9-letter words starting with br
- brasserie — A brasserie is a small and usually cheap restaurant or bar.
- brassiere — A brassiere is the same as a bra.
- brassware — articles made of brass, considered as a group
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- braveness — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- brazeless — seamless
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
- brazilian — Brazilian means belonging or relating to Brazil, or to its people or culture.
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- bread bin — A bread bin is a wooden, metal, or plastic container for storing bread.
- breadhead — a person who is overly concerned with money
- breadless — without bread; without food
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breakable — Breakable objects are easy to break by accident.
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- breakaway — A breakaway group is a group of people who have separated from a larger group, for example because of a disagreement.
- breakback — backbreaking; extremely heavy
- breakbeat — a type of electronic dance music
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakeven — the level of commercial activity at which the total cost and total revenue of a business enterprise are equal
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- breakneck — If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
- breakover — jump (def 51).
- breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
- breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
- breakwall — breakwater
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathful — full of breath; living
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brecciate — to form into breccia
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- breedable — to produce (offspring); procreate; engender.
- breeze in — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- breezeway — a roofed passageway connecting two buildings, sometimes with the sides enclosed
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
- brentwood — a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop: 47 593 (2001)
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brevetted — a commission promoting a military officer to a higher rank without increase of pay and with limited exercise of the higher rank, often granted as an honor immediately before retirement.
- brevities — shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life.
- brewhouse — a brewery
- briarroot — the hard woody root of the briar, used for making tobacco pipes