9-letter words containing b, a, l
- baltassar — Belteshazzar.
- balthazar — a wine bottle holding the equivalent of sixteen normal bottles (approximately 12 litres)
- baltimore — a port in N Maryland, on Chesapeake Bay. Pop: 628 670 (2003 est)
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- balzarine — a light cotton and wool fabric used for dress-making
- bamboozle — To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- banalized — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- band list — a list of Canadian Indians formally recognized as belonging to a band
- band mill — a powered machine having two pulleys for a saw band or a file band; band saw.
- band-gala — (in India) (of a coat) closed at the neck
- band-role — a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- bandalore — an old-fashioned type of yo-yo
- bandelier — Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840–1914, U.S. anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Switzerland.
- banderole — a long narrow flag, usually with forked ends, esp one attached to the masthead of a ship; pennant
- bandoleer — a broad belt worn over one shoulder and across the chest, with pockets for carrying ammunition, etc.
- bandolero — a highwayman; a robber
- bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
- bandoline — a glutinous hair dressing, used (esp formerly) to keep the hair in place
- bandshell — a type of bandstand enclosed at the back
- banefully — In a baneful way.
- bangalore — a city in S India, capital of Karnataka state: printing, textiles, pharmaceuticals. Pop: 4 292 223 (2001)
- bangaluru — a city in and the capital of Karnataka, in SW India.
- bangweulu — shallow lake in N Zambia: including swamps, 3,800 sq mi (9,842 sq km)
- banjolele — a four-stringed musical instrument with a neck like a ukulele and a body like a banjo
- bank bill — a bill of exchange drawn by one bank on another
- bank loan — a sum of money borrowed by a customer or business from a bank, often for a specific purpose, such as buying a car
- bankrolls — Plural form of bankroll.
- bannerols — Plural form of bannerol.
- baptismal — Baptismal means relating to or connected with baptism.
- bar clamp — a clamp having two jaws attached to a bar, one fixed and the other adjustable by means of a screw mechanism.
- bar gemel — a charge consisting of two barrulets separated by an area the width of a barrulet.
- bar-stool — a high backless seat found chiefly in bars, at the serving counter
- baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
- barb bolt — a bolt having barbs for resisting pull.
- barbastel — a type of insectivorous forest bat, Barbastellus communis, native to Europe and known for its hairy lips
- barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
- barcarole — a Venetian boat song in a time of six or twelve quaver beats to the bar
- barcelona — the chief port of Spain, on the NE Mediterranean coast: seat of the Republican government during the Civil War (1936–39); the commercial capital of Spain. Pop: 1 582 738 (2003 est)
- bardolino — a light dry red wine produced around Verona in NE Italy
- barebelly — a sheep with a defective growth of wool on its belly and legs.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
- baritonal — of or relating to a baritone
- barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barnacled — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- baroquely — in a baroque fashion
- barrelage — an amount, esp of beer, as measured in barrels