10-letter words containing b, e, n, i
- brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- branchiate — having gills.
- 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
- brassiness — made of or covered with brass.
- brattiness — the quality of being bratty
- 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 into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breathe in — When you breathe in, you take some air into your lungs.
- brian reid — (person) The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- brig. gen. — Brig. Gen. is a written abbreviation for brigadier general.
- 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
- brigantine — a two-masted sailing ship, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft with square topsails on the mainmast
- brightener — a person or thing that brightens.
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brightness — the condition of being bright
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- brinelling — a localized surface corrosion; a cause of damage to bearings
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- brunetiere — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French literary critic.
- 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.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
- bug-ridden — full of insects
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bunionette — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burnettize — to preserve (timber) with a solution of zinc chloride
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
- burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.