8-letter words containing a, b, o, l
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- boogaloo — a type of dance performed to rock and roll music
- bookable — If something such as a theatre seat or plane ticket is bookable, it can be booked in advance.
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- bootable — containing software used to boot a computer
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- borazole — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- borrelia — a genus of helical spirochete bacteria, some causing relapsing fever
- boulimia — bulimia.
- box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
- box nail — a nail having a long shank, smooth or barbed, with a sharp point and a flat head.
- braciola — (in Italian cooking) a thin slice of pan-fried beef
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- bro talk — Māori English
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bulgakov — Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)
- bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- call box — A call box is the same as a telephone box.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- carbinol — methanol
- carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- cimbalom — a type of dulcimer, esp of Hungary
- clackbox — the casing enclosing a clack
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- clayborn — a male given name.
- closable — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- coalball — a nodule of coal containing fossilized plant remains
- cob coal — coal in large, rounded lumps
- cobaltic — of or containing cobalt, esp in the trivalent state
- cocobola — timber from trees of the genus Delbergia, including rosewood
- coloboma — a structural defect of the eye, esp in the choroid, retina, or iris
- colombia — a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- cookable — That can be cooked; suitable for cooking.
- cool bag — an insulated container used to keep food cool on picnics, to carry frozen food, etc
- coolabah — an Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus microtheca, that grows along rivers and has smooth bark and long narrow leaves