8-letter words containing b, r, i, n
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- befinger — to finger all over
- befriend — If you befriend someone, especially someone who is lonely or far from home, you make friends with them.
- befringe — to decorate with a fringe
- beginner — A beginner is someone who has just started learning to do something and cannot do it very well yet.
- benidorm — a coastal resort town in W Spain, on the Costa Blanca
- benitier — a basin to hold holy water
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- berenice — a feminine name
- berezina — a river in Belarus, rising in the north and flowing south to the River Dnieper: linked with the River Dvina and the Baltic Sea by the Berezina Canal. Length: 563 km (350 miles)
- bergenia — an evergreen ground-covering plant
- beringed — wearing a ring or rings
- beringia — the former land bridge between Siberia & Alas., over which Asian animals and peoples migrated into North America
- berliner — a native or inhabitant of Berlin
- bernicia — a 6th- and 7th- century Anglian kingdom, merged with Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria, in present-day NE England and SE Scotland.
- bernicle — barnacle goose: a N European goose that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- berthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- big iron — (jargon) (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
- bigender — Also, bigendered. noting or relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- bilinear — of or referring to two lines
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- binaries — binary file
- binarism — the state of being binary
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
- birdwing — a type of large, tropical butterfly
- birthing — Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth.
- blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- blinkers — If you describe someone as wearing blinkers, you think that they have a narrow point of view and are not taking other people's opinions into account.
- blogring — a group of blogs joined in a ring
- blowiron — blowpipe (def 2).
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
- borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bornitic — of or relating to bornite
- borodino — a village in E central Russia, about 110 km (70 miles) west of Moscow: scene of a battle (1812) in which Napoleon defeated the Russians but irreparably weakened his army
- bow-iron — (on the car of a sidewalk elevator) a metal arch for parting the cellar doors as the elevator rises.
- box iron — a flatiron that is heated by inserting live coals or a piece of hot metal in its boxlike holder.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- brahmani — a woman of the Brahman caste
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- braiding — braids collectively