Bed

Definition: Bed

Bed

Noun

1. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair".

2. A plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses".

3. A depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed".

4. (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone".

5. A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds".

6. A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away".

Verb

1. Furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals".

2. Put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock".

3. Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Engineering & Technology

Food & Agriculture

Geological

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Medicine

Metallurgy

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Slang in 1811

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

BEd

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Bed

Agriculture

Field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park. (pleasure ground); parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm. (abode).

Layer

Noun: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.

Marriage

Married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation.

Receptacle

Lodging; (abode); bed; (support); carriage; (vehicle).

Crosswords: Bed

Afrikaan (bed), Danish (bed), Dutch (bed).

You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

What? To go to bed with a man and lie to him (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore)

I say, marriage with Max is not exactly a bed of roses, is it (Rebecca; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald)

It was just like before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Mommy loves Martin because he is real, and when I am real Mommy's going to read to me and tuck me in my bed and sing to me and listen to what I say and she will cuddle with me and tell me every day a hundred times a day that she loves me (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson)

I wanna know whose bed, baby ("Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?"; performing artist: Shania Twain)

So I cry sometimes when I'm lying in my bed (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

Cause it was 4 in the morning, When you crept back in the bed (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith)

'Cause the joke that you laid in the bed that was me (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen. (references; author: unknown)

Marriage changes passion: Suddenly, you're in bed with a relative. (references; author: unknown)

Always buy good shoes and a good bed. Because if you aren't in one, you're in the other. (references; author: unknown)

She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night. (references; author: unknown)

Some people hate waking up and getting out of bed. I enjoy it. I do it three or four times a day. (references; author: unknown)

The Bed (2002)

Bed Bunnies (1974)

Fire Under Her Bed (1973)

Career Bed (1972)

Three in a Bed (1972)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Bed Bath & Beyond Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Beter Bed Holding NV: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• France Bed Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Paramount Bed Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Bed, Table, Toilet and Kitchen Linens in Africa (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• 203 Ways to Drive a Man Wild in Bed (reference)

• Good in Bed (reference)

• Junie B. Jones Has A Monster Under Her Bed (Junie B. Jones 8, paper) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Aa Inspected Bed And Breakfast In Britain (reference)

• Bed & Breakfast In Britain (reference)

• Bed Times (reference)

• Complete Guide To Bed & Breakfasts Inns & Guesthouses (reference)

• North American Inns Bed & Breakfast And Resorts (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bed of Roses (reference)

• Scare Their Pants Off / Satan's Bed (reference)

• Rendezvous: The Garden Gate Bed and Breakfast (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Breakfast in Bed (reference)

• Bed Of Roses: Soundtrack From The Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Don't Smoke in Bed (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• 4-piece Toddler Bed Set - Flower Fields (reference)

• Fold-Down Bed Rail - Elmo (reference)

• Soft & Secure Portable Bed Rail (reference)

• Delta 46-855 Bed Extension for 46-250 MIDI Lathe (reference)

• DZN Inc BB-001 Bed Bug Tie Down System (2-Pack) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A female patient is lying on a bed with a technician positioning the patient's head in preparation for radiotherapy. This photograph was used in the NCI publication "When Someone in Your Family Has Cancer". Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer).

Shown are various shots of two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) receiving chemotherapy. The girl on the left has an IV tube in the neck, the other girl's IV is in her arm. They are sitting on a bed and are demonstrating some of the procedures and techniques used with chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

HL-10 On Rogers Dry Lake Bed With Pilots. Credit: NASA.

On a dry lake bed White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Another one of those things" Freshet - 10' wall of water washes truck down creek bed. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Shells containing oyster spat raised by the Oyster Recovery Partnership are piled up waiting to be moved to a permanent oyster bed off of the Severn River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Bayou Lafourche was the main channel of the Mississippi River a few thousand years ago. As river bed fills, the river changes course seeking a steeper slope to the sea. If allowed to follow its natural cycle, the Mississippi River would be in the process of changing its course into the bed of the Atchafalaya River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Hundred of starfish dredged or scraped off an oyster bed. Starfish attack young oysters and threaten the well-being of the oyster crop. F&WL 12,416. Credit: Fisheries.

An oyster bed. Credit: Fisheries.

