8-letter words containing l, a, r
- 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
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- bro talk — Māori English
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- 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)
- bull bar — On some motor vehicles, bull bars are metal bars fixed to the front that are designed to protect it if it crashes.
- bull-bar — a metal frame attached to the front of a vehicle to prevent damage in case of a collision with stray animals on outback roads.
- bullbars — large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burnable — able to be burned
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- 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
- caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
- 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.
- cagliari — a port in Italy, the capital of Sardinia, on the S coast. Pop: 164 249 (2001)
- cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
- calabria — a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
- calamari — Calamari is squid that has been prepared for eating, usually by cutting it into rings, dipping it in a mixture of flour, milk and eggs, and frying it.
- calamary — a squid: so called from its pen-shaped skeleton
- calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
- calcspar — calcite
- calcular — relating to calculus
- caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- 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.
- call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- callgirl — Alternative spelling of call girl.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- callware — (company) The developers of Phonetastic.