9-letter words containing a, l, k, e
- bike lane — A bike lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by people riding bicycles.
- black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
- black ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
- blackbead — cat's-claw.
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
- blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
- blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
- bladelike — resembling a blade
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- 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
- 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.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- breakable — Breakable objects are easy to break by accident.
- breakwall — breakwater
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
- camellike — resembling a camel
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- cell pack — a container made of cellular plastic, as one used for holding flowers or plants.
- chainlike — Having the form of a chain.
- chalkface — the work or art of teaching in a school, esp classroom teaching as distinct from organizational responsibilities (esp in the phrase at the chalkface)
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- checkable — capable of being checked, as by inquiry or verification: The fact is checkable from available records.
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- clam-like — resembling a clam
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.