Select Search ----- All Bartleby.com ----- All Reference ----- Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough ----- All Verse ----- Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. ----- All Nonfiction ----- Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > American Heritage® > Dictionary > Entry Index > Page 27   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.   2000.   Entry Index   Bergsonism to bibliolatry   Bergsonism Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich beriberi berimbau Bering, Vitus Bering Sea Bering Standard Time Bering Strait Bering Time Berkeleianism Berkeley Berkeley, Busby Berkeley, George Berkeley, William berkelium Berkshire Berkshire Hills Berle, Milton berlin Berlin Berlin, Irving Berlin, Isaiah berline Berliner, Emile Berlin wool Berlioz, (Louis) Hector berm Bermejo Bermuda Bermuda bag Bermuda buttercup Bermuda grass Bermuda lily Bermuda onion Bermuda petrel Bermuda rig Bermudas Bermuda shorts Bermuda Triangle Bern Bernadette of Lourdes Bernadotte, Folke Bernard, Claude Bernard of Clairvaux Berne Bernese Alps Bernese mountain dog Bernhardt, Sarah Bernicia Bernina Alps Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernoulli Bernoulli distribution Bernoulli effect Bernoulli's law Bernoulli trial Bernstein, Leonard Berra, Lawrence Peter berried berry Berry Berry, Charles Edward Anderson Berryman, John berseem berserk berserker berth bertha Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marselin Bertillon, Alphonse Bertillon system Berwyn beryl beryllium Berzelius, Jöns Jakob Bes Besançon Besant, Annie Wood beseech beseem beset besetting beshrew beside besides besiege Beskids besmear besmirch besom besom pocket besot besought bespake bespatter bespeak bespectacled bespoke bespoken besprent besprinkle Bessarabia Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessemer Bessemer, Henry Bessemer converter Bessemer process Bessie best Best, Charles Herbert best-ball best boy best-case bestead bestial bestiality bestialize bestiary bestir best man bestow bestrew bestride bestseller bet beta beta-adrenergic beta-adrenergic blocking agent beta-adrenergic receptor beta-agonist beta-blocker beta carotene beta cell beta decay beta-endorphin beta globulin betaine beta-interferon betake beta-lactamase betamethasone beta-naphthol beta-oxidation beta particle beta ray beta-receptor beta rhythm beta structure beta test betatron beta version beta wave betel Betelgeuse betel nut betel palm bête noire beth bethanechol Bethany Bethe, Hans Albrecht bethel Bethel Bethel Park Bethesda bethink Bethlehem bethought Bethsaida Bethune, Mary McLeod betide betimes bêtise Betjeman, John betoken betony betook betray betroth betrothal betrothed Betsiamites betta Bettelheim, Bruno better1 better2 better half betterment better-off bettor between betweenbrain betweentimes betwixt Beulah beurre blanc beurre noir Beuys, Joseph BeV BEV Bevan, Aneurin bevel bevel gear bevel square beverage Beverly Beverly Hills Bevin, Ernest bevy bewail beware bewhiskered bewigged bewilder bewilderment bewitch bewitchment bewray bey beyond bezant bezel Béziers bezique bezoar Bezwada bf BF .bf BFA BG .bg BGen BGH B-girl Bh B/H .bh BHA Bhagalpur Bhagavad-Gita bhakti bhang bhangra Bhatpara Bhavnagar BHC Bhilainagar Bhn Bholan Pass Bhopal B horizon bhp BHT Bhu. Bhubaneswar Bhutan Bhutanese Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali bi Bi bi–1 bi–2 .bi BIA Biafra Biak bialy Bialystok Bianca biannual Biarritz bias bias crime biased bias-ply tire biathlon biaxial bib Bib. bib and tucker bibb bibbed bibber Bibb lettuce bibcock bibelot Bible Bible banger Bible belt Bible paper Bible thumper biblical Biblicist biblio– bibliofilm bibliographer bibliography bibliolatry   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.   CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD   PREVIOUS NEXT     Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com