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8-letter words containing b, w, r

  • brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
  • brew pub — a bar serving beer brewed at a small microbrewery on the premises.
  • brewster — Sir David. 1781–1868, Scottish physicist, noted for his studies of the polarization of light
  • brigalow — any of various acacia trees
  • broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
  • browband — the strap of a horse's bridle that goes across the forehead
  • browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
  • browless — without eyebrows
  • browning — a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
  • brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
  • brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
  • brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
  • brownsonOrestes Augustus, 1803–76, U.S. writer.
  • browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
  • budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
  • burlwood — wood taken or cut from a burl.
  • burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
  • busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
  • buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
  • by water — by ship or boat
  • claw bar — a crowbar or lever having a bend at one end with a claw for pulling spikes.
  • cowberry — a creeping ericaceous evergreen shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, of N temperate and arctic regions, with pink or red flowers and edible slightly acid berries
  • cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
  • crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
  • crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
  • crew cab — A crew cab is a cab in a vehicle such as a fire engine that has been extended with a second row of seats to carry additional crew.
  • cribwork — a supporting framework of beams, logs, etc. built in layers, each layer having its unit at right angles to those of the layer below
  • crossbow — A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a small, powerful bow that is fixed across a piece of wood, and aimed like a gun.
  • crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
  • crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
  • crowboot — a type of Inuit boot made of fur and leather
  • cyberwar — The use of computers to disrupt the activities of an enemy country, especially the deliberate attacking of communication systems.
  • dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
  • dewberry — any trailing bramble, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe and NW Asia, having blue-black fruits
  • dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
  • drawable — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
  • drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
  • drawbars — Plural form of drawbar.
  • drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
  • drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
  • embowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embower.
  • eyebrows — Plural form of eyebrow.
  • furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
  • grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
  • growable — able to be cultivated or grown
  • grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
  • grubworm — grub (def 1).
  • highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
  • homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
  • imbowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbower.
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