8-letter words containing b, a, l
- obligato — Alternative spelling of obbligato.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- obviable — having the ability to be obviated
- obwalden — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
- oddballs — Plural form of oddball.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- openable — capable of being opened.
- operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- orbitale — Craniometry, Cephalometry. the lowermost point on the lower margin of the left orbit, located instrumentally on the skull or by palpation on the head.
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- outblaze — to blaze more than or hotter than
- outbleat — to bleat more than or louder than
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outfable — to exceed in creating fables
- ovenable — able to be cooked in an oven.
- oxidable — able to undergo oxidation
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- palm bay — a town in E Florida.
- palpable — readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident: a palpable lie; palpable absurdity.
- palpably — readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident: a palpable lie; palpable absurdity.
- palpebra — an eyelid
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- pantable — a soft, slipper-like shoe
- parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parabole — a simile
- parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- passable — capable of being passed through, beyond, or over; fit to be traversed, penetrated, crossed, etc., as a road, forest, or stream.
- passably — fairly; moderately: a passably good novel.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- path lab — pathology laboratory
- pawnable — able to be pawned
- payables — debts to be paid
- peccable — liable to sin or error.
- peelable — to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.: to peel an orange.
- pettable — having the capability to be petted
- philabeg — filibeg.
- pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
- pintable — a pinball machine
- pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
- pitiable — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
- pitiably — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
- placable — capable of being placated, pacified, or appeased; forgiving.
- platband — a flat structural member, as a lintel or flat arch.
- play box — a box for a child's toys and personal things
- playable — capable of or suitable for being played.
- playback — the act of reproducing a sound or video recording, especially in order to check a recording that is newly made.
- playbill — a program or announcement of a play.