8-letter words containing b, r, a, m
- beltrami — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1900, Italian mathematician.
- bemoaner — a person who bemoans
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- berimbau — a Brazilian single-stringed bowed instrument, used to accompany capoeira
- bermudas — a group of islands in the Atlantic, 580 miles (935 km) E of North Carolina: a British colony; resort. 19 sq. mi. (49 sq. km). Capital: Hamilton.
- berryman — John. 1914–72, US poet and critic, author of Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956) and Dream Songs (1964–68)
- binarism — the state of being binary
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
- bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
- blackmur — R(ichard) P(almer) 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.
- boardman — a member of a board
- bombarde — an alto wind instrument similar to the oboe or medieval shawm, used mainly in Breton traditional music
- bookmark — A bookmark is a narrow piece of card or leather that you put between the pages of a book so that you can find a particular page easily.
- bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brahmana — any of a number of sacred treatises added to each of the Vedas
- brahmani — a woman of the Brahman caste
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- 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
- brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bramwell — a male given name.
- 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
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- byre-man — a man who raises or tends cows.
- cambered — Having camber.
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- car bomb — A car bomb is a bomb which is inside a car, van, or truck.
- car-bomb — a bomb placed in a vehicle and wired to explode when the ignition is started, by remote control, or by a timing device.
- carbamic — of or derived from carbamic acid.
- carbamyl — a radical, NH2CO, that is derived from carbamic acid
- chambers — a judge's room for hearing cases not taken in open court
- chambery — a city in SE France, in the Alps: skiing centre; former capital of the duchy of Savoy. Pop: 59 188 (2006)
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau