8-letter words containing b, e
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- beauties — the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
- beautify — If you beautify something, you make it look more beautiful.
- beauvais — a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop: 55 392 (1999)
- beauvoir — Siˈmone de (siˈmɔn də ) ; sēm^ōnˈ də) 1908-86; Fr. existentialist writer
- beavered — Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
- bebopper — A musician or aficionado of bebop music.
- bebother — To bring trouble upon.
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- becarpet — to lay carpet on
- beccaria — Cesare Bonesana (ˈtʃɛzare bɔnɛˈzɑːna), Marchese de. 1738–94, Italian legal theorist and political economist; author of the influential treatise Crimes and Punishments (1764), which attacked corruption, torture, and capital punishment
- bechamel — a basic white sauce made of milk, butter, flour, and, sometimes, cream
- bechance — to happen (to)
- bechuana — a former name for a member of the Bantu people of Botswana
- beckford — William. 1759–1844, English writer and dilettante; author of the oriental romance Vathek (1787)
- beckmann — Ernst Otto (ɛrnst ˈɔːto). 1853–1923, German chemist: devised the Beckmann thermometer, used for measuring small temperature changes in liquids
- becknell — William, c1790–1865, U.S. frontier trader: opened Santa Fe Trail 1822.
- beckoned — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- beclothe — to put clothes on (someone)
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- becoming — A piece of clothing, a colour, or a hairstyle that is becoming makes the person who is wearing it look attractive.
- becoward — to make cowardly, to make into a coward
- becudgel — to arm with a cudgel
- bed bolt — a bolt on a bed for attaching a side rail to the head or foot.
- bed down — If you bed down somewhere, you sleep there for the night, instead of in a bed.
- bed load — the sand, gravel, boulders, or other debris transported by rolling or sliding along the bottom of a stream.
- bed rest — a period of resting in bed
- bed tray — a meal tray with legs or supports at each end to fit across the lap of a person who is sitting up in bed.
- bed-rest — a prolonged rest in bed, as in the treatment of an illness.
- bed-roll — bedding that rolls up for portability and is used especially for sleeping out-of-doors.
- bed-sore — an ulceration of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by poor circulation due to prolonged pressure on body parts, especially bony protuberances, occurring in bedridden or immobile patients; decubitus ulcer.
- bedabble — to make wet or damp in such a way as to make dirty or untidy
- bedaggle — to soil the bottom of (garments) by trailing through dirt
- bedarken — to make dark, to cover in darkness
- bedaubed — Simple past tense and past participle of bedaub.
- bedazzle — to dazzle or confuse, as with brilliance
- bedboard — a piece of wood placed under a mattress to make a bed firmer
- bedbound — Unable to leave one's bed for some reason.
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bedcover — a bedspread
- beddable — sexually attractive
- bedeafen — to deafen
- bedecked — If a place is bedecked with flags or other ornaments, these things have been hung up to decorate it.
- bedeguar — a moss-like growth found on rosebushes, caused by a reaction by the bush to the egg-laying process of the gall wasp or gallfly
- bedesman — beadsman
- bedevils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil.
- bedewing — Present participle of bedew.
- bedframe — the framework of a bed