8-letter words containing b, a, r, n
- baronial — If you describe a house or room as baronial, you mean that it is large, impressive, and old-fashioned in appearance, and looks as if it belongs to someone from the upper classes.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- baronize — to make or create (someone) a baron; confer the rank of baron upon.
- barracan — any of various thick, strong fabrics
- barranca — a ravine or precipice
- barrenly — Unfruitfully; unproductively.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- barspoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- barthian — of or relating to Karl Barth, or his ideas
- bartizan — a small turret projecting from a wall, parapet, or tower
- baryonic — of or relating to a baryon
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- bas-rhin — a department of NE France in Alsace region. Capital: Strasbourg. Pop: 1 052 698 (2003 est). Area: 4793 sq km (1869 sq miles)
- baseborn — born of humble parents
- bat turn — a sharp and sudden change in an aircraft's heading.
- battener — someone who flourishes, grows fat, is strengthened
- baudrons — a cat
- bavarian — of or relating to Bavaria or its inhabitants
- beancurd — Alternative spelling of bean curd.
- bearbine — a type of bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- bedarken — to make dark, to cover in darkness
- beer can — an aluminium can for beer
- belandre — bilander.
- belgrano — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1820, Argentine general.
- bemoaner — a person who bemoans
- benadryl — an antihistamine drug used in sleeping tablets; diphenhydramine. Formula: C17H21NO
- beranger — Pierre-Jean de (pjɛr ʒɑ̃ də). 1780–1857, French lyric and satirical poet
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- berezina — a river in Belarus, rising in the north and flowing south to the River Dnieper: linked with the River Dvina and the Baltic Sea by the Berezina Canal. Length: 563 km (350 miles)
- bergenia — an evergreen ground-covering plant
- beringia — the former land bridge between Siberia & Alas., over which Asian animals and peoples migrated into North America
- bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- 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.
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- berryman — John. 1914–72, US poet and critic, author of Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956) and Dream Songs (1964–68)
- bertrand — a masculine name
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- bilinear — of or referring to two lines
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- binaries — binary file
- binarism — the state of being binary
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.