8-letter words starting with br
- brandade — a Provençal dish of salt cod puréed with olive oil and milk
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandied — flavored or blended with brandy
- branding — The branding of a product is the presentation of it to the public in a way that makes it easy for people to recognize or identify.
- brandise — a trivet
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- 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
- brasiers — a person who makes articles of brass.
- brasilia — the capital of Brazil (since 1960), on the central plateau: the former capital was Rio de Janeiro. Pop: 3 341 000 (2005 est)
- brasilin — brazilin
- brassage — a fee charged for coining money
- brassard — an identifying armband or badge
- brassica — Brassicas are vegetables such as cabbages, broccoli and turnips.
- brassier — made of or covered with brass.
- brassish — like brass; brassy
- 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
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- brazers' — to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- brazilin — a pale yellow soluble crystalline solid, turning red in alkaline solution, extracted from brazil wood and sappanwood and used in dyeing and as an indicator. Formula: C16H14O5
- breached — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breacher — a person who breaches something
- breadbin — a household container for bread, usually quite small
- breadbox — A breadbox is the same as a bread bin.
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breakage — Breakage is the act of breaking something.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- 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.
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- breeched — the lower, rear part of the trunk of the body; buttocks.
- breeches — Breeches are trousers which reach as far as your knees.