English words: Bessarabian to betalk

300 English words, part 50 of 142 of the words starting with B, A to Z. 21 have a page of their own.

English words Bessarabian to betalk

Bessarabian adjective, noun: Of Bessarabia.
Bessbrook proper noun: A village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
bessbug noun: Alternative form of Bess bug.
Besse proper noun: A surname from French.
Bessel proper noun: A surname.
Bessel beam noun: A field of electromagnetic, acoustic or gravitational radiation whose amplitude is described by a Bessel function of the first kind.
Bessel ellipsoid noun: An estimate for the shape and size of the Earth as part of a frame of reference for geodesy and astronomy.
Bessel function noun: Any of a class of functions that are solutions to a particular form of differential equation (a Bessel equation) and are typically used to describe waves in...
Besselian adjective: Relating to Friedrich Bessel
Besselian element noun: Any of a set of values used to calculate and predict the local circumstances of occultations for an observer on Earth, mostly often for solar eclipses.
Bessemer noun /ˈbɛsəmə/: Ellipsis of Bessemer steel.
Bessemer converter noun: A large industrial retort vessel used to make steel by the Bessemer process.
Bessemer iron noun: pig iron suitable for making Bessemer steel
Bessemer process noun: The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation.
Bessemer steel noun: Steel made using the Bessemer process
bessemerisation noun: Alternative form of bessemerization.
bessemerization noun: The conversion of iron to steel by the Bessemer process
bessemerize verb: To convert iron to steel by the Bessemer process.
Besser proper noun: A surname.
Besser block noun: A large double-cavity concrete brick.
Besser brick noun: A Besser block.
Besserwisser noun: A know-it-all, wiseguy, wiseacre, smart aleck.
Bessette proper noun: A surname from French.
Bessey proper noun: A surname.
Besseyan adjective: Of or relating to Charles Edwin Bessey (1845–1915), American botanist, or the taxonomic system he introduced.
Bessi noun: An ancient independent Thracian tribe who lived in a territory ranging from Moesia to Mount Rhodope in Northern Thrace.
Bessie proper noun /ˈbɛsi/: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth, also used as a formal female given name.
Bessler proper noun: A surname.
Besson proper noun: A surname from French.
Bessy proper noun: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth; today more often spelled Bessie.
best adjective, adverb, noun, verb /bɛst/: superlative form of good: most good.
best and fairest noun: an award given to a player deemed to have been the best performer in a game or over a season
best as one can adverb: Alternative form of as best one can.
best ball noun: The fourball golf format, especially a variation involving teams of three or four players.
best before noun, phrase: Used on product labeling to indicate the date up to which a perishable item is at its best quality.
best before date noun: Alternative form of best before date.
best bet noun: The best proposal or plan.
best bib and tucker noun: Attractive clothing.
best bitter noun: A bitter ale of a strength between 4.2% and 4.7% ABV.
best bower noun: An extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence over all others as the highest card.
best boy noun /ˈbɛstˌbɔɪ/: The first assistant to either the key grip (in charge of camera placement and movement) or the gaffer (in charge of lighting and electrics).
best-by date noun: Synonym of best before date.
best-case adjective: In the most favorable of all possible circumstances.
best case scenario adverb, noun: Alternative spelling of best-case scenario.
best efforts noun: An assurance of good-faith effort to achieve best results under prevailing circumstances.
best end noun: Synonym of rack of lamb.
best evidence rule noun: A legal principle that holds an original copy of a document to be superior evidence.
best form lens noun: A lens that is designed to minimize spherical aberration.
best friend noun: An especially close and trusted friend.
best friend forever noun: A person who is an especially close and trusted friend over a long period of time.
best gal noun: Alternative form of best girl (girlfriend sense only)
best girl noun: One's girlfriend.
best in class adjective: The best of something's kind.
best-kept secret noun: Something interesting or important but not well-known.
best laid plans noun: A proverbial expression used to signify the futility of making detailed plans when the ability to fully or even partially execute them is uncertain.
best maid noun: A bridesmaid.
best man noun: The primary attendant to the groom in a wedding ceremony.
best of noun, phrase: The attainment of a majority of wins in (an odd-numbered series of games).
best of both worlds noun: A combination of two seemingly contradictory benefits.
best of breed noun: Any product thought to be the best of its type.
