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

  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • break away — If you break away from someone who is trying to hold you or catch you, you free yourself and run away.
  • break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break step — to cease to march in step
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
  • breakables — objects that are delicate and could be easily broken
  • breakdance — to perform break dancing.
  • breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
  • breastbone — Your breastbone is the long, flat bone which goes from your throat to the bottom of your ribs and to which your ribs are attached.
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
  • breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
  • breathable — A breathable fabric allows air to pass through it easily, so that clothing made from it does not become too warm or uncomfortable.
  • breathe in — When you breathe in, you take some air into your lungs.
  • breathless — If you are breathless, you have difficulty in breathing properly, for example because you have been running or because you are afraid or excited.
  • brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
  • brewmaster — a person who is in charge of brewing beer in a brewery
  • brian reid — (person)   The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
  • brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
  • bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
  • bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
  • bridezilla — a woman whose behaviour in planning the details of her wedding is regarded as intolerable
  • bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
  • bridgetalk — (language)   A visual language.
  • bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
  • bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
  • brigandage — plundering by brigands
  • brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
  • brigantine — a two-masted sailing ship, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft with square topsails on the mainmast
  • brilliance — great brightness; radiance
  • brilliante — with spirit; lively
  • brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
  • broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
  • broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
  • broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
  • broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
  • broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
  • broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
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