9-letter words containing a, b, u, l
- basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
- battlebus — the coach that transports politicians and their advisers round the country during an election campaign
- baulkline — a straight line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beakerful — the amount of liquid a beaker will hold
- beautiful — A beautiful person is very attractive to look at.
- beautyful — Misspelling of beautiful.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
- bengaluru — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bi-annual — occurring twice a year; semiannual.
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- bilingual — Bilingual means involving or using two languages.
- bilobular — having two lobules
- bilocular — divided into two chambers or cavities
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binovular — relating to or derived from two different ova
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- black bun — a very rich dark fruitcake, usually in a pastry case
- black gum — a tall, deciduous tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) with sour purple fruits and leaves that turn scarlet in the fall, found in moist forests of the E U.S.
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
- blackbuck — an Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra, the male of which has spiral horns, a dark back, and a white belly
- blackburn — a city in NW England, in Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, Lancashire: formerly important for textiles, now has mixed industries. Pop: 105 085 (2001)
- blackbutt — any of various Australian eucalyptus trees having rough fibrous bark and hard wood used as timber
- bland out — to become bland
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- blue army — an organization maintaining a directory of tradesmen and checking on the quality of the service they provide.
- blue baby — A blue baby is a baby whose skin is slightly blue because it has been born with something wrong with its heart.
- blue crab — any of a genus (Callinectes) of crabs, esp. a blue-legged, edible swimming species (C. sapidus) of the Atlantic coast of North America
- blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
- blue jack — a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
- bluebeard — a villain in European folk tales who marries several wives and murders them in turn. In many versions the seventh and last wife escapes the fate of the others
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- bluffable — able to be achieved through or influenced by bluffing
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited