English words: be part of life's rich pageant to beamline
300 English words, part 31 of 142 of the words starting with B, A to Z. 26 have a page of their own.
English words be part of life's rich pageant to beamline
- be part of life's rich pageant verb: Synonym of be part of life's rich tapestry.
- be part of life's rich pattern verb: Synonym of be part of life's rich tapestry.
- be part of life's rich tapestry verb: To constitute one of the many experiences, both positive and negative, that collectively form a full and complete life.
- be-penised adjective: Alternative form of bepenised.
- be-petticoated adjective: Wearing or having a petticoat.
- be-piped adjective: Alternative form of bepiped.
- be quiet interjection /biˈkwaɪˌət/: Remain silent. Sometimes used as a more polite synonym of shut up.
- be rid of verb: To be free of or released from a troublesome or undesirable person or object.
- be riding for a fall verb: To behave in a risky manner that is likely to lead to failure.
- be right verb: To be correct in one's judgment or statement about something. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- be right back phrase /biː ɹaɪt bæk/: Used to indicate the speaker will return in a moment. Often abbreviated in online slang as BRB.
- be-ringleted adjective: Alternative form of beringleted.
- be-ringletted adjective: Alternative form of beringleted.
- be-sashed adjective: Alternative form of besashed.
- be-sceptered adjective: Alternative form of besceptered.
- be-sceptred adjective: Alternative form of besceptered.
- be seeing ya interjection: A farewell.
- be seeing you phrase: Synonym of see you later (“a goodbye”).
- be seized of verb: To remain in consideration of a matter.
- be sick verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: be sick.
- be silent verb: To refrain from speaking; to say nothing. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- be someone's to lose verb: To be anticipated to be won by someone.
- be-spurred adjective: Alternative form of bespurred.
- be'st verb: Alternative form of beest.
- Be star noun: A star of spectral type B that shows emission lines in its spectrum
- be-stetsoned adjective: Alternative letter-case form of be-Stetsoned.
- be still my beating heart verb: Alternative form of be still my heart.
- be still my heart verb: An admonition to oneself to calm down when overly excited, especially in terms of romantic attraction.
- be suppose to phrase: Eggcorn of be supposed to.
- be taken bad verb: To become ill.
- be taken ill verb: To become ill.
- be taken sick verb: To become ill.
- be thankful for small mercies phrase: Even though things are bad, you should remember that the situation could be worse and therefore be happy about the little things that are good.
- be that as it may adverb: Even if that is the case; whether that is true or not; nevertheless.
- be the bigger man verb: To walk away from a conflict to prevent it from escalating.
- be the case verb: To exist as an independent fact of (external) reality.
- be the worse for drink verb: To be drunk.
- be there verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, there.
- be there and be square phrase: Used to encourage someone to visit a place typically associated with niche or intellectually focused interests.
- be there or be square phrase: Used to encourage someone to attend an event.
- be to verb: Ellipsis of be going to; will; would or should in past tense.
- be-togaed adjective: Wearing a toga.
- be-toppered adjective: Wearing a topper.
- be-tuxed adjective: Alternative form of betuxed.
- be used to verb: To be familiar with or accustomed to something or someone through repeated experience; to be acclimated to.
- be with verb: To have sex with.
- be worried verb: Synonym of be bothered (“to have the enthusiasm (to do something)”).
- be wrong verb: To have an incorrect belief, to be mistaken about one's judgment or statement concerning something. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- be4 adverb, conjunction, preposition: Abbreviation of before.
- BEA proper noun /biː/: A diminutive of the female given name Beatrice.
- beable noun /ˈbiː.əbl/: anything that could possibly be, in particular in any of a number of superimposed quantum states
- beabull noun: A designer mix between the beagle and the English bulldog.
- beach noun, verb /biːt͡ʃ/: The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- beach apple noun: The poisonous fruit of the manchineel (Hippomane mancinella).
- beach bag noun: A bag for carrying items on a recreational trip to the beach, such as swimsuit and towel.
- beach ball noun: A large light inflatable ball, ideally suited to beach games.
- beach ball diagram noun: Synonym of beach ball plot.