A flounder swims through a healthy bed of seagrass. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject to the preceding provisions, no works shall be carried out in the bed or on either bank of the Rhine where it forms the boundary of France and Germany without the previous approval of the Central Commission or of its agents. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Eric, who was strolling in the garden, gave us a good report of the invalid, who was still in bed, with Lady Muriel in attendance

The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window

Now the world has gone to bed, Marvin droned, "Darkness won't engulf my head, "I can see by infra-red, "How I hate the night.

She had not been in bed.

He closed the door and, walking swiftly to the bed, knelt beside it and covered his face with his hands

By her, in his unlawful bed, he got This Edward, whom our manners call the Prince

But he never got no feather bed.

I have already told the reader, that every night when the family were gone to bed it was my custom to strip and cover myself with my clothes

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Raise the head of your bed 4 to 8 inches. (references)

Bed rest and medicine will help you get better. (references)

Use bed nets if sleeping in mud or thatch houses. (references)

Business

The market for bed products is undergoing change. (references)

However, the majority of the bed sheets are still unfitted. (references)

As a result, bed and breakfast stays are becoming increasingly popular. (references)

Economic History

India

One hospital facility serves a population of 76,082 people with one hospital bed for every 1,324 people. (references)

India

Hence, unconventional gas resources like coal bed methane (CBM) need to be aggressively explored and developed. (references)

Sweden

With its prominent position in the communications sector, Sweden is quite often used as a test bed for international companies. (references)

Human Rights

Belize

The 30 women held there occupied 17 cells; each inmate has her own bed. (references)

Venezuela

Inmates often have to pay guards as well as each other to obtain necessities such as space in a cell, a bed, and food. (references)

Dominican Republic

Prison officials use a punishment called "the toaster," where prisoners are laid, shackled hand and foot, on a bed of hot asphalt for the entire day and are beaten with a club if they scream. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

USAID has helped develop a multi-faceted energy program for Ukraine which focuses on: 1) power sector restructuring, which has helped transform the power sector from a vertically integrated monopoly to a market system with regulatory oversight of tariffs and licensing, and power distribution based on financial bids; 2) assisting the government of Ukraine to privatize the power sector, starting with 27 distribution companies; 3) development of a coal bed methane industry; 4) improving energy production and conservation by introducing new technologies, management techniques and applying market principles; and 5) indirectly supporting Ukraine's nuclear safety performance and improving nuclear sector regulation and inspection. (references)

Pakistan

Items on the "negative" list include: translations of the Holy Koran without Arabic text; goods bearing words or inscriptions of a religious connotation; obscene pictures, writings, or inscriptions; horror comics; obscene, subversive and anti-Islamic literature; products and by-products of pigs, hogs, boars, or swine; fireworks; tanks and armored vehicles; artillery weapons; revolvers and pistols of prohibited bores; parlor games; gambling equipment; sculptures, worked ivory, alcoholic beverages, hazardous wastes, rollable scrap, woven fabrics of cotton, woven fabrics of synthetic stable fibers, carpets and other floor coverings, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, bed linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, tarpaulin and tents, curtains and other furnishing articles and antiques exceeding one hundred years in age. (references)

Travel

New Zealand

New Zealand is known for its designation sports lodges and has a very wide network of Bed & Breakfast and Farmstay inns. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The bed of the Lord

