8-letter words containing e, i, r
- berberis — any shrub of the berberidaceous genus Berberis
- berenice — a feminine name
- berezina — a river in Belarus, rising in the north and flowing south to the River Dnieper: linked with the River Dvina and the Baltic Sea by the Berezina Canal. Length: 563 km (350 miles)
- bergenia — an evergreen ground-covering plant
- bergerie — a farm, country estate, or other rural retreat maintained by a wealthy owner as a facility for rest and recreation.
- beriberi — a disease, endemic in E and S Asia, caused by dietary deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1). It affects the nerves to the limbs, producing pain, paralysis, and swelling
- berimbau — a Brazilian single-stringed bowed instrument, used to accompany capoeira
- beringed — wearing a ring or rings
- beringia — the former land bridge between Siberia & Alas., over which Asian animals and peoples migrated into North America
- berliner — a native or inhabitant of Berlin
- bernicia — a 6th- and 7th- century Anglian kingdom, merged with Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria, in present-day NE England and SE Scotland.
- bernicle — barnacle goose: a N European goose that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- berthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
- beryllia — beryllium oxide
- beshiver — to shatter
- besieger — to lay siege to.
- besmirch — If you besmirch someone or their reputation, you say that they are a bad person or that they have done something wrong, usually when this is not true.
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- bestride — To bestride something means to be the most powerful and important person or thing in it.
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
- bhelpuri — an Indian dish of puffed rice and vegetables
- bichrome — having two colours
- bierkase — a semisoft, strong white cow's-milk cheese that originated in Germany, and is eaten especially with beer.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- biforked — two-pronged
- big tree — a giant Californian coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, with a wide tapering trunk and thick spongy bark: family Taxodiaceae. It often reaches a height of 90 metres
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- bigender — Also, bigendered. noting or relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- bilberry — A bilberry is a small, round, dark-blue fruit that grows on bushes in northern Europe.
- bilinear — of or referring to two lines
- bimester — a period of two months
- binaries — binary file
- biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue
- biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birdfeed — food for birds
- birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
- birdlike — If someone has a birdlike manner, they move or look like a bird.
- birdlime — a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
- birdseed — Birdseed is seeds that you give to birds as food.
- birdseye — Clarence1886-1956; U.S. inventor of methods of quick-freezing foods
- birkbeck — George. 1776–1841, British educationalist, who helped to establish vocational training for working men: founder and first president of the London Mechanics Institute (1824), which later became Birkbeck College
- birretta — a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- biserial — in two rows
- bit rate — the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).