best of British noun: Good luck.
best of British luck noun: Synonym of best of British (“good luck”).
best of luck interjection: Used to express hopes that someone does well in an endeavor.
best of the best phrase: Synonym of crème de la crème.
best of the bunch noun: The best or most preferred person or item within a group.
best on ground noun: A player chosen as having made the most outstanding achievement during a match, and awarded a small prize.
best one can adverb: Alternative form of as best one can.
best-paid adjective: That earns the highest wage than all others.
best parlour noun: A parlour or drawing room that is furnished especially well and often reserved for entertaining guests.
best part of determiner: most of, majority of
best pleased phrase: displeased, upset, disgruntled
best practice noun: A well-defined procedure that is known to produce near-optimum results.
best regards noun: Used as a polite closing of a letter
best seller noun: Alternative form of bestseller.
best-selling adjective: Highly popular with consumers purchasing goods within a specific class.
best thing since sliced bread noun: Alternative form of greatest thing since sliced bread.
best thing since sliced pan noun: Alternative form of greatest thing since sliced bread.
best wishes interjection: Used as a polite way to end a letter or see someone off.
bestagger verb: To stagger about; cause (one) to stagger.
bestagon noun: A hexagon, regarded as the ultimate or superior geometric shape.
bestain verb: To mark with stains; discolour; spot.
bestained adjective, verb: Stained all over, completely stained or discoloured.
bestand verb: To stand by or near; stand around.
bestar verb: To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to adorn or decorate with, or as with, stars.
bestatin noun: the protease inhibitor ubenimex
bestatued adjective: Having a statue or statues.
bestay verb: To secure or steady; cause to come to a fixed position or state; bring to a halt or stop.
Beste proper noun: A surname.
bestead adjective, verb: To help, assist.
besteading noun, verb: Help; assistance; aid; avail.
besteal verb: To steal, move stealthily.
bested verb /bɪˈstɛd/: Alternative form of bestead.
besteer verb: To guide; pilot; direct.
bestem verb: To stem completely; stem all about; hinder.
bestep verb: To step on; step over, tread upon.
bester noun: A fraudulent bookmaker.
bestest adjective, adverb: Best; the best of the best.
bestestest adjective: Synonym of best.
bestetsoned adjective: Alternative form of be-Stetsoned.
bestial adjective, noun /ˈbɛs.ti.əl/: Beast-like.
bestialise verb: Alternative form of bestialize.
bestialism noun: bestiality (sexual intercourse between human and animal)
bestialist noun: A person who has sexual relations with non-human animals.
bestiality noun /ˈbɛstʃəlˌlɪtɪ/: Sexual activity between a human and another animal species.
bestialization noun: The state or process of turning bestial; depravation, corruption, degradation, dehumanization.
bestialize verb: To make like a beast.
bestially adverb: In a bestial manner.
bestialness noun: The quality of being bestial.
bestials noun: Synonym of bestial (“cattle”).
bestiarian noun /ˌbiːs.tiˈɛə.ɹi.ən/: A person who upholds the rights of animals; especially an antivivisectionist.
bestiarianism noun: Antivivisectionism.
bestiary noun /ˈbiːstiˌɛɹi/: A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.
bestick verb: To stick on the surface of; cover over.
bestickered adjective: Covered with stickers.
bestie noun /ˈbɛsti/: A best friend.
bestill verb: To make quiet or still; calm; pacify.
bestir verb /bɪˈstɜː/: To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor.
bestloved adjective: Alternative form of best loved.
bestness noun: The quality or state of being the best.
bestock verb: to stock; furnish
bestockinged adjective: Wearing stockings or a stocking; stockinged.
bestorm verb: To overtake with a storm; assail with storms.
bestow noun, verb /bɪˈstəʊ/: To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.
bestowable adjective: Capable of being bestowed.
bestowage noun: Stowage.
bestowal noun /bɪˈstəʊ.əl/: The act of bestowing.
bestower noun: One who bestows.
bestowment noun: The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour; bestowal
bestraddle verb: To bestride.
bestrange verb: To make strange, foreign, or alien; alienate; estrange.
bestranged adjective, verb: Made strange, foreign, or alien; estranged.
bestrangement noun: The state, quality, or condition of being bestranged; estrangement; alienation.
bestraught adjective: Distracted; mad, distraught.
bestraughted adjective: Distracted.
bestreak verb: To mark or cover with streaks.
bestream verb: To stream around, about, or all over; flood.
bestretched adjective: Stretched out or across; extended.
bestrew verb: To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there.
bestrewal noun: The act of bestrewing or scattering.
bestrewment noun: Synonym of bestrewal
bestride verb /bɪˈstɹaɪd/: To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.
bestrip verb: To strip away, remove; strip, undress; deprive.
bestriped adjective: Having stripes; stripy.
bestrophin noun: Any of a family of proteins that channel chloride ions across membranes
bestrophinopathy noun: A retinal dystrophy associated with a bestrophin mutation
bestrought adjective: Alternative spelling of bestraught.
bestrow verb: Alternative form of bestrew.
bestrut verb: To distend.
bests interjection, noun, verb /bɛsts/: A polite, formulaic end to a letter or email.
bestseller noun: A book or other product that has sold in large numbers.
bestsellerdom noun: The quality of having the status of bestseller.
bestselling adjective: Alternative spelling of best-selling.
bestshoring noun: The process of identifying the best location to which to move manufacturing or other industrial facilities.
bestubbled adjective: With facial stubble; stubbly.
bestuccoed adjective: Covered in stucco.
bestud verb: To set with or as with studs; adorn with bosses.
bestung adjective: Having been stung.
Bestuzhev proper noun: A surname from Russian.
Bestuzhev course noun: A course of higher education for women in imperial Russia.
Bestwick proper noun: A surname.
Bestwood proper noun: An outer suburb of the city of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5645).
besty noun: Uncommon spelling of bestie.
besuit verb: To be fitting or appropriate; befit; suit
besuited adjective, verb: Dressed in or wearing a suit.
besully verb: To make sullied or soiled; defile.
besulpamide noun: A diuretic drug.
besung adjective, verb: Sung of; sung about; glorified or praised in song.
beswaddle verb: To wrap or envelop in swaddling-clothes.
beswarm verb: To swarm over; to envelop in a swarm.
beswathe verb /bɪˈsweɪð/: to cover (something) (both literally and figuratively).
beswear verb: To swear by; swear about or regarding; swear at or to; promise
besweat adjective: Covered with sweat.
besweatered adjective: Wearing a sweater.
besweeten verb /bɪˈswiːtn̩/: Sublimely sweeten.
Beswick proper noun: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA012481).
beswinge verb: To scourge; beat.
beswink verb: to labour, toil; belabour
besyl noun: Contraction of benzenesulphonyl.
besylate noun /ˈbɛsɪleɪt/: A salt or ester of benzenesulfonic acid.
besylic adjective /bɛsˈɪlɪk/: Denoting the aromatic sulfonic acid of the chemical formula C₆H₆O₃S; benzenesulfonic.
bet interjection, noun, preposition, verb /bɛt/: A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly...
bet a dime to a dollar verb: Alternative form of bet a dollar to a dime.
bet a dollar to a dime verb: Synonym of bet a dollar to a doughnut.
bet a dollar to a donut verb: Alternative form of bet a dollar to a doughnut.
bet a dollar to a doughnut verb: To declare with confidence.
bet din noun: Alternative form of beth din.
bet dollars to donuts verb: Alternative form of bet a dollar to a doughnut.
bet dollars to doughnuts verb: Alternative form of bet a dollar to a doughnut.
bet exchange noun: A website that acts as a broker between parties that want to place bets with each other, working on similar principles to a stock market.
bet on verb: To wager that (something) occurs.
bet on the jockey, not the horse proverb: Alternative form of bet the jockey, not the horse.
bet one's arse verb: Alternative form of bet one's ass.
bet one's ass verb: To bet everything; to have total reliance or confidence in something.
bet one's boots verb: To be absolutely sure of something; to be certain enough to wager an essential possession.
bet one's bottom dollar verb: To be absolutely sure of something; to be certain enough of something to wager everything.
bet one's life interjection, verb: Synonym of bet one's boots.
bet out verb: To be the first in a round to put money in the pot.
bet round verb: To lay bets of equal value against nearly all the horses in a race, so as to stand no great risk of losing.
bet the farm verb: To be absolutely certain, to have no doubts.
bet the house verb: Synonym of bet the farm.
bet the jockey, not the horse proverb: One should invest based on the management team behind a venture, rather than on the product or service being sold.
bet the ranch verb: Synonym of bet the farm.
bet up verb: To make one's bet
beta adjective, noun, verb /ˈbiːtə/: The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental...
beta-amino acid noun: Any amino acid that has the amino and carboxylic functional groups attached to adjacent carbon atoms; beta-alanine is the only one that occurs in nature,...
beta-antithrombin noun: Alternative form of β-antithrombin.
beta barrel noun: A large beta sheet that twists and coils to form a closed structure in which the first strand is hydrogen-bonded to the last.
beta-beam noun: A beam of beta particles, electron neutrinos or of radioactive ions
beta blockade noun: The action of a beta blocker.
beta blocker noun /ˈbeɪ.tə ˈblɔk.ɚ/: A blocking agent, one of a class of drugs used to treat hypertension and control the rate at which the heart beats.
beta carbon nitride noun: a theoretical binary compound of carbon and nitrogen, C₃N₄, that is thought would have properties similar to diamond or boron nitride
beta carotene noun /biː.təˈkæɹ.ə.tiːn/: A plant pigment that is an isomer of carotene, found in dark green and dark yellow vegetables and fruits and important in the diet as a precursor of vitamin A.
beta cell noun: A basophil of the adenohypophysis.
beta chain noun: One of the two types of protein chains that constitute the hemoglobin molecule.
beta city noun: A city that links a moderate economic region into the world economy.
beta-compactification noun: Stone-Čech compactification
beta decay noun: A nuclear reaction in which a beta particle (electron or positron) is emitted.
beta distribution noun: Any of a family of continuous probability distributions defined on the interval [0, 1] whose shape is parametrised by two positive parameters, denoted α and...
beta emitter noun: A radioactive substance emitting beta particles.
beta error noun: type II error
beta female noun: A female that is second in a social or group hierarchy; subordinate to an alpha female but superior to an omega female.
beta fish noun: Betta.
beta function noun: A mathematical function that is also called the Euler integral of the first kind; it is a symmetric special function.
beta globin noun: One of the two globin subunits in the most common form of haemoglobin in humans.
beta globulin noun: Any of a particular group of globular proteins
beta-glucan noun: A group of polysaccharides naturally occurring in the cell walls of cereals, bacteria, and fungi.
beta-glucosidase noun: A glucosidase enzyme, located on the brush border of the small intestine, that acts upon β1->4 bonds linking two glucose or glucose-substituted molecules.
beta-hydroxyisovalerylshikonin noun: A derivative of shikonin found in the roots of Lithospermum erythrorhizon.
beta iron noun: The paramagnetic form of alpha iron (ferrite).
Beta Israelite noun: Someone belonging to Beta Israel.
beta-lactam noun: A lactam having a four-membered ring structure; a structural element of many antibiotics such as penicillin.
beta-lactamase noun: An enzyme produced by certain bacteria, responsible for their resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillin.
beta-lactamic adjective: Of or pertaining to beta-lactams.
beta-lipoprotein noun: Synonym of low-density lipoprotein.
beta male noun: A male second in a social or group hierarchy and submissive to the alpha male.
beta-methylacrylic acid noun: Synonym of crotonic acid.
beta movement noun: The optical illusion whereby a series of static images shown in rapid succession on a screen appear to show a moving image.
beta-naphthol noun: A fluorescent crystalline solid with the chemical formula C₁₀H₇OH, used as an intermediate in the production of dyes and other compounds.
beta-oxidation noun: The catabolic process by which fatty acid molecules are broken down in the cytosol in prokaryotes and in the mitochondria in eukaryotes to generate...
beta particle noun: An energetic electron or positron produced as the result of a nuclear reaction or nuclear decay.
beta-peptide noun: Any artificial peptide made from beta-amino acids; used in some antibiotics in an attempt to counter resistance.
beta-pinene noun: Alternative form of β-pinene
beta-pleated sheet noun: beta sheet
beta quartz noun: A stable form of quartz above 573° C.
beta radiation noun: The radiation of beta particles as a result of radioactive decay.
beta ray noun: A stream of beta particles (fast-moving electrons propagating through a gas or vacuum), such as emitted by a radioactive substance.
beta-read verb: To proofread a text, especially fan fiction.
beta reader noun: A person who informally proofreads another person's text before the latter makes it available to the general public.
