8-letter words containing a, l, i, n
- backlink — An incoming hyperlink from one web page to another website.
- backlins — backward; back.
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- bailbond — a document in which a prisoner and one or more sureties guarantee that the prisoner will attend the court hearing of the charge against him if he is released on bail
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- bailsman — someone who stands bail for another
- bailsmen — Plural form of bailsman.
- baladine — a theatrical dancer or stage buffoon
- balanoid — shaped like an acorn.
- balinese — of or relating to Bali, its people, or their language
- balkline — a line at one end of a table from behind which opening shots with the cue ball are made
- banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- banality — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- banalize — to make banal
- bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- banlieue — a suburb of a city
- bantling — a young child; brat
- 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
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- barnlike — resembling a barn
- baronial — If you describe a house or room as baronial, you mean that it is large, impressive, and old-fashioned in appearance, and looks as if it belongs to someone from the upper classes.
- baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
- basildon — a town in SE England, in S Essex: designated a new town in 1955. Pop: 99 876 (2001)
- basilian — a monk of the Eastern Christian order of St Basil, founded in Cappadocia in the 4th century ad
- basinful — As much as a basin will hold.
- bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- baulking — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- beagling — hunting with beagle hounds.
- beamline — (physics) The line traveled by a particle beam in an accelerator.
- beanlike — resembling a bean
- belizean — of or relating to Belize or its inhabitants
- biannual — A biannual event happens twice a year.
- biathlon — a contest in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a 20-kilometre (12.5-mile) cross-country course
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- biennale — an event occurring every two years
- biennial — A biennial event happens or is done once every two years.
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- bilinear — of or referring to two lines
- billycan — Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
- bimanual — using or requiring both hands
- bimensal — occurring every two months
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- bindable — capable of being tied by a rope
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass