11-letter words containing e, i, r
- bonbonniere — a small decorative box used to contain sweets
- bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
- bored stiff — very bored
- boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
- borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
- botheration — bother
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
- bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
- bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
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- boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
- bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
- box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- bravo-river — Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- brazzaville — the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)
- bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- break in on — to intrude on
- break it up — stop fighting
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick