| forbearing | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: longanimous |
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| forebear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forbear |
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| goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
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| goldbeater | (noun) an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf | Synonyms: gold-beater |
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| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| grosbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grossbeak |
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| grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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| halfbeak | (noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw | - |
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| heartbeat | (noun) an animating or vital unifying force | - |
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| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| hornbeam | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | - |
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| horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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| (noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
| jambeau | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: greave |
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| longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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| macebearer | (noun) an official who carries a mace of office | Synonyms: mace, macer |
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| moonbeam | (noun) a ray of moonlight | Synonyms: moon-ray, moon ray |
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| nonbearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) supporting no vertical weight other than its own | - |
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| obeah | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obi |
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| (noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obi |
| offbeat | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out |
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| (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: upbeat |
| overbear | (verb) contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery | Synonyms: bear down |
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| (verb) bear too much | - |
| (verb) overcome | - |
| overbearing | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| overbearingly | (adverb) in an overbearing manner | - |
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| overbearingness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: domineeringness, imperiousness |
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| pallbearer | (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: bearer |
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| porbeagle | (noun) voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Lamna nasus |
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| screwbean | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean mesquite, tornillo |
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| soybean | (noun) the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) | Synonyms: soy, soya, soya bean |
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| (noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean plant |
| (noun) a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food | Synonyms: soy, soya bean |
| sunbeam | (noun) a ray of sunlight | Synonyms: sunray |
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| talebearer | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| talebearing | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, tattling |
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| torchbearer | (noun) a leader in a campaign or movement | - |
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| trabeate | (adjective) not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches) | Synonyms: trabeated |
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| trabeated | (adjective) not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches) | Synonyms: trabeate |
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| trainbearer | (noun) one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion | - |
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| unbearable | (adjective) incapable of being tolerated or endured | Synonyms: intolerable, unendurable |
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| unbearably | (adverb) to an unbearable degree | - |
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| unbeatable | (adjective) incapable of being overcome or subdued | Synonyms: invincible, unvanquishable |
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| (adjective) hard to defeat | - |
| unbeaten | (adjective) not conquered | Synonyms: unconquered, unvanquished |
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| unforbearing | (adjective) unwilling to endure | - |
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| upbeat | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, pollyannaish |
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| (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: offbeat |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |