8-letter words containing b, e, r, n
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- bigender — Also, bigendered. noting or relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- bilinear — of or referring to two lines
- binaries — binary file
- blancher — someone who blanches
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blencher — someone employed to scare or obstruct
- blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
- blinkers — If you describe someone as wearing blinkers, you think that they have a narrow point of view and are not taking other people's opinions into account.
- blue run — an easy run, suitable for beginners
- bondager — someone who performs bondservice; a bondman
- bone dry — If you say that something is bone dry, you are emphasizing that it is very dry indeed.
- bone-dry — very dry.
- boneyard — a cemetery; graveyard
- bongrace — a brim or shade on the front of women's bonnets or hats, intended to protect the face from the sun
- borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- bourgeon — burgeon
- braeburn — a variety of eating apple from New Zealand having sweet flesh and green and red skin
- brainerd — a city in central Minnesota.
- brainier — intelligent; clever; intellectual.
- brakeman — a crew member of a goods or passenger train. His duties include controlling auxiliary braking power and inspecting the train
- bramante — Donato (doˈnato). ?1444–1514, Italian architect and artist of the High Renaissance. He modelled his designs for domed centrally planned churches on classical Roman architecture
- branched — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- brancher — a young bird which has left the nest but which is not yet fully able to fly
- branches — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- brandade — a Provençal dish of salt cod puréed with olive oil and milk
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandied — flavored or blended with brandy
- brandise — a trivet
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- breadbin — a household container for bread, usually quite small
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- breeding — If someone says that a person has breeding, they mean that they think the person is from a good social background and has good manners.
- breezing — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- bren gun — an air-cooled gas-operated light machine gun taking .303 calibre ammunition: used by British and Commonwealth forces in World War II
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- bretagne — Brittany2
- brethren — You can refer to the members of a particular organization or group, especially a religious group, as brethren.
- brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich (lɪaˈnit ˈilitʃ). 1906–82, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1977–82); general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1964–82)
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bridgend — a county borough in S Wales, created in 1996 from S Mid Glamorgan. Administrative centre: Bridgend. Pop: 129 900 (2003 est). Area: 264 sq km (102 sq miles)
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.