8-letter words containing b, e, c, l
- biocycle — the cycling of chemicals through the biosphere
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
- blackice — (software, security) A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
- blackleg — a person who acts against the interests of a trade union, as by continuing to work during a strike or taking over a striker's job
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- bleacher — Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
- blencher — someone employed to scare or obstruct
- blesbuck — blesbok.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- bloncket — of a blue-grey colour
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- blue cod — a common marine spiny-finned food fish, Parapercis colias, of the sub-Antarctic waters of New Zealand, esp at the Chatham Islands, which is greenish blue with brown marbling and inhabits rocky bottoms. Its smoked flesh is considered a delicacy
- blue ice — the oldest and densest ice in a glacier, distinguished by a pale-blue color.
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- bluetick — a type of coonhound commonly bred in the southern United States
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- borecole — kale (def 1).
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- bullneck — an enlarged neck
- burlecue — burlesque (def 3).
- bx cable — a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- callable — (of a security) subject to redemption before maturity
- campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
- cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
- cascabel — a knoblike protrusion on the rear part of the breech of an obsolete muzzle-loading cannon
- cashable — Able to be converted into cash.