Name Report For First Name BURL:
BURL
First name BURL's origin is English. BURL means "cup-bearer". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BURL below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of burl.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BURL and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BURL - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BURL
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BURL AS A WHOLE:
burley cynburleigh burle burleigh burlin burly burleigNAMES RHYMING WITH BURL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (url) - Names That Ends with url:
thurlRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rl) - Names That Ends with rl:
carl earl eorl karl thearl kaarlNAMES RHYMING WITH BURL (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 burn burnard burne burneig burnell burnet burnett burnette burney burns burrell bursone bursuq burt burtonRhyming 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 butrusNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BURL:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'l':
baal badal baghel balmoral barabal barabell barbel bardol bartel bartol basel basil batal bathil batool batul beal beall bel bell beryl bethel betzalel bidziil bilal bill birdhil birdhill birtel blaecl blaisdell blondell bodil boell bohumil boulboul bradwell bramwell brasil breasal breindel bressal brocl bssil byrtelEnglish Words Rhyming BURL
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BURL AS A WHOLE:
| burling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burl |
| burl | noun (n.) A knot or lump in thread or cloth. |
| noun (n.) An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth. |
| burlap | noun (n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. |
| burler | noun (n.) One who burls or dresses cloth. |
| burlesque | noun (n.) Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. |
| noun (n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything. | |
| noun (n.) A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. | |
| adjective (a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. | |
| verb (v. i.) To employ burlesque. |
| burlesquing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burlesque |
| burlesquer | noun (n.) One who burlesques. |
| burletta | adjective (a.) A comic operetta; a music farce. |
| burliness | noun (n.) Quality of being burly. |
| burly | adjective (a.) Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. |
| adjective (a.) Coarse and rough; boisterous. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BURL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (url) - English Words That Ends with url:
| churl | noun (n.) A rustic; a countryman or laborer. |
| noun (n.) A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. | |
| noun (n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. | |
| adjective (a.) Churlish; rough; selfish. |
| curl | noun (n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. |
| noun (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. | |
| noun (n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. | |
| noun (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. | |
| noun (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve. | |
| verb (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play at the game called curling. | |
| verb (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. | |
| verb (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. | |
| verb (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. |
| gurl | noun (n.) A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See Girl. |
| hurl | noun (n.) The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling. |
| noun (n.) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly. | |
| noun (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective. | |
| verb (v. t.) To twist or turn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To hurl one's self; to go quickly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another). | |
| verb (v. i.) To play the game of hurling. See Hurling. |
| knurl | noun (n.) A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection. |
| noun (n.) One who, or that which, is crossgrained. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill. |
| purl | noun (n.) An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. |
| noun (n.) An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance. | |
| noun (v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle. | |
| noun (n.) A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple. | |
| noun (n.) A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook. | |
| noun (n.) Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices. | |
| noun (n.) A tern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To decorate with fringe or embroidery. | |
| verb (v. i.) To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions. |
| thurl | noun (n.) A hole; an aperture. |
| noun (n.) A short communication between adits in a mine. | |
| noun (n.) A long adit in a coalpit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut through; to pierce. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BURL (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 BURL:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'l':
| baal | noun (n.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations. |
| noun (n.) The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied. |
| babel | noun (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. |
| noun (n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. |
| babylonical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings. |
| adjective (a.) Tumultuous; disorderly. |
| bacchanal | noun (n.) A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. |
| noun (n.) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia. | |
| noun (n.) Drunken revelry; an orgy. | |
| noun (n.) A song or dance in honor of Bacchus. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to Bacchus or his festival. | |
| adjective (a.) Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy. |
| bacchical | adjective (a.) Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication. |
| backfall | noun (n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling. |
| bacterial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacteria. |
| bactericidal | adjective (a.) Destructive of bacteria. |
| bacteriological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies. |
| bacteroidal | adjective (a.) Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles. |
| bail | noun (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. |
| noun (n.) Custody; keeping. | |
| noun (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court. | |
| noun (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one. | |
| noun (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. | |
| noun (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. | |
| noun (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court. | |
| noun (n.) A certain limit within a forest. | |
| noun (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable. | |
| noun (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat. | |
| verb (v./t.) To deliver; to release. | |
| verb (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed. | |
| verb (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. |
| baleful | adjective (a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive. |
| adjective (a.) Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad. |
| ball | noun (n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. |
| noun (n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. | |
| noun (n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets. | |
| noun (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball. | |
| noun (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller. | |
| noun (n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot. | |
| noun (n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. | |
| noun (n.) The globe or earth. | |
| noun (n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing. | |
| noun (n.) A pitched ball, not struck at by the batsman, which fails to pass over the home base at a height not greater than the batsman's shoulder nor less than his knee. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton. |
