8-letter words containing t, e, r
- bourtree — the elder-tree
- braccate — (of birds) having feathered legs
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- bramante — Donato (doˈnato). ?1444–1514, Italian architect and artist of the High Renaissance. He modelled his designs for domed centrally planned churches on classical Roman architecture
- bratchet — a brach or brachet hound
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- breasted — having a breast.
- breathed — relating to or denoting a speech sound for whose articulation the vocal cords are not made to vibrate
- breather — If you take a breather, you stop what you are doing for a short time and have a rest.
- breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- bretagne — Brittany2
- bretelle — one of a pair of ornamental suspenderlike shoulder straps that attach to the waistband at the front and back of a garment.
- brethren — You can refer to the members of a particular organization or group, especially a religious group, as brethren.
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- brewster — Sir David. 1781–1868, Scottish physicist, noted for his studies of the polarization of light
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- brighter — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brigitte — a female given name, French form of Bridget.
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
- bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
- brookite — a reddish-brown to black mineral consisting of titanium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in silica veins. Formula: TiO2
- brooklet — a small brook
- browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- brunette — A brunette is a white-skinned woman or girl with dark brown hair.
- budgeter — a person who budgets
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- buttered — having had butter spread over or applied to it
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- by heart — If you know something such as a poem by heart, you have learned it so well that you can remember it without having to read it.
- by water — by ship or boat
- bystreet — an obscure or secondary street
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.