11-letter words containing r, a, i
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
- 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.
- bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
- bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
- 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.
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- bright idea — suggestion: clever
- brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
- brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
- bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
- cacogastric — relating to an upset stomach
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- caddie cart — a small two-wheeled cart used by golfers to carry their clubs.
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
- cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
- caird coast — a region of Antarctica: a part of Coats Land on the SE coast of the Weddell Sea; now included in the British Antarctic Territory (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959)
- cakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calc-sinter — travertine