5-Letter Words Starting B & Ending I

• Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court

• An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, the word was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk.

• The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.

• The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like.

• A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.

• The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of married Hindu women.

• Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot.

• The common lawn weed, Soliva sessilis, introduced to Australia from South America.

• A seed of this plant, having small sharp spines which stick painfully into bare feet.

• Any of a number of plants of the genus Calotis which have small burrs with fine barbed awns.

• Any of a various plants of the genus Sclerolaena.

• East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil

• Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream

• an adult male singer with the lowest voice

• the lowest adult male singing voice