- beach ball plot noun: A kind of diagram illustrating the focal mechanism of an earthquake.
- beach bar noun: A retail business that sells drinks and food on or by a beach.
- beach bean noun: Synonym of bay bean
- beach body noun: The body of a person that has been developed to a state of physical attractiveness for display in swimwear at the beach.
- beach book noun: An easy, lightweight, or undemanding novel suitable for holiday reading.
- beach box noun: A beach hut.
- beach break noun: The place where waves break, at a beach (as distinguished from other types of breaks).
- beach buggy noun: Synonym of dune buggy.
- beach bum noun: A person who relaxes frequently on the beach.
- beach bunny noun: A young attractive woman in a bikini or on a beach.
- beach bur noun: Ambrosia chamissonis, an herbaceous plant of the North American Pacific coast.
- beach cabbage noun: A plant of the species Scaevola taccada, native to the tropical shores of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- beach caster noun: A long (usually 12-16 feet) fishing rod used for beach casting.
- beach casting noun: The practice of fishing with a long fishing rod (a beach caster) while standing on the shoreline or beach.
- beach chair noun: A special chair designed to provide comfort and protection from sun, wind, rain, and sand on beaches frequented by tourists.
- beach cruiser noun: Synonym of cruiser (“bicycle designed for low-speed, recreational use”).
- beach day noun: A day when the weather is ideal for going to the beach.
- beach episode noun: A one-off, non-canon episode of a programme, typically (though not exclusively) found in anime.
- beach flea noun: Any of various amphipod crustaceans of the family Talitridae, which live on beaches and jump like fleas.
- beach girl noun: Alternative form of beachgirl.
- beach-goer noun: Alternative form of beachgoer.
- beach grass noun: Alternative form of beachgrass.
- beach hat noun: A light, wide-brimmed hat, typically made of straw or some similar material, designed to offer protection from the harsh sunlight when at the beach.
- beach head noun: Alternative spelling of beachhead.
- beach hopper noun: The sand flea.
- beach house noun: Alternative form of beachhouse.
- beach hut noun: A small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into swimming clothes, for recreation, or for temporary storage.
- beach nourishment noun: The artificial replenishment of sand washed away from a beach by coastal erosion
- beach party noun: A party on the beach.
- beach pea noun: Vigna marina (notched cowpea, nanea).
- beach plum noun: A tree, Prunus maritima, bearing small plums, found along the Atlantic coast of the United States from Maine to Maryland.
- beach read noun: Synonym of beach book.
- beach ridge noun: A wave-swept or wave deposited ridge running parallel to a shoreline.
- beach rose noun: The plant Rosa rugosa.
- beach rubbing noun: The practice among killer whales of scraping the body along rocks in shallow water.
- beach sandal noun: A flip-flop (footwear).
- beach soccer noun: a variant of soccer played on a smaller-sized sand pitch.
- beach stone-curlew noun: A species of stone-curlew, Esacus magnirostris, of Southeast Asia, Australasia and the western Pacific.
- beach strawberry noun: Fragaria chiloensis, an American wild strawberry.
- beach sunflower noun: A sunflower of species Helianthus debilis, of the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
- beach thick-knee noun: Synonym of beach stone-curlew.
- beach towel noun: A towel for use at the beach, typically larger than a normal household towel so that a person can use it to lie on the sand.
- beach transect noun: A geographical technique in which the angle of a beach is measured with a ranging pole and a clinometer.
- beach umbrella noun: Synonym of parasol (“a small light umbrella used as protection from the sun”).
- beach volleyball noun: An outdoor variant of volleyball played on sand.
- beach volleyball player noun: One who plays beach volleyball.
- beach wagon noun: A light open wagon with two or more seats, designed to transport people on sand.
- Beacham proper noun: A surname, variant of Beauchamp
- beachball noun, verb: Alternative form of beach ball.
- beachberry noun: A tropical flowering plant, Scaevola plumieri.
- beachbound adjective: Heading towards a beach.
- beachboy noun: A male who is a lifeguard or other worker at a beach.
- beachbreak noun: Alternative form of beach break.
- beachcam noun: A camera set up to record images of a beach.
- beachcast adjective: Cast up onto a beach.
