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11-letter words containing e, i, r

  • bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
  • bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
  • bride-to-be — A bride-to-be is a woman who is soon going to be married.
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridge deck — a deck on top of a bridge house; flying bridge.
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
  • bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
  • bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
  • bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristlelike — resembling a bristle
  • bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
  • bristliness — the quality of being bristly
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brittleness — the quality of being brittle
  • broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
  • broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
  • broken wind — heaves
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
  • bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bullterrier — a breed of dog
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • bur chervil — a plant of the carrot family, Anthriscus caucalis, that is related to and resembles chervil
  • burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
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