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7-letter words containing br

  • brinninJohn Malcolm, 1916–98, U.S. poet, editor, and educator, born in Canada.
  • brintonDaniel Garrison, 1837–99, U.S. physician, archaeologist, and anthropologist.
  • brioche — Brioche is a kind of sweet bread.
  • briquet — briquette.
  • brisked — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
  • brisken — to make or become more lively or brisk
  • brisker — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
  • brisket — Brisket is a cut of beef that comes from the breast of the cow.
  • briskly — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
  • brissot — Jacques-Pierre (ʒakpjɛr). 1754–93, French journalist and revolutionary; leader of the Girondists: executed by the Jacobins
  • bristle — Bristles are the short hairs that grow on a man's chin after he has shaved. The hairs on the top of a man's head can also be called bristles when they are cut very short.
  • bristly — Bristly hair is thick and rough.
  • bristol — seaport in Avon, SW England: county district pop. 376,000
  • bristow — Eric. born 1957, British darts player: world champion five times (1980–81, 1984–86)
  • brisure — a mark of cadency in heraldry
  • britain — Great Britain.
  • britart — a movement in modern British art beginning in the late 1980s, often conceptual or using controversial materials, including such artists as Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread
  • britcom — a comedy, especially a television series, made in the United Kingdom.
  • british — British means belonging or relating to the United Kingdom, or to its people or culture.
  • britpop — Britpop is a type of pop music made by British bands. It was especially popular in the mid-1990s.
  • britten — (Edward) Benjamin, Baron Britten. 1913–76, English composer, pianist, and conductor. His works include the operas Peter Grimes (1945) and Billy Budd (1951), the choral works Hymn to St Cecilia (1942) and A War Requiem (1962), and numerous orchestral pieces
  • brittle — An object or substance that is brittle is hard but easily broken.
  • brittonNathaniel Lord, 1859–1934, U.S. botanist.
  • britzka — a long horse-drawn carriage with a folding top over the rear seat and a rear-facing front seat
  • broad a — of or relating to a type of pronunciation transcription in which symbols correspond approximately to phonemes without taking account of allophonic variations
  • broadax — an ax with a broad blade, used as a weapon or for hewing timber
  • broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
  • broader — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
  • broadus — something given as a bonus; lagniappe.
  • brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
  • brocard — an elementary legal principle, often expressed in Latin
  • brochan — a type of thin porridge
  • broches — (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
  • brocked — having different colours; variegated
  • brocken — a mountain in central Germany: the highest peak of the Harz Mountains; important in German folklore. Height: 1142 m (3747 ft). The Brocken Bow or Brocken Spectre is an atmospheric phenomenon in which an observer, when the sun is low, may see his enlarged shadow against the clouds, often surrounded by coloured lights
  • brocket — any small deer of the genus Mazama, of tropical America, having small unbranched antlers
  • broddle — to poke or pierce (something)
  • brodsky — Joseph, original name Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky. 1940–96, US poet, born in the Soviet Union. His collections include The End of a Beautiful Era (1977). Nobel prize for literature 1987
  • brogans — a heavy, sturdy shoe, especially an ankle-high work shoe.
  • broglie — Achille Charles Léonce Victor Duc de Broglie1785-1870; Fr. statesman under Napoleon I & Louis Philippe
  • broider — to embroider
  • broiler — A broiler is a part of a stove which produces strong heat and cooks food placed underneath it.
  • brokage — brokerage.
  • brokery — the business of a broker
  • brokest — a simple past tense of break.
  • broking — acting as a broker
  • bromate — any salt or ester of bromic acid, containing the monovalent group -BrO3 or ion BrO3–
  • bromide — Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
  • bromine — a pungent dark red volatile liquid element of the halogen series that occurs in natural brine and is used in the production of chemicals, esp ethylene dibromide. Symbol: Br; atomic no: 35; atomic wt: 79.904; valency: 1, 3, 5, or 7; relative density 3.12; density (gas): 7.59 kg/m3; melting pt: –7.2°C; boiling pt: 58.78°C
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