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9-letter words containing b, e, r, i

  • bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
  • bridecake — a wedding cake
  • bridemaid — a bridesmaid
  • bridewell — a house of correction; jail, esp for minor offences
  • bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
  • bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
  • bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
  • briefcase — A briefcase is a case used for carrying documents in.
  • briefless — (said of a barrister) without clients
  • brierroot — brier2 (sense 2)
  • brierwood — brierroot
  • brigadier — A brigadier is a senior officer who is in charge of a brigade in the British armed forces.
  • brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
  • brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
  • brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
  • brineless — without brine
  • briolette — a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets
  • briquette — a small brick made of compressed coal dust, sawdust, charcoal, etc, used for fuel
  • briskness — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
  • britisher — In American English or old-fashioned British English, British people are sometimes informally referred to as Britishers.
  • britishes — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
  • broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
  • broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
  • broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
  • broadwise — breadthwise
  • broderick — a male given name.
  • broiderer — an embroiderer
  • brokering — the work of a broker or brokerage
  • bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
  • bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
  • bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
  • bromfieldLouis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
  • brominate — to treat or react with bromine
  • bronxitesthe, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
  • brooklike — resembling a brook
  • brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
  • brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
  • browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets
  • brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
  • brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
  • brutelike — beastlike, brutish
  • bucuresti — Bucharest
  • buffering — temporary storage of data
  • bullbrier — a prickly vine of the genus Smilax, with small green flowers and inedible black berries
  • bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
  • buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
  • burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
  • burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
  • burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
  • buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
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