| bearcat | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, binturong |
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| beard | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: byssus |
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| (noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals | - |
| (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers |
| (noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) | - |
| (noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | - |
| (verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin | - |
| bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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| (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
| beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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| beardless | (adjective) lacking hair on the face | Synonyms: smooth-faced |
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| (adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: whiskerless |
| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| bearer | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | - |
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| (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: pallbearer |
| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: holder |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: carrier, toter |
| bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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| (noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
| (noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
| (noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
| bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
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| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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| (noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
| bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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| beast | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: brute, savage, wildcat, wolf |
| beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
| beastly | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: god-awful, hellish |
| (adverb) in a beastly manner | - |
| beat | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
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| (noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing | - |
| (noun) a stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular rate of repetition | - |
| (noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music | Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter, metre |
| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) the sound of stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beatnik |
| (noun) a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations | - |
| (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) hit repeatedly | - |
| (verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
| (verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
| (verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
| (verb) shape by beating | - |
| (verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
| (verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
| (verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
| (verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
| (verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
| (verb) be superior | - |
| beatable | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: vanquishable, vincible |
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| beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
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| (adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
| beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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| (noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
| beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
| beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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| (noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
| (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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| (verb) make blessedly happy | - |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
| beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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| beatnik | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beat |
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| beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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| beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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| beau | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: boyfriend, fellow, swain |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| beaut | (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beauty |
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| beauteous | (adjective) (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight | - |
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| beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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| beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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| beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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| beautiful | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable | - |
| beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| beauty | (noun) the qualities that give pleasure to the senses | - |
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| (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beaut |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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| (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
| (noun) a full beard | - |
| (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
| (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
| bebop | (noun) an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) | Synonyms: bop |
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| (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bop |
| becalm | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: calm, steady |
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| becalmed | (adjective) rendered motionless for lack of wind | - |
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| bechamel | (noun) milk thickened with a butter and flour roux | Synonyms: bechamel sauce, white sauce |
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| 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 |
| becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
| beck | (noun) a beckoning gesture | - |
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| becket | (noun) (nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship | - |
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| beckon | (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: wave |
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| (verb) summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture | - |
| (verb) appear inviting | - |
| becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| 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 |
| becoming | (adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
| becomingly | (adverb) in a becoming manner | - |
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| becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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| 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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