English Words: B

31,241 words · Page 129 of 625

beakfulnoun

As much (food) as a creature's beak will hold or carry.

beakheadnoun

A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.

beakinessnoun

The property of being beaky.

beakingverb

present participle and gerund of beak

beakishadj

Resembling a beak.

beaklessadj

Not having a beak.

beaklessnessnoun

Absence of a beak.

beaklikeadj

Resembling a beak.

beakmentnoun

A measure of a quarter of a peck.

beaksnoun

plural of beak

beaksedgenoun

Any plant of the genus Rhynchospora.

beakyadj

Beaked: having a beak.

bealnoun

A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

Beal conjecturename

A conjecture stating that, if Aˣ+Bʸ=Cᶻ, where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor.

bealachnoun

A mountain pass.

Beallname

A surname.

Beals-Hecht syndromenoun

Synonym of congenital contractural arachnodactyly.

Bealvillename

An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.

beamnoun

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

beam enginenoun

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 reachnoun

The point of sail where the wind is blowing directly onto the side of the vessel

beam treenoun

A tree (Aria edulis, syns. Sorbus aria, Pyrus aria) related to the apple.

beam upverb

To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.

beam-endsnoun

The ends of the transverse beams of a ship.

beam-onadv

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 or any object moving relative to the vessel.

beamableadj

Able to be beamed.

beamagenoun

The loss in weight of an animal carcass as it cools on a beam.

beambirdnoun

the spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.

beambreaknoun

The equivalent of a tripwire that uses an invisible beam of light, typically infrared.

beamedadj

Furnished with beams or timbers.

beamernoun

A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.

beamesnoun

plural of beam

beamethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of beam

beamformnoun

The pattern of constructive and destructive interference in a wavefront produced by beamforming

beamformedadj

Modified by beamforming

beamformernoun

The device used to accomplish beamforming

beamformingnoun

A technique by which the phase and amplitude of transmitted signals are modified, by a feedback process, in order to improve transmission speed.

beamfuladj

Beamy; radiant; luminous.

beamilyadv

In a beaming manner.

beaminessnoun

The state or quality of being beamy.

beamingadj

Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.

beaminglyadv

In a beaming way, or while beaming.

Beaminstername

A small town and civil parish with a town council in west Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST4701).

beamishadj

Radiantly beaming; happy; cheerful.

beamishlyadv

In a beamish manner.

beamlessadj

Not having a beam.

beamletnoun

A small beam or ray.

beamletsnoun

plural of beamlet

beamlikeadj

Having the form of a beam

beamlinenoun

The line traveled by a particle beam in an accelerator

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