English words: bresaola to brickhon

300 English words, part 115 of 142 of the words starting with B, A to Z. 32 have a page of their own.

English words bresaola to brickhon

bresaola noun /bɹɛˈsəʊlə/: Air-dried salt-cured beef fillet that has been aged about 2-3 months until it becomes very hard and a dark red, almost purple colour.
Brescia proper noun /ˈbɹɛʃə/: A province of Lombardy, Italy.
Brescian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Brescia in Italy.
Bresee proper noun: A surname.
bresh noun: Pronunciation spelling of brush (“vegetation”).
breshney noun: Alternative form of bresney
brési noun: brési
Breslau proper noun /ˈbɹɛzlaʊ̯/: Wrocław, Poland (especially referring to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Austria, Prussia or Germany).
Breslavian adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to Breslau.
Bresler proper noun: A surname.
Breslin proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Breslover noun: A member of a branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810).
Breslow proper noun: A surname from German.
bresna noun: Alternative form of bresney
Bresnahan proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Bresnan proper noun: A surname.
Bresnan cellar nozzle noun: Synonym of Bresnan nozzle.
Bresnan nozzle noun: A rotating nozzle with multiple outlets, capable of spraying jets of water in a circular pattern when lowered through the floor above.
bresney noun: a dried branch or twig collected in the woods and used for firewood
Bresse proper noun: A former province of France, now part of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
bressemer noun: Alternative spelling of bressummer.
Bressler proper noun: A surname.
Bressonian adjective: Of or pertaining to Robert Bresson (1901–1999), French film director.
bressumer noun: Alternative form of bressummer.
bressummer noun: A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a...
bresticle noun: Alternative spelling of breasticle.
brestsummer noun: Alternative form of bressummer.
Bret proper noun: A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brett, ultimately meaning "a Breton".
bretache noun: Alternative form of brattice (“structure for attack or defence”).
bretasche noun: Alternative form of brattice (“structure for attack or defence”).
bretazenil noun: An imidazopyrrolobenzodiazepine anxiolytic drug.
bretelle noun: braces; suspenders (to hold up trousers)
bretelled adjective: Of clothing: adorned with bretelles.
bretesche noun: Alternative form of brattice.
bretesse adjective, noun /bɹɛˈtɛs/: Alternative form of brattice.
bretessed adjective: Synonym of bretessé.
bretessée adjective: Alternative form of bretessé.
bretessy adjective: Rare spelling of bretessé.
Breteuil proper noun: A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
bretheling noun: Wretch; worthless person.
Bretherton proper noun: A village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4720).
brethren adjective, noun /ˈbɹɛðɹən/: plural of brother
Brethrenism noun: Synonym of Plymouthism.
Breton adjective, noun /ˈbɹɛtən/: A native or inhabitant of the region of Brittany, France.
Breton cap noun: A boatsman's peaked cap.
Bretonian adjective /bɹɛˈtəʊ.ni.ən/: Of or relating to André Breton (1896–1966), French writer, anarchist, and founder of surrealism.
Bretonness noun: The quality of being Breton.
brett noun /bɹɛt/: Alternative letter-case form of Brett (“Brettanomyces”).
brettessé adjective: Alternative form of bretessé.
brettice noun, verb: Alternative form of brattice.
Bretton proper noun: A suburb and civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1600).
bretwalda noun: A title given to some of the rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from the 5th century onwards who had achieved overlordship of some or all of the other...
bretwaldaship noun: The role or status of bretwalda.
bretylium noun: An antiarrhythmic agent that blocks the release of noradrenaline from nerve terminals.
Bretz proper noun: A surname.
breudher noun: A traditional buttery yeast cake of the Sri Lankan Burgher people, baked in a fluted mould.
Breughelesque adjective: Alternative spelling of Brueghelesque.
Breughelian adjective: Alternative spelling of Brueghelian.
Breunig proper noun: A surname.
breunnerite noun: A type of magnesite with a magnesium/iron ratio of 90/10 to 70/30.
brev noun: Alternative form of bruv.
