| beech | (noun) any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions | Synonyms: beech tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beechwood |
| beechnut | (noun) small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees | - |
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| beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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| beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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| breech | (noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | Synonyms: rear of barrel, rear of tube |
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| breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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| breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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| breechclout | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, loincloth |
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| breeches | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers |
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| breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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| horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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| leech | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger |
| leechee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| screech | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
| screecher | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, shouter, yeller |
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| screeching | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
| speech | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: language |
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| (noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: language, oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
| (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience | Synonyms: address |
| (noun) words making up the dialogue of a play | Synonyms: actor's line, words |
| (noun) a lengthy rebuke | Synonyms: lecture, talking to |
| (noun) the exchange of spoken words | - |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: delivery, manner of speaking |
| (noun) something spoken | - |
| speechifier | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechmaker |
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| speechlessness | (noun) the property of being speechless | - |
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| speechmaker | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier |
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| speechmaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speaking |
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| speechwriter | (noun) a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver | - |
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