Index of English words, starting with "be"

(1) - Be (v. i.) To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
(2) - Be (v. i.) To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
(3) - Be (v. i.) To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.
(4) - Be (v. i.) To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

(1) - Beach (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
(2) - Beach (n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
(3) - Beach (n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

(1) - Beacon (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
(2) - Beacon (v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
(3) - Beacon (n.) That which gives notice of danger.
(4) - Beacon (n.) A high hill near the shore.
(5) - Beacon (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
(6) - Beacon (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

(1) - Bead (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.
(2) - Bead (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.
(3) - Bead (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
(4) - Bead (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
(5) - Bead (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
(6) - Bead (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.
(7) - Bead (n.) A bubble in spirits.
(8) - Bead (n.) Any small globular body
(9) - Bead (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
(10) - Bead (n.) A prayer.

(1) - Beaded (imp. & p. p.) of Bead