BE

1. Bachelor of Education
2. Bachelor of Engineering
3. Bill of exchange
4. Board of Education

be

Bill of exchange

be /bē/

1. To live
2. To exist
3. To happen, take place
4. To occupy a position in space
5. To have the state or quality mentioned
6. To remain or continue without change
7. (with infinitive) must, need (to)
8. ‘be’ also helps form some compound tenses, such as continuous and passive

beˈ-all noun (Shakespeare)

All that is to be

be-all and end-all noun

The supreme aim or issue

be that as it may see under may¹

Be (chem)

Beryllium

be- /bi-/

1. Used (1) to form words with the sense of around, on all sides, in all directions, thoroughly, as in besiege
2. (2) to form verbs from adjectives and nouns (often in facetious modern coinages, eg bejerseyed)
3. (3) formerly, to make intransitive verbs transitive, as in bespeak

• inquisitorial
• inquisitorially
• inquisitorialness
• inquisitors
• inquisitress
• inquisitresses
• inquisiturient
• inquorate
• in re
• in reality
• in reason
• in reduced circumstances
• in regard of
• in regard to
• in rem
• in rerum natura
• in respect of
• in return
• INRI
• in right of
• in rixa
• inro
• inroad
• inroads
• in round figures