8-letter words containing i, r, l
- bluebird — any North American songbird of the genus Sialia, having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
- blurbist — a person who writes blurbs
- blurrier — blurred; indistinct.
- blurrily — in a blurry manner
- boilover — a surprising result in a sporting event, esp in a horse race
- borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- borrelia — a genus of helical spirochete bacteria, some causing relapsing fever
- brachial — of or relating to the arm or to an armlike part or structure
- braciola — (in Italian cooking) a thin slice of pan-fried beef
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- brailler — a device for producing text in Braille
- brantail — a redstart
- brasilia — the capital of Brazil (since 1960), on the central plateau: the former capital was Rio de Janeiro. Pop: 3 341 000 (2005 est)
- brasilin — brazilin
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- 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
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- breezily — abounding in breezes; windy.
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- bridling — part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- brindled — brown or grey streaked or patched with a darker colour
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- brit lit — British literature, esp current fashionable writing
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- broiling — If the weather is broiling, it is very hot.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
- broodily — in a broody manner
- brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
- brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
- bubblier — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- bullring — A bullring is a circular area of ground surrounded by rows of seats where bullfights take place.
- burbling — the bubbling or gurgling sound of water
- burleigh — Burghley
- by-liner — a writer whose work is accompanied by a by-line
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cabrilla — any of various serranid food fishes, esp Epinephelus analogus, occurring in warm seas around Florida and the Caribbean
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- 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