7-letter words containing b, a, l
- backlot — an area outside a film or television studio used for outdoor filming
- bacolod — a town in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Negros Island. Pop: 468 000 (2005 est)
- baculum — a bony support in the penis of certain mammals, esp the carnivores
- badland — Alternative form of badlands.
- baffled — lacking in understanding
- baffler — Something that causes one to be baffled, particularly a difficult puzzle or riddle.
- baffles — Plural form of baffle.
- baggily — baglike; hanging loosely.
- baghlan — a province in N Afghanistan.
- bagless — (esp of a vacuum cleaner) not containing a bag
- baglike — resembling a bag
- bagnold — Enid (Algerine). 1889–1981, British novelist and playwright; her works include the novel National Velvet (1935) and the play The Chalk Garden (1955)
- bail up — to confine (a cow) or (of a cow) to be confined by the head in a bail
- bailers — Plural form of bailer.
- baileys — Plural form of bailey.
- bailiff — A bailiff is a law officer who makes sure that the decisions of a court are obeyed. Bailiffs can take a person's furniture or possessions away if the person owes money.
- bailing — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- baillie — Dame Isobel. 1895–1983, British soprano
- bailout — A bailout of an organization or individual that has financial problems is the act of helping them by giving them money.
- bairnly — childish, childlike, young
- baklava — a rich cake of Middle Eastern origin consisting of thin layers of pastry filled with nuts and honey
- baklawa — a Near Eastern pastry made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling of ground nuts, baked and then drenched in a syrup of honey and sometimes rosewater.
- balafon — A large xylophone having hollow gourds as resonators, used in West African music.
- balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
- balanda — (Australian Aboriginal, Arnhem Land) a white person, a European.
- balaton — Lakelake in W Hungary: largest lake in central Europe: c. 230 sq mi (596 sq km)
- balboas — Plural form of balboa.
- balcony — A balcony is a platform on the outside of a building, above ground level, with a wall or railing around it.
- baldest — Superlative form of bald.
- baldies — a bald person (sometimes used as a facetious term of address).
- balding — Someone who is balding is beginning to lose the hair on the top of their head.
- baldish — Somewhat bald; balding.
- baldric — a wide silk sash or leather belt worn over the right shoulder to the left hip for carrying a sword, etc
- baldwin — James Arthur. 1924–87, US Black writer, whose works include the novel Go Tell it on the Mountain (1954)
- baleful — Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
- balfour — Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour. 1848–1930, British Conservative statesman: prime minister (1902–05); foreign secretary (1916–19)
- balitac — Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- balkans — countries of the Balkan Peninsula (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, & the European part of Turkey) & Romania
- balking — 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.
- ball up — to muddle or bungle
- ballade — a verse form consisting of three stanzas and an envoy, all ending with the same line. The first three stanzas commonly have eight or ten lines each and the same rhyme scheme
- ballads — Plural form of ballad.
- ballant — a ballad
- ballard — J(ames) G(raham). 1930–2009, British novelist, born in China; his books include Crash (1973), The Unlimited Dream Company (1979), Empire of the Sun (1984), Cocaine Nights (1996), and Super-Cannes (2000)
- ballast — Ballast is any substance that is used in ships or hot-air balloons to make them heavier and more stable. Ballast usually consists of water, sand, or iron.
- ballata — a 14th-century Italian verse form composed of stanzas beginning and ending with a refrain, often set to music and accompanied by dancing.
- ballboy — Alternative spelling of ball boy.
- ballers — Plural form of baller.
- ballets — Plural form of ballet.
- ballett — an early 17th-century dancelike vocal composition similar to the madrigal in style.