Word Meanings - PREVENTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.

• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• Bell jar
  A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keepin
• Bedding
  of Bed
• BEARSTATE
  Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• Behavior
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
• Bespitting
  of Bespit
• Bearberry
  A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• Bellwort
  A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• BECQUERELRAYS
  Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.
• Benevolence
  The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Berserk
  Alt. of Berserker
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bestarred
  of Bestar
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.

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