9-letter words containing b, r, i, n
- barbadian — Barbadian means belonging or relating to Barbados or its people.
- barbarian — In former times, barbarians were people from other countries who were thought to be uncivilized and violent.
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- bardolino — a light dry red wine produced around Verona in NE Italy
- barenboim — Daniel. born 1942, Israeli concert pianist and conductor, born in Argentina
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- bargainer — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- baritonal — of or relating to a baritone
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barraging — Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- bartizans — Plural form of bartizan.
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- be in for — If you say that someone is in for a shock or a surprise, you mean that they are going to experience it.
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.
- bearnaise — rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs, and seasoning
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- bebeerine — an alkaloid, resembling quinine, obtained from the bark of the greenheart and other plants
- bed liner — a stiff, durable plastic lining used to protect the bed and side walls of the cargo space of some pickup trucks
- bedridden — Someone who is bedridden is so ill or has such a severe disability that they cannot get out of bed.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- benefiter — a person who derives benefit
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- berberine — a yellow bitter-tasting alkaloid obtained from barberry and other plants and used medicinally, esp in tonics. Formula: C20H19NO5
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- berezniki — a city in E Russia: chemical industries. Pop: 169 000 (2005 est)
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- bernstein — Leonard. 1918–90, US conductor and composer, whose works include The Age of Anxiety (1949), the score of the musical West Side Story (1957), and Mass (1971)
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- bicentric — having two centres
- bick-iron — the tapered end of an anvil.
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bilirubin — an orange-yellow pigment in the bile formed as a breakdown product of haemoglobin. Excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance associated with jaundice. Formula: C32H36O6N4
- bin liner — A bin liner is a plastic bag that you put inside a waste bin or dustbin.
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.