Name Report For First Name BRE:

BRE

First name BRE's origin is Other. BRE means "strong". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BRE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bre.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with BRE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with BRE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BRE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BRE AS A WHOLE:

brengwain albreda passebreul brewster albrecht adalbrechta ambreen baibre brea breana breanna breanne breck bree bree-ana breeda breena breezy brenda brendalynn brendolyn brenna breyanna breynne brezziana gabreilla labreshia breac breandan breasal brecken bredbeddle bredon breen brehus bren brendan brenden brendis brendon brendyn brenius brenn brennan brennen brennon brennus brent brentan breslin bressal bret brett bretton brewstere cairbre lambret lambrett lambrecht aubrey brede bred breanainn breuse bredbe tobrecan gebre bairbre ambre bretta breine breindel abrecan brecc breri aubree brettany brette brendt brenten brentley brently brenton

NAMES RHYMING WITH BRE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (re) - Names That Ends with re:

ebiere balere deirdre hannelore aure kore magaere pleasure terpsichore amare nyasore zere alexandre bedivere bellangere brangore saffire elidure moore gaothaire giollamhuire cesare isidore macaire imre gilmore baldassare petre aedre aefre allaire amalure andere andsware asthore audre aurore azzure blaire ceire chere claire clare conchobarre dechtire dedre deidre desire desyre diandre diedre dierdre dore eastre eleonore eostre ettare genevre guenevere guinevere gwenevere hilaire honore idurre izarre kesare laire legarre lenore lore maire mare muire niaire pipere quinevere richere sapphire valere adare aegelmaere aethelmaere aghamore ainmire alistaire alixandre andre archere are atmore attmore aundre avonmore azhaire backstere baldhere balgaire ballinamore barre beceere

NAMES RHYMING WITH BRE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (br) - Names That Begins with br:

bra brachah brad bradach bradaigh bradamate bradan bradana bradbourne bradburn bradd braddock braddon brademagus braden bradene bradey bradford bradig bradleah bradlee bradley bradly bradon bradshaw bradwell brady bradyn braeden braedon braedyn braelyn braemwiella braiana braiden brain brainard brainerd brale braleah bram bramley bramwell bran brand branda brandan branddun brande brandee brandeis brandeles brandelis brandelyn branden brandi brandice brandie brandilyn brandin brando brandon brandubh branduff brandy brandyce brandyn brangaine brangorre branhard branigan brann brannan brannen brannon branor bransan branson brant brantley branton brantson branwen branwyn braoin brarn brasil braweigh brawleigh brawley braxton brayden braydon braylie braylon brayton bri bria brian briana

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRE:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'e':

babatunde babette baecere bailee bainbridge bainbrydge baladie baldlice balie banbrigge bane bankole baptiste barbie bardene barkarne barnabe barrie bartle bartolome basile baste bathilde bawdewyne baylee baylie beale beatie beatrice beattie bede bedegrayne beiste bekele belakane beldane beldene bellance belle beltane bemabe bemadette bembe bemeere bemelle bennie benoyce bentle beore beorhthilde berde berdine berenice bergitte berhane berke berkle bernadette bernadine berne bernelle bernette bernice bernyce beroe berthe bertie bertilde bertrade bessie bethanee bethanie betje bette bettine beverlee bibsbebe billie binge birche birde birdie birdine birkhe birte birtle blade blaine blaise blaize blake blakemore blanche blane blase blayne blayze blaze blisse blithe

English Words Rhyming BRE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BRE AS A WHOLE:

abbreviatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abbreviate

abbreviatenoun (n.) An abridgment.
 adjective (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
 adjective (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
 verb (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
 verb (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

abbreviatedadjective (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Abbreviate

abbreviationnoun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing.
 noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
 noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
 noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

abbreviatornoun (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.
 noun (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

abbreviatoryadjective (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

abbreviaturenoun (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
 noun (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.

abrenunciationnoun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation.

abreptionnoun (n.) A snatching away.

abreuvoirnoun (n.) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.

alhambresqueadjective (a.) Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

ambreatenoun (n.) A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

ambreicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

ambreinnoun (n.) A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

abreactionnoun (n.) See Catharsis, below.

barbreadjective (a.) Barbarian.

barleybreaknoun (n.) An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

beebreadnoun (n.) A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

bluebreastnoun (n.) A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

breachnoun (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
 noun (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
 noun (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
 noun (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
 noun (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
 noun (n.) A bruise; a wound.
 noun (n.) A hernia; a rupture.
 noun (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
 verb (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
 verb (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

breachingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breach

breachyadjective (a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

breadnoun (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
 noun (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
 adjective (a.) To spread.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

breadbasketnoun (n.) The stomach.

breadedadjective (a.) Braided

breadenadjective (a.) Made of bread.

