8-letter words containing a, l, n
- ballgown — A ballgown is a long dress that women wear to formal dances.
- 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
- balloons — a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.
- baloneys — Plural form of baloney.
- 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
- 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.
- bangalay — a myrtaceous Australian tree, Eucalyptus botryoides, valued for its hard red wood
- bangalow — an Australian palm, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, native to New South Wales and Queensland
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- 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
- bankroll — To bankroll a person, organization, or project means to provide the financial resources that they need.
- banlieue — a suburb of a city
- bannable — able to be banned
- bannerol — banderole
- 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
- banyalla — Victorian box.
- bar line — the vertical line marking the boundary between one bar and the next
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- barn owl — any owl of the genus Tyto, esp T. alba, having a pale brown and white plumage, long slender legs, and a heart-shaped face: family Tytonidae
- 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)
- 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.
- barrenly — Unfruitfully; unproductively.
- 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.
- bay lynx — bobcat
- be along — to come or arrive
- beagling — hunting with beagle hounds.
- beamline — (physics) The line traveled by a particle beam in an accelerator.
- beanball — a ball pitched with the intention of hitting the batsman
- beanlike — resembling a bean
- beanpole — If you call someone a beanpole, you are criticizing them because you think that they are extremely tall and thin.
- befallen — to happen or occur.