BENT

Name Report For First Name BENT:

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

Rhymes with BENT - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BENT

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BENT AS A WHOLE:

benton bentleah bentleigh bentle bentley

NAMES RHYMING WITH BENT (According to last letters):

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

kent devent advent brent derwent graent laurent trent vincent avent millicent crescent innocent sargent trevrizent quent

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

yervant escorant gallehant moraunt rhongomyant agramant sacripant toussaint lorant creissant anant arnt bliant brant briant bryant calogrenant clint conant diamont dumont flint flynt fremont frimunt grant hunt lamont oliphant osmont pierrepont toussnint waldmunt pierpont rhodant jacint geraint valiant clarissant meleagant pant delmont durant durrant quint

NAMES RHYMING WITH BENT (According to first letters):

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

ben ben-ami ben-aryeh ben-tziyon bena benat benci bendigeidfran bendision benecroft benedetta benedicto benedictson benen benes beniamino benicio benigna benita benjamin benji benjiro benjy benkamin benn bennet bennett bennie bennu benny benoic benon benoni benoyce benroy benson benwick benzion

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

beacan beacher beadu beadurinc beadurof beadutun beadwof beagan beagen beal bealantin beale beall bealohydig beaman beamard beamer bean bearacb bearach bearcban bearn bearnard bearrocscir beartlaidh beat beatha beathag beathan beathas beatie beaton beatrice beatricia beatrisa beatriz beattie beatty beau beaufort beaumains beauvais beb bebeodan bebhinn bebti becan becca beceere beck beckham becki becky beda bede bedegrayne bedivere bednar bedrosian bedver bedwyr beecher

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BENT:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':

baldhart bancroft barnet barnett barret barrett bart bartlett bast bastet batt beircheart bemot beorht beornet berit bernot berowalt bert biast birgit birkett bogart bogohardt bohort bort brendt bret brett bridget bridgett briet brit burcet burdett burhardt burkett burkhart burnet burnett burt

English Words Rhyming BENT

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BENT AS A WHOLE:

absorbent	noun (n.) Anything which absorbs.
	noun (n.) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
	noun (n.) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
	adjective (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

accumbent	noun (n.) One who reclines at table.
	adjective (a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
	adjective (a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.

bent	noun (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
	noun (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
	noun (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
	adjective (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
	adjective (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
	verb (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
	verb (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
	verb (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
	verb (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
	verb (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
	verb (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
	() of Bend
	() imp. & p. p. of Bend.

benthal

adjective (a.) Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.

benthamic

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.

benthamism

noun (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

benthamite

noun (n.) One who believes in Benthamism.

benty	adjective (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
	adjective (a.) Resembling bent.

bowbent

adjective (a.) Bent, like a bow.

benthos

noun (n.) The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zool.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.

cumbent

adjective (a.) Lying down; recumbent.

debenture	noun (n.) A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
	noun (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
	noun (n.) Any of various instruments issued, esp. by corporations, as evidences of debt. Such instruments (often called debenture bonds) are generally, through not necessarily, under seal, and are usually secured by a mortgage or other charge upon property; they may be registered or unregistered. A debenture secured by a mortgage on specific property is called a mortgage debenture; one secured by a floating charge (which see), a floating debenture; one not secured by any charge a naked debenture. In general the term debenture in British usage designates any security issued by companies other than their shares, including, therefore, what are in the United States commonly called bonds. When used in the United States debenture generally designates an instrument secured by a floating charge junior to other charges secured by fixed mortgages, or, specif., one of a series of securities secured by a group of securities held in trust for the benefit of the debenture holders.

debentured

adjective (a.) Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

decumbent	adjective (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
	adjective (a.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.

describent

noun (n.) Same as Generatrix.

incumbent	noun (n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.
	adjective (a.) Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.
	adjective (a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon.
	adjective (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
	adjective (a.) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.

labent

adjective (a.) Slipping; sliding; gliding.

lambent	adjective (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
	adjective (a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.

procumbent	adjective (a.) Lying down, or on the face; prone.
	adjective (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem.

recumbent

adjective (a.) Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.

resorbent

adjective (a.) Swallowing up.

sorbent

noun (n.) An absorbent.

succumbent

adjective (a.) Submissive; yielding.

