Words That Start With: BRAI

• having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence

• woven by (or as if by) braiding

• cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container

• a small net used to draw fish into a boat

• a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in

• take in a sail with a brail

• haul fish aboard with brails

• that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

• mental ability

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

• the brain of certain animals used as meat

• hit on the head

• kill by smashing someone's skull

• a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals

• French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)

• transcribe in braille

• a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

• trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains

• make by braiding or interlacing

• decorate with braids or ribbons

• form or weave into a braid or braids