten blagdan blagden blagdon blian boden bodgan

English Words Rhyming BURN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BURN AS A WHOLE:

alburn

noun (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

alburnous

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

alburnum

noun (n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

auburn	adjective (a.) Flaxen-colored.
	adjective (a.) Reddish brown.

burning	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burn
	noun (n.) The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
	adjective (a.) That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
	adjective (a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.

burn	noun (n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
	noun (n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
	noun (n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
	noun (n.) A small stream.
	verb (v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
	verb (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
	verb (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
	verb (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
	verb (v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
	verb (v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
	verb (v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.
	verb (v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
	verb (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
	verb (v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
	verb (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

burnable

adjective (a.) Combustible.

burned	adjective (p. p. & a.) See Burnt.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Burn
	(p. p.) Burnished.

burner	noun (n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
	noun (n.) The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.

burnet

noun (n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.

burnettizing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burnettize

burnie

noun (n.) A small brook.

burniebee

noun (n.) The ladybird.

burnishing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burnish

burnish	noun (n.) The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.
	adjective (a.) To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
	verb (v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

burnisher	noun (n.) One who burnishes.
	noun (n.) A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.

burnoose

noun (n.) Alt. of Burnous

burnous	noun (n.) A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
	noun (n.) A combination cloak and hood worn by women.

burnstickle

noun (n.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

burnt	adjective (p. p. & a.) Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
	() of Burn

barnburner

noun (n.) A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; -- opposed to Hunker.

caburn

noun (n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

eburnation

noun (n.) A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

eburnean

adjective (a.) Made of or relating to ivory.

eburnification

noun (n.) The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.

eburnine

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ivory.

heartburn

noun (n.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.

heartburned

adjective (a.) Having heartburn.

heartburning	noun (n.) Same as Heartburn.
	noun (n.) Discontent; secret enmity.
	adjective (a.) Causing discontent.

inburning

adjective (a.) Burning within.

inburnt

adjective (a.) Burnt in; ineffaceable.

laburnic

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the laburnum.

laburnine

noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.

laburnum

noun (n.) A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.

sunburning	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sunburn
	noun (n.) Sunburn; tan.

sunburn	noun (n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.
	verb (v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.

viburnum

noun (n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BURN (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (urn) - English Words That Ends with urn:

azurn

adjective (a.) Azure.

bourn	noun (n.) Alt. of Bourne
	verb (v.) Alt. of Bourne

cothurn

noun (n.) A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.

counterturn

noun (n.) The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties.

lecturn

noun (n.) A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.]

nocturn	noun (n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.
	noun (n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.

overturn	noun (n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.
	verb (v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
	verb (v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
	verb (v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.

return	noun (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
	noun (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
	noun (n.) That which is returned.
	noun (n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
	noun (n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question.
	noun (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
	noun (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
	noun (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
	noun (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
	noun (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
	noun (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
	noun (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below.
	noun (n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
	noun (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
	verb (v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
	verb (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
	verb (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
	verb (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.
	verb (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
	verb (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
	verb (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
	verb (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
	verb (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
	verb (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
	verb (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known.
	verb (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
	verb (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
	verb (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
	verb (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
	verb (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.

saturn	noun (n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
	noun (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
	noun (n.) The metal lead.

spurn	noun (n.) A kick; a blow with the foot.
	noun (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
	noun (n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.
	verb (v. t.) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
	verb (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
	verb (v. i.) To kick or toss up the heels.
	verb (v. i.) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

taciturn

adjective (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.

tourn	noun (n.) A spinning wheel.
	noun (n.) The sheriff's turn, or court.

turn	noun (n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
	noun (n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
	noun (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
	noun (n.) A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
	noun (n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
	noun (n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
	noun (n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
	noun (n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
	noun (n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
	noun (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
	noun (n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
	noun (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
	noun (n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
	noun (n.) Monthly courses; menses.
	noun (n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.
	verb (v. t.) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.
	verb (v. t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.
	verb (v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.
	verb (v. t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.
	verb (v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.
	verb (v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.
	verb (v. t.) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.
	verb (v. i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
	verb (v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
	verb (v. i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.
	verb (v. i.) To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
	verb (v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
	verb (v. i.) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
	verb (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
	verb (v. i.) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
	verb (v. i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.
	verb (v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.
	verb (v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
	verb (v. i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
	verb (v. t.) To make a turn about or around (something); to go or pass around by turning; as, to turn a corner.

