9-letter words containing b, e, l, k
- blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
- blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
- blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
- bladelike — resembling a blade
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- blinkered — A blinkered view, attitude, or approach is narrow and does not take into account other people's opinions. A blinkered person has this kind of attitude.
- blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
- bloodlike — resembling blood
- blue book — A blue book is an official government report or register of statistics.
- blue duck — a mountain duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, of New Zealand having a mostly lead-blue plumage
- blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- blue jack — a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
- blue pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc.
- booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
- booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- breakable — Breakable objects are easy to break by accident.
- breakwall — breakwater
- bricklike — resembling a brick
- brooklike — resembling a brook
- brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- bucketful — A bucketful of something is the amount contained in a bucket.
- buckle up — When you buckle up in a car or a plane, you fasten your seat belt.
- buckley's — no chance at all
- bulb keel — a narrow keel having a swelling weight of lead or iron at the bottom.
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- bull dyke — a lesbian who is markedly masculine
- bull kelp — any of various large brown seaweeds of Pacific and Antarctic waters
- bull neck — a short thick neck
- bull-dyke — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian who is notably masculine or assertive in manner or appearance.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.