8-letter words containing b, n, a, i, r
- 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.
- 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.
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- 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)
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- carbinol — methanol
- carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- cinnabar — a bright red or brownish-red mineral form of mercuric sulphide (mercury(II) sulphide), found close to areas of volcanic activity and hot springs. It is the main commercial source of mercury. Formula: HgS. Crystal structure: hexagonal
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- crabbing — Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person.
- cumbrian — of or relating to Cumbria or its inhabitants
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- diborane — a colorless gas with an unpleasant odor, B 2 H 6 , used in the synthesis of organic boron compounds as a dope to introduce boron and as a polymerization catalyst for ethylene.
- endbrain — (neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the forebrain; the telencephalon.
- fairborn — a city in W Ohio, near Dayton.
- fibranne — viscose rayon made from spun yarn.
- fireband — A band or bond forged by fire.
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- grabbing — Present participle of grab.
- hairband — A band for securing or tying back one's hair.
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- hibernal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hibernia — Ireland.
- ibn-ezra — Abraham Ben Meir. 1093–1167, Jewish poet, scholar, and traveller, born in Spain
- inarable — Not arable.
- inboards — Plural form of inboard.
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- liberian — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- 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.
- madbrain — (archaic) A rash or hotheaded person.
- malibran — Maria Felicita [Spanish mah-ree-ah fe-lee-thee-tah] /Spanish mɑˈri ɑ ˌfɛ liˈθi tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1808–36, Spanish opera singer, born in France.