8-letter words starting with br
- brisking — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- briskish — fairly brisk
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- 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
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadaxe — a type of axe with a large blade
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broadish — fairly broad
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- brockton — city in E Mass., near Boston: pop. 94,000
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- broekies — underpants
- broguery — the use of a brogue or accent
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- broidery — a piece of embroidery
- broiling — If the weather is broiling, it is very hot.
- brokered — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bromberg — German name of Bydgoszcz.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
- bromidic — ordinary; dull
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- broncho- — indicating or relating to the bronchi
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- 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.
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- bronzing — blue pigment producing a metallic lustre when ground into paint media at fairly high concentrations
- bronzino — Il, real name Agnolo di Cosimo. 1503–72, Florentine mannerist painter
- bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
- broodily — in a broody manner
- brooding — Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
- 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
- brooklyn — a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)
- brookner — Anita. 1928–2016, British writer and art historian. Her novels include Hotel du Lac (1984), which won the Booker Prize, Brief Lives (1990), and The Next Big Thing (2002)