9-letter words containing b, a, n, r, i
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- branchio- — gills
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- brannigan — a noisy quarrel
- brasilein — brazilein
- brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
- brazilian — Brazilian means belonging or relating to Brazil, or to its people or culture.
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brilliant — A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- brinjarry — (in India) an itinerant grain and salt trader
- britannia — a female warrior carrying a trident and wearing a helmet, personifying Great Britain or the British Empire
- britannic — of Britain; British (esp in the phrases His or Her Britannic Majesty)
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
- carabiner — in mountain climbing, an oval metal ring with a snap link used to fasten a rope to the piton
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbineer — (formerly) a soldier equipped with a carbine
- carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical