| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| biasing | present participle & vb. noun | of Bias |
| biaxial | adjective | Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization. |
| bibasic | adjective | Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; — said of acids. See Dibasic. |
| bibcock | noun | A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. |
| biblist | noun | One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith., A biblical scholar; a biblicist. |
| bicched | adjective | Pecked; pitted; notched. |
| bickern | noun | An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself. |
| bicolor | adjective | Alt. of Bicolored |
| bicycle | noun | A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider’s feet acting on cranks or levers. |
| bidding | present participle & vb. noun | of Bid, Command; order; a proclamation or notifying., The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction. |
| bifilar | adjective | Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance. |
| biggest | adjective | superl. of Big. |
| bigging | verb t. | A building. |
| bighorn | noun | The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana). |
| bigness | noun | The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk. |
| bigoted | adjective | Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others. |
| bigotry | noun | The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one’s own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them., The practice or tenets of a bigot. |
| bilboes | plural | of Bilbo |
| bilcock | noun | The European water rail. |
| bilging | present participle & vb. noun | of Bilge |
| biliary | adjective | Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. |
| bilimbi | noun | Alt. of Bilimbing |
| bilious | adjective | Of or pertaining to the bile., Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms., Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. |
| bilking | present participle & vb. noun | of Bilk |
| billing | present participle & vb. noun | of Bill, Caressing; kissing. |
| billage | noun / verb t. & i. | Same as Bilge. |
| billard | noun | An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. |
| billbug | noun | A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio. |
| billion | noun | According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration. |
| billmen | plural | of Billman |
| billman | noun | One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. |
| billowy | adjective | Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. |
| bilobed | adjective | Bilobate. |
| bilsted | noun | See Sweet gum. |
| biltong | noun | Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. |
| binning | present participle & vb. noun | of Bin |
| binding | present participle & vb. noun | of Bind, That binds; obligatory., The act or process of one who, or that which, binds., Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling., The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel. |
| bindery | noun | A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder’s establishment. |
| binocle | noun | A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass. |
| biogeny | noun | A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; — opposed to abiogenesis., Life development generally. |
| biology | noun | The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants. |
| bionomy | noun | Physiology. |
| biorgan | noun | A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; — distinguished from idorgan. |
| biotaxy | noun | The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy. |
| biotite | noun | Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; — a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica. |
| bipedal | noun | Having two feet; biped., Pertaining to a biped. |
| bipolar | adjective | Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle. |
| birches | plural | of Birch |
| birched | imp. & past participle | of Birch |
| birchen | adjective | Of or relating to birch. |
| birding | noun | Birdcatching or fowling. |
| birdlet | noun | A little bird; a nestling. |
| birdman | noun | A fowler or birdcatcher. |
| biretta | noun | Same as Berretta. |
| birring | present participle & vb. noun | of Birr |
| biscuit | noun | A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit., A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card., Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing., A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. |
| bismare | noun | Alt. of Bismer |
| bismite | noun | Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher. |
| bismuth | noun | One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507ยก Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi. |
| bistort | noun | An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent. |
| bitting | present participle & vb. noun | of Bit |
| bitless | adjective | Not having a bit or bridle. |
| bittern | noun | A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species., The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains., A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. |
| bitters | noun pl. | A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped. |
| bittock | noun | A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. |
| bitumed | adjective | Smeared with bitumen. |
| bitumen | noun | Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew’s pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt., By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas. |
| bivalve | noun | A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, — or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca., A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves., Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels. |
| bivious | adjective | Having, or leading, two ways. |
| bivouac | noun | The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack., An encampment for the night without tents or covering., To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army., To encamp for the night without tents or covering. |
| biwreye | verb t. | To bewray; to reveal. |
| bizarre | adjective | Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. |