A kind of cotton cloth woven with coloured stripes.

4,5,6,7-tetrachloro-2',4',5',7'-tetraiodofluorescein, a stain whose sodium salt is commonly used in eyedrops to stain damaged cells and thereby identify damage.

(historical) The eastern part of Bengal before it split from India, today as Bangladesh.

An Indian dish of potatoes baked with spices and then battered and deep-fried.

plural of Bengalese finch

A domesticated estrildid finch, Lonchura striata domestica or Lonchura domestica, thought to have been bred from the white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata).

plural of bengaline

A bright blue flare prepared from nitre, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks.

A fabric made from silk and worsted; poplin.