8-letter words containing b, e, r, n
- ringbone — a morbid bony growth on the pastern bones of a horse, often resulting in lameness.
- roebling — John Augustus, 1806–69, U.S. engineer, born in Germany: pioneer of wire-rope suspension bridges, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- rubellan — a red-coloured mineral
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- runeberg — Johan Ludvig 1804–77, Finnish poet, who wrote in Swedish. His works include the epic King Fialar (1844) and patriotic poems including the Finnish national anthem
- runnable — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sea-born — born in or of the sea, as naiads.
- seaborne — transported by ship over the sea.
- seremban — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
- siberian — Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
- skyborne — airborne.
- snobbery — snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.
- snobbier — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- sobranje — the national assembly of Bulgaria, consisting of a single chamber of elected deputies.
- sorbonne — the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
- subgenre — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- sun bear — a small bear, Helarctos malayanus, of tropical forests in S and SE Asia, having a black coat and a yellowish snout and feeding mostly on honey and insects
- sunberry — wonderberry.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- sungrebe — finfoot.
- t number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- t-number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tenebrae — the office of matins and lauds for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, sung respectively on the afternoon of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week, at which the Crucifixion is commemorated by the gradual extinguishment of candles.
- tenebrio — a type of small mealworm
- terebene — a mixture of terpenes that occurs as a colorless liquid, used in medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- tiberian — of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
- tjirebon — a seaport on N Java, in S central Indonesia.
- trebling — threefold; triple.
- trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- turbaned — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turbined — having or passing through a turbine or turbines
- turnable — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- unbarbed — barbless.
- unbarred — not provided or fastened with a bar or bars: an unbarred door.
- unbereft — not bereft, deprived of, or taken from
- unbitter — not bitter; not having or expressing bitterness
- unbreech — to remove the breeches from (a person)
- unbridle — to remove the bridle from (a horse, mule, etc.).
- unbroken — not broken; whole; intact.
- unburden — to free from a burden.