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bâyer: alternative spelling of bayer; alternative spelling of bâiller
bègue: stutterer, stammerer
bègue: stuttering, stammering
bé: The name of the Latin script letter B/b.
bé: opened, agape
béal: small irrigation canal
béance: gap, wide opening
béant: gaping
béarnais: the southern French dialect of the above Béarn region, a form of Gascon
béarnais: of Béarn (the southern French region in the Pyrenees)
béarnaise: béarnaise sauce
béarnophone: Béarnese-speaking
béarnophone: One who speaks Béarnese.
béat: blissful; in awe
béat: a person who shows excessive or naive religious devotion
béate: a pious laywoman, often living alone, unmarried or widowed, sometimes serving as a catechism teacher
béatement: blissfully
béatifiable: beatifiable
béatification: beatification
béatifier: to beatify
béatifique: beatific
béatique: saintly; blissful
béatissime: Most or very blessed, saintly
béatitude: bliss, beatitude
bébrycien: Bebrycian
bébé: baby
bébé Cadum: baby of an idealised appearance; puerile, childish, babyish or immature person
bébé éprouvette: alternative spelling of bébé-éprouvette
bébé-boumeur: baby boomer
bébé-éprouvette: test tube baby, embaby
bébête: silly, juvenile
bébête: fool, idiot; animal, beastie, critter; willy, wee-wee (penis)
bécane: bike, bicycle; motorbike; 'puter, computer
bécard: pike (fish)
bécarre: natural
bécarre: natural
bécasse: woodcock (any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage)
bécasse des bois: Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
bécasseau: stint, sandpiper (bird of genus Calidris)
bécassine: snipe (bird)
béchamel: béchamel sauce; ellipsis of sauce béchamel
bécher: beaker (flat-bottomed vessel)
béchique: cough mixture
béchique: antitussive
bécike: informal spelling of bicycle
bécosses: outhouse toilet; any toilet, especially an outdoor or makeshift one
bécot: peck (small kiss)
bécoter: to kiss; besmooch
bécune: barracuda
bédane: a type of chisel used in carpentry
bédave: to smoke bhang
bédo: joint (marijuana cigarette)
bédouin: bedouin
bédé: comic strip, comic book
bédégar: bedeguar
bédéiste: cartoonist, graphic novelist
bédéphile: a fan of comic books &c
béement: the state or condition of having a gaping mouth
béer: to gape, yawn; to be wide open
bégaiement: stammering