Brevard proper noun: A surname from French.
breve noun /bɹiːv/: A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
breve rest noun: A rest that has the same duration as a breve
brevenal noun: A polycyclic aldehyde that inhibits brevetoxin, present in the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis.
brevet noun, verb /bɹəˈvɛt/: A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
brevetcy noun: The rank or condition of a breveted officer; a temporary promoted rank.
breveted adjective, verb: Holding a brevet
brevetoxicosis noun: toxicosis due to a brevetoxin
brevetoxin noun: Any of a class of complex polycyclic polyethers that cause neurotoxic shellfish poisoning
brevetted adjective, verb /bɹəˈvɛtɪd/: Holding a brevet
brevi- prefix /ˌbɹɛv.ɪ-/: Short.
brevianamide noun: Any of a class of indole alkaloids produced as secondary metabolites of fungi in the genus Penicillium and Aspergillus, and structurally similar to...
breviary noun /ˈbɹɛv.ɪ.əɹ.i/: A book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours.
breviate adjective, noun, verb: A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
breviation noun: abbreviation
breviature noun: An abbreviation.
brevibacterial adjective: Relating to bacteria of the genus Brevibacterium.
brevibacterium noun: Any bacterium of the genus Brevibacterium
brevican noun: A lectican that is localised to the surface of neurons in the brain.
brevicaudate adjective: Having a short tail.
brevicipitid noun: Any member of the family Brevicipitidae of frogs.
brevicomin noun: Alternative spelling of brevicomine.
brevicomine noun: An oxygen containing bicyclic compound that is a pheromone for Dendroctonus brevicomis (western pine beetle), endo-brevicomine:...
brevicone noun: A short, blunt or squat, conic shell, as of some Paleozoic cephalopod fossils.
breviconic adjective /ˌbɹɛv.ɪˈkɒn.ɪk/: Relating to, or composed of, brevicones.
brevideciduous adjective: briefly deciduous (that loses its leaves for just a few weeks)
brevidome adjective, noun: A brevidomic mollusc.
brevidomic adjective: Having body chamber lengths of approximately half a whorl.
brevier noun: The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.
brevifurcate adjective: Having a small bifurcation
breviger noun: A licensed begging friar.
brevigline adjective: Having relatively short legs
brevigraph noun: Modified letter or letter with diacritics, used as an abbreviation of a sequence of letters.
brevilineal adjective: Short and stocky.
brevilingual adjective: Having a short tongue.
Breville noun: A sandwich toaster; toastie maker.
breviloquence noun /brɪˈvɪl.ə.kwəns/: A pertinent and terse style of speech; a style of speech exhibiting brevity.
breviloquent adjective: Exhibiting breviloquence; concise.
brevine noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
brevinine noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
breviped adjective: Having short feet or legs.
brevipen noun: A brevipennate (short-winged) bird, in a former proposed classification, Brevipennes
brevipennate adjective: short-winged; having short wings.
brevipolide noun: Any of a group of cytotoxic pyranone esters present in Hyptis brevipes
brevirostral adjective: Having a short beak or bill
brevirostrate adjective: Short-beaked; having a short bill.
brevirostrine adjective: Synonym of brevirostral.
brevirostry noun: The condition of being brevirostral
brevis in longo noun: The situation where a short syllable at the end of a line can be counted as long.
breviscapine noun: A mixture of flavonoids, extracted from Erigeron breviscapus, used to treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease
brevitic adjective /bɹɛˈvɪtɪk/: Embodying brevity.
brevity noun /ˈbɹɛvɪti/: The quality of being brief in duration.
brevity code noun: A code for transmission over radio or telegraph designed to convey complex information with a few characters or syllables, especially in amateur radio,...
brevity is the soul of wit proverb: Conciseness of expression is an essential characteristic of astute, perceptive, or witty remarks.
brevium noun: 23491Pa, a short-lived isotope of protactinium.
brevotoxin noun: Alternative form of brevetoxin.
brew noun, verb /bɹuː/: To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
brew-in noun: A social gathering where drinks, especially beer or coffee, are brewed
brew up verb: To make (a liquid, especially tea, coffee, or beer) by brewing.
brewable adjective: Capable of being brewed.
brewage noun: Something brewed.
Brewarrina proper noun: A locality in the Brewarrina council area, northern New South Wales, Australia.
brewer noun /ˈbɹuː.ə(ɹ)/: A person who brews (vocationally or avocationally); especially, one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors, usually as part of an alemaking or...
