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brioche a sweet, airy bun or roll made with butter, yeast, flour, and eggs.
briquette a small brick or cube of charcoal or compressed coal dust, used as fuel in cooking.
bris the Jewish practice of circumcising boys eight days after birth; Brith; Brith Milah
brisk active or energetic; lively; quick. [3 definitions]
brisket in livestock, the part of the chest adjacent to the ribs, or the meat derived from it.
brisling a small fish of the northeastern Atlantic; sprat.
bristle a short, stiff hair, esp. on an animal. [6 definitions]
bristlecone pine a small pine growing at high altitudes in the western United States that is the longest-lived conifer known, some specimens being over four thousand years old.
bristle worm a segmented worm of the class Polychaeta with bristled appendages.
Bristol board a fine-grained, heavy pasteboard used by artists, printers, and the like.
Brit (informal) a person from Great Britain; Briton.
brit the young of herring. [2 definitions]
Britain the main island of the United Kingdom, located off the northwest coast of France and occupied by England, Scotland, and Wales; Great Britain. [2 definitions]
Britannia Great Britain or the British Empire, often represented as a seated, helmeted woman holding a trident. [3 definitions]
Britannia metal an alloy of tin, copper, antimony, and other metals, similar to pewter and used for tableware.
Britannic of Great Britain; British. [2 definitions]
britches (informal) trousers; breeches.
Brith (Hebrew) see "Brith Milah."
Brith Milah (Hebrew) the Jewish practice of circumcising boys eight days after birth; Brith; Berith.
Briticism a word, phrase, or idiom characteristic of or belonging exclusively to the English language as used in Great Britain.
British of or pertaining to Great Britain or the United Kingdom, or its people, culture, language, or the like. [4 definitions]