8-letter words containing b, e, c, l
- cue ball — the ball struck by the cue, as distinguished from the object balls
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- cuttable — capable of being cut
- cyclable — fit or designed for bicycle riding: a cyclable road.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- dulbecco — Renato [ruh-nah-toh;; Italian re-nah-taw] /rəˈnɑ toʊ;; Italian rɛˈnɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1914–2012, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- educable — capable of being educated.
- educible — Able to be elicited or evoked.
- evocable — That can be evoked.
- faceable — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- fencible — Capable of being defended.
- flockbed — a bed with a mattress stuffed with wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or the like.
- forcible — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- glib ice — ice that is particularly smooth and slippery
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
- ice blue — a very pale blue color.
- ice-blue — Ice-blue is a very pale blue colour.
- iceblink — a yellowish luminosity near the horizon or on the underside of a cloud, caused by the reflection of light from sea ice.
- iceblock — An ice block, a block of ice.
- icy blue — of a very pale blue colour
- imbecile — Informal. a dunce; blockhead; dolt: Don't stand there like an imbecile. Open the door!.
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- la ceiba — a seaport in N Honduras.
- lace bug — any of several bugs of the family Tingidae, characterized by a lacy pattern of ridges on the head, thorax, and wings, and feeding on the leaves of oak, birch, sycamore, etc.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- libeccio — a strong westerly or southwesterly wind blowing onto the W coast of Corsica
- liberace — (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87, U.S. pianist and entertainer.
- lie back — sb: recline
- liebchen — A person who is very dear to another (often used as a term of endearment).
- lockable — capable of being locked; fitted with a lock: The car has a lockable glove compartment.
- miscible — capable of being mixed: miscible ingredients.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- nubecula — (astronomy) A nebula; specifically, the Magellanic Clouds.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- overclub — to use a club which causes the shot to go too far
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- peccable — liable to sin or error.
- placable — capable of being placated, pacified, or appeased; forgiving.
- raceable — (of a racecourse) fit to be used for racing
- re-cable — a heavy, strong rope.
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.