Brewer blackbird noun: Alternative form of Brewer's blackbird.
Brewer's blackbird noun: Euphagus cyanocephalus, a medium-sized New World blackbird.
brewer's droop noun: Impotence caused by heavy drinking.
brewer's goitre noun: Synonym of Milwaukee goiter.
Brewer's mole noun: Synonym of hairy-tailed mole.
brewer's rice noun: Broken pieces of food-grade rice used typically in the manufacture of food and beverages, as well as in animal feed.
Brewer's rockcress noun: Boechera breweri, a species of rockcress with purple flowers.
Brewer's sparrow noun: Spizella breweri, a bird of Western North America.
Brewer's spruce noun: A North American spruce of species Picea breweriana.
brewer's yeast noun: Any live yeast used in brewing or yeast obtained as a by-product of brewing, dried and killed, and used as nutritional yeast.
Brewer sparrow noun: Alternative form of Brewer's sparrow.
breweress noun: A female brewer.
breweriana noun: Collectable items associated with a brewery or one of its brands.
brewers' rice noun: Rice broken into very small fragments, traditionally used by brewers.
brewers' spent grains noun: A byproduct from brewing that is comparable to the distillers' grains from distilling and can be put to some of the same uses, such as animal feed...
brewership noun: The role or status of brewer.
brewery noun /ˈbɹuːəɹi/: A building where beer is produced.
brewess noun: A female brewer.
brewfest noun: A beerfest.
brewhouse noun: The part of a brewery where the wort is made, as contrasted with the cellars and warehouses; a brewery (sometimes synonymous in cases involving a single...
brewin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of brewing.
brewing noun, verb /ˈbɹuːɪŋ/: The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
Brewington proper noun: A surname.
brewis noun /bɹuːɪs/: a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
brewmaster noun: A person in charge of beer production at a brewery
brewmistress noun: A female brewmaster.
brewologist noun: One who studies or practices brewology.
brewology noun: The science or study of brewing, especially of brewing beer.
brewpub noun: A public house with a brewery (usually a microbrewery) attached.
brewski noun /ˈbɹuski/: Beer.
brewsky noun: Alternative spelling of brewski.
brewster noun: A unit of stress optical coefficient which is equal to 10⁻¹² m²/N or 10⁻¹² Pa⁻¹. Symbol: B.
Brewster angle noun: Alternative form of Brewster's angle.
Brewster's angle noun: An angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted through a transparent dielectric surface, with no reflection.
Brewster's booby noun: Sula leucogaster brewsteri, a subspecies of the brown booby.
brewsterite noun: Any of a series of hydrothermal tectosilicate minerals of the zeolite group.
Brewton proper noun /ˈbruː.tən/: A surname.
brewup noun: The act of making tea.
Brexit verb /ˈbɹɛɡzɪt/: To exit the European Union.
Brexit tackle noun: A particularly forceful or dangerous tackle, especially a sliding tackle made with little regard for winning the ball or consequences for either player.
Brexiteer noun /ˌbɹɛksɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/: Someone who supports Brexit, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.
Brexiter noun /ˈbɹɛɡzɪtə(ɹ)/: Synonym of Brexiteer.
Brexiting noun, verb: The act of Britain leaving the European Union.
Brexitish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of Brexit, or the attitudes thought to underlie it.
Brexitism noun: The political and economic philosophies associated with Brexit.
Brexitland noun: Territory submitted to Brexit rules (either United Kingdom and/or Great Britain after Brexit).
Brexity adjective: Characteristic of Brexit, or the attitudes thought to underlie it; parochial, jingoistic.
Brexodus noun: The departure of people or companies from the UK due to Brexit.
brexpiprazole noun: The antipsychotic 7-[4-[4-(1-benzothiophen-4-yl)piperazin-1-yl]butoxy]quinolin-2(1H)-one.
brey verb: To soften (leather) by twisting, scraping, etc.
Breyer proper noun: A surname.
breyite noun: A walstromite-structured CaSiO₃ mineral.
Breytenbach proper noun: A surname.
Brezhnev proper noun /ˈbɹɛʒnɛv/: A transliteration of the Russian surname Бре́жнев (Bréžnev); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of...