superincumbent

adjective (a.) Lying or resting on something else.

terebenthene

noun (n.) Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

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

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

abandonment	noun (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
	noun (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
	noun (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
	noun (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
	noun (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.

abasement

noun (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

abashment

noun (n.) The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

abatement	noun (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
	noun (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
	noun (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.
	noun (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

abetment

noun (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

abhorrent	adjective (a.) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
	adjective (a.) Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.
	adjective (a.) Detestable.

abiliment

noun (n.) Habiliment.

abjurement

noun (n.) Renunciation.

abluent	noun (n.) A detergent.
	adjective (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.

abodement

noun (n.) A foreboding; an omen.

abolishment

noun (n.) The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.

aborsement

noun (n.) Abortment; abortion.

abortifacient	noun (n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.
	verb (v.) Producing miscarriage.

abortment

noun (n.) Abortion.

abridgment	noun (n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
	noun (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
	noun (n.) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.

absent	adjective (a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
	adjective (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
	adjective (a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
	verb (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
	verb (v. t.) To withhold from being present.

absentment

noun (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal.

absolvent	noun (n.) An absolver.
	adjective (a.) Absolving.

abstergent	noun (n.) A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
	adjective (a.) Serving to cleanse, detergent.

abstinent	noun (n.) One who abstains.
	noun (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
	adjective (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.

abutment	noun (n.) State of abutting.
	noun (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses
	noun (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
	noun (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
	noun (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

acaulescent

adjective (a.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

accent	noun (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
	noun (n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
	noun (n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
	noun (n.) A word; a significant tone
	noun (n.) expressions in general; speech.
	noun (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
	noun (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
	noun (n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
	noun (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
	noun (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
	noun (n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y".
	noun (n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27", i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
	noun (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10" is six feet ten inches.
	verb (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
	verb (v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

accident	noun (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
	noun (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
	noun (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
	noun (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
	noun (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
	noun (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
	noun (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.

accipient

noun (n.) A receiver.

acclimatement

noun (n.) Acclimation.

accompaniment	noun (n.) That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
	noun (n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.

accomplishment	noun (n.) The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
	noun (n.) That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.

accouchement

noun (n.) Delivery in childbed

accouplement	noun (n.) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.
	noun (n.) That which couples, as a tie or brace.

accrescent	adjective (a.) Growing; increasing.
	adjective (a.) Growing larger after flowering.

accroachment

noun (n.) An encroachment; usurpation.

accrument

noun (n.) The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.

accusement

noun (n.) Accusation.

acescent	noun (n.) A substance liable to become sour.
	adjective (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

acharnement

noun (n.) Savage fierceness; ferocity.

achievement	noun (n.) The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
	noun (n.) A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
	noun (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

acidulent

adjective (a.) Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

acknowledgment	noun (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
	noun (n.) The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
	noun (n.) The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks.
	noun (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc.
	noun (n.) A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration.

acquiescent

adjective (a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

acquirement

noun (n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.

acquitment

noun (n.) Acquittal.

additament

noun (n.) An addition, or a thing added.

adducent

adjective (a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

adherent	noun (n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.
	noun (n.) That which adheres; an appendage.
	adjective (a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering.
	adjective (a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
	adjective (a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

adipescent

adjective (a.) Becoming fatty.

adjacent	noun (n.) That which is adjacent.
	adjective (a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.

adjournment	noun (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
	noun (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

adjudgment

noun (n.) The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication.

adjument

noun (n.) Help; support; also, a helper.

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

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

bench	noun (n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
	noun (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
	noun (n.) The seat where judges sit in court.
	noun (n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
	noun (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
	noun (n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
	verb (v. t.) To furnish with benches.
	verb (v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.
	verb (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

benching

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

bencher	noun (n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
	noun (n.) An alderman of a corporation.
	noun (n.) A member of a court or council.
	noun (n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.

bending	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bend
	noun (n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

bend	noun (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
	noun (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
	noun (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
	noun (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
	noun (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
	noun (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
	noun (n.) A band.
	noun (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
	verb (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
	verb (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
	verb (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
	verb (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
	verb (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
	verb (v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
	verb (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
	verb (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

bendable

adjective (a.) Capable of being bent.

