8-letter words containing i, r, a, n
- branding — The branding of a product is the presentation of it to the public in a way that makes it easy for people to recognize or identify.
- brandise — a trivet
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- brantail — a redstart
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- brasilin — brazilin
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brattain — Walter Houser. 1902–87, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen for their invention of the transistor
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brazilin — a pale yellow soluble crystalline solid, turning red in alkaline solution, extracted from brazil wood and sappanwood and used in dyeing and as an indicator. Formula: C16H14O5
- 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.
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- 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)
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- cancrine — resembling a crab
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- car line — trolley line.
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- carbinol — methanol