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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

benevolently
adverb in a benevolent manner; `she looked on benevolently`

benficiate
verb subject to a reduction process; `benficiate ores`

Benford`s law
noun a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers; `Benford`s law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time`

Bengal
noun a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India

Bengal light
noun a steady bright blue light; formerly used as a signal but now a firework

Bengal rose
Rosa chinensis noun shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses

Bengal tiger
noun southern short-haired tiger

Bengali
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people; `Bengali hills`

Benghazi
noun port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sidra; formerly a joint capital of Libya with Tripoli

benight
verb envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; `The benighted peoples of this area`

benight
bedim verb make difficult to perceive by sight; `The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake`

benighted
dark adjective lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; `this benighted country`; `benighted ages of barbarism and superstition`; `the dark ages`; `a dark age in the history of education`

benign
adjective kindness of disposition or manner; `the benign ruler of millions`; `benign intentions`

benign prostatic hyperplasia
BPH noun enlarged prostate; appears to be part of the natural aging process

benign tumor
benign tumour noun a tumor that is not cancerous

benignant
gracious adjective characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects; `our benignant king`

benignity
benignancy noun the quality of being kind and gentle

benignly
benignantly adverb in a benign manner; `this drug is benignly soporific`

Benin
Republic of Benin noun a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control

Benin franc
noun the basic unit of money in Benin

Beninese
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people; `Benin bronzes`

benison
noun a spoken blessing

Benjamin
noun (Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel

Benjamin Franklin Bridge
noun a suspension bridge across the Delaware River

Benjamin Harrison
President Harrison 2 President Benjamin Harrison noun 23rd President of the United States (1833-1901)

Benjamin Peirce
noun United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker
noun United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939)

bennet
noun North American white-flowered avens

Bennett
Floyd Bennett noun United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928)

Bennettitaceae
family Bennettitaceae noun a family of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous

Bennettitales
order Bennettitales noun fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous

Bennettitis
genus Bennettitis noun type of the Bennettitales

Bennington
noun a town in southwestern Vermont

bent
bent on(p) adjective fixed in your purpose; `bent on going to the theater`; `dead set against intervening`; `out to win every event`

bent hang
noun a hang performed with the elbows bent

benthic
benthal adjective of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water

benthos
benthic division noun a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones

Benton
Thomas Hart Benton noun United States legislator who opposed the use of paper currency (1782-1858)

bentonite
noun an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash

bentonitic
adjective of or relating to or containing bentonite

bentwood
noun wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture; `bentwood chairs`

Benzedrine
bennie noun a form of amphetamine

benzene
benzine noun a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly inflammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds

benzene formula
benzene ring noun a closed chain of 6 carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached

benzenoid
adjective similar to benzene in structure or linkage

benzoate
noun any salt or ester of benzoic acid

benzoate of soda
sodium benzoate noun a white crystalline salt used as a food preservative and antiseptic

benzocaine
ethyl aminobenzoate noun a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic

benzodiazepine
noun any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency

benzofuran
coumarone noun a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins

benzoic
adjective containing or derived from benzoic acid or benzoin

benzoic acid
noun a white crystalline solid occurring in many resins

benzoin
gum benzoin noun gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

benzoyl group
benzoyl radical noun the univalent radical derived from benzoic acid

benzoyl peroxide
noun a white crystalline peroxide used in bleaching (flour or oils or fats) and as a catalyst for free radical reactions

benzyl
benzyl group noun the univalent radical derived from toluene

benzylic
adjective relating to benzyl

Beowulf
noun the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon

beplaster
verb cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on; `The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters`; `She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco`

bequeath
will verb leave or give by will after one`s death; `My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry`; `My grandfather left me his entire estate`

bequest
legacy noun (law) a gift of personal property by will

berating
blowing up noun a severe rebuke; `he deserved the berating that the coach gave him`

Berber
Arab-Berber noun an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa

Berberidaceae
family Berberidaceae noun shrubs or herbs

Berberis
genus Berberis noun large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds

Bercy
Bercy butter noun butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsley

bereave
verb deprive through death

bereaved
bereft adjective sorrowful through loss or deprivation; `bereft of hope`

bereft
lovelorn adjective unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

beret
noun a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth

Berg
Alban Berg noun Austrian composer in Schoenberg`s twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)

bergamot
bergamot orange noun small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy

bergamot mint
Mentha citrata noun mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange

Bergen
noun a port city in southwestern Norway

bergenia
noun any plant of the genus Bergenia; valued as an evergreen ground cover and for the spring blossoms

Bergson
Henri Bergson noun French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)

Beria
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria noun Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin`s death (1899-1953)

beriberi
noun avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1)

Bering
Vitus Bering noun Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)

Bering Sea
noun part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait

Bering Strait
noun a strait connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean

Bering Time
Bering Standard Time noun standard time in the 11th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 165th meridian west; used in the Midway Islands

Berith
Berit noun the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life

berk
noun a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of

Berkeley
Bishop Berkeley noun Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)

berkelium
Bk noun a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium

Berkshire
noun a county in southern England

Berkshires
Berkshire Hills noun a low mountain range in western Massachusetts; a resort area

Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage noun Dutch architect and town planner (1856-1934)

berlin
noun a limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats

Berlin airlift
noun airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

Berlin doughnut
bismark noun a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam

Berliner
noun an inhabitant of Berlin

Berlioz
Hector Berlioz noun French composer of romantic works (1803-1869)

berm
noun a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope

Bermuda
Bermudas noun a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort

Bermuda buttercup
English-weed noun South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers

Bermuda cedar
Juniperus bermudiana noun ornamental densely pyramidal juniper of Bermuda; fairly large for a juniper

Bermuda chub
rudderfish 2 Kyphosus sectatrix noun food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships

Bermuda dollar
noun the basic unit of money in Bermuda