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Bendazac
Bendazac (bendazac lysine, bendazolic acid) is an indazole NSAID whose main action is inhibiting protein denaturation; its lysine salt was used as eyedrops and 500 mg oral tablets to delay cataract, and it was withdrawn in several regions over hepatotoxicity concerns.
Bendegúz Kovács
Bendegúz Kovács, Hungarian centre forward born 2007 in Fehérgyarmat, plays for AZ Alkmaar; 199 cm, left-footed, extended contract to 2029, scored 8 goals in 14 Eerste Divisie games for AZ II.
BenDeLaCreme
BenDeLaCreme is the stage name of American drag performer and producer Benjamin Putnam, a Drag Race season 6 Miss Congeniality and All Stars 3 record holder who tours The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show worldwide.
Bender (Futurama)
Bender Bending Rodríguez, known as Bender, is the robot bending unit of Futurama, voiced by John DiMaggio; built in Tijuana by Mom's Friendly Robot Company, alcohol-fueled, catchphrase "Bite my shiny metal ass."
Benders decomposition
Benders decomposition is an optimization method that solves large mixed-integer programs by splitting them into a master problem and a subproblem, introduced by J. F. Benders in 1962.
Bendigo
Bendigo, Victoria: major Australian inland regional city about 150 km northwest of Melbourne, formerly Sandhurst, built on one of the world's richest 19th-century goldfields; population about 126,000.
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited, also known as Bendigo Bank, is an Australian retail bank formed in 2007 by the merger of Bendigo Bank and Adelaide Bank.
Bending
Bending is the behavior of a slender structural element, such as a beam, under a load perpendicular to its axis, stretching one surface while the other compresses.
Bending (metalworking)
Bending, also called brake forming or metal bending, is a metalworking process that deforms sheet metal along a straight line to create an angle, usually on a press brake.
Bending beam rheometer
The bending beam rheometer (BBR) is a laboratory device measuring the low-temperature creep stiffness of asphalt binder, developed under the Strategic Highway Research Program to predict pavement cracking.
Bending moment
The bending moment is the internal moment a loaded beam must transmit at a cross section to stay in equilibrium, a standard calculation in structural engineering.
Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is a technology company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Milan, Italy, that acquires and operates consumer digital products including Evernote, Meetup, WeTransfer, and Vimeo.
Bending test
A bending test applies a transverse load to a supported beam specimen to measure flexural strength, flexural modulus, and failure behavior, often for brittle materials.
Bendiocarb
Bendiocarb (Ficam), CAS 22781-23-3, a carbamate acetylcholinesterase-inhibiting insecticide developed by Fisons for indoor residual spraying against malaria vectors and household pests; canceled in the US (2001) and banned in EU pesticides.
Bendito Mantato
Bendito Boanova Mantato (born 2008, Manchester) is an English wide forward at Manchester United, an academy member since 2017, England U15-U18 international, Premier League debutant on 30 December 2025 versus Wolves, professional contract to 2029, shirt 70.
Bendix Corporation
The Bendix Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded by Vincent Bendix in 1927 that made automotive brakes, aviation electronics, and NASA systems before its 1983 acquisition by Allied.
Bendorf
Bendorf, a town in Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine; recorded as Bodofrica in 643, a Roman Limes fort site, iron industry center (Sayner Hütte, 1769), with the Kulturpark Sayn; distinct from Bendorf in Haut-Rhin, France.
Bendroflumethiazide
Bendroflumethiazide, also known as bendrofluazide, is a thiazide diuretic used to treat high blood pressure and edema; it was FDA approved in 1959 and marketed as Naturetin and Aprinox.
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic first-person puzzle horror game (2017–2018) by Joey Drew Studios/TheMeatly Games, set in an abandoned 1930s cartoon workshop; known for its rubber-hose aesthetic, YouTube-driven success, and the Bendy franchise.
Bene Gesserit
Bene Gesserit: the all-women sisterhood of Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), combining spies, nuns, scientists, and theologians; known for the Kwisatz Haderach breeding program, the Voice, Other Memory, and the Missionaria Protectiva, distinct from the DUNE neutrino experiment.
Bene Israel (בני ישראל)
Bene Israel (בני ישראל), India's oldest and largest Jewish community, Marathi-speaking oil pressers of the Konkan coast near Mumbai, tracing their origin to a legendary 175 BCE shipwreck; about 5,000 remain in India after emigration to Israel.
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is a 1953 American adventure-romance about a feud between rival Greek-American families. It was one of the first films shot in CinemaScope.
Beneath the Eyrie
Beneath the Eyrie is the Pixies' seventh studio album, released September 13, 2019 on Infectious/BMG. Third post-reunion album, produced by Tom Dalgety at a converted church in Hurley, New York, titled after an eagle's nest.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), first sequel to Planet of the Apes, directed by Ted Post, starring James Franciscus and Charlton Heston; astronaut Brent finds telepathic mutants worshipping a doomsday bomb, and the film ends with Earth destroyed.
Beneath the Remains
Beneath the Remains is the third studio album by Brazilian band Sepultura, released in 1989 and credited with carrying the band into the international extreme metal scene.
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Patrick Horvath's IDW cozy-horror comic (2023), follows serial-killer bear Samantha Strong in the Busytown-like town of Woodbrook; its sequel is Rite of Spring (2025).
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, a six-issue IDW Dark cozy-horror comic (July 2025–March 2026) by Patrick Horvath, sequel to Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, following Monica's search for Samantha Strong's victim.
Beneden Head
Beneden Head, also Cap Van Beneden or Cabo Van Beneden, is a headland at the northeast entrance of Andvord Bay, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula; charted 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition and renamed Beneden Head in 1955.
Benedetta (film)
Benedetta (2021) is Paul Verhoeven's French-language historical drama about nun Benedetta Carlini, based on Judith C. Brown's Immodest Acts; it competed at Cannes 2021, stars Virginie Efira, and holds 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Benedetta Berti
Benedetta Berti is an Italian political scientist and security specialist who led NATO policy planning and became Secretary General of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in October 2025.