Words That End With: IBES

• take in, also metaphorically

• take (gas, light or heat) into a solution

• take in liquids

• receive into the mind and retain

• informal terms for journalists

• French playwright (1791-1861)

• someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

• a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut

• score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

• small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

• ulcerated chilblain on the heel

• a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound

• payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment

• make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

• a social division of (usually preliterate) people

• a federation (as of American Indians)

• (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily

• group of people related by blood or marriage

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to Northern Hemisphere