urn	noun (n.) A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.
	noun (n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
	noun (n.) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.
	noun (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
	noun (n.) A tea urn. See under Tea.
	verb (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BURN (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bur) - Words That Begins with bur:

bur

noun (n.) Alt. of Burr

burr	noun (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
	noun (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
	noun (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
	noun (n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
	noun (n.) The sweetbread.
	noun (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
	noun (n.) A small circular saw.
	noun (n.) A triangular chisel.
	noun (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
	noun (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
	noun (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
	noun (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
	noun (n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
	noun (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
	noun (n.) The lobe or lap of the ear.
	noun (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
	noun (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
	verb (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.

burbolt

noun (n.) A birdbolt.

burbot

noun (n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.

burdelais

noun (n.) A sort of grape.

burden	noun (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.
	noun (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
	noun (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
	noun (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
	noun (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
	noun (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
	noun (n.) A birth.
	noun (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
	noun (n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
	noun (n.) A club.
	verb (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
	verb (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
	verb (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

burdening

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burden

burdener

noun (n.) One who loads; an oppressor.

burdenous

adjective (a.) Burdensome.

burdensome

adjective (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.

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.

burdon

noun (n.) A pilgrim's staff.

bureau	noun (n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
	noun (n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
	noun (n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
	noun (n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.

bureaucracy	noun (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.
	noun (n.) Government officials, collectively.

bureaucrat

noun (n.) An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

bureaucratic

adjective (a.) Alt. of Bureaucratical

bureaucratical

adjective (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

bureaucratist

noun (n.) An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.

burel

noun (n. & a.) Same as Borrel.

burette

noun (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

burg	noun (n.) A fortified town.
	noun (n.) A borough.

burgage

noun (n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.

burgall

noun (n.) A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.

burgamot

noun (n.) See Bergamot.

burganet

noun (n.) See Burgonet.

burgee	noun (n.) A kind of small coat.
	noun (n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.

burgeois	noun (n.) See 1st Bourgeois.
	noun (n.) A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.

burgess	noun (n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
	noun (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
	noun (n.) A magistrate of a borough.
	noun (n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.

burggrave

noun (n.) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.

burgh

noun (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

burghal

adjective (a.) Belonging to a burgh.

burghbote

noun (n.) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

burghbrech

noun (n.) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.

burgher	noun (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
	noun (n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

burghermaster

noun (n.) See Burgomaster.

burghership

noun (n.) The state or privileges of a burgher.

burghmaster	noun (n.) A burgomaster.
	noun (n.) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster.

burghmote

noun (n.) A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

burglar

noun (n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.

burglarer

noun (n.) A burglar.

burglarious

adjective (a.) Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.

burglary

noun (n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.

burgomaster	noun (n.) A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.
	noun (n.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.

burgonet

noun (n.) A kind of helmet.

burgoo

noun (n.) A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.

burgrass

noun (n.) Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.

burgrave

noun (n.) See Burggrave.

burgundy	noun (n.) An old province of France (in the eastern central part).
	noun (n.) A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France.

burh

noun (n.) See Burg.

burhel

noun (n.) Alt. of Burrhel

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BURN:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'n':

babian

noun (n.) Alt. of Babion

babion

noun (n.) A baboon.

baboon

noun (n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

babylonian	noun (n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
	noun (n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.

bacchanalian	noun (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.

backdown

noun (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

backgammon	noun (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
	verb (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".

backwardation

noun (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango.

backwoodsman

noun (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.

bacon

noun (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

baconian	noun (n.) One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon.
	noun (n.) One who maintains that Lord Bacon is the author of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.

bactrian	noun (n.) A native of Bactria.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.

badian

noun (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

badigeon	noun (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
	noun (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, etc.

badminton	noun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
	noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

bagman

noun (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.

bain

noun (n.) A bath; a bagnio.

bairn

noun (n.) A child.

balcon

noun (n.) A balcony.

baldachin	noun (n.) A rich brocade; baudekin.
	noun (n.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.
	noun (n.) A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession.

baldwin

noun (n.) A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.

baleen

noun (n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

balloon	noun (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
	noun (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
	noun (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
	noun (n.) A bomb or shell.
	noun (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
	noun (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
	verb (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
	verb (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
	verb (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

ballotation

noun (n.) Voting by ballot.

ballotin

noun (n.) An officer who has charge of a ballot box.

balneation

noun (n.) The act of bathing.

balsamation	noun (n.) The act of imparting balsamic properties.
	noun (n.) The art or process of embalming.

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.

bandon

noun (n.) Disposal; control; license.

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.

bannition

noun (n.) The act of expulsion.

banyan

noun (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

baptization

noun (n.) Baptism.

barbacan	noun (n.) See Barbican.
	noun (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
	noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

barbadian	noun (n.) A native of Barbados.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados.

barbarian	noun (n.) A foreigner.
	noun (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
	noun (n.) A person destitute of culture.
	noun (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
	adjective (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.

barbican

noun (n.) Alt. of Barbacan

barbiton

noun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

barcon

noun (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

bargain	noun (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
	noun (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
	noun (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
	noun (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
	noun (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
	verb (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

bargeman

noun (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

barken

adjective (a.) Made of bark.

barleycorn	noun (n.) A grain or "corn" of barley.
	noun (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.

barn	noun (n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.
	noun (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.
	verb (v. t.) To lay up in a barn.

baron	noun (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
	noun (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.

barracan

noun (n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

barracoon

noun (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.

barren	noun (n.) A tract of barren land.
	noun (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
	adjective (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
	adjective (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
	adjective (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
	adjective (a.) Mentally dull; stupid.

bartizan

noun (n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

barton	noun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
	noun (n.) A farmyard.

basan

noun (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.

baseborn	adjective (a.) Born out of wedlock.
	adjective (a.) Born of low parentage.
	adjective (a.) Vile; mean.

basilican

adjective (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.

basilicon

noun (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

basin	noun (n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
	noun (n.) The quantity contained in a basin.
	noun (n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
	noun (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
	noun (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
	noun (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
	noun (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

basion

noun (n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

bason

noun (n.) A basin.

basset horn	adjective (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.
	() The corno di bassetto.

bassoon

noun (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

bassorin

noun (n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.

bastion

noun (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

baston	noun (n.) A staff or cudgel.
	noun (n.) See Baton.
	noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

batavian	noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.

batman	noun (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
	noun (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

baton	noun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
	noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

batoon

noun (n.) See Baton, and Baston.

batrachian	noun (n.) One of the Batrachia.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.

batsman

noun (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

battalion	noun (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
	noun (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
	noun (n.) An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed.
	verb (v. t.) To form into battalions.

batton

noun (n.) See Batten, and Baton.

baudekin

noun (n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad.

bavarian	noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.

bavian

noun (n.) A baboon.

bavin	noun (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
	noun (n.) Impure limestone.

bawn	noun (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
	noun (n.) A large house.

bawsin

noun (n.) Alt. of Bawson

bawson	noun (n.) A badger.
	noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person.

beacon	noun (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
	noun (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
	noun (n.) A high hill near the shore.
	noun (n.) That which gives notice of danger.
	verb (v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
	verb (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

beadsman

noun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman

bedesman	noun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
	noun (n.) Same as Beadsman.

beadswoman

noun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman

bedeswoman

noun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman.

beakiron

noun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

bean	noun (n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
	noun (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.

bearn

noun (n.) See Bairn.

bearskin	noun (n.) The skin of a bear.
	noun (n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.
	noun (n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.

beaten	adjective (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
	adjective (a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
	adjective (a.) Exhausted; tired out.
	adjective (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
	adjective (a.) Tried; practiced.
	() of Beat

beatification

noun (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.

beaufin

noun (n.) See Biffin.

beaverteen

noun (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.

beckon	noun (n.) A sign made without words; a beck.
	verb (v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.

beden

noun (n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

bedgown

noun (n.) A nightgown.

bedouin	noun (n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.

bedpan	noun (n.) A pan for warming beds.
	noun (n.) A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

beduin

noun (n.) See Bedouin.

beechen

adjective (a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.

begin	noun (n.) Beginning.
	verb (v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
	verb (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
	verb (v. t.) To enter on; to commence.
	verb (v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.

beguin

noun (n.) See Beghard.

behen

noun (n.) Alt. of Behn

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