breadfruitnoun (n.) The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.
 noun (n.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.

breadlessadjective (a.) Without bread; destitute of food.

breadrootnoun (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

breadstuffnoun (n.) Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.

breadthadjective (a.) Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

breadthlessadjective (a.) Without breadth.

breadthwinnernoun (n.) The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.

breakingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Break

breaknoun (n.) See Commutator.
 verb (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
 verb (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.
 verb (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
 verb (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
 verb (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
 verb (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
 verb (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.
 verb (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
 verb (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.
 verb (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.
 verb (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
 verb (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
 verb (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
 verb (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
 verb (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm.
 verb (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.
 verb (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
 verb (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.
 verb (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
 verb (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.
 verb (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.
 verb (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
 verb (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption.
 verb (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
 verb (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.
 verb (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
 verb (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.
 verb (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
 verb (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
 verb (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
 verb (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.

breakableadjective (a.) Capable of being broken.

breakagenoun (n.) The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
 noun (n.) An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.

breakdownnoun (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
 noun (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
 noun (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.

breakernoun (n.) One who, or that which, breaks.
 noun (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
 noun (n.) A small water cask.
 noun (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.

breakfastnoun (n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
 noun (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general.
 verb (v. i.) To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with breakfast.

breakfastingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breakfast

breakmannoun (n.) See Brakeman.

breaknecknoun (n.) A fall that breaks the neck.
 noun (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
 adjective (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.

breakwaternoun (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

breamnoun (n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
 noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
 noun (n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.
 verb (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

breamingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bream

breastnoun (n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
 noun (n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
 noun (n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
 noun (n.) The face of a coal working.
 noun (n.) The front of a furnace.
 noun (n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
 noun (n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
 noun (n.) A torus.
 verb (v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.

breastingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breast
 noun (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.

breastbandnoun (n.) A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (re) - English Words That Ends with re:


abaturenoun (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

acclimaturenoun (n.) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.

acrenoun (n.) Any field of arable or pasture land.
 noun (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

acrospirenoun (n.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
 verb (v. i.) To put forth the first sprout.

acrosporenoun (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

actinomerenoun (n.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

acturenoun (n.) Action.

acupressurenoun (n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.

acupuncturenoun (n.) Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.
 noun (n.) The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.
 verb (v. t.) To treat with acupuncture.

adipocerenoun (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

adjudicaturenoun (n.) Adjudication.

admixturenoun (n.) The act of mixing; mixture.
 noun (n.) The compound formed by mixing different substances together.
 noun (n.) That which is mixed with anything.

adventurenoun (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
 noun (n.) Risk; danger; peril.
 noun (n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
 noun (n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
 noun (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
 noun (n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
 noun (n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
 verb (v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.

aerospherenoun (n.) The atmosphere.

affixturenoun (n.) The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.

agriculturenoun (n.) The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

aigreadjective (a.) Sour.

aigremorenoun (n.) Charcoal prepared for making powder.

alamirenoun (n.) The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

albacorenoun (n.) See Albicore.

albicorenoun (n.) A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny.

alcoholaturenoun (n.) An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants.

allurenoun (n.) Allurement.
 noun (n.) Gait; bearing.
 verb (v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.

alurenoun (n.) A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds.

amperenoun (n.) Alt. of Ampere
 noun (n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere.

amphitheatrenoun (n.) An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
 noun (n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

androphorenoun (n.) A support or column on which stamens are raised.
 noun (n.) The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

androsporenoun (n.) A spore of some algae, which has male functions.

anfracturenoun (n.) A mazy winding.

anoplotherenoun (n.) Alt. of Anoplotherium

antestaturenoun (n.) A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

anthophorenoun (n.) The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family.

antimerenoun (n.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

antrenoun (n.) A cavern.

aperturenoun (n.) The act of opening.
 noun (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.
 noun (n.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

apiculturenoun (n.) Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

aplustrenoun (n.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

aquapuncturenoun (n.) The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

arboriculturenoun (n.) The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

architecturenoun (n.) The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
 noun (n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.

arenoun (n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.
  () The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

armaturenoun (n.) Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.
 noun (n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force.
 noun (n.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc.
 noun (n.) That part of a dynamo or electric generator or of an electric motor in which a current is induced by a relatively moving magnetic field. The armature usually consists of a series of coils or groups of insulated conductors surrounding a core of iron.

armurenoun (n.) Armor.
 noun (n.) A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.

arrastrenoun (n.) A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

arrierenoun (n.) "That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.

arthromerenoun (n.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca.

ascosporenoun (n.) One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.]

