7-letter words containing b, r, i
- bernini — Gian Lorenzo (dʒan loˈrɛntso). 1598–1680, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor: the greatest exponent of the Italian baroque
- berried — producing or covered with berries
- berries — any small, usually stoneless, juicy fruit, irrespective of botanical structure, as the huckleberry, strawberry, or hackberry.
- berwick — James Fitzjames, Duke of Berwick. 1670–1734, marshal of France and illegitimate son of James II of England. He led French forces during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14)
- bestrid — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
- beziers — a city in S France: scene of a massacre (1209) during the Albigensian Crusade. It is a centre of the wine trade. Pop: 71 672 (2008)
- biafran — of or relating to Biafra or its inhabitants
- bibbery — drinking
- bichord — (of a musical instrument) having two strings for one note
- bicolor — of two colors
- bicorne — a two-cornered cocked hat worn especially in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- bidarka — a canoe covered in animal skins, esp sealskin, used by the Inuit of Alaska
- bifilar — having two parallel threads, as in the suspension of certain measuring instruments
- bifrost — the rainbow bridge of the gods from their realm Asgard to earth
- bigener — a hybrid between individuals of different genera
- bighorn — a large wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, inhabiting mountainous regions in North America and NE Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. The male has massive curved horns, and the species is well adapted for climbing and leaping
- bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
- bijapur — an ancient city in W India, in N Mysore: capital of a former kingdom, which fell at the end of the 17th century: cotton. Pop: 245 946 (2001)
- bikaner — a walled city in NW India, in Rajasthan: capital of the former state of Bikaner, on the edge of the Thar Desert. Pop: 529 007 (2001)
- bilayer — a cell membrane consisting of two layers
- biliary — of or relating to bile, to the ducts that convey bile, or to the gall bladder
- bimorph — an assembly of two piezoelectric crystals cemented together so that an applied voltage causes one to expand and the other to contract, converting electrical signals into mechanical energy. Conversely, bending can generate a voltage: used in loudspeakers, gramophone pick-ups, etc
- bimotor — an airplane or other vehicle that has two engines.
- binders — a person or thing that binds.
- bindery — a place in which books are bound
- bioherm — a mound of material laid down by sedentary marine organisms, esp a coral reef
- biophor — (in Weismann's theory of heredity) a hypothetical particle of the ultimate form of matter
- biotron — a climate-control chamber used to examine how living organisms respond to specific climatic conditions
- biovars — a group of microorganisms, usually bacteria, that have identical genetic but different biochemical or physiological characters.
- biparty — involving two parties
- bipolar — suffering from bipolar manic-depressive disorder
- biprism — a prism having a highly obtuse angle to facilitate beam splitting
- birchen — of or relating to birch.
- bircher — a member or supporter of the John Birch Society
- birddog — one of any of various breeds of dogs trained to hunt or retrieve birds.
- birdies — a small bird.
- birding — bird-watching
- birdman — a man concerned with birds, such as a fowler or ornithologist
- biretta — a stiff clerical cap having either three or four upright pieces projecting outwards from the centre to the edge: coloured black for priests, purple for bishops, red for cardinals, and white for certain members of religious orders
- biriani — a spicy Indian dish of rice with meat or vegetables, flavored with saffron or turmeric.
- birling — a game in which each of two lumberjacks, standing on the same floating log, birls the log so as to try to cause the other to fall off
- birlinn — a sea-going vessel used in the Middle Ages in Scotland's western highlands and islands
- birthed — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
- birther — a person who believes that Barack Obama, US President 2009–2017, was not born in the USA and was therefore not eligible to be President
- biryani — any of a variety of Indian dishes made with rice, highly flavoured and coloured with saffron or turmeric, mixed with meat or fish
- bistort — a Eurasian polygonaceous plant, Polygonum bistorta, having leaf stipules fused to form a tube around the stem and a spike of small pink flowers
- bit rot — (jargon) A hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has changed". The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled. People with a physics background tend to prefer the variant "bit decay" for the analogy with particle decay. There actually are physical processes that produce such effects (alpha particles generated by trace radionuclides in ceramic chip packages, for example, can change the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage), but they are quite rare (and computers are built with error detection circuitry to compensate for them). The notion long favoured among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth. Bit rot is the notional cause of software rot. See also computron, quantum bogodynamics.
- bittern — any wading bird of the genera Ixobrychus and Botaurus, related and similar to the herons but with shorter legs and neck, a stouter body, and a booming call: family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes
- bitters — bitter-tasting spirits of varying alcoholic content flavoured with plant extracts
- bizarre — Something that is bizarre is very odd and strange.