4-letter words containing b, r
- brux — to grind the teeth, esp unconsciously
- btrl — (company) British Telecom Research Laboratories.
- btry — battery (of artillery)
- buhr — burstone.
- burb — a suburb
- burd — a young lady; maiden.
- burg — a fortified town
- buri — the first of the gods, revealed when the cow Audhumla licked away the salty ice that covered him.
- burk — Martha Jane, 1852?–1903, Calamity Jane.
- burl — a small knot or lump in wool
- burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- burp — When someone burps, they make a noise because air from their stomach has been forced up through their throat.
- burr — A burr is the part of some plants which contains seeds and which has little hooks on the outside so that it sticks to clothes or fur.
- burt — William Austin, 1792–1858, U.S. surveyor and inventor.
- buru — island of Indonesia, in the Molucca group: 3,670 sq mi (9,505 sq km)
- bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- byer — Sports. in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round: The top three seeded players received byes in the first round.
- byrd — Richard Evelyn. 1888–1957, US rear admiral, aviator, and polar explorer
- byre — A byre is a cowshed.
- carb — Carbs are foods such as potatoes, pasta, and bread, that contain a lot of carbohydrate.
- cber — a person who owns and operates a CB radio.
- cbir — (image) content-based information retrieval.
- cbrn — (of weapons or warfare) chemical, bacteriological, radiological, or nuclear
- cgbr — Central Government Borrowing Requirement
- cirb — Canada Industrial Relations Board
- corb — A basket used in coal mines, etc.; a corf.
- crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
- creb — cyclic amp-response element binding protein; a protein involved in the long-term memory process
- crib — A crib is a bed for a small baby.
- curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- darb — something excellent of its kind
- drab — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- drib — a small or minute quantity; bit.
- drub — to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
- eber — Eye dialect of ever.
- ebrd — European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- ebro — a river flowing SE from N Spain to the Mediterranean. About 470 miles (755 km) long.
- farb — (US) A historical reenactor (especially a US civil war reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion of the speaker, inadequate. (For example, wearing a modern wristwatch with period costume.) The opposite of farb is \"hard-core\" (or hardcore), someone who is, in the opinion of the speaker, an \"authenticity fanatic\".
- forb — any herb that is not a grass or grasslike.
- frab — to harass; to nag
- frib — a short heavy-conditioned piece of wool removed from a fleece during classing
- frob — (jargon, MIT) Any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated.
- garb — a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind: in the garb of a monk.
- gerb — A firework that produces a fountain of sparks.
- grab — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- grib — GRid In Binary. The World Meteorological Organization's data format.
- grub — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- herb — a male given name, form of Herbert.
- ibrd — International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank)
- irbm — intermediate range ballistic missile