8-letter words containing a, c, b, l
- blackmur — R(ichard) P(almer) 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blaxican — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person of mixed-race heritage who self-identifies racially and culturally as both African American and Mexican-American.
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- bleacher — Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blowback — the escape to the rear of gases formed during the firing of a weapon or in a boiler, internal-combustion engine, etc
- blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- brachial — of or relating to the arm or to an armlike part or structure
- 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.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- buccally — from the point of view of the cheek or mouth
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bulimiac — pertaining to, resembling, or affected by bulimia.
- bx cable — a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabrilla — any of various serranid food fishes, esp Epinephelus analogus, occurring in warm seas around Florida and the Caribbean
- 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
- calabash — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calabaza — any of several species of gourd of the genus Cucurbita
- calabria — a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.