8-letter words containing y, r
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- breezily — abounding in breezes; windy.
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- 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
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- broguery — the use of a brogue or accent
- broidery — a piece of embroidery
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- broodily — in a broody manner
- brooklyn — a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
- bryology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of bryophytes
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- burberry — a light good-quality raincoat, esp of gabardine
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- 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.
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- by birth — If, for example, you are French by birth, you are French because your parents are French, or because you were born in France.
- 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 right — properly; justly
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- by water — by ship or boat
- by-liner — a writer whose work is accompanied by a by-line
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byre-man — a man who raises or tends cows.
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- bystreet — an obscure or secondary street
- cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
- calamary — a squid: so called from its pen-shaped skeleton
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- cannonry — a volley of artillery fire
- cape ray — a promontory in SW Newfoundland, Canada
- caprylic — of or relating to an animal odor: the caprylic odor of a barn.
- capybara — the largest rodent: a pig-sized amphibious hystricomorph, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, resembling a guinea pig and inhabiting river banks in Central and South America: family Hydrochoeridae