7-letter words containing a, b, l
- bolland — Jean de [French zhahn duh] /French ʒɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), or Johan van [Flemish yoh-hahn vahn] /Flemish yoʊˈhɑn vɑn/ (Show IPA), or John, 1596–1665, Belgian Jesuit hagiographer.
- bollard — Bollards are short thick concrete posts that are used to prevent cars from going on to someone's land or on to part of a road.
- bologna — Bologna is a type of large smoked sausage, usually made of beef, veal, or pork.
- bolzano — a city in NE Italy, in Trentino-Alto Adige: belonged to Austria until 1919. Pop: 94 989 (2001)
- bonsela — a present or gratuity
- boolean — of or relating to Boole or his symbolic logic
- borlaug — Norman (Ernest). 1914–2009, US agronomist, who bred new strains of high-yielding cereal crops for use in developing countries. Nobel peace prize 1970
- borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
- boxball — a street game played with a small ball
- boxhaul — to bring (a square-rigger) onto a new tack by backwinding the foresails and steering hard round
- brabble — to quarrel noisily over trifles
- bradawl — an awl used to pierce wood, leather, or other materials for the insertion of brads, screws, etc
- bradley — A(ndrew) C(ecil). 1851–1935, English critic; author of Shakespearian Tragedy (1904)
- braille — Braille is a system of printing for blind people. The letters are printed as groups of raised dots that you can feel with your fingers.
- braless — not wearing a bra
- bramble — Brambles are wild prickly bushes that produce blackberries.
- brambly — having or resembling brambles.
- bramley — a variety of cooking apple having juicy firm flesh
- brangle — a squabble, dispute, or wrangle
- brantle — a French dance
- brashly — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- brattle — a rattling or clattering sound
- braudel — ˈFernand Paul (fɛʀˈnɑ̃ pɔl) ; fernänˈ p^ōl) 1902-85; Fr. historian
- bravely — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- brawler — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brawley — a city in S California.
- brawlie — in a fine or healthy manner
- breslau — Wrocław
- broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
- brotula — any of several chiefly deep-sea fishes of the family Brotulidae.
- buffalo — A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.
- bugaloo — a fast dance of Afro-American origin, performed by couples and characterized by dancing apart and moving the body in short, quick movements to the beat of the music.
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bulkage — any agent that aids peristalsis by increasing the bulk of material in the intestine
- bullace — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia), of which the damson is the cultivated form
- bullary — a place where salt is prepared or boiled
- bullate — puckered or blistered in appearance
- bullbat — the common nighthawk
- bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bummalo — Bombay duck.
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
- burglar — A burglar is a thief who enters a house or other building by force.
- busload — A busload of people is a large number of passengers on a bus.
- butanol — a colourless substance existing in four isomeric forms. The three liquid isomers are used as solvents for resins, lacquers, etc, and in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C4H9OH
- buttals — the boundary lines of a piece of land
- butyral — a type of resin
- buyable — available to be bought
- by half — If you increase something by half, half of the original amount is added to it. If you decrease it by half, half of the original amount is taken away from it.
- by-play — secondary action or talking carried on apart while the main action proceeds, esp in a play