5-letter words containing a, b, l
- balpa — British Airline Pilots' Association
- balsa — Balsa or balsa wood is a very light wood from a South American tree.
- balti — A balti is a vegetable or meat dish of Indian origin which is cooked and served in a bowl-shaped pan.
- balun — a device for coupling two electrical circuit elements, such as an aerial and its feeder cable, where one is balanced and the other is unbalanced
- balut — Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell.
- banal — If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
- basal — Basal means relating to or forming the base of something.
- basel — city in NW Switzerland, on the Rhine: pop. 180,000
- basil — Basil is a strong-smelling and strong-tasting herb that is used in cooking, especially with tomatoes.
- basle — a canton of NW Switzerland, divided into the demicantons of Basle-Landschaft and Basle-Stadt. Pops.: 263 200 and 186 900 (2002 est). Areas: 427 sq km (165 sq miles) and 36 sq km (14 sq miles) respectively
- baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
- bawls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bawl.
- bayle — Pierre (pjɛr). 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic, noted for his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), which profoundly influenced Voltaire and the French Encyclopedists
- bazil — Alternative form of basil (a tanned sheepskin).
- beale — Dorothea. 1831–1906, British schoolmistress, a champion of women's education and suffrage. As principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College (1858–1906) she introduced important reforms
- befal — (obsolete) befall.
- belah — an Australian casuarina tree, Casuarina cristata, yielding a useful timber
- belau — Palau
- belay — to make fast (a line) by securing to a pin, cleat, or bitt
- belga — a former Belgian monetary unit worth five francs
- bella — a feminine name
- bialy — (in Polish Ashkenazi cuisine) a type of bagel
- binal — twofold; double
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blade — The blade of a knife, axe, or saw is the edge, which is used for cutting.
- blaes — hardened clay or shale, esp when crushed and used to form the top layer of a sports pitch: bluish-grey or reddish in colour
- blaeu — Willem Janszoon [vil-uh m yahn-suh n,, -sohn] /ˈvɪl əm ˈyɑn sən,, -soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.
- blaff — a West Indian seafood stew
- blahs — nonsense; rubbish: What they say is blah.
- blain — a blister, blotch, or sore on the skin
- blair — Tony, full name Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. born 1953, British politician; leader of the Labour Party (1994–2007); prime minister (1997–2007); Middle East peace envoy (2007–2015)
- blais — Marie-Claire [muh-ree-klair] /məˈriˈklɛər/ (Show IPA), born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist.
- blake — Sir Peter. born 1932, British painter, a leading exponent of pop art in the 1960s: co-founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1969)
- blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
- blanc — (Jean Joseph Charles) Louis (lwi). 1811–82, French socialist and historian: author of L'Organisation du travail (1840), in which he advocated the establishment of cooperative workshops subsidized by the state
- bland — If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
- blare — If something such as a siren or radio blares or if you blare it, it makes a loud, unpleasant noise.
- blart — to sound loudly and harshly
- blase — If you describe someone as blasé, you mean that they are not easily impressed, excited, or worried by things, usually because they have seen or experienced them before.
- blash — a heavy splash
- blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
- blate — exhibiting corpselike qualities, for example a pallid tone, insensibility, or lack of spirits
- blatt — a newspaper
- blaud — a large amount
- blaze — When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly.
- bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- bleam — (jargon) To transmit or send data. "Bleam that binary to me in an e-mail".
- blear — to make (eyes or sight) dim with or as if with tears; blur
- bleat — When a sheep or goat bleats, it makes the sound that sheep and goats typically make.