Bed

Expressions using "bed": admission and bed occupancy committee ♦ Air bed ♦ alveolar bed ♦ anchor bed ♦ Angel bed ♦ apple pie bed ♦ as one makes one's bed so one must lie on it ♦ asparagus bed ♦ at the foot of a bed ♦ attached to a bed ♦ axle bed ♦ baby bed ♦ baby's bed ♦ bacteria bed ♦ bacteria bed arm ♦ bacterial bed ♦ ballast bed ♦ Bark bed ♦ be brought to bed of ♦ be brought to bed of a boy ♦ be confined to bed ♦ be in a bed spot ♦ be in bed ♦ be off to bed ♦ be on a bed of roses ♦ bed and board ♦ bed and breakfast ♦ bed bug ♦ bed bunny ♦ bed check ♦ bed clothes ♦ bed clothing ♦ Bed Conversion ♦ bed cover ♦ bed covering ♦ bed down ♦ bed fellow ♦ bed frame ♦ bed geometry ♦ bed ground ♦ bed groyne ♦ bed hop ♦ bed in ♦ bed jacket ♦ bed ladder ♦ bed levels ♦ bed linen ♦ bed load ♦ bed load exchange reach ♦ bed load transport capacity ♦ bed making ♦ bed night ♦ Bed Occupancy ♦ bed of flowers ♦ Bed of justice ♦ bed of lava ♦ bed of machine ♦ bed of roses ♦ bed of sickness ♦ bed of straw ♦ bed or pit ♦ bed out ♦ bed pad ♦ bed pavement ♦ bed pillow ♦ bed plane ♦ bed plants ♦ bed plate ♦ Bed Rest ♦ bed ridden ♦ bed rock ♦ bed room ♦ Bed screw ♦ bed shear stress ♦ bed sheet ♦ bed sitter ♦ bed smb. ♦ bed sore ♦ bed stead ♦ Bed steps ♦ bed suburb ♦ bed table ♦ bed time ♦ bed urinal ♦ bed warmer ♦ bed waves ♦ bed weather ♦ below the bed ♦ box bed ♦ bridal bed ♦ built in bed ♦ bunk bed ♦ camp bed ♦ capillary bed ♦ central subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis ♦ channel bed ♦ child of second bed ♦ chronic bed ♦ Coal bed ♦ come out from under the bed ♦ concrete bed. Additional references.

Beginning with "bed": bed-and-breakfast, bed-and-breakfasted, bed-and-breakfasts, bed-bag, bed-bath, bed-bathing, bed-baths, bed-blocker, bed-blockers, bed-blocking, bed-booking, bed-bound, bed-box, bed-bugs, bed-chair, Bed-chamber, bed-chambers, bed-clothes, bed-cover, bed-coverings, bed-covers, bed-cradle, bed-cred, bed-curtain, bed-curtains, bed-days, bed-d-ing, bed-edge, bed-fast, bed-fellow, bed-fellows, bed-head, bed-heads, bed-hoists, bed-hopping, bed-in, bed-jacket, bed-jumping, bed-lamp, bed-leg, bed-linen, bed-maker, bed-makers, bed-making, bed-mate, bed-mates, Bed-molding, Bed-moulding, bed-nights, bed-occupancy, bed-only, bed-pan, bed-pans, bed-parallel, bed-partners, bed-post, bed-posts, bed-push, bed-rest, bed-ridden, bed-rock, bed-roll, bed-rolls, bed-room, bed-sacks, bed-set, bed-setee, bed-settee, bed-sharing, bed-sheet, bed-sheets, bed-side, bed-side manner, bed-sit, bed-sits, bed-sitter, bed-sitters, bed-sitting, bed-sitting room, bed-sittingroom, bed-sitting-room, bed-sitting-rooms, bed-sitting-room-study, bed-size, bed-sized, bed-socks, bed-space, bed-spaces, bed-spring, bed-springs, bed-table, bed-tables, bed-ticking, bed-time, bed-use, bed-warmer, bed-wetter, bed-wetters, bed-wettin', bed-wetting, bed-willing.

Ending with "bed": box-bed, camp-bed, day-bed, death-bed, flower-bed, four-bed, hot-bed, red-bed, river-bed, sea-bed, seed-bed, sick-bed, single-bed, sofa-bed, ten-bed, test-bed, three-in-a-bed, track-bed.

Containing "bed": John-go-to-bed-at-noon.

Afrikaans

bed. (various references)

Albanian

bazament (basis, Mount, pedestal, plinth, podium), taban (crown, earth, pan, sole, subsoil), shtrojë (blanket, insole, seating), shtresë (coat, coating, course, covering, estate, flake, floor, horizon, layer, nappe, reach, region, seam, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, tract, wash), shtrat (berth, bottom, couch, crutch, floor, hotbed, kip, layer, rest, sack), shrati, postat (garden bed), lehe (flowerbed, garden plot, parterre), krevat (couch, kip), fund (back, base, bottom, death, decease, decline, doom, end, ending, epilogue, extremity, finality, finish, foot, foundation, ground, Omega, petticoat, quietus, rock bottom, skirt, sole, stub, tag, tail, tailpiece, terminal, termination), dyshek (mattress). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فراش (lie, mattress), ‏مهد (cradle, even, flat, flatten, grade, level, pave, plane, roll, smooth), ‏مسكبة, ‏مزهر (blooming, florentine, florid, lute), ‏مضجع (couch, recess, recumbent), ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏قعر (bottom, concave, depth, dish, floor, foot, hollow), ‏قاع (bottom), ‏غرس في مسكبة, ‏حشية (bolster, mattress, pad), ‏سرير (bedstead, couch, kip, lair, pallet), ‏شاطر (cunning, participate, share out, sly, smart), ‏بات (categorical, decisive, home, roost, square, unqualified). (various references)

