8-letter words containing e, i, r
- bitchery — spiteful talk
- bittered — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bitterly — You use bitterly when you are describing an attitude which involves strong, unpleasant emotions such as anger or dislike.
- biyearly — every two years; biennial or biennially
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- blearily — (of the eyes or sight) blurred or dimmed, as from sleep or weariness.
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
- blinkers — If you describe someone as wearing blinkers, you think that they have a narrow point of view and are not taking other people's opinions into account.
- blipvert — a very short television advertisement
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- bluebird — any North American songbird of the genus Sialia, having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
- blurrier — blurred; indistinct.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- bob wire — barbed wire.
- boertjie — a person, esp a friend, often used as a term of address
- boilover — a surprising result in a sporting event, esp in a horse race
- boiserie — finely-sculptured wood panelling or wainscoating, particularly in 18th-century French architecture
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- borrelia — a genus of helical spirochete bacteria, some causing relapsing fever
- bouderie — sulkiness, pouting
- bourride — a Mediterranean fish soup flavoured with aioli
- boursier — a foundation level scholar
- bowrider — a motorboat with an open bow provided with seating.
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- braeheid — the summit of a hill or slope
- brailler — a device for producing text in Braille
- brainerd — a city in central Minnesota.
- brainier — intelligent; clever; intellectual.
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandied — flavored or blended with brandy
- brandise — a trivet
- brasiers — a person who makes articles of brass.
- brassier — made of or covered with brass.
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breadbin — a household container for bread, usually quite small
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- breeding — If someone says that a person has breeding, they mean that they think the person is from a good social background and has good manners.
- breezily — abounding in breezes; windy.
- breezing — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans