| ben | (noun) a mountain or tall hill | - |
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| bench | (noun) a long seat for more than one person | - |
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| (noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: work bench, workbench |
| (noun) (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom | - |
| (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: judiciary |
| (noun) the reserve players on a team | - |
| (noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: terrace |
| benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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| (noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
| bend | (noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: curve |
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| (noun) diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left | Synonyms: bend dexter |
| (noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bending |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: crook, turn, twist |
| bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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| bender | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot |
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| (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: breaking ball, curve, curve ball |
| (noun) a tool for bending | - |
| bending | (noun) the act of bending something | - |
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| (noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion |
| (noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bend |
| bends | (noun) pain resulting from rapid change in pressure | Synonyms: aeroembolism, air embolism, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism |
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| benedick | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedict |
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| benedict | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedick |
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| benedictine | (noun) a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks | - |
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| benediction | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
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| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
| benefaction | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benevolence |
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| (noun) a contribution of money or assistance | - |
| benefactor | (noun) a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | Synonyms: helper |
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| benefactress | (noun) a woman benefactor | - |
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| benefice | (noun) an endowed church office giving income to its holder | Synonyms: ecclesiastical benefice |
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| beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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| (noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| beneficiary | (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
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| (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
| beneficiation | (noun) crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques | Synonyms: mineral dressing, mineral extraction, mineral processing, ore dressing, ore processing |
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| benefit | (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: welfare |
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| (noun) a performance to raise money for a charitable cause | - |
| (noun) financial assistance in time of need | - |
| benevolence | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benefaction |
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| (noun) an inclination to do kind or charitable acts | - |
| (noun) disposition to do good | - |
| benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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| benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
| benison | (noun) a spoken blessing | - |
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| benjamin | (noun) gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation | Synonyms: asa dulcis, benzoin, gum benjamin, gum benzoin |
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| benne | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benni, benny, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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| bennet | (noun) North American white-flowered avens | Synonyms: Geum canadense, white avens |
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| (noun) avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers | Synonyms: Geum virginianum, white avens |
| benni | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benny, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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| bennie | (noun) a form of amphetamine | Synonyms: Benzedrine |
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| benniseed | (noun) small oval seeds of the sesame plant | Synonyms: sesame seed |
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| benny | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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| bent | (noun) a special way of doing something | Synonyms: hang, knack |
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| (noun) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way | Synonyms: set |
| (noun) an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges | - |
| (noun) grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens | Synonyms: bent-grass, bent grass |
| benthos | (noun) organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea, lake, river or stream | - |
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| (noun) a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones | Synonyms: benthic division, benthonic zone |
| bentonite | (noun) an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash | - |
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| bentwood | (noun) wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture | - |
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| benweed | (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: ragweed, ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
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| benzene | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzine, benzol |
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| benzine | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzene, benzol |
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| benzoate | (noun) any salt or ester of benzoic acid | - |
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| benzocaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: ethyl aminobenzoate |
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| benzodiazepine | (noun) any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency | - |
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| benzofuran | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: coumarone, cumarone |
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| benzoin | (noun) gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation | Synonyms: asa dulcis, benjamin, gum benjamin, gum benzoin |
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| benzol | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzene, benzine |
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| benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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| benzyl | (noun) the univalent radical derived from toluene | Synonyms: benzyl group, benzyl radical |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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