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).
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronxites — the, 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