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11-letter words containing i, n, r, e

  • bioregional — relating to a bioregion
  • bird's nest — the nest of a bird
  • bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
  • birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
  • birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
  • bit pattern — (data)   A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
  • bitterender — a person who persists until the bitter end without compromising or yielding; diehard.
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
  • blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
  • bonbonniere — a small decorative box used to contain sweets
  • bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
  • botheration — bother
  • boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
  • bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
  • box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
  • breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristliness — the quality of being bristly
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