bender	noun (n.) One who, or that which, bends.
	noun (n.) An instrument used for bending.
	noun (n.) A drunken spree.
	noun (n.) A sixpence.

bendlet

noun (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

bendy

adjective (a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

bene	noun (n.) See Benne.
	noun (n.) A prayer; boon.
	noun (n.) Alt. of Ben

ben	noun (n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
	adverb (adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
	adverb (adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.
	() Alt. of Ben nut
	() An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

beneaped

adjective (a.) See Neaped.

benedicite	noun (n.) A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
	noun (n.) An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.

benedict	noun (n.) Alt. of Benedick
	adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

benedick

noun (n.) A married man, or a man newly married.

benedictine	noun (n.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.

benediction	noun (n.) The act of blessing.
	noun (n.) A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness.
	noun (n.) The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction.
	noun (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop.
	noun (n.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.

benedictional

noun (n.) A book of benedictions.

benedictionary

noun (n.) A collected series of benedictions.

benedictive

adjective (a.) Tending to bless.

benedictory

adjective (a.) Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.

benedictus

adjective (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

benedight

adjective (a.) Blessed.

benefaction	noun (n.) The act of conferring a benefit.
	noun (n.) A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.

benefactor

noun (n.) One who confers a benefit or benefits.

benefactress

noun (n.) A woman who confers a benefit.

benefic

adjective (a.) Favorable; beneficent.

benefice	noun (n.) A favor or benefit.
	noun (n.) An estate in lands; a fief.
	noun (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.
	verb (v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

beneficed	adjective (a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Benefice

beneficeless

adjective (a.) Having no benefice.

beneficence

noun (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

beneficent

adjective (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

beneficential

adjective (a.) Relating to beneficence.

beneficial	adjective (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
	adjective (a.) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.
	adjective (a.) King.

beneficialness

noun (n.) The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

beneficiary	noun (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
	noun (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.
	adjective (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
	adjective (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.

beneficient

adjective (a.) Beneficent.

benefit	noun (n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
	noun (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
	noun (n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
	noun (n.) Beneficence; liberality.
	noun (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
	verb (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
	verb (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

benefitting

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

benefiter

noun (n.) One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.

benevolence	noun (n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
	noun (n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
	noun (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

benevolent

adjective (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.

benevolous

adjective (a.) Kind; benevolent.

bengal	noun (n.) A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
	noun (n.) A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
	noun (n.) Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.

bengalee

noun (n.) Alt. of Bengali

bengali

noun (n.) The language spoken in Bengal.

bengalese	noun (n. sing. & pl) A native or natives of Bengal.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bengal.

bengola

noun (n.) A Bengal light.

benighting

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

benightment

noun (n.) The condition of being benighted.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BENT:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':

baalist

noun (n.) Alt. of Baalite

babblement

noun (n.) Babble.

babist

noun (n.) A believer in Babism.

baccarat

noun (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

bacchant	noun (n.) A priest of Bacchus.
	noun (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler.
	adjective (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

backcast

noun (n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

backjoint

noun (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

backset	noun (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
	noun (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
	verb (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

backsight

noun (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

bacteriologist

noun (n.) One skilled in bacteriology.

bacterioscopist

noun (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

bafflement

noun (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

baft

noun (n.) Same as Bafta.

baguet

noun (n.) Alt. of Baguette

bailment	noun (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.
	noun (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

bakemeat

noun (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat

balancement

noun (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

ballast	adjective (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
	adjective (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
	adjective (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
	adjective (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
	adjective (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
	verb (v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
	verb (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
	verb (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.

ballet	noun (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
	noun (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
	noun (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
	noun (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

balloonist

noun (n.) An aeronaut.

ballot	noun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
	noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
	noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
	noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
	verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

banat

noun (n.) The territory governed by a ban.

bandelet

noun (n.) Alt. of Bandlet

bandlet	noun (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.
	noun (n.) Same as Bandelet.

bandicoot	noun (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
	noun (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

bandit

noun (n.) An outlaw; a brigand.

banewort

noun (n.) Deadly nightshade.