aspirenoun (n.) Aspiration.
 verb (v. t.) To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.
 verb (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
 verb (v. t.) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

atmospherenoun (n.) The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.
 noun (n.) Any gaseous envelope or medium.
 noun (n.) A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.
 noun (n.) The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 Ibs. to the sq. inch.
 noun (n.) Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition.
 noun (n.) The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

attainturenoun (n.) Attainder; disgrace.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (br) - Words That Begins with br:


brabantineadjective (a.) Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.

brabblenoun (n.) A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.
 verb (v. i.) To clamor; to contest noisily.

brabblementnoun (n.) A brabble.

brabblernoun (n.) A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.

braccateadjective (a.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

bracenoun (n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
 noun (n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
 noun (n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension.
 noun (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
 noun (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.
 noun (n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
 noun (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
 noun (n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
 noun (n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
 noun (n.) Harness; warlike preparation.
 noun (n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
 noun (n.) The mouth of a shaft.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
 verb (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
 verb (v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
 verb (v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
 verb (v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
 verb (v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.

bracingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brace
 noun (n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
 noun (n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.
 adjective (a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

braceletnoun (n.) An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.
 noun (n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm.

bracernoun (n.) That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
 noun (n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.
 noun (n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.

brachnoun (n.) A bitch of the hound kind.

brachelytranoun (n. pl.) A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

brachianoun (n. pl.) See Brachium.

brachialadjective (a.) Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.
 adjective (a.) Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.

brachiatanoun (n. pl.) A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

brachiateadjective (a.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

brachioganoidnoun (n.) One of the Brachioganoidei.

brachioganoideinoun (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.

brachiolarianoun (n. pl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

brachiopodnoun (n.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

brachiopodanoun (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

brachiumnoun (n.) The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

brachmannoun (n.) See Brahman.

brachycatalecticnoun (n.) A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

brachycephalicadjective (a.) Alt. of Brachycephalous

brachycephalousadjective (a.) Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

brachycephalynoun (n.) Alt. of Brachycephalism

brachycephalismnoun (n.) The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

brachyceraladjective (a.) Having short antennae, as certain insects.

brachydiagonalnoun (n.) The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism.

brachydomenoun (n.) A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.

brachygraphernoun (n.) A writer in short hand; a stenographer.

brachygraphynoun (n.) Stenography.

brachylogynoun (n.) Conciseness of expression; brevity.

brachypinacoidnoun (n.) A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

brachypteranoun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

brachypteresnoun (n.pl.) A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.

brachypterousadjective (a.) Having short wings.

brachystochronenoun (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

brachytypousadjective (a.) Of a short form.

brachyuranoun (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

brachyuraladjective (a.) Alt. of Brachyurous

brachyurousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.

brachyurannoun (n.) One of the Brachyura.

bracknoun (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
 noun (n.) Salt or brackish water.

brackennoun (n.) A brake or fern.

bracketnoun (n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
 noun (n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
 noun (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
 noun (n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
 noun (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
 noun (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
 noun (n.) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.
 verb (v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
 verb (v. t.) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object).

bracketingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bracket
 noun (n.) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.

brackishadjective (a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

brackishnessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.

brackyadjective (a.) Brackish.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRE:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'e':

baalitenoun (n.) A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

babblenoun (n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
 noun (n.) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
 verb (v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
 verb (v. i.) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
 verb (v. i.) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
 verb (v. i.) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
 verb (v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
 verb (v. i.) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

babenoun (n.) An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
 noun (n.) A doll for children.

babingtonitenoun (n.) A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

babyhouseadjective (a.) A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.

baccalaureatenoun (n.) The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.
 noun (n.) A baccalaureate sermon.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.

baccateadjective (a.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.

bacchantenoun (n.) A priestess of Bacchus.
 noun (n.) A female bacchanal.

bacenoun (n., a., & v.) See Base.

bacillariaenoun (n. pl.) See Diatom.

backbonenoun (n.) The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
 noun (n.) Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
 noun (n.) Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.

backhousenoun (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

backpiecenoun (n.) Alt. of Backplate

backplatenoun (n.) A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

backsidenoun (n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

bactericidenoun (n.) Same as Germicide.

baculenoun (n.) See Bascule.

baculineadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

baculitenoun (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

badgenoun (n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
 noun (n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
 noun (n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
 verb (v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.

badinagenoun (n.) Playful raillery; banter.

baenomerenoun (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods.

baenosomenoun (n.) The thorax of Arthropods.

bafflenoun (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
 noun (n.) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.
 noun (n.) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.
 noun (n.) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
 verb (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
 verb (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
 verb (v. i.) To practice deceit.
 verb (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

bagassenoun (n.) Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.

bagatellenoun (n.) A trifle; a thing of no importance.
 noun (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

baggagenoun (n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
 noun (n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
 noun (n.) Purulent matter.
 noun (n.) Trashy talk.
 noun (n.) A man of bad character.
 noun (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
 noun (n.) A romping, saucy girl.

