8-letter words containing b, e
- breughel — Jan Bruegel
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- brew pub — a bar serving beer brewed at a small microbrewery on the premises.
- brewster — Sir David. 1781–1868, Scottish physicist, noted for his studies of the polarization of light
- 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)
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- 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)
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- brighter — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brigitte — a female given name, French form of Bridget.
- brindled — brown or grey streaked or patched with a darker colour
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- brisbane — a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 2 189 878 (2013)
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadaxe — a type of axe with a large blade
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- broekies — underpants
- broguery — the use of a brogue or accent
- broidery — a piece of embroidery
- brokered — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bromberg — German name of Bydgoszcz.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
- bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
- brookite — a reddish-brown to black mineral consisting of titanium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in silica veins. Formula: TiO2
- brooklet — a small brook
- 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)
- browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- browless — without eyebrows
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- bruckner — Anton (ˈantoːn). 1824–96, Austrian composer and organist in the Romantic tradition. His works include nine symphonies, four masses, and a Te Deum