8-letter words containing b, a, s, e, l
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- barkless — (of a dog) not tending to bark
- barnsley — an industrial town in N England, in Barnsley unitary authority, South Yorkshire. Pop: 71 599 (2001)
- bas bleu — a bluestocking; intellectual woman
- basaltes — unglazed black stoneware
- bascules — Plural form of bascule.
- baseball — In America, baseball is a game played by two teams of nine players. Each player from one team hits a ball with a bat and then tries to run around three bases and get to the home base before the other team can get the ball back.
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- baseless — If you describe an accusation, rumour, or report as baseless, you mean that it is not true and is not based on facts.
- baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- bashless — not ashamed; unabashed
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- basileus — A title of the Byzantine emperor.
- bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- bateless — not abating or not able to be abated
- bathless — without a bath
- battlers — Plural form of battler.
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- beamless — Not having a beam.
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- beatless — without a beat, not beating
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bensalem — urban township in SE Pa., near Philadelphia: pop. 58,000
- berascal — to accuse someone of being a rascal
- bescrawl — to cover with scrawls
- beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
- bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- biasedly — in a biased manner
- bimensal — occurring every two months
- biserial — in two rows
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- bistable — having two stable states
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- bleakest — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- bleakish — quite pale
- blue gas — water gas.
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- cascabel — a knoblike protrusion on the rear part of the breech of an obsolete muzzle-loading cannon
- cashable — Able to be converted into cash.