8-letter words containing o, b, r, i
- bring on — If something brings on an illness, pain, or feeling, especially one that you often suffer from, it causes you to have it.
- bring to — If you bring someone to when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- broadish — fairly broad
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- 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.
- broekies — underpants
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- broidery — a piece of embroidery
- 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
- bromidic — ordinary; dull
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- bronzing — blue pigment producing a metallic lustre when ground into paint media at fairly high concentrations
- bronzino — Il, real name Agnolo di Cosimo. 1503–72, Florentine mannerist painter
- bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
- broodily — in a broody manner
- brooding — Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
- brookite — a reddish-brown to black mineral consisting of titanium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in silica veins. Formula: TiO2
- brooming — an implement for sweeping, consisting of a brush of straw or stiff strands of synthetic material bound tightly to the end of a long handle.
- browning — a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- burdizzo — a surgical instrument used to castrate animals
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- 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
- carbinol — methanol
- carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
- carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
- choirboy — A choirboy is a boy who sings in a church choir.
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- cockbird — a male bird
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- combiner — Any of various electronic devices that combine signals, in particular.
- comorbid — (of an illness or condition) happening at the same time as another illness or condition
- con brio — (to be performed) with liveliness or spirit, as in the phrase allegro con brio
- contrib. — contributor
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- corbeils — Plural form of corbeil.
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.