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11-letter words containing a, b, e, r

  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
  • brattleboro — a town in SE Vermont.
  • bravo-river — Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
  • brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
  • brazzaville — the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)
  • bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
  • bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
  • break a leg — to performer: good luck
  • break bread — to eat a meal, esp with others
  • break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
  • break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • break it up — stop fighting
  • break loose — to free oneself by force
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
  • breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
  • breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
  • breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
  • breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
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