Name Report For First Name BENT:

BENT

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

Rhymes with BENT - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BENT

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BENT AS A WHOLE:

benton bentleah bentleigh bentle bentley

NAMES RHYMING WITH BENT (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ent) - Names That Ends with ent:

kent devent advent brent derwent graent laurent trent vincent avent millicent crescent innocent sargent trevrizent quent

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

yervant escorant gallehant moraunt rhongomyant agramant sacripant toussaint lorant creissant anant arnt bliant brant briant bryant calogrenant clint conant diamont dumont flint flynt fremont frimunt grant hunt lamont oliphant osmont pierrepont toussnint waldmunt pierpont rhodant jacint geraint valiant clarissant meleagant pant delmont durant durrant quint

NAMES RHYMING WITH BENT (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ben) - Names That Begins with ben:

ben ben-ami ben-aryeh ben-tziyon bena benat benci bendigeidfran bendision benecroft benedetta benedicto benedictson benen benes beniamino benicio benigna benita benjamin benji benjiro benjy benkamin benn bennet bennett bennie bennu benny benoic benon benoni benoyce benroy benson benwick benzion

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

beacan beacher beadu beadurinc beadurof beadutun beadwof beagan beagen beal bealantin beale beall bealohydig beaman beamard beamer bean bearacb bearach bearcban bearn bearnard bearrocscir beartlaidh beat beatha beathag beathan beathas beatie beaton beatrice beatricia beatrisa beatriz beattie beatty beau beaufort beaumains beauvais beb bebeodan bebhinn bebti becan becca beceere beck beckham becki becky beda bede bedegrayne bedivere bednar bedrosian bedver bedwyr beecher

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BENT:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':

baldhart bancroft barnet barnett barret barrett bart bartlett bast bastet batt beircheart bemot beorht beornet berit bernot berowalt bert biast birgit birkett bogart bogohardt bohort bort brendt bret brett bridget bridgett briet brit burcet burdett burhardt burkett burkhart burnet burnett burt

English Words Rhyming BENT

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BENT AS A WHOLE:

absorbentnoun (n.) Anything which absorbs.
 noun (n.) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
 noun (n.) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
 adjective (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

accumbentnoun (n.) One who reclines at table.
 adjective (a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
 adjective (a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.

bentnoun (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
 noun (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
 noun (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
 adjective (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
 adjective (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
 verb (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
 verb (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
 verb (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
 verb (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
 verb (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
 verb (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  () of Bend
  () imp. & p. p. of Bend.

benthaladjective (a.) Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.

benthamicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.

benthamismnoun (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

benthamitenoun (n.) One who believes in Benthamism.

bentyadjective (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
 adjective (a.) Resembling bent.

bowbentadjective (a.) Bent, like a bow.

benthosnoun (n.) The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zool.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.

cumbentadjective (a.) Lying down; recumbent.

debenturenoun (n.) A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
 noun (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
 noun (n.) Any of various instruments issued, esp. by corporations, as evidences of debt. Such instruments (often called debenture bonds) are generally, through not necessarily, under seal, and are usually secured by a mortgage or other charge upon property; they may be registered or unregistered. A debenture secured by a mortgage on specific property is called a mortgage debenture; one secured by a floating charge (which see), a floating debenture; one not secured by any charge a naked debenture. In general the term debenture in British usage designates any security issued by companies other than their shares, including, therefore, what are in the United States commonly called bonds. When used in the United States debenture generally designates an instrument secured by a floating charge junior to other charges secured by fixed mortgages, or, specif., one of a series of securities secured by a group of securities held in trust for the benefit of the debenture holders.

debenturedadjective (a.) Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

decumbentadjective (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
 adjective (a.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.

describentnoun (n.) Same as Generatrix.

incumbentnoun (n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.
 adjective (a.) Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.
 adjective (a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon.
 adjective (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
 adjective (a.) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.

labentadjective (a.) Slipping; sliding; gliding.

lambentadjective (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
 adjective (a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.

procumbentadjective (a.) Lying down, or on the face; prone.
 adjective (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem.

recumbentadjective (a.) Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.

resorbentadjective (a.) Swallowing up.

sorbentnoun (n.) An absorbent.

succumbentadjective (a.) Submissive; yielding.

superincumbentadjective (a.) Lying or resting on something else.

terebenthenenoun (n.) Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

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


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ent) - English Words That Ends with ent:


abandonmentnoun (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
 noun (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
 noun (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
 noun (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
 noun (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.

abasementnoun (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

abashmentnoun (n.) The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

abatementnoun (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
 noun (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
 noun (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.
 noun (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

abetmentnoun (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

abhorrentadjective (a.) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
 adjective (a.) Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.
 adjective (a.) Detestable.

abilimentnoun (n.) Habiliment.

abjurementnoun (n.) Renunciation.

abluentnoun (n.) A detergent.
 adjective (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.

abodementnoun (n.) A foreboding; an omen.

abolishmentnoun (n.) The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.

aborsementnoun (n.) Abortment; abortion.

abortifacientnoun (n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.
 verb (v.) Producing miscarriage.

abortmentnoun (n.) Abortion.

abridgmentnoun (n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
 noun (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
 noun (n.) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.

absentadjective (a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
 adjective (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
 adjective (a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
 verb (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
 verb (v. t.) To withhold from being present.

absentmentnoun (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal.

absolventnoun (n.) An absolver.
 adjective (a.) Absolving.

abstergentnoun (n.) A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
 adjective (a.) Serving to cleanse, detergent.

abstinentnoun (n.) One who abstains.
 noun (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
 adjective (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.

abutmentnoun (n.) State of abutting.
 noun (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses
 noun (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
 noun (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
 noun (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

acaulescentadjective (a.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

accentnoun (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
 noun (n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
 noun (n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
 noun (n.) A word; a significant tone
 noun (n.) expressions in general; speech.
 noun (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
 noun (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
 noun (n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
 noun (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
 noun (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
 noun (n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y".
 noun (n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27", i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
 noun (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10" is six feet ten inches.
 verb (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
 verb (v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

accidentnoun (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
 noun (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
 noun (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
 noun (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
 noun (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
 noun (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
 noun (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.

accipientnoun (n.) A receiver.

acclimatementnoun (n.) Acclimation.

accompanimentnoun (n.) That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
 noun (n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.

accomplishmentnoun (n.) The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
 noun (n.) That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.

accouchementnoun (n.) Delivery in childbed

accouplementnoun (n.) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.
 noun (n.) That which couples, as a tie or brace.

accrescentadjective (a.) Growing; increasing.
 adjective (a.) Growing larger after flowering.

accroachmentnoun (n.) An encroachment; usurpation.

accrumentnoun (n.) The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.

accusementnoun (n.) Accusation.

acescentnoun (n.) A substance liable to become sour.
 adjective (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

acharnementnoun (n.) Savage fierceness; ferocity.

achievementnoun (n.) The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
 noun (n.) A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
 noun (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

acidulentadjective (a.) Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

acknowledgmentnoun (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
 noun (n.) The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
 noun (n.) The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks.
 noun (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc.
 noun (n.) A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration.

acquiescentadjective (a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

acquirementnoun (n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.

acquitmentnoun (n.) Acquittal.

additamentnoun (n.) An addition, or a thing added.

adducentadjective (a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

adherentnoun (n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.
 noun (n.) That which adheres; an appendage.
 adjective (a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering.
 adjective (a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
 adjective (a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

adipescentadjective (a.) Becoming fatty.

adjacentnoun (n.) That which is adjacent.
 adjective (a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.

adjournmentnoun (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
 noun (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

adjudgmentnoun (n.) The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication.

adjumentnoun (n.) Help; support; also, a helper.

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


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ben) - Words That Begins with ben:


benchnoun (n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
 noun (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
 noun (n.) The seat where judges sit in court.
 noun (n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
 noun (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
 noun (n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with benches.
 verb (v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.
 verb (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

benchingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bench

benchernoun (n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
 noun (n.) An alderman of a corporation.
 noun (n.) A member of a court or council.
 noun (n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.

bendingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bend
 noun (n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

bendnoun (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
 noun (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
 noun (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
 noun (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
 noun (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
 noun (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
 noun (n.) A band.
 noun (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
 verb (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
 verb (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
 verb (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
 verb (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
 verb (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
 verb (v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
 verb (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
 verb (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

bendableadjective (a.) Capable of being bent.

bendernoun (n.) One who, or that which, bends.
 noun (n.) An instrument used for bending.
 noun (n.) A drunken spree.
 noun (n.) A sixpence.

bendletnoun (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

bendyadjective (a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

benenoun (n.) See Benne.
 noun (n.) A prayer; boon.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Ben

bennoun (n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
 adverb (adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
 adverb (adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.
  () Alt. of Ben nut
  () An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

beneapedadjective (a.) See Neaped.

benedicitenoun (n.) A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
 noun (n.) An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.

benedictnoun (n.) Alt. of Benedick
 adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

benedicknoun (n.) A married man, or a man newly married.

benedictinenoun (n.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.

benedictionnoun (n.) The act of blessing.
 noun (n.) A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness.
 noun (n.) The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction.
 noun (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop.
 noun (n.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.

benedictionalnoun (n.) A book of benedictions.

benedictionarynoun (n.) A collected series of benedictions.

benedictiveadjective (a.) Tending to bless.

benedictoryadjective (a.) Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.

benedictusadjective (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

benedightadjective (a.) Blessed.

benefactionnoun (n.) The act of conferring a benefit.
 noun (n.) A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.

benefactornoun (n.) One who confers a benefit or benefits.

benefactressnoun (n.) A woman who confers a benefit.

beneficadjective (a.) Favorable; beneficent.

beneficenoun (n.) A favor or benefit.
 noun (n.) An estate in lands; a fief.
 noun (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.
 verb (v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

beneficedadjective (a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Benefice

beneficelessadjective (a.) Having no benefice.

beneficencenoun (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

beneficentadjective (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

beneficentialadjective (a.) Relating to beneficence.

beneficialadjective (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
 adjective (a.) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.
 adjective (a.) King.

beneficialnessnoun (n.) The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

beneficiarynoun (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
 noun (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.
 adjective (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
 adjective (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.

beneficientadjective (a.) Beneficent.

benefitnoun (n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
 noun (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
 noun (n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
 noun (n.) Beneficence; liberality.
 noun (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
 verb (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
 verb (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

benefittingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Benefit

benefiternoun (n.) One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.

benevolencenoun (n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
 noun (n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
 noun (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

benevolentadjective (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.

benevolousadjective (a.) Kind; benevolent.

bengalnoun (n.) A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
 noun (n.) A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
 noun (n.) Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.

bengaleenoun (n.) Alt. of Bengali

bengalinoun (n.) The language spoken in Bengal.

bengalesenoun (n. sing. & pl) A native or natives of Bengal.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bengal.

bengolanoun (n.) A Bengal light.

benightingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Benight

benightmentnoun (n.) The condition of being benighted.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BENT:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':

baalistnoun (n.) Alt. of Baalite

babblementnoun (n.) Babble.

babistnoun (n.) A believer in Babism.

baccaratnoun (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

bacchantnoun (n.) A priest of Bacchus.
 noun (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler.
 adjective (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

backcastnoun (n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

backjointnoun (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

backsetnoun (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
 noun (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
 verb (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

backsightnoun (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

bacteriologistnoun (n.) One skilled in bacteriology.

bacterioscopistnoun (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

bafflementnoun (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

baftnoun (n.) Same as Bafta.

baguetnoun (n.) Alt. of Baguette

bailmentnoun (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.
 noun (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

bakemeatnoun (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat

balancementnoun (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

ballastadjective (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
 adjective (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
 adjective (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
 adjective (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
 verb (v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
 verb (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
 verb (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.

balletnoun (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
 noun (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
 noun (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
 noun (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

balloonistnoun (n.) An aeronaut.

ballotnoun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
 noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
 noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
 noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
 verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

banatnoun (n.) The territory governed by a ban.

bandeletnoun (n.) Alt. of Bandlet

bandletnoun (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.
 noun (n.) Same as Bandelet.

bandicootnoun (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
 noun (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

banditnoun (n.) An outlaw; a brigand.

banewortnoun (n.) Deadly nightshade.

banishmentnoun (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

bankruptnoun (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
 noun (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
 noun (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
 adjective (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
 adjective (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
 adjective (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
 adjective (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
 verb (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

banneretnoun (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
 noun (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
 noun (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
 noun (n.) A small banner.

banquetnoun (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
 noun (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
 verb (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
 verb (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
 verb (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

baphometnoun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

baptistnoun (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
 noun (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

baptizementnoun (n.) The act of baptizing.

barbetnoun (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
 noun (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
 noun (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

barghestnoun (n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.

barilletnoun (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one.

baronetnoun (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

barouchetnoun (n.) A kind of light barouche.

barpostnoun (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

barrenwortnoun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

barretnoun (n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

barringoutnoun (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.

barrowistnoun (n.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

barruletnoun (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

bartlettnoun (n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

basaltnoun (n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.
 noun (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

bascinetnoun (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.

basementadjective (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

basenetnoun (n.) See Bascinet.

basinetnoun (n.) Same as Bascinet.

basketnoun (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
 noun (n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
 noun (n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
 noun (n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
 verb (v. t.) To put into a basket.

basnetnoun (n.) Same as Bascinet.

bassetnoun (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
 noun (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
 adjective (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
 verb (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

bassinetnoun (n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.
 noun (n.) See Bascinet.

bassoonistnoun (n.) A performer on the bassoon.

bastnoun (n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
 noun (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

batnoun (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
 noun (n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
 noun (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
 noun (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
 noun (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
 noun (n.) Same as Tical, n., 1.
 noun (n.) In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
 noun (n.) A stroke; a sharp blow.
 noun (n.) A stroke of work.
 noun (n.) Rate of motion; speed.
 noun (n.) A spree; a jollification.
 noun (n.) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
 verb (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
 verb (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To wink.

batementnoun (n.) Abatement; diminution.

batletnoun (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

battailantnoun (n.) A combatant.
 verb (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.

battlementnoun (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
 noun (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

battologistnoun (n.) One who battologizes.

bayboltnoun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank.

bayonetnoun (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
 noun (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
 verb (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.
 verb (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

beamletnoun (n.) A small beam of light.

beastnoun (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
 noun (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
 noun (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
 noun (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
 noun (n.) A game at cards similar to loo.
 noun (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.

beatnoun (n.) A stroke; a blow.
 noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
 noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
 noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
 noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
 noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.
 noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing
 noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.
 noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
 noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
 adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
 verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
 verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
 verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
 verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
 verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path.
 verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
 verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
 verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
 verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
 verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
 verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
 verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
 verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.
 verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
 verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
 verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
 verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
 verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
 verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
 verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
  (imp.) of Beat
  (p. p.) of Beat

beaufetnoun (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.

beauseantnoun (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

becketnoun (n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
 noun (n.) A spade for digging turf.

bedagatnoun (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.

bedevilmentnoun (n.) The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.

bedizenmentnoun (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

bedpostnoun (n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
 noun (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.

bedquiltnoun (n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

beechnutnoun (n.) The nut of the beech tree.

beetnoun (n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
 noun (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

befriendmentnoun (n.) Act of befriending.

beguilementnoun (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

behestnoun (n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
 noun (n.) A vow; a promise.
 verb (v. t.) To vow.

behightnoun (n.) A vow; a promise.
 verb (v.) To promise; to vow.
 verb (v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
 verb (v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority.
 verb (v.) To mean, or intend.
 verb (v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
 verb (v.) To call; to name; to address.
 verb (v.) To command; to order.
  (imp.) of Behight
  (p. p.) of Behight

belligerentnoun (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
  (p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war.
  (p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.

bellwortnoun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

bellycheatnoun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person.

beltnoun (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
 noun (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
 noun (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
 noun (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
 noun (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
 noun (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
 noun (n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
 noun (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
 noun (n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
 verb (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
 verb (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

benignantadjective (a.) Kind; gracious; favorable.

bennetadjective (a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

benumbmentnoun (n.) Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.

bequeathmentnoun (n.) The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

bequestnoun (n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
 noun (n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.
 verb (v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.

bereavementnoun (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

bergamotnoun (n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
 noun (n.) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
 noun (n.) The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
 noun (n.) A variety of pear.
 noun (n.) A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
 noun (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.

bergeretnoun (n.) A pastoral song.

bergyltnoun (n.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

besantnoun (n.) See Bezant.

beseechmentnoun (n.) The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly.

besetmentnoun (n.) The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.

besiegementnoun (n.) The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.

besortnoun (n.) Befitting associates or attendants.
 verb (v. t.) To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.