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7-letter words containing r, i

  • bashkir — a member of a Mongoloid people of E central Russia, living chiefly in the Bashkir Republic
  • basilar — of or situated at a base
  • batgirl — a girl who works at baseball games, carrying bats to players and moving other equipment
  • bavaria — a state of S Germany: a former duchy and kingdom; mainly wooded highland, with the Alps in the south. Capital: Munich. Pop: 12 155 000 (2000 est). Area: 70 531 sq km (27 232 sq miles)
  • bawdier — Comparative form of bawdy.
  • beardie — a bearded collie
  • bearing — Someone's bearing is the way in which they move or stand.
  • bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
  • beatrix — full name Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard. born 1938, queen of the Netherlands (1980–2013); abdicated in favour of her eldest son Willem-Alexander
  • becrime — to make (someone) guilty of a crime
  • bedirty — to make (thoroughly) dirty
  • bedrail — a rail or board along the side of a bed that connects the headboard with the footboard
  • beefier — of or like beef.
  • beerier — Comparative form of beery.
  • begrime — to make dirty; soil
  • behring — Emil (Adolf) von (ˈeːmiːl fɔn). 1854–1917, German bacteriologist, who discovered diphtheria and tetanus antitoxins: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1901
  • bellari — a city in SE India, in Karnataka.
  • berbice — a river in E Guyana, flowing NE to the Atlantic Ocean. About 370 miles (595 km) long.
  • bergius — Friedrich (Karl Rudolph) (ˈfriːdrɪç). 1884– 1949, German chemist, who invented a process for producing oil by high-pressure hydrogenation of coal: Nobel prize for chemistry 1931
  • berimed — to celebrate in verse.
  • berklix — /berk'liks/ (From Berkeley Unix) Berkeley Software Distribution. Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among suits attempting to sound like cognoscenti than among hackers, who usually just say "BSD".
  • berline — a limousine with a glass partition between the front and rear seats
  • berlioz — Hector (Louis) (ɛktɔr). 1803–69, French composer, regarded as a pioneer of modern orchestration. His works include the cantata La Damnation de Faust (1846), the operas Les Troyens (1856–59) and Béatrice et Bénédict (1860–62), the Symphonie fantastique (1830), and the oratorio L'Enfance du Christ (1854)
  • bernice — a feminine name: var. Berenice
  • bernina — a mountain in SE Switzerland, in the Rhaetian Alps. 13,295 feet (4050 meters).
  • bernini — Gian Lorenzo (dʒan loˈrɛntso). 1598–1680, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor: the greatest exponent of the Italian baroque
  • berried — producing or covered with berries
  • berries — any small, usually stoneless, juicy fruit, irrespective of botanical structure, as the huckleberry, strawberry, or hackberry.
  • berwick — James Fitzjames, Duke of Berwick. 1670–1734, marshal of France and illegitimate son of James II of England. He led French forces during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14)
  • bestrid — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
  • beziers — a city in S France: scene of a massacre (1209) during the Albigensian Crusade. It is a centre of the wine trade. Pop: 71 672 (2008)
  • biafran — of or relating to Biafra or its inhabitants
  • bibbery — drinking
  • bichord — (of a musical instrument) having two strings for one note
  • bicolor — of two colors
  • bicorne — a two-cornered cocked hat worn especially in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • bidarka — a canoe covered in animal skins, esp sealskin, used by the Inuit of Alaska
  • bifilar — having two parallel threads, as in the suspension of certain measuring instruments
  • bifrost — the rainbow bridge of the gods from their realm Asgard to earth
  • bigener — a hybrid between individuals of different genera
  • bighorn — a large wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, inhabiting mountainous regions in North America and NE Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. The male has massive curved horns, and the species is well adapted for climbing and leaping
  • bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
  • bijapur — an ancient city in W India, in N Mysore: capital of a former kingdom, which fell at the end of the 17th century: cotton. Pop: 245 946 (2001)
  • bikaner — a walled city in NW India, in Rajasthan: capital of the former state of Bikaner, on the edge of the Thar Desert. Pop: 529 007 (2001)
  • bilayer — a cell membrane consisting of two layers
  • biliary — of or relating to bile, to the ducts that convey bile, or to the gall bladder
  • bimorph — an assembly of two piezoelectric crystals cemented together so that an applied voltage causes one to expand and the other to contract, converting electrical signals into mechanical energy. Conversely, bending can generate a voltage: used in loudspeakers, gramophone pick-ups, etc
  • bimotor — an airplane or other vehicle that has two engines.
  • binders — a person or thing that binds.
  • bindery — a place in which books are bound
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