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

  • liberian — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
  • lilburne — John. ?1614-57, English Puritan pamphleteer and leader of the Levellers, a radical group prominent during the Civil War
  • linear b — an ancient system of writing representing a very early form of Greek, deciphered by Michael Ventris chiefly from clay tablets found at Knossos on Crete and at Pylos.
  • linebred — produced by linebreeding.
  • lundberg — George A(ndrew) 1895–1966, U.S. sociologist and author.
  • lüneburg — a city in N Germany, in Lower Saxony: capital of the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 to 1369; prominent Hanse town; saline springs. Pop: 70 614 (2003 est)
  • membrain — Misspelling of membrane.
  • membrane — Anatomy. a thin, pliable sheet or layer of animal or vegetable tissue, serving to line an organ, connect parts, etc.
  • menu bar — a horizontal menu displayed at the top of a computer screen or window, listing available menus for an application, as File, Edit, and View.
  • narbonne — a city in S France: an important port in Roman times.
  • 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.
  • neighbor — a person who lives near another.
  • netrebko — Anna. born 1971, Russian operatic soprano
  • new bern — a city in E North Carolina.
  • newborns — A recently born child or animal.
  • newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
  • nibblers — Plural form of nibbler.
  • ninebark — any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Physocarpus, of the rose family, having bark that separates into thin layers.
  • noncyber — Not cyber; noncomputer.
  • november — the eleventh month of the year, containing 30 days.
  • numbered — Simple past tense and past participle of number.
  • numberer — One who numbers.
  • nurnberg — German name of Nuremberg.
  • oberland — a mountain region in central Switzerland, mostly in S Bern canton.
  • oberon-2 — (language)   A superset of Oberon-1, developed by H. Moessenboeck in 1991 to add object-orientation. Oberon-2 was a redesign of Object Oberon. It included type-bound procedures (equivalent to methods), read-only export of variables and record fields, open array variables, and a "with" statement with variants. It reintroduced the "for" statement. There is an Oberon-2 Lex scanner and Yacc parser by Stephen J Bevan of Manchester University, UK, based on the one in the Mo"ssenbo"ck and Wirth reference. Version 1.4.
  • oberon-v — (Formerly Seneca). R. Griesemer, 1990. Descendant of Oberon designed for numerical applications on supercomputers, especially vector or pipelined architectures. Includes array constructors and an ALL statement. "Seneca - A Language for Numerical Applications on Vectorcomputers", Proc CONPAR 90 - VAPP IV Conf. R. Griesemer, Diss Nr. 10277, ETH Zurich.
  • obtainer — One who obtains.
  • open bar — a bar at a reception that serves drinks whose cost has been borne by the host, an admission charge, a sponsor, etc.: Before the banquet there will be an open bar from 5 to 7 p.m.
  • orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
  • ovenbird — an American warbler, Seiurus aurocapillus, that builds an oven-shaped nest of leaves, twigs, etc., on the forest floor.
  • overbank — to have the balance staff oscillate so greatly that the fork of the lever fails to engage, rendering the escapement inoperative.
  • overbind — To bind or restrict to an excessive extent.
  • overborn — to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
  • overburn — to copy (information, music, etc) onto a CD over previously recorded data
  • penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
  • prunable — Archaic. to preen.
  • quiberon — a peninsula in NW France, on the S coast of Brittany: British naval victory over the French 1759. 6 miles (10 km) long.
  • rabatine — a type of collar or cape worn over the shoulders
  • rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
  • ratsbane — rat poison.
  • rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
  • re-begin — to begin (something) again
  • rebating — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
  • rebranch — (of a branch, tree, evolutionary tree, etc) to branch again
  • rebutton — to button (a garment, etc) again
  • red bank — a borough in E central New Jersey.
  • renminbi — the currency of the People's Republic of China, the basic unit of which is the yuan.
  • rent boy — A rent boy is a boy or young man who has sex with men for money.
  • renumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • reobtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
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