8-letter words starting with be
- bearwood — cascara (sense 1)
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beasties — Plural form of beastie.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- beat all — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- beat man — district man.
- beat off — to drive back; repel
- beat out — If you beat out sounds on a drum or similar instrument, you make the sounds by hitting the instrument.
- beat-out — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- beatable — Someone who is beatable can be beaten.
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- beathing — Present participle of beath.
- beatific — A beatific expression shows or expresses great happiness and calmness.
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- beatless — without a beat, not beating
- beatniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- beaucoup — a large amount, an abundance
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- beaulieu — a village in S England, in Hampshire: site of Palace House, seat of Lord Montagu and once the gatehouse of the ruined 13th-century abbey; the National Motor Museum is in its grounds. Pop: 809 (2001)
- 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.