8-letter words containing r, i, a, n
- baronial — If you describe a house or room as baronial, you mean that it is large, impressive, and old-fashioned in appearance, and looks as if it belongs to someone from the upper classes.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- baronize — to make or create (someone) a baron; confer the rank of baron upon.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- barthian — of or relating to Karl Barth, or his ideas
- bartizan — a small turret projecting from a wall, parapet, or tower
- baryonic — of or relating to a baryon
- bas-rhin — a department of NE France in Alsace region. Capital: Strasbourg. Pop: 1 052 698 (2003 est). Area: 4793 sq km (1869 sq miles)
- bavarian — of or relating to Bavaria or its inhabitants
- bearbine — a type of bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- berezina — a river in Belarus, rising in the north and flowing south to the River Dnieper: linked with the River Dvina and the Baltic Sea by the Berezina Canal. Length: 563 km (350 miles)
- bergenia — an evergreen ground-covering plant
- beringia — the former land bridge between Siberia & Alas., over which Asian animals and peoples migrated into North America
- bernicia — a 6th- and 7th- century Anglian kingdom, merged with Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria, in present-day NE England and SE Scotland.
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- bilinear — of or referring to two lines
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- binaries — binary file
- binarism — the state of being binary
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- brahmani — a woman of the Brahman caste
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- braiding — braids collectively
- 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.
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brainbow — the result of a process by which the individual neurons of a brain can be mapped with fluorescent proteins under a light source
- brainbox — the skull
- brainerd — a city in central Minnesota.
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- brainiac — a highly intelligent person
- brainier — intelligent; clever; intellectual.
- braining — Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- brainish — impulsive or impetuous
- brainpan — the skull
- branchia — a gill in aquatic animals
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandied — flavored or blended with brandy