7-letter words containing t, r
- blather — If someone is blathering on about something, they are talking for a long time about something that you consider boring or unimportant.
- blatter — a prattle
- blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
- bleriot — Louis (lwi). 1872–1936, French aviator and aeronautical engineer: made the first flight across the English Channel (1909)
- blether — blather
- blister — A blister is a painful swelling on the surface of your skin. Blisters contain a clear liquid and are usually caused by heat or by something repeatedly rubbing your skin.
- blither — to talk nonsense
- blitter — a circuit that transfers large amounts of data within a computer's memory
- blitzer — a person or thing that blitzes
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- blokart — a single-seat three-wheeled vehicle with a sail, built to be propelled over land by the wind
- blotter — A blotter is a large sheet of blotting paper kept in a special holder on a desk.
- blunter — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- blurted — to utter suddenly or inadvertently; divulge impulsively or unadvisedly (usually followed by out): He blurted out the hiding place of the spy.
- blurter — a person who blurts
- bluster — If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
- bo tree — the sacred fig tree ( peepul) of Buddhism: Gautama is believed to have received heavenly inspiration under such a tree
- boaster — a chisel for boasting stone.
- boggart — a ghost or poltergeist
- bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
- booster — A booster is something that increases a positive or desirable quality.
- bootery — a shop selling boots and shoes
- bornite — a mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron that tarnishes to purple or dark red. It occurs in copper deposits. Formula: Cu5FeS4
- borotra — Jean (Robert) (ʒɑ̃). 1898–1994, French tennis player: secretary general of physical education under the Vichy government (1940)
- borscht — a Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
- borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
- bostryx — a type of cymose inflorescence normally affecting all flowers on one side of the rachis
- botargo — a relish consisting of the roe of mullet or tunny, salted and pressed into rolls
- botcher — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bottger — Johann Friedrich [yoh-hahn free-drikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1682–1719, German chemist.
- bottler — A bottler is a person or company that puts drinks into bottles.
- bottrop — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ruhr. Pop: 120 324 (2003 est)
- boulter — a long, stout fishing line with several hooks attached.
- bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- bra top — an item of women's clothing that looks like a bra but is worn as outerwear
- brabant — a former duchy of W Europe: divided when Belgium became independent (1830), the south forming the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Brabant and the north forming the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands
- bracket — If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
- bradsot — braxy (def 1).
- brantle — a French dance
- brattle — a rattling or clattering sound
- bravest — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- breadth — The breadth of something is the distance between its two sides.
- breathe — When people or animals breathe, they take air into their lungs and let it out again. When they breathe smoke or a particular kind of air, they take it into their lungs and let it out again as they breathe.
- breaths — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- breathy — If someone has a breathy voice, you can hear their breath when they speak or sing.
- brenton — Howard. born 1942, British dramatist, author of such controversial plays as The Churchill Play (1974), The Romans in Britain (1980), (with David Hare) Pravda (1985), and several topical satires with Tariq Ali
- brevete — patented
- brevity — The brevity of something is the fact that it is short or lasts for only a short time.
- bridget — 453–523 ad, Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland. Feast day: Feb 1
- brights — the high beam of the headlights of a motor vehicle