| bestial |
like a beast, esp. in brutality or order of intelligence. |
| bestiality |
beastlike or brutish conduct or character. [2 definitions] |
| bestialize |
to turn (a human being) into a beast; bring out the beastly qualities in. |
| bestiary |
a medieval collection of descriptions of or fables about real or mythical animals, in which each animal's nature is used to draw a moral point. |
| bestir |
to stir or rouse (usu. oneself) to action. |
| best-known |
most well-known. |
| best man |
the bridegroom's principal attendant at a wedding. |
| bestow |
to give, as a gift or award (usu. fol. by "on" or "upon"). [2 definitions] |
| bestrew |
to scatter over or cover; strew. [2 definitions] |
| bestride |
to be astride of; straddle. [3 definitions] |
| bestseller |
a book or other product that outsells most others of its kind during a specified period. |
| bet |
to agree to give up (usu. money) to another person if one's prediction of some future result does not occur. [7 definitions] |
| beta |
the name of the second letter of the Greek alphabet. [3 definitions] |
| beta blocker |
any of a class of drugs that inhibit the absorption of adrenalin and the activity of the autonomic nervous system, and are used to control the heartbeat and relieve angina and hypertension. |
| beta-carotene |
a molecule of the carotene family that has a red-orange color and is abundant in plants. |
| betake |
to take (usu. oneself) somewhere. |
| beta particle |
a high-speed positron or electron ejected from a nucleus in radioactive decay or fission. |
| beta ray |
a stream of beta particles, esp. those with a negative charge. |
| betatron |
in physics, an electron accelerator in which the speed of the electrons is increased to high energies, from a few million to a few hundred million electron volts, by the action of a rapidly changing magnetic field. |
| betel |
a climbing East Indian pepper plant. [2 definitions] |
| Betelgeuse |
a red variable star in the constellation Orion, having a magnitude of 0.7. |