Index of English words, starting with "bi"

(1) - Bitterness (n.) Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.
(2) - Bitterness (n.) A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
(3) - Bitterness (n.) The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.

(1) - Bitters (n. pl.) A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

(1) - Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.

(1) - Bitumen (n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
(2) - Bitumen (n.) Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.

(1) - Bituminize (v. t.) To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.