10-letter words containing a, b, r, i
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- branchiate — having gills.
- brand nazi — a person who insists on buying one particular brand of clothing or other commodity
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brass ring — great success or a highly valued prize; also, an opportunity for this
- brassiness — made of or covered with brass.
- bratislava — the capital of Slovakia since 1918, a port on the River Danube; capital of Hungary (1541–1784) and seat of the Hungarian parliament until 1848. Pop: 428 672 (2001)
- bratticing — a partition or lining, as of planks or cloth, forming an air passage in a mine.
- brattiness — the quality of being bratty
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
- brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
- breathe in — When you breathe in, you take some air into your lungs.
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
- brian reid — (person) The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
- brick wall — a wall made out of brick
- 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
- brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- 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
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap