11-letter words containing b, r, i, c
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
- boring clam — piddock
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- box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
- brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
- brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- bradycardia — an abnormally low rate of heartbeat
- bradycardic — a slow heartbeat rate, usually less than 60 beats per minute.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- braggadocio — vain empty boasting
- brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
- brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
- brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
- brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
- branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- bric-a-brac — Bric-a-brac is a number of small ornamental objects of no great value.
- brick-built — made of bricks
- bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
- brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
- bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
- brood bitch — a female dog used for breeding.
- brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- bur chervil — a plant of the carrot family, Anthriscus caucalis, that is related to and resembles chervil