| BEACHGOER | • beachgoer n. Someone who goes to the beach. • beach-goer n. Alternative form of beachgoer. • BEACHGOER n. one who frequents the beach. |
| BEDIGHTED | • bedighted v. Simple past tense and past participle of bedight. • BEDIGHT v. (archaic) to equip, array, furnish. |
| BEHEADING | • beheading v. Present participle of behead. • beheading n. An instance of a person being beheaded. • BEHEADING n. an execution by decapitation. |
| BEHIGHTED | • behighted v. Simple past tense and past participle of behight. • BEHIGHT v. (obsolete) to vow, to promise, also BEHOTE. |
| BENEDIGHT | • benedight adj. (Obsolete, poetic) Blessed; benedict. • BENEDIGHT adj. blessed. |
| BENIGHTED | • benighted adj. (Obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night… • benighted adj. (Obsolete) Plunged into darkness. • benighted adj. (Figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous. |
| BENIGHTEN | • benighten v. (Obsolete, transitive) To benight. • BENIGHTEN v. to overtake with night, also BENIGHT. |
| BENIGHTER | • benighter n. One who benights or keeps others in darkness. • BENIGHTER n. one who benights. |
| BERGMEHLS | • BERGMEHL n. (German) a powdery deposit of diatom frustules, aka kieselguhr. |
| BERTHAGES | • berthages n. Plural of berthage. • BERTHAGE n. a place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor. |
| BIGHEADED | • bigheaded adj. Alternative spelling of big-headed. • big-headed adj. Arrogant, having an exaggerated perception of one’s positive qualities. • big-headed adj. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, headed. |
| BREECHING | • breeching n. (Historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time. • breeching n. A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney. • breeching n. (Nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon. |
| EYEBRIGHT | • eyebright n. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections. • EYEBRIGHT n. a small annual plant, formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye. |
| HABERGEON | • habergeon n. (Historical) A sleeveless or short-sleeved coat of mail armour (a shorter hauberk). • habergeon n. (Historical) The quilted undergarment worn under a hauberk. • habergeon n. (Loosely) A hauberk, any coat of (chain or scale) mail. |
| HAGBUTEER | • HAGBUTEER n. one who uses a hagbut, also HACKBUTEER, HACKBUTTER, HAGBUTTER. |
| HEDGEBILL | • hedgebill n. A hedger’s tool resembling a sickle. • HEDGEBILL n. a bill for dressing hedges, a kind of long-handled hatchet. |
| WEIGHABLE | • weighable adj. Able to be weighed. • WEIGHABLE adj. capable of being weighed. |