| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| biangulate | adjective | Alt. of Biangulated |
| biangulous | adjective | Biangular. |
| biblically | adverb | According to the Bible. |
| bibliology | noun | An account of books; book lore; bibliography., The literature or doctrine of the Bible. |
| bibliopegy | noun | The art of binding books. |
| bibliopole | noun | One who sells books. |
| bibliotaph | noun | Alt. of Bibliotaphist |
| bibliothec | noun | A librarian. |
| bibulously | adverb | In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. |
| bicapsular | adjective | Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp. |
| bicarinate | adjective | Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses. |
| bichloride | noun | A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; — called also dichloride. |
| bichromate | noun | A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; — called also dichromate. |
| bicipitous | adjective | Having two heads; bicipital. |
| bickerment | noun | Contention. |
| bicorporal | adjective | Having two bodies. |
| bidigitate | adjective | Having two fingers or fingerlike projections. |
| biennially | adverb | Once in two years. |
| bifurcated | adjective | Two-pronged; forked. |
| bigeminate | adjective | Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; — said of a decompound leaf. |
| big-wigged | adjective | characterized by pomposity of manner. |
| bilaminate | adjective | Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates. |
| bilberries | plural | of Bilberry |
| biliferous | adjective | Generating bile. |
| bilifuscin | noun | A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin. |
| bilinguist | noun | One versed in two languages. |
| bilinguous | adjective | Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. |
| biliprasin | noun | A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones. |
| biliverdin | noun | A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation. |
| billbeetle | noun | Alt. of Billbug |
| billethead | noun | A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off. |
| billposter | noun | Alt. of Billsticker |
| billy goat | A male goat. | |
| bilocation | noun | Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; — a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. |
| bimaculate | adjective | Having, or marked with, two spots. |
| bimestrial | adjective | Continuing two months. |
| bimetallic | adjective | Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency. |
| bimuscular | adjective | Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk. |
| binoculate | adjective | Having two eyes. |
| binominous | adjective | Binominal. |
| binotonous | adjective | Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry. |
| binoxalate | noun | A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate. |
| binucleate | adjective | Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells. |
| biocellate | adjective | Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); — said of a wing, etc. |
| biogenesis | noun | Alt. of Biogeny |
| biogenetic | adjective | Pertaining to biogenesis. |
| biographer | noun | One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch. |
| biographic | adjective | Alt. of Biographical |
| biological | adjective | Of or relating to biology. |
| bioplasmic | adjective | Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm. |
| bioplastic | adjective | Bioplasmic. |
| biostatics | noun | The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena. |
| biparietal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other. |
| bipartible | adjective | Capable of being divided into two parts. |
| bipartient | present participle | Dividing into two parts., A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder. |
| bipennated | adjective | Having two wings. |
| bipetalous | adjective | Having two petals. |
| bipinnaria | noun | The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage. |
| bipinnated | adjective | Twice pinnate. |
| bipolarity | noun | Bipolar quality. |
| bipunctate | adjective | Having two punctures, or spots. |
| bipunctual | adjective | Having two points. |
| biquadrate | noun | The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4×4=16, the square of 4, and 16×16=256, the biquadrate of 4. |
| biquintile | noun | An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle — that is, twice 72 degrees. |
| biradiated | adjective | Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin. |
| bird’s-eye | adjective | Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a bird’s-eye view., Marked with spots resembling bird’s eyes; as, bird’s-eye diaper; bird’s-eye maple., A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant’s eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc. |
| birostrate | adjective | Alt. of Birostrated |
| birthnight | noun | The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. |
| birthplace | noun | The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. |
| birthright | noun | Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. |
| bishoplike | adjective | Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. |
| bisilicate | noun | A salt of metasilicic acid; — so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals. |
| bismuthine | noun | Alt. of Bismuthinite |
| bismuthous | adjective | Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence. |
| bissextile | noun | Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400., Pertaining to leap year. |
| bistipuled | adjective | Having two stipules. |
| bistouries | plural | of Bistoury |
| bisulphate | noun | A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate. |
| bisulphide | noun | A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; — less frequently called bisulphuret. |
| bisulphite | noun | A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite. |
| bitartrate | noun | A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar. |
| bitterbump | noun | the butterbump or bittern. |
| bitterling | noun | A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus). |
| bitterness | noun | The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind., A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God., Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy. |
| bitterroot | noun | A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet’lum. |
| bitterweed | noun | A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood. |
| bitterwood | noun | A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained. |
| bitterwort | noun | The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste. |
| bituminate | verb t. | To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. |
| bituminize | verb t. | To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen. |
| bituminous | adjective | Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. |
| bivalvular | adjective | Having two valves. |
| bivouacked | imp. & past participle | of Bivouac |