Asturian

cama. (various references)

Aymara

iquiña (to sleep). (various references)

Basque

ohe. (various references)

Bavarian

bett. (various references)

Bemba

ubusanshi. (various references)

Blackfoot

akssín. (various references)

Bulgarian 

квартира (accommodation, diggings, digs, housing, lodgement, lodgings, lodgment, pad, place, quarterage, quarters, rooms, tenement), основа (accidence, alkali, base, basis, foot, footing, foundation, fundamental, grounding, groundwork, joint, lye, pedestal, radix, seat, seating, sole, staff, stem, substratum, substructure, theme, underpinning, warp, warp and woof), находище (field, trove), ложе, леговище (couch, den, earth, haunt, lair), легло (bunk, bye bye, cushion, doss, hay, kip, mounting, pad, pillow block, sack), баласт (ballast, deadwood, metal, padding), постеля (bedding, cover), пласт (coat, layer, mine, overlay, ply, region, sheet, stratum, thickness), дъно (bilge, bottom, hearth, sole). (various references)

Catalan

llit (sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place). (various references)

Cebuano

katre. (various references)

Chamorro

kama. (various references)

Chinese 

床 (7th heavenly stem, age, couch). (various references)

Cornish

gwely. (various references)

Croatian

kreveta. (various references)

Czech

postel (bedstead). (various references)

Danish

bed (nursery bed, ridge), seng. (various references)

Dutch

perk (boundary, frontier, lawn, limit), bed (bed of machine, bedding, berth, bunk, couch, rubble stones), tuinbed, bloemperk (flower bed). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

cahuitu. (various references)

Esperanto

bedo, lito, fluejo (watercourse). (various references)

Faeroese

song. (various references)

Farsi 

ته (Base, Bottom, Butt, Extremity, Heel, Stub), تشکیل طبقه دادن , طبقه (Caste, Category, Class, Estate, Genus, Grain, Ilk, Order, Race, Sort, Stage, Story, Stratum), رختخواب , بستر (Kip), باغچه (Garden). (various references)

Finnish

vuode (bedstead, double bed), alusta (base, basis, bench, chassis, coaster, easel, foundation, mat, mount, stand, tressle, workbench). (various references)

French

lit (bedding, berth), planche (nursery bed), plate-forme, couche, banc (bench), bâti (bench). (various references)

Frisian

bêd. (various references)

German

Bett (duvet, pad, quilt), Beet (border, patch, plot), setzen (assume, back, bet, build, compose, cross, erect, gamble, lay, lay down, move, picked, place, placement, plant, posit, put, put back, put down, seat, seed, set, setting, ship, sit, typeset), Lager (bearing, bloc, camp, camp of tents, compound, couch, encampment, encampments, lair, lode, pillow, shakedown, stock, stockpile, stockroom, store, storeroom, tented camp, warehouse), betten (bed down, beds, lay out, make a bed for, pillow, spread, spread out), Bank (bank, bench, crouch position, dock, easel, form, kitty, layer, pew, seat, settle, squab, tressle, workbench). (various references)

Greek 

κρεβάτι (berth, bunk, couch, sleeping accommodation), κοίτη (litter, river bed). (various references)

Hawaiian

shrati. (various references)

Hebrew 

מטה (below, beneath, bier, couch, down, downward, litter, sleeper, under, underneath), מרפד (couch, pad, panniculus), מצע (cot, couch, mattress), יצוע (couch), להשכיב (lay, put to bed), להציע את המטה (make the bed, spread out), להניח על יסוד, תשתית (base course, foundation, subsoil), קרקעית (bottom), פוריה (couch), ערש (couch, cradle, crib). (various references)

Hungarian

ágy (berth, couch, doss, kip, sack), meder (channel, course, watercourse, water-course), alj (depth, dregs, excrement, grounds, skirt). (various references)

Icelandic

rúm. (various references)

Indonesian

ranjang (iron bed), pembaringan, kebun (garden), kasur (mattress), dasar (background, basis, bottom, elementary, foundation, nature, principle, rudiment). (various references)

