9-letter words containing e, i, r
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- batteries — a beating together of the calves or feet during a leap.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- be in for — If you say that someone is in for a shock or a surprise, you mean that they are going to experience it.
- be rid of — to be freed from or relieved of (something undesirable)
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.
- bear raid — an attempt to force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling
- bear with — If you ask someone to bear with you, you are asking them to be patient.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- bearishly — In a bearish manner.
- bearnaise — rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs, and seasoning
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- beastlier — Comparative form of beastly.
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- bebeerine — an alkaloid, resembling quinine, obtained from the bark of the greenheart and other plants
- becripple — to make or cause to become crippled.
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- bed liner — a stiff, durable plastic lining used to protect the bed and side walls of the cargo space of some pickup trucks
- bedridden — Someone who is bedridden is so ill or has such a severe disability that they cannot get out of bed.
- bedsitter — A bedsitter is the same as a bedsit.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- bellatrix — the third brightest star in the constellation Orion
- belvidere — a city in N Illinois.
- benefiter — a person who derives benefit
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- berberine — a yellow bitter-tasting alkaloid obtained from barberry and other plants and used medicinally, esp in tonics. Formula: C20H19NO5
- berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- berezniki — a city in E Russia: chemical industries. Pop: 169 000 (2005 est)
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- bergy bit — a small iceberg, somewhat larger than a growler.
- beriosova — Svetlana (svɪtˈlanə). 1932–98, British ballet dancer, born in Lithuania
- berkelium — a metallic transuranic element produced by bombardment of americium. Symbol: Bk; atomic no: 97; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Bk: 1400 years; valency: 3 or 4; relative density: 14 (est)
- berkshire — a historic county of S England: since reorganization in 1974 the River Thames has marked the N boundary while the Berkshire Downs occupy central parts; the county council was replaced by six unitary authorities in 1998. Area: 1259 sq km (486 sq miles)
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- bernstein — Leonard. 1918–90, US conductor and composer, whose works include The Age of Anxiety (1949), the score of the musical West Side Story (1957), and Mass (1971)
- berrylike — resembling a berry or berries
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- beryllium — a corrosion-resistant toxic silvery-white metallic element that occurs chiefly in beryl and is used mainly in X-ray windows and in the manufacture of alloys. Symbol: Be; atomic no: 4; atomic wt: 9.012; valency: 2; relative density: 1.848; melting pt: 1289°C; boiling pt: 2472°C
- berzelius — Baron Jöns Jakob (ˈjœns ˈjɑːkɔp). 1779–1848, Swedish chemist, who invented the present system of chemical symbols and formulas, discovered several elements, and determined the atomic and molecular weight of many substances
- besiegers — to lay siege to.