10-letter words containing a, n, b, r
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
- brazenness — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- 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 wind — to emit wind from the anus
- break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
- 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
- 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.
- breathe in — When you breathe in, you take some air into your lungs.
- 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.
- 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
- bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- bronze age — The Bronze Age was a period of time which began when people started making things from bronze about 4,000–6,000 years ago.
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- browbeaten — intimidated
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brown bear — a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia
- brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- brown coat — arriccio.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush