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11-letter words containing r, e, s, i

  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • bird spider — any large hairy predatory bird-eating spider of the family Aviculariidae, of tropical America
  • bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bird's nest — the nest of a bird
  • bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
  • birds' eggs — the eggs of birds
  • birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
  • bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
  • bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
  • bittercress — one of several perennial or annual plants of the genus Cardamine, that are related to lady's-smock, including hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta), a common weed resembling shepherd's purse, with which it is often confused: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • bittersweet — If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
  • bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristlelike — resembling a bristle
  • 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
  • bristliness — the quality of being bristly
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brittleness — the quality of being brittle
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
  • 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.
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
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