banishment

noun (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

bankrupt	noun (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
	noun (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
	noun (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
	adjective (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
	adjective (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
	adjective (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
	adjective (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
	verb (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

banneret	noun (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
	noun (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
	noun (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
	noun (n.) A small banner.

banquet	noun (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
	noun (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
	verb (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
	verb (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
	verb (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

baphomet

noun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

baptist	noun (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
	noun (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

baptizement

noun (n.) The act of baptizing.

barbet	noun (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
	noun (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
	noun (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

barghest

noun (n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.

barillet

noun (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one.

baronet

noun (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

barouchet

noun (n.) A kind of light barouche.

barpost

noun (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

barrenwort

noun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

barret

noun (n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

barringout

noun (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.

barrowist

noun (n.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

barrulet

noun (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

bartlett

noun (n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

basalt	noun (n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.
	noun (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

bascinet

noun (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.

basement

adjective (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

basenet

noun (n.) See Bascinet.

basinet

noun (n.) Same as Bascinet.

basket	noun (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
	noun (n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
	noun (n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
	noun (n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
	verb (v. t.) To put into a basket.

basnet

noun (n.) Same as Bascinet.

basset	noun (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
	noun (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
	adjective (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
	verb (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

bassinet	noun (n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.
	noun (n.) See Bascinet.

bassoonist

noun (n.) A performer on the bassoon.

bast	noun (n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
	noun (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

bat	noun (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
	noun (n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
	noun (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
	noun (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
	noun (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
	noun (n.) Same as Tical, n., 1.
	noun (n.) In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
	noun (n.) A stroke; a sharp blow.
	noun (n.) A stroke of work.
	noun (n.) Rate of motion; speed.
	noun (n.) A spree; a jollification.
	noun (n.) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
	verb (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
	verb (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To wink.

batement

noun (n.) Abatement; diminution.

batlet

noun (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

battailant	noun (n.) A combatant.
	verb (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.

battlement	noun (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
	noun (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

battologist

noun (n.) One who battologizes.

baybolt

noun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank.

bayonet	noun (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
	noun (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
	verb (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.
	verb (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

beamlet

noun (n.) A small beam of light.

beast	noun (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
	noun (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
	noun (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
	noun (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
	noun (n.) A game at cards similar to loo.
	noun (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.

beat	noun (n.) A stroke; a blow.
	noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
	noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
	noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
	noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
	noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.
	noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing
	noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.
	noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
	noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
	adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
	verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
	verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
	verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
	verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
	verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path.
	verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
	verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
	verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
	verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
	verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
	verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
	verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.
	verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
	verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
	verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
	verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
	verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
	verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
	verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
	(imp.) of Beat
	(p. p.) of Beat

beaufet

noun (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.

beauseant

noun (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

becket	noun (n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
	noun (n.) A spade for digging turf.

bedagat

noun (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.

bedevilment

noun (n.) The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.

bedizenment

noun (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

bedpost	noun (n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
	noun (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.

bedquilt

noun (n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

beechnut

noun (n.) The nut of the beech tree.

beet	noun (n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
	noun (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

befriendment

noun (n.) Act of befriending.

beguilement

noun (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

behest	noun (n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
	noun (n.) A vow; a promise.
	verb (v. t.) To vow.

behight	noun (n.) A vow; a promise.
	verb (v.) To promise; to vow.
	verb (v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
	verb (v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority.
	verb (v.) To mean, or intend.
	verb (v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
	verb (v.) To call; to name; to address.
	verb (v.) To command; to order.
	(imp.) of Behight
	(p. p.) of Behight

belligerent	noun (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
	(p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war.
	(p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.

bellwort

noun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

bellycheat

noun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person.

belt	noun (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
	noun (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
	noun (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
	noun (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
	noun (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
	noun (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
	noun (n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
	noun (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
	noun (n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
	verb (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
	verb (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

benignant

adjective (a.) Kind; gracious; favorable.

bennet

adjective (a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

benumbment

noun (n.) Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.

bequeathment

noun (n.) The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

bequest	noun (n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
	noun (n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.
	verb (v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.

bereavement

noun (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

bergamot	noun (n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
	noun (n.) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
	noun (n.) The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
	noun (n.) A variety of pear.
	noun (n.) A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
	noun (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.