8-letter words containing i, b, e, r, a
- 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.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- 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
- 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
- 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
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- 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)
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- chabrier — (Alexis) Emmanuel (emanɥɛl). 1841–94, French composer; noted esp for the orchestral rhapsody España (1883)
- claribel — a female given name.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- cribella — Plural form of cribellum.
- darbyite — a member of the Plymouth Brethren.