# Words Beginning with "b-e-p" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067 "2003-02-05T23:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/1 "2003-02-05T23:11:50Z")
As far as I know, there are no words in the English language that start with the aforementioned letters. Or, are there…? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/2 "2003-02-05T23:16:08Z")
My unabridged dictionary has several: bepaint, bepaper, bepatched, bepicture, beplaster, bepowder, bepraise, bepranked, bepuffed, bepuzzle, bepuzzlement. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/3 "2003-02-05T23:16:09Z")
**Beplumed** “Furnished with feathers” (Shorter OED) ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/4 "2003-02-06T01:15:21Z")
Well, of course, I meant to say, words in the English language that any of us has ever used in a sentence. Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/5 "2003-02-06T01:25:40Z")
“His costume for the play was beplumed as if he were a human peacock” ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/6 "2003-02-06T01:46:41Z")
[hijack] When I was in elementary school, our spelling teacher would ask us to spell a word and then ask us to put that word in a sentence. If I didn’t know the word, I"d use the following sentence, “I do not know what the word beplumed means.” I would only ever use this sentence about once per year and the teachers always got a kick out ot it. [/hijack] When I read this thread, the above came to mind and I had to share… ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/7 "2003-02-06T02:10:43Z")
Anyone else read _Up the Down Staircase?_ “Bring in own sentences illustr. vocab. words: enigmatic—She was very enigmatic. vindictive—She was very vindictive. vacillating—She was very vacillating.” She was very bepuzzled. There. Happy, pappy? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/8 "2003-02-06T03:57:37Z")
Just a bit off topic, but there is former Boston Bruin player, and later coach, [Bep Guidolin](http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php3?pid=00002063). Of course that is just a nickname, his given name is really Armand but I would guess that his mother was the only person to call him that. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/9 "2003-02-06T11:32:01Z")
bephallus - to furnish with a penis. “It took my wife a few minutes to fix the buckle of her strap-on, but once she was properly bephallused, we were ready to begin the party.” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/10 "2003-02-06T13:44:38Z")
Can we count things Buh’wheet said? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/11 "2003-02-06T14:17:30Z")
Isn’t “bep” the sound effect used in Pong? ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/12 "2003-02-06T14:20:51Z")
Bepiss - to wet with urine Well, it’s probably an archaic term (Richard Burton used it in Arabian Nights), but I think we oughta revive it! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/13 "2003-02-06T15:38:22Z")
Isn’t **bepgry** the third word everyone’s been asking about? ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/14 "2003-02-06T18:23:33Z")
bephuddled? ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/15 "2003-02-06T18:43:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*mayberrydan \*\*\* > When I was in elementary school, our spelling teacher would ask us to spell a word and then ask us to put that word in a sentence. If I didn’t know the word, I"d use the following sentence, > > “I do not know what the word beplumed means.” In spelling bees I participated in in grade school, you were allowed to ask the teacher giving the word to either define the word or use it in a sentence before you had to spell it. I was such a little prick back then – I used to love to hang the teachers out to dry and ask them to use some crazy words in sentences, even though I already knew exactly how to spell the word. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/16 "2003-02-06T18:46:20Z")
bepble. It means little stones that dyslexics find on beaches. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/17 "2003-02-06T18:48:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*bephallus - to furnish with a penis. > > “It took my wife a few minutes to fix the buckle of her strap-on, but once she was properly bephallused, we were ready to begin the party.” \*\* How does one get Fantastic Foods Big Soup Noodle Bowl, Mandarin Broccoli flavor, out of one’s own nose? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-beginning-with-b-e-p/153067/18 "2003-02-06T21:55:25Z")
There’s an X-ray satellite called BeppoSAX. It’s named after Italian astronomer Giuseppe “Beppo” Occhialini. It’s unlikely that any non-astronomer would use it, though.