| abed | (adverb) in bed | - |
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| absorbed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) retained without reflection | - |
| albedo | (noun) the ratio of reflected to incident light | Synonyms: reflective power |
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| barbed | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| bed | (noun) a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | - |
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| (noun) a plot of ground in which plants are growing | - |
| (noun) a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | - |
| (noun) the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. | - |
| (noun) single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | Synonyms: layer |
| (noun) a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | Synonyms: seam |
| (noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bottom |
| (noun) (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) | - |
| (verb) prepare for sleep | Synonyms: crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| (verb) put to bed | - |
| (verb) place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil | - |
| (verb) furnish with a bed | - |
| bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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| bedaubed | (adjective) ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion | - |
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| bedaze | (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: daze, stun |
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| bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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| bedbug | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius |
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| bedchamber | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedroom, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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| bedclothes | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedding |
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| bedcover | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedspread, counterpane, spread |
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| bedded | (adjective) having a bed or beds as specified | - |
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| (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: stratified |
| bedder | (noun) an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed | Synonyms: bedding plant |
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| bedding | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedclothes |
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| (noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding material, litter |
| bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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| bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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| bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| bedevilment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, torment, worrying |
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| bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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| bedewed | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: dewy |
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| bedfast | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed |
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| bedfellow | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedmate |
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| (noun) a temporary associate | - |
| bedframe | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedstead |
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| bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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| bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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| bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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| bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
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| (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
| bedimmed | (adjective) made dim or indistinct | - |
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| bedizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: dizen |
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| (verb) decorate tastelessly | - |
| bedlam | (noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder | Synonyms: chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness |
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| bedlamite | (noun) an archaic term for a lunatic | - |
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| bedless | (adjective) without a bed | - |
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| bedmate | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedfellow |
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| bedpan | (noun) a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination | - |
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| bedpost | (noun) any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead | - |
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| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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| bedraggled | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: draggled |
| bedrest | (noun) confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick or injured persons) | Synonyms: bed rest |
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| bedrid | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedridden, sick-abed |
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| bedridden | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedrid, sick-abed |
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| bedrock | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, fundamental principle, fundamentals |
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| (noun) solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil | - |
| bedroll | (noun) bedding rolled up for carrying | - |
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| bedroom | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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| bedside | (noun) space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person) | - |
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| bedsit | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsitter, bedsitting room |
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| bedsitter | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsit, bedsitting room |
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| bedsore | (noun) a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) | Synonyms: decubitus ulcer, pressure sore |
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| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| bedspring | (noun) (usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed | - |
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| bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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| bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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| bedtime | (noun) the time you go to bed | - |
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| bedwetter | (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, wetter |
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| benumbed | (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, numb |
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| (adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: dulled |
| bibbed | (adjective) having a bib | - |
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| bilobed | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobated |
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| blebbed | (adjective) (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material | Synonyms: blebby |
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| bulbed | (adjective) having a bulb | - |
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| childbed | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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| circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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| combed | (adjective) (of hair) made tidy with a comb | - |
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| crabbed | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crabbedness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbiness, crossness |
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| daybed | (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise, chaise longue |
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| (noun) an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | Synonyms: divan bed |
| deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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| (noun) the last few hours before death | - |
| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| disobedience | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: noncompliance |
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| (noun) the trait of being unwilling to obey | - |
| disobedient | (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority | - |
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| (adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: unruly |
| disobediently | (adverb) in a disobedient manner | - |
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| disturbed | (adjective) having the place or position changed | - |
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| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: maladjusted |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried |
| embed | (verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war | - |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: engraft, imbed, implant, plant |
| embedded | (adjective) inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole | - |
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| (adjective) enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass | - |
| featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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| (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| flatbed | (noun) an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects | - |
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| (noun) freight car without permanent sides or roof | Synonyms: flat, flatcar |
| flowerbed | (noun) a bed in which flowers are growing | Synonyms: bed of flowers, flower bed |
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| garbed | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, dressed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| honeycombed | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, faveolate, pitted |
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| hotbed | (noun) a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants | - |
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| (noun) a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad) | - |
| imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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| inscribed | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, graven, incised |
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| (adjective) written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface | - |
| knobbed | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty |
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| limbed | (adjective) having or as if having limbs, especially limbs of a specified kind (usually used in combination) | - |
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| lobed | (adjective) having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other | Synonyms: lobate |
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| nibbed | (adjective) (used of pens) having a writing point or nib especially of a certain kind | - |
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| obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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| (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
| obedient | (adjective) dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority | - |
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| obediently | (adverb) in an obedient manner | Synonyms: yieldingly |
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| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| perturbed | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, rattled |
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| prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
| proscribed | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| ribbed | (adjective) furnished or strengthened with ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: costate |
| riverbed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river | Synonyms: river bottom |
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| roadbed | (noun) a bed supporting a road | - |
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| robed | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented |
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| scrubbed | (adjective) made clean by scrubbing | - |
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