9-letter words containing e, b, i
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- boskiness — the quality of being bosky
- bossiness — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bottle it — If you say that someone has bottled it, you mean that they have lost their courage at the last moment and have not done something they intended to do.
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- boutiquey — having the characteristics of a boutique
- bowerbird — any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, of Australia and New Guinea. The males build bower-like display grounds in the breeding season to attract the females
- boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- braindead — having suffered brain death
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- brasilein — brazilein
- brasserie — A brasserie is a small and usually cheap restaurant or bar.
- brassiere — A brassiere is the same as a bra.
- brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brecciate — to form into breccia
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- breeze in — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brevities — shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life.
- brick red — a reddish-brown colour
- bricklike — resembling a brick
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bridecake — a wedding cake
- bridemaid — a bridesmaid
- bridewell — a house of correction; jail, esp for minor offences
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.