BAIN

Name Report For First Name BAIN:

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

Rhymes with BAIN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BAIN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BA�N AS A WHOLE:

bainbridge bainbrydge macbain

NAMES RHYMING WITH BA�N (According to last letters):

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

brengwain husain agravain alain mabonagrain tortain fiamain banain coinleain charmain dubhain etain germain ain bhradain bothain brittain broehain cain cochlain cuchulain culain dain deoradhain dewain dubhagain dwain efrain fain fallamhain flannagain gauvain gawain gordain gormain husnain hussain iain jermain justain lochlain mabonaqain morain narain riordain shain thawain tremain wain zain diolmhain bheathain bharain twain thain swain brain houdain helain ghislain romain evrain mordrain owain gille-eathain jordain

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

fatin yasmin camarin maolmin delbin kristin adin gin ixcatzin tepin tlazohtzin xochicotzin yoltzin zeltzin ihrin adwin akin alafin din kayin yerodin abbudin abdul-muhaimin aladdin amin mazin muhsin yasin custennin erbin pheredin taliesin txomin zadornin

NAMES RHYMING WITH BA�N (According to first letters):

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

baibin baibre baigh bailee bailefour bailey bailintin baillidh bailoch bairbre baird bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn

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

baal bab baba babafemi babatunde babette babu babukar bac baccaus baccus backstere bacstair badal badawi bader badi'a badr badra badriyyah badru badu baduna baecere baen baerhloew baethan bagdemagus baghel baha baheera bahir bahira bahiti bahiya bakari baker bakkir baladi baladie balasi balbina baldassare baldassario baldemar balder baldhart baldhere baldlice baldric baldrik balduin baldulf baldwin baldwyn baleigh balen balere balfour balgair balgaire balie balin balinda balisarda ballard ballinamore ballindeny balmoral balqis baltasar balthazar baltsaros bama bamard bambi bamey ban bana banaing banan banbhan banbrigge bancroft bane bankole bannan

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BA�N:

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

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 bearn 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 beorn beretun berihun berlyn bern bernardyn berneen bernon berrin bertin berton bestandan besyrwan bethann bevan bevin bevyn bian bingen binyamin biron biton bittan bitten bjorn blagdan blagden blagdon blian boden bodgan bodwyn bogdan bohannon bohdan bolton bonny-jean bordan borden botan bothan bourkan bourn bowden bowdyn bowen bowyn

English Words Rhyming BAIN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BA�N AS A WHOLE:

aubaine

noun (n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.

bain

noun (n.) A bath; a bagnio.

thebaine

noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BA�N (According to last letters):

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

almain

noun (n.) Alt. of Alman

amain	noun (n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.
	noun (n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once.
	verb (v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

archchamberlain

noun (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

attain	noun (n.) Attainment.
	verb (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
	verb (v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
	verb (v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
	verb (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
	verb (v. t.) To overtake.
	verb (v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
	verb (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
	verb (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

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.

blain	noun (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
	noun (n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

boatswain	noun (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
	noun (n.) The jager gull.
	noun (n.) The tropic bird.

brain	noun (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
	noun (n.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
	noun (n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
	noun (n.) The affections; fancy; imagination.
	verb (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
	verb (v. t.) To conceive; to understand.

captain	noun (n.) A head, or chief officer
	noun (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.
	noun (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
	noun (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.
	noun (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.
	noun (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.
	noun (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen.
	noun (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
	noun (n.) A military leader; a warrior.
	adjective (a.) Chief; superior.
	verb (v. t.) To act as captain of; to lead.

catchdrain

noun (n.) A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

certain	noun (n.) Certainty.
	noun (n.) A certain number or quantity.
	adjective (a.) Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
	adjective (a.) Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.
	adjective (a.) Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
	adjective (a.) Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
	adjective (a.) Unfailing; infallible.
	adjective (a.) Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
	adjective (a.) Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
	adverb (adv.) Certainly.

chain	noun (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
	noun (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
	noun (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
	noun (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
	noun (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
	noun (n.) The warp threads of a web.
	verb (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
	verb (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
	verb (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.
	verb (v. t.) To measure with the chain.
	verb (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

chamberlain	noun (n.) An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
	noun (n.) An upper servant of an inn.
	noun (n.) An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.
	noun (n.) A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.

chaplain	noun (n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
	noun (n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.
	noun (n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

chevrotain

noun (n.) A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.

chieftain

noun (n.) A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.

chilblain	noun (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
	verb (v. t.) To produce chilblains upon.

cockswain

noun (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

copatain

adjective (a.) Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

cordwain

noun (n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.

coxswain

noun (n.) See Cockswain.

curtain	noun (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
	noun (n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
	noun (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
	noun (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
	verb (v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

dagswain

noun (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

demain	noun (n.) Rule; management.
	noun (n.) See Demesne.

detain	noun (n.) Detention.
	verb (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.
	verb (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
	verb (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

digitain	noun (n.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
	noun (n.) A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.

domain	noun (n.) Dominion; empire; authority.
	noun (n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
	noun (n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
	noun (n.) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.

drain	noun (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
	noun (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
	noun (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
	verb (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
	verb (v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
	verb (v. t.) To filter.
	verb (v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
	verb (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.

elain

noun (n.) Same as Olein.

entertain	noun (n.) Entertainment.
	verb (v. t.) To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
	verb (v. t.) To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
	verb (v. t.) To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
	verb (v. t.) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
	verb (v. t.) To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
	verb (v. t.) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
	verb (v. i.) To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.

epictetain

adjective (a.) Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.

explain	adjective (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
	adjective (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
	verb (v. i.) To give an explanation.

fain	adjective (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
	adjective (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
	adverb (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.

filigrain

noun (n.) Alt. of Filigrane

forebrain

noun (n.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

fountain	noun (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.
	noun (n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
	noun (n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
	noun (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

fusain	noun (n.) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
	noun (n.) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.

gain	noun (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
	noun (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
	noun (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.
	noun (n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
	noun (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
	noun (n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
	adjective (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
	verb (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
	verb (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
	verb (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

gainpain

noun (n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

germain

adjective (a.) See Germane.

grain	noun (v. & n.) See Groan.
	noun (n.) A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
	noun (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.
	noun (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
	noun (n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
	noun (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
	noun (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
	noun (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
	noun (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
	noun (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
	noun (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
	noun (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.
	noun (n.) To yield fruit.
	noun (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
	noun (n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
	noun (n.) A tine, prong, or fork.
	noun (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river.
	noun (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.
	noun (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
	noun (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
	adjective (a.) Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
	adjective (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.
	verb (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
	verb (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).

grosgrain

adjective (a.) Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

hindbrain

noun (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.

hogchain

noun (n.) A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.

incertain

noun (n.) Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.

ingrain	noun (n.) An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
	adjective (a.) Dyed with grain, or kermes.
	adjective (a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
	verb (v. t.) To dye with or in grain or kermes.
	verb (v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
	verb (v. t.) To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.

interbrain

noun (n.) See Thalamencephalon.

jain

noun (n.) Alt. of Jaina

kain

noun (n.) Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.

lackbrain

noun (n.) One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BA�N (According to first letters):

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

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.

bailing

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

bailable	adjective (a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.
	adjective (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense.
	adjective (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.

bailee

noun (n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

bailer	noun (n.) See Bailor.
	noun (n.) One who bails or lades.
	noun (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.

bailey	noun (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle.
	noun (n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
	noun (n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.

bailie

noun (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

bailiff	noun (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
	noun (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
	noun (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.

bailiffwick

noun (n.) See Bailiwick.

bailiwick

noun (n.) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

baillie	noun (n.) Bailiff.
	noun (n.) Same as Bailie.

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.

bailor

noun (n.) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

bailpiece

noun (n.) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.

bairam	noun (n.) The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.
	noun (n.) Either of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one (the Lesser Bairam) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast.

bairn

noun (n.) A child.

baisemains

noun (n. pl.) Respects; compliments.

baiting

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

baiter

noun (n.) One who baits; a tormentor.

baize

noun (n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.

baignoire

noun (n.) A box of the lowest tier in a theater.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BA�N:

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.

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.

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

behn	noun (n.) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.
	noun (n.) The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.
	noun (n.) The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.

beholden	adjective (p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.
	(p. p.) of Behold

belgian	noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Belgium.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Belgium.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Belgium.

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