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10-letter words containing t, r, i

  • bitterling — a small brightly coloured European freshwater cyprinid fish, Rhodeus sericeus: a popular aquarium fish
  • bitterness — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
  • bitterroot — a pink flower with an edible root found growing in America
  • bitterweed — any of various plants that contain a bitter-tasting substance
  • bitterwood — any of several simaroubaceous trees of the genus Picrasma of S and SE Asia and the Caribbean, whose bitter bark and wood are used in medicine as a substitute for quassia
  • bitterwort — yellow gentian.
  • bittorrent — a file transfer protocol which enables users to upload and download large files on the internet in the form of software, games, film, video, music, etc, from other users rather than from a central server
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
  • blindstory — a windowless story
  • blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
  • blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
  • blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
  • bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
  • boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
  • boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
  • boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
  • bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
  • body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
  • boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
  • boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
  • bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
  • bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
  • boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
  • boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
  • boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
  • borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
  • botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
  • brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • brain fart — (jargon, humour)   1. The actual result of a braino, as opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself. E.g. typing "dir" on a Unix box after a session with MS-DOS. 2. A biproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly. A burst of useful information. "I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?"
  • brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
  • brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
  • branchiate — having gills.
  • bratislava — the capital of Slovakia since 1918, a port on the River Danube; capital of Hungary (1541–1784) and seat of the Hungarian parliament until 1848. Pop: 428 672 (2001)
  • bratticing — a partition or lining, as of planks or cloth, forming an air passage in a mine.
  • brattiness — the quality of being bratty
  • brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
  • brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
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