beta reduce verb: To syntactically replace a function call by the result of calling that function.
beta reduction noun /ˈbeɪ.tə.ɹɪˌdʌk.ʃən/: The act of beta reducing, an instance of replacing a function call by the result of calling a function.
beta sheet noun: A secondary structure in proteins consisting of multiple strands connected laterally.
beta-sitosterol noun: A phytosterol found in many plant sources; it is used to reduce blood cholesterol
beta strand noun: A section of a polypeptide chain consisting of amino acids and which comprises a protein's secondary structure.
beta test noun, verb: A process of beta testing.
beta tester noun: Someone who performs beta testing.
beta testing noun, verb: A form of software testing, after the alpha testing stage, involving a limited audience of external users.
beta-thalassemia noun: A form of thalassemia caused by a reduced or absent synthesis of the beta chains of hemoglobin.
beta-thromboglobulin noun: Alternative form of betathromboglobulin.
beta version noun: An early version of a program or application that contains most of the major features, but is not yet complete. Sometimes these versions are released only...
beta wave noun: An electrical signal produced by the brain while the subject mentally active.
betabaculovirus noun: Any member of the genus Betabaculovirus of viruses in the family Baculoviridae.
betabeam noun: Alternative spelling of beta-beam.
betablockade noun: Alternative form of beta blockade.
betablocker noun: Alternative form of beta blocker.
betacarotene noun: The international nonproprietary name of beta-carotene when used as a drug.
betacellulin noun: A protein belonging to the EGF family of growth factors, synthesized primarily as a transmembrane precursor.
betacetylmethadol noun: A synthetic opioid, a diastereoisomer of alphacetylmethadol.
betacism noun /ˈbiːtəˌsɪzəm/: A sound change in which [b] (the voiced bilabial plosive) shifts to [v] (the voiced labiodental fricative).
betacize verb: To cause to undergo betacism.
betacoronaviral adjective: Relating to betacoronaviruses.
betacoronavirus noun: Any member of the genus Betacoronavirus.
betacyanic adjective: Relating to a betacyanin
betacyanin noun: Any of the betalain pigments which appear reddish to violet, found in beets, chard, and Amaranthus tricolor
betacyaninuria noun: The presence of betacyanin in the urine; beeturia.
betadine noun: Povidone-iodine, used as a topical antiseptic.
betaendornavirus noun: Any endornavirus of the genus Betaendornavirus
betaferon noun: An interferon used to treat multiple sclerosis
betafite noun: A radioactive mineral in the pyrochlore group, having chemical formula (Ca,U)₂(Ti,Nb,Ta)₂O₆(OH).
betafunction noun: Alternative form of beta function.
betag verb: To furnish with a tag; deck with tags.
betagh noun: A tenant that provides food for a household. On Anglo-Norman manors, these workers were servile to their lords.
betaglobin noun: Alternative form of beta globin.
betaglucosidase noun: Alternative form of beta-glucosidase.
betaglycan noun: A particular proteoglycan
betaglycerophosphate noun: Any glycerophosphate in which the phosphate is attached to the 2-position of glycerol
betaherpesvirus noun: Any member of the subfamily Betaherpesvirinae of DNA viruses.
betahistine noun: An antivertigo drug.
betahypovirus noun: Any hypovirus of the genus Betahypovirus
betail verb: To furnish with a tail.
betain noun: Alternative form of betaine.
betaine noun: A sweet, crystalline compound (not an alkaloid), trimethylammoniumacetate, found in sugar beet and similar plants, sometimes used to treat muscular...
betaish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a beta version.
betake verb /bɪˈteɪk/: To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
betalactam noun: Alternative form of beta-lactam.
betalactamase noun: Alternative form of beta-lactamase.
betalain noun /ˈbiːtəleɪn/: A class of red and yellow indole-derived water-soluble pigments found in beets and other plants of the Caryophyllales and used commercially as coloring agents.
betalamic acid noun: The betalain dicarboxylic acid (S-(E))-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-4-(oxoethylidene)-2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid
betalight noun: A sealed capsule, internally coated with a phosphor and filled with a tritium whose beta decay causes the phosphor to glow.
betalipoprotein noun: Alternative spelling of beta-lipoprotein.
betalk verb: To talk about; discuss; tell; count; give an account (of).

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.