9-letter words containing a, l, b
- blastemal — of or relating to blastema
- blastment — shrivelling up due to something in the air
- blatantly — Blatantly is used to add emphasis when you are describing states or situations which you think are bad.
- blatherer — someone who blathers
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- blazingly — in a blazing manner
- bleachers — The bleachers are a part of an outdoor sports stadium, or the seats in that area, which are usually uncovered and are the least expensive place where people can sit.
- bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- bleasdale — Alan. born 1946, British playwright, best known for his television series The Boys From the Blackstuff (1983) and GBH (1991)
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
- blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- blizzardy — characterized by blizzards, or resembling a blizzard
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- bloggable — interesting, enjoyable, or entertaining enough to be a topic for a blog or blog post
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
- blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
- blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
- 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
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- boastless — without boasting
- boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
- boat tail — a body style in which the rear end of the vehicle tapers to a point or a cone.
- bobadilla — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), died 1502, Spanish colonial governor in the West Indies: sent Columbus back to Spain in chains.
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.