5-letter words containing e, b, r
- breve — an accent, (˘), placed over a vowel to indicate that it is of short duration or is pronounced in a specified way
- bribe — A bribe is a sum of money or something valuable that one person offers or gives to another in order to persuade him or her to do something.
- brice — Fanny, real name Fannie Borach. 1891–1951, US actress and singer. The film Funny Girl was based on her life
- bride — A bride is a woman who is getting married or who has just got married.
- brief — Something that is brief lasts for only a short time.
- brier — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
- brine — Brine is salty water, especially salty water that is used for preserving food.
- brise — an area of untilled land
- broke — Broke is the past tense of break.
- brome — any of a large genus (Bromus) of grasses of the temperate zone, having closed sheaths and spikelets with awns: a few are crop plants but many are weeds
- brose — oatmeal or pease porridge, sometimes with butter or fat added
- bruce — James. 1730–94, British explorer, who discovered the source of the Blue Nile (1770)
- brule — (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
- brume — heavy mist or fog
- brute — If you call someone, usually a man, a brute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive.
- bryce — Viscount James1838-1922; Eng. jurist, statesman, & historian, born in Ireland
- buber — Martin. 1878–1965, Jewish theologian, existentialist philosopher, and scholar of Hasidism, born in Austria, whose works include I and Thou (1923), Between Man and Man (1946), and Eclipse of God (1952)
- buret — a graduated glass tube, commonly having a stopcock at the bottom, used for accurately measuring or measuring out small quantities of liquid.
- burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
- burse — a flat case used at Mass as a container for the corporal
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
- byrne — Donn [don] /dɒn/ (Show IPA), Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald.
- caber — A caber is a long, heavy, wooden pole. It is thrown into the air as a test of strength in the traditional Scottish sport called 'tossing the caber'.
- cabre — heraldic term designating an animal rearing
- cuber — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- cyber — Of, relating to, or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality.
- debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
- debir — a royal city in the vicinity of Hebron, conquered by Othniel.
- debra — a feminine name: dim. Debbie, Debby
- debur — to remove burs from (a piece of machined metal)
- derby — The Derby is the name of a race for three-year-old horses that takes place each year. In Britain, it refers to a race that takes place in Epsom. In the United States, it refers particularly to the Kentucky Derby.
- ebert — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1871–1925, first president of Germany 1919–25.
- ebery — Eye dialect of every.
- ebor. — Eboracensis
- embar — (archaic) To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
- ember — A small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire.
- erbia — (inorganic compound) erbium oxide Er2O3; Discovered in 1843, by Carl Gustaf Mosander.
- erbil — a city in N Iraq: important in Assyrian times. Pop: 870 000 (2005 est)
- exurb — A district outside a city, especially a prosperous area beyond the suburbs.
- fabre — Jean Henri [zhahn ahn-ree] /ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1823–1915, French entomologist and popular writer on insect life.
- fiber — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- fibre — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- garbe — a wheat-sheaf
- geber — (Jabir ibn Hayyan) 8th-century a.d, Arab alchemist.
- gebur — a tenant farmer
- gerbe — (now obsolete) A (wheat) sheaf.
- giber — to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
- grebe — any diving bird of the family Podicipedidae, related to the loons, but having a rudimentary tail and lobate rather than webbed toes.
- grebo — (slang, UK, predominantly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
- haber — Fritz, 1868–1934, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1918.