Word Meanings - GREEDINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.

Beast
A game at cards similar to loo.
Belaced
of Belace
Betelguese
A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion.
Bedchamber
A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.
Belly-pinched
Pinched with hunger; starved.
Bewrayer
One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.
Beerhouse
A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.
BENEFITSOCIETY
A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
Behave
To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.
Beriberi
An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.
Besmoke
To foul with smoke.
Beatified
of Beatify
Belcher
One who, or that which, belches.
Bethumping
of Bethump
Bedelry
Beadleship.
Belonite
Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
Bezoartic
Alt. of Bezoartical
Beetlehead
A stupid fellow; a blockhead.
Benight
To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
Bernicle
A bernicle goose.