| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| biangular | adjective | Having two angles or corners. |
| bibacious | adjective | Addicted to drinking. |
| biblicism | noun | Learning or literature relating to the Bible. |
| biblicist | noun | One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures. |
| bicallose | adjective | Alt. of Bicallous |
| bicallous | adjective | Having two callosities or hard spots. |
| bicameral | adjective | Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. |
| bicaudate | adjective | Two-tailed; bicaudal. |
| bicipital | adjective | Having two heads or origins, as a muscle., Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm., Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree. |
| bickering | present participle & vb. noun | of Bicker, A skirmishing., Altercation; wrangling. |
| bicolored | adjective | Of two colors. |
| biconcave | adjective | Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae. |
| bicornous | adjective | Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike. |
| bicostate | adjective | Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. |
| bicrenate | adjective | Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate. |
| bicyanide | noun | See Dicyanide. |
| bicycling | noun | The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle. |
| bicyclism | noun | The art of riding a bicycle. |
| bicyclist | noun | A bicycler. |
| bicycular | adjective | Relating to bicycling. |
| bidentate | adjective | Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed. |
| biestings | noun pl. | Alt. of Beestings |
| bifarious | adjective | Twofold; arranged in two rows., Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows. |
| biflorate | adjective | Alt. of Biflorous |
| biflorous | adjective | Bearing two flowers; two-flowered. |
| bifoliate | adjective | Having two leaves; two-leaved. |
| biformity | noun | A double form. |
| bifronted | adjective | Having two fronts. |
| bifurcate | adjective | Alt. of Bifurcated, To divide into two branches. |
| bifurcous | adjective | See Bifurcate, a. |
| bigarreau | noun | Alt. of Bigaroon |
| bigential | adjective | Including two tribes or races of men. |
| biggonnet | noun | A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears. |
| bigotedly | adverb | In the manner of a bigot. |
| bilabiate | adjective | Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers. |
| bilaminar | adjective | Alt. of Bilaminate |
| bilateral | adjective | Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties., Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body. |
| bilboquet | noun | The toy called cup and ball. |
| bildstein | noun | Same as Agalmatolite. |
| bilection | noun | That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection. |
| bilestone | noun | A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. |
| biliation | noun | The production and excretion of bile. |
| bilimbing | noun | The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. |
| bilingual | adjective | Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. |
| bilinguar | adjective | See Bilingual. |
| bilirubin | noun | A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment. |
| biliteral | adjective | Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb., A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters. |
| billboard | noun | A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on., A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board. |
| bill book | A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives. | |
| billeting | present participle & vb. noun | of Billet |
| billiards | noun | A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished. |
| billowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Billow |
| bilocular | adjective | Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. |
| bimastism | noun | The condition of having two mammae or teats. |
| bimembral | adjective | Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence. |
| bimonthly | adjective | Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications., A bimonthly publication., Once in two months. |
| bindingly | adverb | So as to bind. |
| binervate | adjective | Two-nerved; — applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves., Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects. |
| biniodide | noun | Same as Diiodide. |
| binocular | adjective | Having two eyes., Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision., Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope., A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope. |
| binominal | adjective | Of or pertaining to two names; binomial. |
| binturong | noun | A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis. |
| binuclear | adjective | Alt. of Binucleate |
| biogenist | noun | A believer in the theory of biogenesis. |
| biognosis | noun | The investigation of life. |
| biography | noun | The written history of a person’s life., Biographical writings in general. |
| biologist | noun | A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology. |
| bipalmate | adjective | Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated. |
| bipartile | adjective | Divisible into two parts. |
| bipartite | adjective | Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty., Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions. |
| bipeltate | adjective | Having a shell or covering like a double shield. |
| bipennate | adjective | Alt. of Bipennated |
| bipinnate | adjective | Alt. of Bipinnated |
| biplicate | adjective | Twice folded together. |
| biplicity | noun | The state of being twice folded; reduplication. |
| bipontine | adjective | Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium (Zweibrucken), in Bavaria. |
| biradiate | adjective | Alt. of Biradiated |
| bird cage | noun | Alt. of Birdcage |
| bird-eyed | adjective | Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes. |
| birgander | noun | See Bergander. |
| birthless | adjective | Of mean extraction. |
| birthmark | noun | Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. |
| birthroot | noun | An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties. |
| birthwort | noun | A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. |
| bisaccate | adjective | Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches. |
| biscutate | adjective | Resembling two bucklers placed side by side. |
| bisecting | present participle & vb. noun | of Bisect |
| bisection | noun | Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts. |
| bisectrix | noun | The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal. |
| bisegment | noun | One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude. |
| biseptate | adjective | With two partitions or septa. |
| biseriate | adjective | In two rows or series. |
| biserrate | adjective | Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves., Serrate on both sides, as some antennae. |
| bisexuous | adjective | Bisexual. |
| bishoping | present participle & vb. noun | of Bishop, of Bishop |
| bishopdom | noun | Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. |
| bishopric | noun | A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends., The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter. |
| bismillah | interj. | An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans. |
| bismuthal | adjective | Containing bismuth. |
| bismuthic | adjective | Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide. |
| bismuthyl | noun | Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color. |
| bispinose | adjective | Having two spines. |
| bisulcate | adjective | Having two grooves or furrows., Cloven; said of a foot or hoof. |
| bisulcous | adjective | Bisulcate. |
| bitangent | adjective | Possessing the property of touching at two points., A line that touches a curve in two points. |
| biternate | adjective | Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. |
| biting in | The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch. | |
| bitterful | adjective | Full of bitterness. |
| bittering | noun | A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern. |
| bitterish | adjective | Somewhat bitter. |
| bitternut | noun | The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter. |
| bivalency | noun | The quality of being bivalent. |
| bivalvous | adjective | Bivalvular. |
| bivaulted | adjective | Having two vaults or arches. |
| biventral | adjective | Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum. |
| bizantine | See Byzantine. |