8-letter words containing a, d, l
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blazoned — to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim: The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- blizzard — A blizzard is a very heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blowhard — If you describe someone as a blowhard, you mean that they express their opinions very forcefully, and usually in a boastful way.
- bluebead — corn lily (def 2).
- bluehead — either of two fish of the wrasse family, Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum
- boatload — A boatload of people or things is a lot of people or things that are, or were, in a boat.
- bodleian — the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bolthead — the head of a bolt
- bombload — (of a vehicle of war) the quantity of bombs being carried or able to be carried
- bondable — able to be bonded, fastened, or secured
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- buddleia — any ornamental shrub of the genus Buddleia, esp B. davidii, which has long spikes of mauve flowers and is frequently visited by butterflies: family Buddleiaceae
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- bullhead — any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- c++linda — (language)
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cadillac — something that is the most luxurious or highest quality of its kind
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- caldwell — Erskine (ˈɜːskɪn). 1903–87, US novelist whose works include Tobacco Road (1933)
- calendal — relating to the calends
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- calidity — warmth
- caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- calycoid — resembling a calyx