8-letter words containing e, s, r
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandise — a trivet
- brasiers — a person who makes articles of brass.
- brassage — a fee charged for coining money
- brassier — made of or covered with brass.
- brazers' — to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- breasted — having a breast.
- breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- breeches — Breeches are trousers which reach as far as your knees.
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- brewster — Sir David. 1781–1868, Scottish physicist, noted for his studies of the polarization of light
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- brisbane — a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 2 189 878 (2013)
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broekies — underpants
- browless — without eyebrows
- brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
- brussels — the capital of Belgium, in the central part: became capital of Belgium in 1830; seat of the European Commission. Pop: 999 899 (2004 est)
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bystreet — an obscure or secondary street
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- caesarea — an ancient port in NW Israel, capital of Roman Palestine: founded by Herod the Great
- caesurae — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesuras — Plural form of caesura.
- caesuric — caesural
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.