bagpipenoun (n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
 verb (v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe.

baguenoun (n.) The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

baguettenoun (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
 noun (n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

bailableadjective (a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.
 adjective (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense.
 adjective (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.

baileenoun (n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

bailienoun (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

baillienoun (n.) Bailiff.
 noun (n.) Same as Bailie.

bailpiecenoun (n.) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.

baizenoun (n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.

bakenoun (n.) The process, or result, of baking.
 verb (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
 verb (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
 verb (v. t.) To harden by cold.
 verb (v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
 verb (v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

bakistrenoun (n.) A baker.

balancenoun (n.) An apparatus for weighing.
 noun (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
 noun (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
 noun (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
 noun (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
 noun (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
 noun (n.) The constellation Libra.
 noun (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
 noun (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
 noun (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
 noun (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
 noun (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
 noun (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
 noun (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
 noun (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
 noun (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
 noun (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
 noun (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
 verb (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
 verb (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
 verb (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.

balanceableadjective (a.) Such as can be balanced.

balanitenoun (n.) A fossil balanoid shell.

balaustinenoun (n.) The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

baldpatenoun (n.) A baldheaded person.
 noun (n.) The American widgeon (Anas Americana).
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Baldpated

balenoun (n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
 noun (n.) Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
 noun (n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury.
 verb (v. t.) To make up in a bale.
 verb (v. t.) See Bail, v. t., to lade.

balefirenoun (n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.

balizenoun (n.) A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

balladenoun (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

ballastagenoun (n.) A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

balotadenoun (n.) See Ballotade.

balsaminenoun (n.) The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.

balustradenoun (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

bambocciadenoun (n.) A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

bandagenoun (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
 noun (n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
 verb (v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

banderolenoun (n.) Alt. of Bandrol

bandlenoun (n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length.

bandolinenoun (n.) A glutinous pomatum for the fair.

bandorenoun (n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

banenoun (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
 noun (n.) Destruction; death.
 noun (n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
 noun (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
 verb (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.

banguenoun (n.) See Bhang.

banglenoun (n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.
 verb (v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away.

bankableadjective (a.) Receivable at a bank.

banksidenoun (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

banlieuenoun (n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

banquettenoun (n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
 noun (n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
 noun (n.) A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle.

bansheenoun (n.) Alt. of Banshie

banshienoun (n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
 noun (n.) A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice.

bansticklenoun (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

baptizableadjective (a.) Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.

barbacanagenoun (n.) See Barbicanage.
 noun (n.) Money paid for the support of a barbican.

barbaresqueadjective (a.) Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture.

barbateadjective (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

barbecuenoun (n.) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
 noun (n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.
 noun (n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
 verb (v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.
 verb (v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.

barbellateadjective (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.

barbellulateadjective (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

barbettenoun (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.

barbicanagenoun (n.) Alt. of Barbacanage

barblenoun (n.) See Barbel.

barbotinenoun (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

barbulenoun (n.) A very minute barb or beard.
 noun (n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

barcarollenoun (n.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.
 noun (n.) A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.

bardenoun (n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]
  (pl.) Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  (pl.) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

barenoun (n.) Surface; body; substance.
 noun (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
 adjective (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
 adjective (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
 adjective (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
 adjective (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
 adjective (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
 adjective (a.) Threadbare; much worn.
 adjective (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
 adjective (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
  () Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
  () of Bear

barebonenoun (n.) A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.

baregenoun (n.) A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

bargenoun (n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
 noun (n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
 noun (n.) A large boat used by flag officers.
 noun (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
 noun (n.) A large omnibus used for excursions.

bargecoursenoun (n.) A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.

bargeenoun (n.) A bargeman.

baritenoun (n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

baritonenoun (a. & n.) See Barytone.
 noun (n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.
 noun (n.) A person having a voice of such range.
 noun (n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.
 noun (n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
 adjective (a.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.
 adjective (a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

barquenoun (n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
 noun (n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
 noun (n.) Same as 3d Bark, n.

barkantinenoun (n.) Same as Barkentine.

barkentinenoun (n.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

barleybrakenoun (n.) Alt. of Barleybreak

barmecidenoun (n.) One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal.

barmotenoun (n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.

barnabitenoun (n.) A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.

barnaclenoun (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
 noun (n.) A bernicle goose.
 noun (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
  (sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.

baronagenoun (n.) The whole body of barons or peers.
 noun (n.) The dignity or rank of a baron.
 noun (n.) The land which gives title to a baron.

baronetagenoun (n.) State or rank of a baronet.
 noun (n.) The collective body of baronets.

baroqueadjective (a.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
 adjective (a.) Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.