8-letter words containing a, l, b, i
- linear b — an ancient system of writing representing a very early form of Greek, deciphered by Michael Ventris chiefly from clay tablets found at Knossos on Crete and at Pylos.
- linkback — (Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.
- lip balm — salve for the lips
- liquable — able to be melted
- liquitab — a soluble plastic capsule containing liquid detergent or medicine
- listable — That can be listed.
- liveable — suitable for living in; habitable; comfortable: It took a lot of work to make the old house livable.
- lobation — lobate formation.
- lombardi — Vince(nt Thomas) 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
- lubrical — Obsolete form of lubric.
- mail hub — mail server
- mailable — legally acceptable as mail, as in terms of content, size, or weight.
- mailbags — Plural form of mailbag.
- mailboat — a boat for transporting mail.
- mailbomb — Alternative form of mail bomb.
- malibran — Maria Felicita [Spanish mah-ree-ah fe-lee-thee-tah] /Spanish mɑˈri ɑ ˌfɛ liˈθi tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1808–36, Spanish opera singer, born in France.
- mandible — the bone of the lower jaw.
- maniable — (obsolete) manageable.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- miliband — David (Wright). born 1965, British Labour politician; foreign secretary (2007–10)
- milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.
- millable — capable of being milled: millable wheat.
- millbrae — a city in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
- millibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar or 1000 dynes per square centimeter, used to measure air pressure. Abbreviation: mb.
- mineable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- minilabs — Plural form of minilab.
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- nail bar — a type of beauty salon specializing in manicure and the decoration of, esp women's, fingernails
- nail bed — the dermis and epidermis under a fingernail or toenail.
- oblation — the offering to God of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist.
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligato — Alternative spelling of obbligato.
- obviable — having the ability to be obviated
- olibanum — frankincense.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- orbitale — Craniometry, Cephalometry. the lowermost point on the lower margin of the left orbit, located instrumentally on the skull or by palpation on the head.
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- oxidable — able to undergo oxidation
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- philabeg — filibeg.
- pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
- pintable — a pinball machine
- pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
- pitiable — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
- pitiably — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
- playbill — a program or announcement of a play.