6-letter words containing s, r
- bister — a yellowish-brown to dark-brown pigment made from the soot of burned wood
- bistre — a transparent water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling the soot of wood, used for pen and wash drawings
- bistro — A bistro is a small, informal restaurant or a bar where food is served.
- biters — a person or animal that bites, especially habitually or viciously: That dog is a biter.
- bitser — a mongrel dog
- boreas — the god personifying the north wind
- borges — Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"
- borsch — any of various eastern European soups made with beets, cabbage, potatoes, or other vegetables and served hot or chilled, often with sour cream.
- borsic — a strong light composite material of boron fibre and silicon carbide used in aviation
- bosker — excellent, good
- bourse — A country's or region's bourse is its stock exchange.
- bowers — a musician, as a violinist, who performs with a bow on a stringed instrument.
- bowser — a tanker containing fuel for aircraft, military vehicles, etc
- braces — a pair of straps worn over the shoulders by men for holding up the trousers
- brahms — Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1833–97, German composer, whose music, though classical in form, exhibits a strong lyrical romanticism. His works include four symphonies, four concertos, chamber music, and A German Requiem (1868)
- braids — to weave together strips or strands of; plait: to braid the hair.
- brains — an animal's brain, cooked and eaten as food
- braise — When you braise meat or a vegetable, you fry it quickly and then cook it slowly in a covered dish with a small amount of liquid.
- brakes — any of several large or coarse ferns, especially the bracken, Pteridium aquilinum.
- branks — (formerly) an iron bridle used to restrain scolding women
- brasco — a lavatory
- brashy — loosely fragmented; rubbishy
- brasil — Brazil
- brasov — an industrial city in central Romania: formerly a centre for expatriate Germans; ceded by Hungary to Romania in 1920. Pop: 249 000 (2005 est)
- brasso — Hungarian name of Braşov.
- brassy — Brassy music is bold, harsh, and loud.
- bratsk — city in SC Siberian Russia, on the Angara River: pop. 258,000
- braves — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- brawns — strong, well-developed muscles.
- brazes — to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- brazos — river in central & SE Tex., flowing southeastward into the Gulf of Mexico: 870 mi (1,400 km)
- breast — A woman's breasts are the two soft, round parts on her chest that can produce milk to feed a baby.
- breeks — trousers
- brevis — a mark (˘) over a vowel to show that it is short, or to indicate a specific pronunciation, as ŭ in (kŭt) cut.
- brewis — bread soaked in broth, gravy, etc
- briefs — men's underpants or women's pants without legs
- briggs — Henry. 1561–1631, English mathematician: introduced common logarithms
- brings — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
- brisso — an abbreviation for Brisbane
- broads — a group of shallow navigable lakes, connected by a network of rivers, in E England, in Norfolk and Suffolk
- brooks — Geraldine. born 1955, Australian writer. Her novels include March (2005), which won the Pulitzer prize
- broose — a race, either on foot or on horseback, amongst the men at a country wedding
- broses — a porridge made by stirring boiling liquid into oatmeal or other meal.
- brotus — broadus.
- browse — If you browse in a shop, you look at things in a fairly casual way, in the hope that you might find something you like.
- browst — a brewing (of ale, tea, etc)
- browsy — characterized by browsing
- bruges — a city in NW Belgium, capital of West Flanders province: centre of the medieval European wool and cloth trade. Pop: 117 025 (2004 est)
- bruise — A bruise is an injury which appears as a purple mark on your body, although the skin is not broken.
- bruits — to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed by about): The report was bruited through the village.