8-letter words containing a, c, r, i
- bacillar — (biology) Shaped like a rod or staff.
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- bactrian — of or relating to Bactria
- baldrick — a belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip, supporting a sword, horn, etc.
- baldrics — Plural form of baldric.
- balearic — of or relating to the Balearic Islands
- barbaric — If you describe someone's behaviour as barbaric, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
- barbican — a walled outwork or tower to protect a gate or drawbridge of a fortification
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- baryonic — of or relating to a baryon
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- beccaria — Cesare Bonesana (ˈtʃɛzare bɔnɛˈzɑːna), Marchese de. 1738–94, Italian legal theorist and political economist; author of the influential treatise Crimes and Punishments (1764), which attacked corruption, torture, and capital punishment
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bernicia — a 6th- and 7th- century Anglian kingdom, merged with Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria, in present-day NE England and SE Scotland.
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- biracial — for, representing, or including members of two races, esp White and Black
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birdcall — the characteristic call or song of a bird
- bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- borachio — a wine carrier made from animal skin, used in Spain
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- brachial — of or relating to the arm or to an armlike part or structure
- brachio- — indicating a brachium
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- braciola — (in Italian cooking) a thin slice of pan-fried beef
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- brainiac — a highly intelligent person
- branchia — a gill in aquatic animals
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- brassica — Brassicas are vegetables such as cabbages, broccoli and turnips.
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- cabrilla — any of various serranid food fishes, esp Epinephelus analogus, occurring in warm seas around Florida and the Caribbean
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- caesuric — caesural
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cagliari — a port in Italy, the capital of Sardinia, on the S coast. Pop: 164 249 (2001)