Brezhnevian adjective: Of or pertaining to Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964.
Brezhnevism noun: The philosophy and politics espoused by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.
Brezhnevite adjective, noun: A supporter of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906–1982), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982.
Brezina proper noun: A surname.
brezinaite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic brownish gray mineral containing chromium and sulfur.
Brezinski proper noun: A surname.
BRG noun: Initialism of British racing green.
Brgy. noun: Abbreviation of barangay.
Bri proper noun /bɹiː/: A diminutive of the female given name Brianna, or Bridget, or Britney, or, rarely, Britannia or Sabrina.
Bri'ish adjective, noun /ˈbɹɪʔɪʃ/: Pronunciation spelling of British.
Bria proper noun: A surname from Italian.
briakinumab noun: A human monoclonal antibody being developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and multiple sclerosis.
brialmontin noun: Any of a group of depsides found in some lichens.
brian verb: To keep fire at the mouth of (as of an oven), to give light or to preserve heat.
Briana proper noun: A female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s.
Brianchon hexagon noun: A nonplanar hexagon whose three diagonals meet.
Briançon chalk noun: French chalk.
Briand proper noun: A surname from French.
brianite noun: A phosphate mineral with the chemical formula Na₂CaMg(PO₄)₂, first identified in an iron meteorite.
Brianna proper noun /bɹiːˈænə/: A female given name, variant of Briana.
Brianne proper noun: A female given name from the Celtic languages.
brianroulstonite noun: A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing boron, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, and oxygen.
Briant proper noun: A surname.
brianyoungite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.
Brianza proper noun: Geographical area at the foot of the Alps, in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy
briar noun /bɹaɪə/: Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
briar patch noun: A dense thicket of thorny plants; ground made impassable by the impenetrable overgrowth of prickly vegetation.
briar-root noun: The root of the briar (Erica arborea).
briarane noun: Any of a group of naturally-occurring diterpenoids based on a bicyclo[8.4.0]tetradecane ring system
briarberry noun: Alternative form of brierberry.
briard noun: Alternative letter-case form of Briard
Briarean adjective /bɹaɪˈɛə.ɹi.ən/: Relating to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; many-handed.
briared adjective: Covered in briars.
briareid noun: Any soft corals of the family Briareidae.
briarellin noun: Any of a class of eunicellin diterpenes found in Briareum.
Briareus proper noun: A giant, one of the Centimanes, also called Aegoeon.
briarroot noun: Alternative form of briar-root.
briartite noun: An opaque iron-grey metallic sulfide mineral.
briarwood noun: Erica arborea, tree heath, an ericaceous flowering plant.
briary adjective: Like a briar; thorny.
Briatore proper noun: A surname from Italian
bribable adjective: Susceptible to bribery.
bribe noun, verb /bɹaɪb/: Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to breaking the law.
bribeable adjective: Alternative spelling of bribable.
bribee noun: One who takes a bribe.
bribegiver noun: A person who gives bribes.
bribegiving noun: The giving of bribes.
bribeless adjective: Incapable of being bribed, or without bribes.
bribeproof adjective: Resistant to bribery; incapable of being bribed.
briber noun: A person who bribes.
bribery noun /ˈbɹaɪbəɹi/: The act of giving an illegal payment (a bribe) to a person in an official position as a means of influencing their decisions.
bribetaker noun: A person who takes bribes
bribetaking noun: The acceptance of bribes.
bribeworthy adjective: Worthy of being bribed.
bribing noun, verb /ˈbɹaɪbɪŋ/: Bribery.
Bribri noun: A member of an indigenous people of Costa Rica.
BRIC noun: Any of those four countries.
bric-a-brac noun /ˈbɹɪkəbɹæk/: Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value.
bric-a-bracker noun: A merchant of bric-a-brac.
bric-a-brackery noun: Bric-a-brac collectively.
bric-a-bracquerie noun: Alternative spelling of bric-a-brackery.
bricabrac noun: Alternative form of bric-a-brac.
Brice proper noun /ˈbɹaɪ̯s/: A male given name from the Celtic languages, a variant of Bryce.
bricelet noun: A type of waffle from Romandy (francophone Switzerland).
Briceno proper noun: A surname.
brichka noun: Alternative form of britchka.
brick adjective, noun, verb /ˈbɹɪk/: A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
brick-a-brack noun: Alternative spelling of bric-a-brac.
brick and mortar adjective, noun: Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. (Used to contrast an Internet-based...
brick breaker noun: A game of a genre that involves moving a paddle horizontally or vertically to deflect a ball, using the deflected ball to destroy an arrangement of bricks...
brick-buster noun: Synonym of brick breaker.
brick by brick adverb: Created or built in a steady, step-by-step fashion.
brick cheese noun: A sweet, mild, yellowish cheese from Wisconsin, manufactured in a brick shape.
brick chicken noun: Synonym of chicken under a brick.
Brick City club noun: Synonym of Jersey club (“music genre”).
brick hammer noun: Synonym of stonemason's hammer.
brick house noun: A voluptuous woman with a large rotund buttocks and bust.
brick in verb: To enclose with bricks.
brick in one's hat noun: Drunkenness.
brick joke noun: A joke in a film, television show, book etc, in which there is a substantial gap between set-up and punchline, typically bringing back an unresolved plot...
brick off verb: To put a barrier around, or to form a barrier around, with bricks.
brick over verb /ˈbɹɪk ˌəʊ.və/: To wall up with brick.
brick pack noun: Alternative form of brickpack.
brick phone noun: A cellular telephone with proportions and weight similar to a brick.
brick red adjective, noun: A warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.
brick-shaped adjective: Alternative spelling of brickshaped.
brick slip noun: A thin slice, usually 20mm in thickness, of a facing brick; used for creating feature walls and external cladding when a lightweight material must be used.
brick stamp noun: Alternative form of brickstamp.
brick stitch noun: A bead-weaving stitch resembling a stretcher bond in brickwork.
brick-tea noun: Tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.
brick toast noun: A Taiwanese sweet butter bread shaped in a block and often served with ice cream.
brick up verb: To block or cover using bricks.
brick veneer noun: A building construction technique in which an external, non-structural, brick wall conceals a structural wall of another material (such as timber or steel);...
brick wall noun, verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks.
brick-wall limiter noun: A limiter circuit that completely cuts off signals above a specified threshold, rather than merely attenuating the peaks.
brick walled adjective, verb: Having walls made of brick.
brickable adjective /ˈbɹɪkəbəl/: Able to be bricked (rendered inoperative through incorrect configuration).
brickbat noun, verb /ˈbɹɪkbæt/: A piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon (for example, thrown or placed in a sock or other receptacle and used as a club).
brickbats noun, verb /ˈbɹɪkbæts/: Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets.
brickbatting noun, verb /ˈbɹɪkbætɪŋ/: The act of attacking by swinging or throwing brickbats.
brickclay noun: A clay used in making bricks.
brickcoloured adjective: Alternative form of brickcolored.
brickdust adjective, noun: The dust of bricks.
brickdust deposit noun: A red sediment of urates in the urine
brickearth noun: A wind-blown dust deposited under extremely cold, dry, periglacial or postglacial conditions.
bricked adjective, verb /bɹɪkt/: Not functional, broken, especially permanently.
bricked up adjective, verb: Constipated.
Brickell proper noun: A surname.
brickellbush noun: Any of the flowering species of the genus Brickellia.
brickellin noun: An O-methylated flavonol found in Brickellia veronicifolia.
bricken adjective /ˈbɹɪkən/: Made of brick.
bricker noun /ˈbɹɪkɚ/: A brickmaker.
brickery noun: A place where bricks are manufactured or stored.
brickette noun: Alternative form of briquet (block of compressed combustible material used as fuel)
brickety adjective: fidgety, meddlesome
brickety-brack noun: Assorted low-value items; ordinary objects.
Brickey proper noun: A surname.
brickfield noun /ˈbɹɪkfɪəld/: A place where bricks are made, particularly a field or other open site; a brickyard.
brickfielder noun: A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.
brickfilm noun, verb: An animated film made using plastic building bricks, especially Lego.
Brickhill proper noun: A civil parish and suburban area in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL053521).
brickhon noun: A trans woman who does not pass.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under B: 42,566 words, in 142 parts.