11-letter words containing b, r, i, n
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- broken wind — heaves
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- brown swiss — a hardy breed of large, brown dairy cattle, first raised in Switzerland
- brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- bull riding — a rodeo event in which a contestant tries to ride a bucking bull for eight seconds, with one hand holding a rope tied to a band around the bull's chest.
- bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
- buon giorno — good day; hello
- burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
- calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- canoe birch — paper birch.
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carabineers — Plural form of carabineer.
- carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
- carabiniere — an Italian national policeman
- carabinieri — a member of the Italian national police force, organized as a military unit and charged with maintaining public security and order as well as assisting local police.
- carbamidine — guanidine.
- carbocation — (chemistry) any cation containing an excess positive charge on one or more carbon atoms.
- carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
- carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
- carbonation — absorption of or reaction with carbon dioxide
- carbonatite — a rare intrusive or extrusive igneous rock, mostly found in Africa, that contains a high proportion of carbonate minerals
- carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
- carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
- celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
- celtiberian — a member of a Celtic people (Celtiberi) who inhabited the Iberian peninsula during classical times
- centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
- cerebrating — Present participle of cerebrate.
- cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- cinnabarine — Resembling, containing, or relating to cinnabar.
- color-blind — Someone who is color-blind cannot see the difference between colors, especially between red and green.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.