9-letter words containing a, b, l, e, i
- beta line — beta (def 6).
- biathlete — an athlete taking part in a biathlon
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- big apple — People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- bike lane — A bike lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by people riding bicycles.
- bilabiate — divided into two lips
- bilateral — Bilateral negotiations, meetings, or agreements, involve only the two groups or countries that are directly concerned.
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- bile salt — a product of a bile acid and a base, functioning as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids for absorption in the duodenum.
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- biliteral — consisting of two letters
- billables — that may or should be billed: Attorneys put in hundreds of billable hours on the case.
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biohermal — a carbonate rock formation, in the form of an ancient reef or hummock, consisting of the fossilized remains of corals, algae, mollusks, and other sedentary marine life, and commonly surrounded by rock of a different lithology.
- biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
- bipedally — in a bipedal manner
- birlieman — a judge dealing with local law
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- bivalvate — having or consisting of two valves or similar parts
- bizarrely — markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: bizarre clothing; bizarre behavior. Synonyms: weird, freakish, grotesque; fantastic; unusual, strange, odd.
- black ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- bladelike — resembling a blade
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- boardlike — resembling a board
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brasilein — brazilein
- brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line