Inuktitut

igliq. (various references)

Irish

leaba. (various references)

Italian

letto (couch, kip, sack), strato (coat, coating, layer, ply, seam, stratum, stratus, tier), aiuola (flowerbed, flower-bed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

臥所 , 床 (7th in rank, alcove, floor, padding, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, sickbed), ベクトル値 (bechamel sauce, bed house, bedroom, bedroom community, bedroom scene, best, best condition, best dresser, best member, best ten, best-seller, bet, beta, better, better half, going to bed, having reached the quarterfinals, having reached the semifinals, vector value, vegetable, vegetarian, vest, vet, veteran, Vietnam), 枕席 (bedding), 層 (class, layer, seam, stream), 寝床 , 寝台 (couch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ベッド , そう (all, aspect, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), ねどこ, しんだい (couch, fortune, property), ねだい (couch), ふしど, とこ (alcove, endless, ever, padding, sickbed), ちんせき (bedding, sedimentation). (various references)

Kongo

mfulu. (various references)

Korean 

침대 (Bunk). (various references)

Lombard

lett. (various references)

Macedonian

krevet. (various references)

Manx

lhiaght (cairn, carn, couch, lair, lie, lodging place, lying place, sepulchre, standing stone, tomb), lhiabbagh (of a bed), immyr (butt, headland, ridge, shelf under water), cur lhiaght fo, cur coonlagh fo, behrtragh (spawning ground). (various references)

Maori

moenga. (various references)

Mohawk

kanakta. (various references)

Norwegian

seng. (various references)

Occitan

lièch. (various references)

Papago

wo'ikud. (various references)

Papiamen

kama. (various references)

Pig Latin

edbay.(various references)

Polish

łóżko. (various references)

Portuguese

canteiro (gauntry, plat), cama (couch, kip, lying, roost, shikar). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

leito. (various references)

Provencal

lièch. (various references)

Romanian

pat (bedstead, bunk, cot, couch, doss, layer, pad, pallet, stalemate). (various references)

Romany

than. (various references)

Ruanda

igitanda. (various references)

Russian 

постель (bedside, roost). (various references)

Samoan

moega. (various references)

Scottish

uirigh (a couch, couch, ledge in a precipice), leabaidh (a bed). (various references)

Sepedi

malao. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

postelja, ležaj (bearing, bunk), krevet (doss, flea-bag, kip), korito (trough). (various references)

Shona

mubhedha. (various references)

Sicilian

lettu. (various references)

Spanish

lecho (bedding, litter, riverbed), cama (couch, headboard, one bed, sack, sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place, with bed), cuadro (board, cadre, chart, delineation, diaphragm, frame, likeness, painting, parterre, patch, picture, plot, square, table, tableau), cauce (channel, nullah, riverbed, Wadi, watercourse), capa (band, beach mat, blanket, Capa, Cape, cloak, coat, coating, domesticity, dust-cloak, fees, film, layer, leafage, manta, Pall, ply, sheet, shell, sill, slick, varnish, wash), bancada (bedplate, thwart). (various references)

Sranan

bedi. (various references)

Swahili

kitanda. (various references)

Swazi

úm-bhédze. (various references)

Swedish

bädd (bedplate, foundation), säng (bedstead, flop, kip). (various references)

Tagalog

káma, higaan. (various references)

Tahitian

ro'i. (various references)

Thai

เตียงนอน, ชั้นหิน, ทำให้เป็นชั้น (layer), ฐานของถนนหรือรางรถไฟ, การนอนหลับ (shut-eye), การมีเพศสัมพันธ์ (bonk, friar tuck), ฝังลงไป (embed). (various references)

Turkish

yatak (bearings, berth, bunk, bye bye, den, doss, flop, haunt, hotbed, kip, mattress, recess, sack, seam, seating, seminary). (various references)

Turkmen 

krowat (r), dьюek (bedding, cushion). (various references)

Ukrainian

клумба (flowerbed, garden bed), постіль (bedside), ліжко (bedstead, berth, bunk, doss, kip), ночувати (doss, sleep), нічліг, горизонт (horizon, orison), полотно (canvas, cloth), класти в ліжко, станина (carcass, casing, entablature, entablement, holster), шар (flake, layer, ply, slice, stratum, thickness), талер, русло (channel, watercourse), слати підстилку, саджати (chair, plant, put), укладати спати (settle off), грядка (butt, garden bed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bước đường đầy chông gai sinh chết bệnh, bực dọc (shirty), trở dậy sớm, thôi đi! đuộc suỳ 5, say không biết trời đất gì cả đi ngủ sớm, im cái mồm đi!, chết già càu nhàu, cáu kỉnh (crossly, edgy, fretful, grouchy, huffish, peevish, querulous, savage, surly), đi ngủ từ lúc gà lên chuồng. (various references)

Welsh

gwely. (various references)

Zulu

umbhede. (various references)

ki-na. (various references)

alvei, alveo, alveos, alveum, alveus, carecto, carectum, cubile, cubili, cubilia, cubilibus, cubilis, cubitu, cubitum, cubitus, lectis, lecto, lectum, lectus, strata, strati, strato, stratum, stratumque, torace, toro, torum, torus, tramitem. (various references)

palyanka-s. (various references)

bedd, leger. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "bed": bedabble, bedabbled, bedabbles, bedabbling, bedamn, bedamned, bedamning, bedamns, bedarken, bedarkened, bedarkening, bedarkens, bedaub, bedaubed, bedaubing, bedaubs, bedazzle, bedazzled, bedazzlement, bedazzlements, bedazzles, bedazzling, bedbug, bedbugs, bedchair, bedchairs, bedchamber, bedchambers, bedclothes, bedcover, bedcovering, bedcoverings, bedcovers, beddable, bedded, bedder, bedders, bedding, beddings, bedeafen, bedeafened, bedeafening, bedeafens, bedeck, bedecked, bedecking, bedecks, bedel, bedell, bedells, bedels. (additional references)

Words ending with "bed": abed, absorbed, adsorbed, ascribed, backstabbed, barbed, beachcombed, bedaubed, bedumbed, benumbed, berobed, bibbed, bilobed, blabbed, blobbed, blubbed, blurbed, bobbed, bombed, boobed, bribed, bulbed, cabbed, chemisorbed, childbed, circumscribed, climbed, clubbed, cobwebbed, combed, confabbed, conglobed, conscribed, corymbed, crabbed, cribbed, crumbed, cubed, curbed, currycombed, dabbed, daubed, daybed, deathbed, demobbed, described, desorbed, dibbed, disrobed, disturbed, divebombed. (additional references)

Words containing "bed": albedo, albedoes, albedos, childbeds, crabbedness, crabbednesses, daybeds, deathbeds, disobedience, disobediences, disobedient, disobediently, embedded, embedding, embeddings, embedment, embedments, embeds, featherbedded, featherbedding, featherbeddings, featherbeds, flatbeds, flowerbeds, hotbeds, imbedded, imbedding, imbeds, interbedded, interbedding, interbeds, obedience, obediences, obedient, obediently, riverbeds, roadbeds, seabeds, seedbeds, sickbeds, slugabeds, streambeds, subedit, subedited, subediting, subeditor, subeditorial, subeditors, subedits, waterbeds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: badd, bado, badt, bdw, bec, beda, bedl, Bedo, bedr, bedu, beed, bef, beh, bei, beid, bej, bek, beld, bem, beo, beod, bep, beq, Berd, beu, bev, bew, Bex, bez, bfe, bhd, bhe, bidd, bied, bnd, bodb, boed, bqe, brd, bsdi, budd, budh, buld, bvd, byd, bydd, Bydv, byed, Cbde, ebc, ebdg, Ebv, qbid, ubed, ved, xed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deb.

-1 letter: be, de, ed.

+1 letter: abed, bade, bead, beds, bedu, bend, bide, bled, bode, bred, debs, debt.

+2 letters: abide, abode, adobe, ardeb, baaed, badge, baked, baled, baned, barde, bared, based, bated, bayed, beads, beady, beard, bedel, bedew, bedim, bends, bendy, bided, bider, bides, bidet, bield, biked, biped, blade, bleed, blend, blued, boded, bodes, boned, booed, bored, bowed, boxed, bread, brede, breed, bride, budge, bused, cebid, cubed, daube, debar, debit, debts, debug, debut, debye, demob, derby, dobie, dweeb, ebbed, embed, gibed, gybed, imbed, jibed, lobed, lubed, orbed, rebid, redub, robed, sabed, tubed.