| balmoral | noun (n.) A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress. |
| noun (n.) A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. |
| balneal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a bath. |
| balsamical | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative. |
| banal | adjective (a.) Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite. |
| bandrol | noun (n.) A little banner, flag, or streamer. |
| noun (n.) Same as Banderole. |
| baneful | adjective (a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. |
| bannerol | noun (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole. |
| baptismal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows. |
| baptistical | adjective (a.) Baptistic. |
| barbastel | noun (n.) A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips. |
| barbel | noun (n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished. |
| noun (n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels. | |
| noun (n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3. |
| barbicel | noun (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers. |
| barful | adjective (a.) Full of obstructions. |
| barmecidal | adjective (a.) Unreal; illusory. |
| barometrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations. |
| baronial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a baron or a barony. |
| baroscopical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope. |
| barrel | noun (n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. |
| noun (n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds. | |
| noun (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled. | |
| noun (n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. | |
| noun (n.) A jar. | |
| noun (n.) The hollow basal part of a feather. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels. |
| basal | adjective (a.) Relating to, or forming, the base. |
| baseball | noun (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball. |
| noun (n.) The ball used in this game. |
| bashful | adjective (a.) Abashed; daunted; dismayed. |
| adjective (a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression. |
| basifugal | noun (n.) Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth. |
| basihyal | adjective (a.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch. |
| basil | noun (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. |
| noun (n.) The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum). | |
| noun (n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark. | |
| verb (v. t.) To grind or form the edge of to an angle. |
| basilical | adjective (a.) Royal; kingly; also, basilican. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. |
| basioccipital | noun (n.) The basioccipital bone. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. |
| basisphenoidal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult. |
| basketful | noun (n.) As much as a basket will contain. |
| bateful | adjective (a.) Exciting contention; contentious. |
| bathymetrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea. |
| battel | noun (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager. |
| noun (n.) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively. | |
| adjective (a.) Fertile; fruitful; productive. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make fertile. |
| bawl | noun (n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry. |
| verb (v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. |
| bawrel | noun (n.) A kind of hawk. |
| beadroll | noun (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. |
| beamful | adjective (a.) Beamy; radiant. |
| beatifical | adjective (a.) Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. |
| beautiful | adjective (a.) Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. |
| bechamel | noun (n.) A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream. |
| bedel | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedell |
| bedell | noun (n.) Same as Beadle. |
| befoul | adjective (a.) To make foul; to soil. |
| adjective (a.) To entangle or run against so as to impede motion. |
| beheadal | noun (n.) Beheading. |
| behooveful | adjective (a.) Advantageous; useful; profitable. |
| bel | noun (n.) The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal. |
| noun (n.) A thorny rutaceous tree (Aegle marmelos) of India, and its aromatic, orange-like fruit; -- called also Bengal quince, golden apple, wood apple. The fruit is used medicinally, and the rind yields a perfume and a yellow dye. |
| belial | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. |
| beliefful | adjective (a.) Having belief or faith. |
| bell | noun (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck. |
| noun (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved. | |
| noun (n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. | |
| noun (n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital. | |
| noun (n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube. | |
| verb (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter by bellowing. | |
| verb (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. |
| belletristical | adjective (a.) Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. |
| bellical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. |
| bellyful | noun (n.) As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. |
| bemol | noun (n.) The sign /; the same as B flat. |
| benedictional | noun (n.) A book of benedictions. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| benthal | adjective (a.) Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean. |
| benzal | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination. |
| benzol | noun (n.) An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene. |
| benzoyl | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. |
| benzyl | noun (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively. |
| bequeathal | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. |
| bergmeal | noun (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite. |
| beryl | noun (n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium. |
| besaiel | noun (n.) Alt. of Besayle |
| bestial | noun (n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. |
| bestowal | noun (n.) The act of bestowing; disposal. |
| betel | noun (n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves. |
| bethel | noun (n.) A place of worship; a hallowed spot. |
| noun (n.) A chapel for dissenters. | |
| noun (n.) A house of worship for seamen. |
| betrayal | noun (n.) The act or the result of betraying. |
| betrothal | noun (n.) The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. |
| bevel | noun (n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber. |
| noun (n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the slant of a bevel; slanting. | |
| adjective (a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant. |
| bezel | noun (n.) The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set. |
| bezoartical | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. |
| biaxal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Biaxial |
| biaxial | adjective (a.) Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization. |
| biblical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority. |
| bibliographical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books. |
| bibliological | adjective (a.) Relating to bibliology. |
| bibliomaniacal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac. |
| bibliothecal | adjective (a.) Belonging to a library. |
| bicameral | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. |
| bicaudal | adjective (a.) Having, or terminating in, two tails. |
| bicentennial | noun (n.) The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of two hundred years. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring every two hundred years. |
| bicipital | adjective (a.) Having two heads or origins, as a muscle. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm. | |
| adjective (a.) Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree. |
| bicorporal | adjective (a.) Having two bodies. |
| bicrural | adjective (a.) Having two legs. |
| bidental | adjective (a.) Having two teeth. |
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