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8-letter words containing b, e, r, k

  • brookner — Anita. 1928–2016, British writer and art historian. Her novels include Hotel du Lac (1984), which won the Booker Prize, Brief Lives (1990), and The Next Big Thing (2002)
  • bruckner — Anton (ˈantoːn). 1824–96, Austrian composer and organist in the Romantic tradition. His works include nine symphonies, four masses, and a Te Deum
  • buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
  • crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
  • creekbed — Alternative spelling of creek bed.
  • dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
  • daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
  • debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
  • debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
  • debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
  • debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
  • delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
  • diarbekr — Diyarbakir.
  • dirtbike — An off-road motorcycle.
  • embanker — a person who makes an embankment
  • embarked — Go on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
  • embarkee — One who embarks on a vessel such as a ship or plane.
  • fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
  • go broke — a simple past tense of break.
  • greyback — grayback.
  • grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
  • hardbake — almond toffee
  • hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
  • herblike — Resembling a herb or some aspect of one.
  • herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
  • herdbook — A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of cattle.
  • hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
  • inkberry — Also called gallberry. a shrub, Ilex glabra, having leathery, evergreen leaves and black berries.
  • kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
  • kerberos — Cerberus (def 1).
  • kerbside — a side of a pavement or street bordered by a curb.
  • keurboom — (South Africa) A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for it's pretty lilac flowers.
  • keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • kibitzer — a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice.
  • kimberly — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
  • kornberg — Arthur, 1918–2007, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
  • markable — Capable of being marked.
  • nebraska — a state in the central United States. 77,237 sq. mi. (200,044 sq. km). Capital: Lincoln. Abbreviation: NE (for use with zip code), Nebr., Neb.
  • netrebko — Anna. born 1971, Russian operatic soprano
  • ninebark — any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Physocarpus, of the rose family, having bark that separates into thin layers.
  • outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
  • outbroke — Simple past form of outbreak.
  • overbake — (transitive) To bake for too long.
  • overbank — to have the balance staff oscillate so greatly that the fork of the lever fails to engage, rendering the escapement inoperative.
  • overbook — to accept reservations for in excess of the number that can be accommodated: The airline routinely overbooks its flights so as to fill its planes even if there are last-minute cancellations.
  • overbulk — to dwarf or loom over in an oppressive way
  • parbreak — to spew or vomit (up or out)
  • pembroke — a borough in Dyfed, in SW Wales: birthplace of King Henry VII.
  • pre-bake — to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
  • re-break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
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