4-letter words containing b
- bedu — relating to Beduins
- beeb — The BBC is sometimes called the Beeb.
- beef — Beef is the meat of a cow, bull, or ox.
- beeg — Eye dialect of big.
- beek — Obsolete. the act of basking or warming by a fire.
- been — Been is the past participle of be1.
- beep — A beep is a short, loud sound like that made by a car horn or a telephone answering machine.
- beer — Beer is a bitter alcoholic drink made from grain.
- bees — Also called bee block. Nautical. a piece of hardwood, bolted to the side of a bowsprit, through which to reeve stays.
- beet — Beet is a crop with a thick round root. It is often used to feed animals, especially cows.
- begl — Back End Generator
- bego — to beset, to harass
- behn — Aphra (ˈæfrə). 1640–89, English dramatist and novelist, best known for her play The Rover (1678) and her novel Oroonoko (1688)
- bein — comfortable; well-off
- beja — a member of a group of nomadic, predominantly Muslim peoples of northeastern Sudan.
- bela — a male given name.
- beld — bald; hairless.
- bell — A bell is a device that makes a ringing sound and is used to give a signal or to attract people's attention.
- belo — Carlos Felipe Ximenes, born 1948, East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop: Nobel Peace Prize 1996.
- belt — A belt is a strip of leather or cloth that you fasten round your waist.
- bely — Andrei [uhn-dryey] /ʌnˈdryeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev) 1880–1934, Russian writer.
- bema — the speaker's platform in the assembly in ancient Athens
- bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- bene — a blessing or prayer
- beng — Bachelor of Engineering
- beni — a river in N Bolivia, rising in the E Cordillera of the Andes and flowing north to the Marmoré River. Length: over 1600 km (1000 miles)
- benn — Antony (Neil) Wedgwood, known as Tony Benn. 1925–2014, British Labour politician, a leading figure on the party's left wing. He renounced (1963) the title of Viscount Stansgate
- bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
- benu — the sacred bird of ancient Egypt, corresponding to the phoenix.
- benz — Karl (Friedrich) (karl). 1844–1929, German engineer; designed and built the first car to be driven by an internal-combustion engine (1885)
- beos — (operating system) The operating system originally designed to run on the BeBox microcomputer. BeOS is good at both multitasking and real-time operation. It has a bash command shell, with ports of many GNU programs by Be, Inc. It has a GUI front end (not X). A C++ compiler is supplied with the machine, and there are rumours of other languages being ported in the future. BeOs eventually became used on the x86 and standard PPC. Be, Inc. went bankrupt in 1999, after releasing the last upgrade of BeOS (R5.0.3), and was sold to Palm. Several groups are currently (2003) attempting to create an R6 version of the OS. The most likely to succeed are Yellowtab and OpenBeOS, which is likely to be renamed.
- bere — barley
- berg — Alban (Maria Johannes) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas Wozzeck (1921) and Lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs
- berk — If you call someone a berk, you think they are stupid or irritating.
- berm — a narrow path or ledge at the edge of a slope, road, or canal
- bern — the capital of Switzerland, in the W part, on the Aar River: entered the Swiss confederation in 1353 and became the capital in 1848. Pop: 122 700 (2002 est)
- berr — bus error
- bert — a male given name, form of Albert, Bertram, Herbert, Hubert, etc.
- bess — a diminutive of Elizabeth
- best — Best is the superlative of good.
- beta — the second letter in the Greek alphabet (Β, β), a consonant, transliterated as b
- beth — the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ב) transliterated as b
- betz — Pauline (Pauline Betz Addie) 1919–2011, U.S. tennis player.
- beur — a person born in France of North African descent
- bevy — A bevy of people is a group of people all together in one place.
- bfpo — British Forces Post Office
- bgsu — Biochemistry Graduate Student Union
- bhai — a title or form of address prefixed to the names of distinguished Sikhs
- bhat — the standard monetary unit of Thailand
- bhil — a people inhabiting the hills of west central India.