beetle¹ /bēˈtl/

1. Any insect of the Coleoptera, an order in which the forewings are reduced to hard and horny covers for the hindwings
2. A game in which a drawing of a beetle is made up gradually from its component parts, body, head, etc, according to the throw of dice, the object being to produce a completed drawing
3. (esp with cap) a particular variety of small Volkswagen car with rounded roof and bonnet, resembling a beetle (informal)

1. To jut, to overhang (first found in Shakespeare)
2. To scurry (informal)

(always applied to brows) overhanging, scowling

beetˈling adjective

1. Jutting
2. Prominent
3. Overhanging

beetˈle-browed adjective

With overhanging or prominent brows

beetle brows plural noun

beetˈle-crusher noun (slang)

1. A big heavy foot or boot
2. A policeman
3. An infantryman

beetle drive noun

A progressive series of games of beetle

beetˈle-eyed adjective

Blind

beetle off

1. To hurry away like a beetle, scurry (informal)
2. To fly (RAF sl)

black beetle

The cockroach (properly not a beetle)

• dices
• dice with death
• dicey
• dich
• dichasia
• dichasial
• dichasium
• dichlamydeous
• dichlor-
• dichloralphenazone
• dichloro-
• dichlorodiethyl sulphide
• dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
• dichlorvos
• dichlorvoses
• dichogamies
• dichogamous
• dichogamy
• dichord
• dichords
• dichotic
• dichotomic
• dichotomies
• dichotomise
• dichotomised