Word Meanings - ACRIDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.

• Bethumping
  of Bethump
• Beautifying
  of Beautify
• Belly-pinched
  Pinched with hunger; starved.
• Bitterness
  The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
• Bedright Bedrite
  The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.
• Benightment
  The condition of being benighted.
• BENTHOS
  The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zoöl.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.
• Beggarliness
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• Beryl
  A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine
• Beach comber
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
• Betorn
  Torn in pieces; tattered.
• Becalming
  of Becalm
• Belt
  That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Bedstraw
  Straw put into a bed.
• Benthamic
  Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
• BERTILLONSYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• Begirt
  of Begird
• Bescumber
  Alt. of Bescummer
• Beadroll
  A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.

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