8-letter words containing a, l, e
- ballgame — any game played with a ball
- ballonet — an air or gas compartment in a balloon or nonrigid airship, used to control buoyancy and shape
- ballonne — a bouncing step in dancing, esp in ballet
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
- ballotee — a person who has been balloted or conscripted, esp into military service or into the mines
- balloter — a person who votes by ballot
- ballsier — Comparative form of ballsy.
- ballyboe — (Ireland, historical) A townland in Ulster.
- balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
- baloneys — Plural form of baloney.
- baluster — any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping
- banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- banalize — to make banal
- bandelet — a small band of any kind, particularly one worn around the head
- bandello — Matteo [maht-te-aw] /mɑtˈtɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1485–1561, Italian ecclesiastic and author.
- banderol — Alternative form of banderole.
- bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
- bangable — (slang) Sexually attractive.
- bankable — In the entertainment industry, someone or something that is described as bankable is very popular and therefore likely to be very profitable.
- bankerly — relating to or resembling a banker
- banlieue — a suburb of a city
- bannable — able to be banned
- bannerol — banderole
- banville — Théodore de (teɔdɔr də). 1823–91, French poet, who anticipated the Parnassian school in his perfection of form and command of rhythm
- bar line — the vertical line marking the boundary between one bar and the next
- bar meal — a simple meal served in a bar
- barbells — Plural form of barbell.
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- barbless — without a barb
- barbules — Plural form of barbule.
- bareilly — a city in N India, in N central Uttar Pradesh. Pop: 699 839 (2001)
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- bargello — a needlepoint embroidery stitch producing a zigzag pattern
- barkless — (of a dog) not tending to bark
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barletta — a port in SE Italy, in Apulia. Pop: 92 094 (2001)
- barnacle — Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
- barnlike — resembling a barn
- barnsley — an industrial town in N England, in Barnsley unitary authority, South Yorkshire. Pop: 71 599 (2001)
- barrable — able to be barred
- barreled — Having the specified number of barrels.
- barrenly — Unfruitfully; unproductively.
- barrulet — a narrow band across a heraldic shield, taking up one twentieth of the shield's height
- bartlett — the Williams pear, used esp in the US and generally of tinned pears
- bas bleu — a bluestocking; intellectual woman
- basaltes — unglazed black stoneware
- bascules — Plural form of bascule.
- baseball — In America, baseball is a game played by two teams of nine players. Each player from one team hits a ball with a bat and then tries to run around three bases and get to the home base before the other team can get the ball back.
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard