8-letter words containing a, l, e
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- bob veal — the flesh of an unborn or newborn calf, used for food.
- bodleian — the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- boilable — suitable or recommended for boiling: a diet of vegetables, rice, and other boilable foods.
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bolthead — the head of a bolt
- bombable — able to be bombed, undefended against bombing; targetable
- bondable — able to be bonded, fastened, or secured
- bonemeal — the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
- bookable — If something such as a theatre seat or plane ticket is bookable, it can be booked in advance.
- bootable — containing software used to boot a computer
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- borazole — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- borrelia — a genus of helical spirochete bacteria, some causing relapsing fever
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- 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
- brailler — a device for producing text in Braille
- brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- bramwell — a male given name.
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- 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
- buffable — able to be buffed
- 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
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burnable — able to be burned
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- 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.
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- 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.
- 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
- caecally — with relation to the caecum
- caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.