8-letter words containing b, e, r, i
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- brighter — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brigitte — a female given name, French form of Bridget.
- brindled — brown or grey streaked or patched with a darker colour
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- brisbane — a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 2 189 878 (2013)
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- broekies — underpants
- broidery — a piece of embroidery
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
- bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
- brookite — a reddish-brown to black mineral consisting of titanium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in silica veins. Formula: TiO2
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
- bubblier — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- burleigh — Burghley
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- by-liner — a writer whose work is accompanied by a by-line
- 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
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- cerebric — pertaining to or derived from the brain.
- chabrier — (Alexis) Emmanuel (emanɥɛl). 1841–94, French composer; noted esp for the orchestral rhapsody España (1883)
- cherubic — If someone looks cherubic, they look sweet and innocent like a cherub.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- claribel — a female given name.
- climbers — Plural form of climber.
- combiner — Any of various electronic devices that combine signals, in particular.
- corbeils — Plural form of corbeil.