9-letter words containing b, e, r, i
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- blue wire — (IBM) Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems. These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire.
- blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- boil-over — an unexpected result.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bonderize — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- bowerbird — any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, of Australia and New Guinea. The males build bower-like display grounds in the breeding season to attract the females
- boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- brasilein — brazilein
- brasserie — A brasserie is a small and usually cheap restaurant or bar.
- brassiere — A brassiere is the same as a bra.
- brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
- 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.
- breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
- 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
- brecciate — to form into breccia
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- breeze in — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brevities — shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life.
- brick red — a reddish-brown colour
- bricklike — resembling a brick