Index of English words, starting with "be"

(1) - Belligerent (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
(2) - Belligerent (p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.
(3) - Belligerent (p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war.

(1) - Bellow (n.) A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.
(2) - Bellow (v. t.) To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out.
(3) - Bellow (v.) To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.
(4) - Bellow (v.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.
(5) - Bellow (v.) To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

(1) - Bellows (n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.

(1) - Belly (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
(2) - Belly (v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill.
(3) - Belly (n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
(4) - Belly (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.
(5) - Belly (n.) The womb.
(6) - Belly (n.) The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
(7) - Belly (n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.