8-letter words containing b, a, n, l
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blatting — bleat.
- blaxican — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person of mixed-race heritage who self-identifies racially and culturally as both African American and Mexican-American.
- blazoned — to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim: The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.
- blazonry — the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- bodleian — the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
- bolivian — Bolivian means belonging or relating to Bolivia or its people.
- boltonia — any North American plant of the genus Boltonia, having daisy-like flowers with white, violet, or pinkish rays: family Compositae (composites)
- bondable — able to be bonded, fastened, or secured
- bonemeal — the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- box nail — a nail having a long shank, smooth or barbed, with a sharp point and a flat head.
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- brantail — a redstart
- brasilin — brazilin
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazilin — a pale yellow soluble crystalline solid, turning red in alkaline solution, extracted from brazil wood and sappanwood and used in dyeing and as an indicator. Formula: C16H14O5
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bull ant — any large Australian ant of the genus Myrmecia, having a powerful stinging bite: subfamily Ponerinae
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- burnable — able to be burned
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cannibal — Cannibals are people who eat the flesh of other human beings.
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbinol — methanol
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- clayborn — a male given name.
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand