Select Search ----- All Bartleby.com ----- All Reference ----- Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough ----- All Verse ----- Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. ----- All Nonfiction ----- Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > American Heritage® > Dictionary > Entry Index > Page 24   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.   2000.   Entry Index   Bataan to beatitude   Bataan Batan Islands batata Batavia batboy batch1 batch2 bate1 bate2 bateau bateau bridge Bates, Katherine Lee Batesian mimicry Bateson, William BATF batfish batfowl batgirl bath1 bath2 Bath Bath chair bathe bathetic bathhouse bathing cap bathing suit bathmat batho– batholith bathometer bathophobia bathos bathrobe bathroom bath salts Bathsheba bathtub bathtub gin Bathurst Bathurst Island bath water bathy– bathyal bathymetry bathypelagic bathyscaphe bathysphere bathythermograph batik Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio batiste batman bat mitzvah baton Baton Rouge batophobia batrachian batrachotoxin bats batsman Batswana batt battalion Battani, al- batteau batten1 batten2 Batten, Jean batter1 batter2 batter3 batter4 batter bread battercake battered child syndrome battered woman syndrome battering ram battery Battery batting batting average battle Battle battle-ax Battle Creek battle cruiser battle cry battledore battle fatigue battlefield battlefront battleground battle group battlement battle royal battleship battleship gray battlewagon battue batty Batumi Bat Yam bauble Baucis baud Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Baudouin I Bauhaus bauhinia baulk Baum, Lyman Frank Baumé, Antoine Baumé scale Bauru bauxite Bavaria Bavarian Bavarian Alps Bavarian cream bawd bawdry bawdy bawdyhouse bawl bay1 bay2 bay3 bay4 bay5 bayadere Bayamón Bayard bayberry Bay City Baycol Bayeux Lake Baykal bay laurel Bayle, Pierre bay leaf Baylor, Elgin bay lynx Bay of bayonet Bayonne bayou Bayreuth bay rum bay rum tree Bay Shore bayside Baytown bay window bazaar bazooka bb BB1 BB2 .bb BBA BBB BBC BBC English BB gun bbl. b-boying BBS BC B.C. BCD BCE B.C.E. B cell BCG vaccine BChE BCL B complex BD bd. b/d .bd bdellium bd. ft. bdl. bdle. bdrm. BDS bds. be Be BE B/E be– .be Bé beach Beach, Alfred Ely Beach, Amy Marcey Cheney Beach, Moses Yale Beach, Sylvia Woodbridge beach ball beach buggy beach bum beachcomber beach flea beachfront beach grass beachhead Beach-la-Mar beachless beach pea beach plum beachscape beachside beachwear beach wormwood Beachy Head beacon Beacon Hill bead beading beadle Beadle, George Wells bead plant bead test beadwork beady beagle beak beaked salmon beaked whale beaker be all and end all beam beam-ends beamish beamy bean Bean, Roy beanbag bean ball bean beetle bean counter bean curd beanery bean family beanie beano beanpole bean sprouts beanstalk bear1 bear2 Mount Bear bearable bearbaiting bearberry bearcat beard Beard, Charles Austin Beard, Daniel Carter Beard, James Andrew Beard, Mary Ritter bearded collie bearded iris bearded vulture Bearden, Romare Howard Beardmore Glacier Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent beardtongue bearer bearer bond bear grass bear hug bearing bearing rein bearish Bear Mountain Béarn béarnaise sauce Bear River bear's breech bear's ear bearskin Beas beast beast epic beastie beastings beastly beast of burden beat beaten beater Beat Generation beatific beatify beating beatitude   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.   CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD   PREVIOUS NEXT     Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com