- beachcomb noun, verb: To go beachcombing.
- beachcombed adjective, verb: Obtained by beachcombing
- beachcomber noun /ˈbit͡ʃˌkoʊmɚ/: A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
- beachcombing noun, verb: The lifestyle and habits of a beachcomber.
- beached adjective, verb /biːt͡ʃt/: Having a beach.
- beached whale noun: A very obese person.
- beachface noun: The planar, relatively steep section of the beach profile that is subject to swash processes.
- beachflea noun: Alternative form of beach flea.
- beachfront adjective, noun /ˈbit͡ʃˌfɹʌnt/: Of property (real estate): located on a beach.
- beachful noun: Enough to fill a beach.
- beachgirl noun: An attractive girl who spends a lot of time at the beach.
- beachgoer noun: Someone who goes to the beach.
- beachgoing adjective, noun: The activity of going to the beach for recreation.
- beachgrass noun /ˈbit͡ʃˌɡɹæs/: Any grass of the genus Ammophila.
- beachhead noun /ˈbiːt͡ʃhɛd/: An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops...
- beachhopper noun: Alternative form of beach hopper.
- beachhouse noun: A house on the beach.
- beachie noun: A beach break.
- beachiness noun: The state or quality of being beachy.
- beaching noun, verb /ˈbiːt͡ʃɪŋ/: An event in which a marine animal beaches itself.
- beachkeeper noun: One whose job is to control access to and maintain a beach.
- beachless adjective: Without a beach or beaches.
- beachlessness noun: Absence of beaches.
- beachlet noun: A little beach.
- Beachley proper noun: A village on a peninsula in the Severn Estuary in Tidenham parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST5591).
- beachlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a beach.
- beachline noun: The line between a beach and the water; the shoreline.
- beachmaster noun: In pinnipeds, the dominant male of a territory with whom the females exclusively mate.
- beachrock noun: A type of sedimentary rock found at a seashore
- beachroller noun: A roller used to remove weeds from a shoreline
- beachrolling noun: The use of a beachroller
- beachsalmon noun: A fish (Leptobrama muelleri) native to the coasts of southern New Guinea, Queensland, and Western Australia.
- beachscape noun: A beach landscape.
- beachside adjective, noun /ˈbit͡ʃˌsaɪd/: Bordering a beach
- Beachum proper noun: A surname.
- beachward adjective, adverb: Towards a beach.
- beachwards adjective, adverb: Alternative form of beachward.
- beachwear noun: Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.
- Beachwood proper noun: A borough in Ocean County, New Jersey.
- beachworm noun: Synonym of sandworm (“lugworm”).
- beachworn adjective: Worn as a result of exposure to elements encountered on a beach, such as water and wind.
- beachwort noun: A flowering plant of the genus Batis (Batis maritima).
- beachy adjective /ˈbiːt͡ʃi/: Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
- Beacom proper noun: A surname.
- beacon noun, verb /ˈbiːkən/: A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
- beacon of hope noun: Something that offers hope or the possibility of future success.
- beacon school noun: A primary school or secondary school designated as outstanding under a government scheme that ran from 1998 to 2005.
- beaconage noun: A fee paid for the maintenance of a beacon.
- beaconed adjective, verb /ˈbiːkənd/: Containing a beacon
- beaconing noun, verb /ˈbiːkənɪŋ/: A continuous signaling of error conditions on a LAN, or small packets on a wireless LAN (WLAN).
- Beaconite noun: A supporter of English Quaker Isaac Crewdson and his book A Beacon to the Society of Friends, which claimed that too much emphasis was placed by Quakers on...
- beaconless adjective: Without a beacon.
- beaconlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a beacon.
- beaconry noun: The use of beacons.
- Beaconsfield proper noun /ˈbɛkənzˌfiːld/: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref SU9391).
- beaconwise adverb: Like a beacon; in the manner of a beacon.
- BEACOPP noun: Acronym of bleomycin, etoposide, adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, oncovin, procarbazine, prednisone (“a chemotherapy regimen for treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma”).
- bead noun, verb /ˈbiːd/: Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
- bead breaker noun: A tool or device used to separate the bead from a tire rim.
- bead fern noun: sensitive fern
- bead lightning noun: A relatively rare form of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, bright sections, and lasts longer than the usual...
- bead lily noun: Synonym of bride's bonnet (“the plant Clintonia uniflora”).
- bead maze noun: A children's toy consisting of a set of rigid wires connecting parts of a solid base, serving as tracks along which beads can be moved back and forth.
- bead proof noun: A certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities...
- bead seat noun: The position where the tire rests and seals on the inside of the rim.
- bead tracer noun: A small, radioactive plastic sphere used to measure fluid flow and injectivity in wells, specifically to track tracer loss and identify flow paths.
- bead tree noun: Melia azedarach, a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree with poisonous fruit, native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.
- beadbeater noun: A form of small homogenizer
- beadboard noun: Wooden boards with a bead or ridge running their length used for paneling walls or ceilings.
- beadchip noun: A silica bead used to form a microarray when self-assembled in microwells
- beaded adjective, verb /ˈbiːdɪd/: Made from, or decorated with, beads.
- beaded lacewing noun: Any insect of the family Berothidae.
- beaded lizard noun: A venomous lizard found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala, Heloderma horridum.
- beader noun: One who makes decorative beading.
- beadery noun: Decoration with beads.
- beadful adjective, noun: Prayerful.
- beadhook noun: A kind of boathook.
- beadhouse noun: An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
- beadies noun: eyes
- beadily adverb: in an avaricious or penetrating manner.
- beadiness noun: The state or quality of being beady.
- beading noun, verb /ˈbiːdɪŋ/: A decorative, ornamental molding often used to conceal a joint.
- beadle noun /ˈbiːdəl/: A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
- beadledom noun: Beadles collectively, and their characteristics as a class.
- beadlehood noun: beadledom
- beadleism noun: beadledom
- beadlery noun: The office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
- beadleship noun: The office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
- beadless adjective: Not supplied or decorated with beads.
- beadlet noun: A small bead
- beadlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a bead.
- beadmaker noun: A manufacturer of beads.
- beadmaking noun: The manufacture of beads.
- beadman noun: Alternative form of beadsman.
- beadroll noun: A catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.
- beads noun, verb /biːdz/: A beaded necklace.
- beadsman noun /ˈbiːdzmən/: A petitioner; someone who seeks some type of favour from another, usually from a superior.
- beadsnake noun: A small poisonous snake of North America, banded with yellow, red, and black: the eastern coral snake, Micrurus fulvius.
- beadswoman noun: A female beadsman.
- beadwork noun: Decorative work involving beads.
- beadworker noun: a beader
- beadworking noun: The activity of making beadwork.
- beady adjective /ˈbiː.di/: Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
- beady eye noun: A small, bright eye.
- beady-eyed adjective: Having small, bright eyes.
- beag noun: A ring.
- beagador noun: A dog that is a cross between a beagle and a Labrador retriever.
- beagle noun, verb /ˈbiːɡəl/: A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family...
- beaglepuss noun: A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
- beagler noun: One who hunts with a beagle.
- beaglier noun: A dog who is a cross between a beagle and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
- Beahm proper noun: A surname.
- Beaird proper noun: A surname.
- beak noun, verb /biːk/: A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
- beak and feather disease noun: A viral disease that harms the feather follicles and the beak and claw matrices of the infected bird.
- beak-head noun: Alternative form of beakhead.
- beak-iron noun: The taper end of an anvil.
- beak off verb: To complain.
- beak sedge noun: Alternative form of beaksedge.
- beaked adjective, verb /biːkt/: Having a beak.
- beaked off adjective, verb: Angry; annoyed.
- beaked salmon noun: Any of several species of long, thin ray-finned fish in genus Gonorynchus (family Gonorynchidae) that live on sandy bottoms near shorelines.
- beaked whale noun: Any of at least 20 species of whales in the family Ziphiidae, known to dive to great depths, but not well understood generally.
- beaker noun /ˈbiːkə(ɹ)/: A flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.
- beaker folk noun: Alternative name for beaker people.
- beaker people noun: People of a late Neolithic and early Bronze Age culture of northern and western Europe who made distinctive earthenware vessels.
- beakerful noun: The amount that a beaker will hold.
- beakfish noun: Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- beakful noun: As much (food) as a creature's beak will hold or carry.
- beakhead noun: A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.
- beakiness noun: The property of being beaky.
- beakiron noun: Alternative form of beak-iron.
- beakish adjective /ˈbiːkɪʃ/: Resembling a beak.
- beakless adjective: Not having a beak.
- beaklessness noun: Absence of a beak.
- beaklike adjective: Resembling a beak.
- beakment noun: A measure of a quarter of a peck.
- beaksedge noun /ˈbiːk.sɛd͡ʒ/: Any plant of the genus Rhynchospora.
- beaky adjective /ˈbiːki/: Beaked: having a beak.
- beal noun, verb /biːl/: A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.
- bealach noun: A mountain pass.
- Beale proper noun: A surname.
- Bealer proper noun: A surname.
- Bealey proper noun: A surname.
- Beall proper noun: A surname.
- beallach noun: Alternative form of bealach.
- Beals-Hecht syndrome noun: Synonym of congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
- beam noun, verb /ˈbiːm/: Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- beam and scales noun: A balance; a pair of scales for weighing.
- beam compass noun: A device for creating circular curves, which has a central pivot pin, and an outer curb scribing point, connected by a horizontal beam.
- beam-ends noun: The ends of the transverse beams of a ship.
- beam engine noun: A kind of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.
- beam feather noun: Synonym of beam (one of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk)
- beam hole noun: A hole that allows a beam of radioactive particles to pass through a shielding material for experimental purposes.
- beam-on adverb: Coming from a point abeam (neither directly ahead/head-on, nor well before the beam, nor directly astern, nor well abaft the beam/quartering); said of waves...
- beam reach noun, verb: The point of sail where the wind is blowing directly onto the side of the vessel
- beam sea noun: A sea whose waves come from abeam and roll against the ship's side. The waves strike the ship beam-on.
- beam splitter noun: An optical device that splits a beam of light in two by reflecting a portion and transmitting the remainder.
- beam steering noun: Steering of the direction of a beam of radiation
- beam tracing noun: An algorithm to simulate wave propagation, similar to ray tracing but using pyramidal beams instead of rays, having applications in computer graphics and in...
- beam tree noun: A tree (Aria edulis, syns. Sorbus aria, Pyrus aria) related to the apple.
- beam up verb: To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
- beamable adjective: Able to be beamed.
- beamage noun: The loss in weight of an animal carcass as it cools on a beam.
- Beaman proper noun: A surname.
- beambird noun: the spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
- beambreak noun: The equivalent of a tripwire that uses an invisible beam of light, typically infrared.
- beamed adjective, verb: Furnished with beams or timbers.
- beamer noun /ˈbiːmə(ɹ)/: A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.
- beamform noun: The pattern of constructive and destructive interference in a wavefront produced by beamforming
- beamformed adjective: Modified by beamforming
- beamformer noun: The device used to accomplish beamforming
- beamforming noun: A technique by which the phase and amplitude of transmitted signals are modified, by a feedback process, in order to improve transmission speed.
- beamful adjective, noun: Beamy; radiant; luminous.
- beamhole noun: Alternative form of beam hole.
- beamhouse noun: A building where skins are processed between curing and tanning, to soak them, remove the hair, etc.
- beamily adverb /ˈbiːmɪli/: In a beaming manner.
- beaminess noun: The state or quality of being beamy.
- beaming adjective, noun, verb: Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
- beamingly adverb: In a beaming way, or while beaming.
- beamingness noun: The quality or state of smiling brightly.
- Beaminster proper noun /ˈbɛmᵻnstəɹ/: A small town and civil parish with a town council in west Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST4701).
- beamish adjective /ˈbiːmɪʃ/: Radiantly beaming; happy; cheerful.
- beamishly adverb: In a beamish manner.
- beamless adjective: Not having a beam.
- beamlet noun: A small beam or ray.
- beamlike adjective: Having the form of a beam
- beamline noun: The line traveled by a particle beam in an accelerator
Part 30 · Part 32 · English words: B
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under B: 42,566 words, in 142 parts.