8-letter words containing b, a, l
- playbook — (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- plumbago — graphite.
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- pollable — a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
- pottable — (of a snooker ball) able to be potted
- pourable — able to be poured
- pplambda — (language) essentially the first-order predicate calculus superposed upon the simply-typed polymorphic lambda-calculus. PPLambda is the object language for LCF.
- preamble — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- prizable — of worth
- probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
- probably — in all likelihood; very likely: He will probably attend.
- prolabor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- provable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- provably — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- puffball — any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.
- pull tab — a metal tab or ring that is pulled to uncover the precut opening in a can or other container.
- pullback — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
- quotable — able to be quoted or easily quoted, as by reason of effectiveness, succinctness, or the like: the most quotable book of the season.
- quotably — in a quotable manner
- rabbling — a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
- rabelais — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
- raceable — (of a racecourse) fit to be used for racing
- radiable — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- rag bolt — barb bolt.
- railbird — a horse-racing fan who watches races or workouts from the railing along the track.
- rambling — aimlessly wandering.
- rapeable — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- rat belt — A cable tie, especially the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs). Small cable ties are "mouse belts".
- ratables — property that is liable to rates
- rateable — capable of being rated or appraised.
- rateably — capable of being rated or appraised.
- rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
- re-cable — a heavy, strong rope.
- readable — easy or interesting to read.
- readably — easy or interesting to read.
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- rebuttal — an act of rebutting, as in a debate.
- reefable — (of a sail) able to be reefed