Phrase Hound found 34 phrases and 15 compound words that contain beads. The most common are listed below. Open beads in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 34
- prayer beadsA string of beads used by members of various religions to count prayers, chants, or devotions.
- Glass beads
- love beadsplural of love bead: A bead made from a dyed seed pod, strung in a long beaded necklace and worn by men or women as part of countercultural fashion in the 1960s and 1970s.
- string of beadsUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see string, bead.
- worry beadsA set of beads on a circle of string which are manipulated through the fingers one at a time, intended to relieve stress or pass time.
- Baily's beadsA feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.
- bath beadsplural of bath bead: Bath salts in the form of a small sphere that dissolves when placed in water.
- seed beadsplural of seed bead: A spheroidal bead used in weaving.
- water beadsplural of water bead: Any gel which absorbs and contains a large amount of water.
- strings of beadsplural of string of beads: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see string, bead.
- pony beadsplural of pony bead: A large colorful plastic bead, rounded but flattened at the holes, associated with children's arts and crafts.
- Bailey's beadsMisspelling of Baily's beads: A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.
- Cuddy's beadsSynonym of St. Cuthbert's beads
- St. Cuthbert's beadsThe perforated joints of encrinites found on Lindisfarne.
- angle beadsplural of angle bead: A bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, especially for protecting an angle of a wall.
- jet beadsplural of jet bead: Rhodotypos scandens, a deciduous shrub in the family Rosaceae, with shiny black drupes.
- stop beadsplural of stop bead: The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.
- tire beadsplural of tire bead: the edge of a tire that sits in a groove in the rim.
- fairy-beadsThe separate joints of the stems of fossil crinoids found in carboniferous limestone.
- drop one's beadsTo reveal one's homosexuality.
- tyre beadsplural of tyre bead: the edge of a tire that sits in a groove in the rim.
- casing beadsplural of casing bead: A decorative trim or moulding used to help in forming the edges and corners of stucco and plasterwork.
- adder beadsplural of adder bead: A stone of varying forms and usually glassy with a naturally formed hole, which is often used as an amulet or bead.
- jumble-beadsplural of jumble-bead: A jequirity bean, the seed of the jequirity plant (Abrus precatorius) used in beadwork or making percussion instruments.
- dzi beadsplural of dzi bead: A kind of stone bead worn as an ornament for spiritual purposes in Tibet and other Central Asian cultures.
Compound words 15
- microbeadsplural of microbead: A microscopic bead of plastic used as an exfoliant in personal care products.
- lovebeadsplural of lovebead: A bead made from a dyed seed pod, strung in a long beaded necklace and worn by men or women as part of countercultural fashion in the 1960s and 1970s.
- immunobeadsplural of immunobead: A very small bead coated with an antigen (or antibody) that forms aggregates in the presence of the appropriate antibody (or antigen)
- adderbeadsplural of adderbead: A stone of varying forms and usually glassy with a naturally formed hole, which is often used as an amulet or bead.
- beadsmenplural of beadsman: A petitioner; someone who seeks some type of favour from another, usually from a superior.
- beadsnakeA small poisonous snake of North America, banded with yellow, red, and black: the eastern coral snake, Micrurus fulvius.
- beadswomanA female beadsman.
- beadswomenplural of beadswoman: A female beadsman.
- blackbeadsplural of blackbead: A tree or shrub of the genus Pithecellobium, native to the Americas.
- dynabeadssuperparamagnetic spherical polymer particles used for the adsorption or coupling of various bioreactive molecules or cells