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- English Word Bitterwort Definition The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
- English Word Bitting Definition of Bit
- English Word Bittock Definition A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.
- English Word Bittor Bittour Definition The bittern.
- English Word Bitts Definition A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
- English Word Bitume Definition Bitumen.
- English Word Bitumed Definition Smeared with bitumen.
- English Word Bitumen Definition Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.
- English Word Bitumen Definition By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
- English Word Bituminate Definition To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
- English Word Bituminated Definition of Bituminate
- English Word Bituminating Definition of Bituminate
- English Word Bituminiferous Definition Producing bitumen.
- English Word Bituminization Definition The process of bituminizing.
- English Word Bituminize Definition To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
- English Word Bituminized Definition of Bituminize
- English Word Bituminizing Definition of Bituminize
- English Word Bituminous Definition Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.
- English Word Biuret Definition A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
- English Word Bivalency Definition The quality of being bivalent.