| bechance | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: befall, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: befall, betide |
| become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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| (verb) come into existence | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
| 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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| bedframe | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedstead |
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| bedlamite | (noun) an archaic term for a lunatic | - |
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| bedmate | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedfellow |
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| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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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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| 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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| bedtime | (noun) the time you go to bed | - |
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| bee | (noun) any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions | - |
| beefcake | (noun) a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire | - |
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| beehive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: hive |
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| (noun) any workplace where people are very busy | - |
| (noun) a hairdo resembling a beehive | - |
| (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: hive |
| beeline | (noun) the most direct route | - |
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| beetle | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetling |
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| (noun) insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings | - |
| (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: mallet |
| (verb) beat with a beetle | - |
| (verb) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle | - |
| (verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: overhang |
| before | (adverb) at or in the front | Synonyms: ahead, in front |
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| (adverb) earlier in time; previously | Synonyms: earlier |
| befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
| begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| beguine | (noun) a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba | - |
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| (noun) music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance | - |
| behave | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: comport |
| behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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| behove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behoove |
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| beige | (adjective) of a light greyish-brown color | - |
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| (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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| belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
| believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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| believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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| (verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
| (verb) credit with veracity | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
| belike | (adverb) with considerable certainty; without much doubt | Synonyms: in all likelihood, in all probability, likely, probably |
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| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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| belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
| beltlike | (adjective) resembling a belt around something | Synonyms: belt-like |
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| belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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| (noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
| bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| bemuse | (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw |
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| bendable | (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: pliable, pliant, waxy |
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| benedictine | (noun) a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks | - |
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| benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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| benefice | (noun) an endowed church office giving income to its holder | Synonyms: ecclesiastical benefice |
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| (verb) endow with a benefice | - |
| beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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| (noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| 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 | - |
| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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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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| bennie | (noun) a form of amphetamine | Synonyms: Benzedrine |
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| bentonite | (noun) an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash | - |
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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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| 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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| berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| berceuse | (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: cradlesong, lullaby |
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| bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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| beroe | (noun) delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores | - |
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| berrylike | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: baccate |
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| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| bespoke | (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoken, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
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| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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| bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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| bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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| betaine | (noun) a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets | - |
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| betide | (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
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| betise | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity |
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| beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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| beware | (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: mind |
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| bezique | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: penuchle, pinochle, pinocle |
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| biaxate | (adjective) having two axes | Synonyms: biaxal, biaxial |
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| bible | (noun) a book regarded as authoritative in its field | - |
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| bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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| bibliopole | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopolist |
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| bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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| bichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: dichloride |
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| bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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| bichrome | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| biconcave | (adjective) concave on both sides | Synonyms: concavo-concave |
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| bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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| bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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| bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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| bicycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bike, cycle, wheel |
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| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
| biddable | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: acquiescent |
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| bide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, stay |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| biface | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: bifacial |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| bifoliate | (adjective) having two leaves | - |
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| bifurcate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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| (verb) divide into two branches | - |
| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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