8-letter words containing t, r
- 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
- braggart — a person who boasts loudly or exaggeratedly; bragger
- 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
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bran tub — (in Britain) a tub containing bran in which small wrapped gifts are hidden, used at parties, fairs, etc
- brantail — a redstart
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- bratchet — a brach or brachet hound
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
- brattain — Walter Houser. 1902–87, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen for their invention of the transistor
- 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
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- 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.
- brighton — a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
- brigitte — a female given name, French form of Bridget.
- bring to — If you bring someone to when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- brit lit — British literature, esp current fashionable writing
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- bro talk — Māori English
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
- 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