7-letter words containing b, e, l, t
- bristle — Bristles are the short hairs that grow on a man's chin after he has shaved. The hairs on the top of a man's head can also be called bristles when they are cut very short.
- brittle — An object or substance that is brittle is hard but easily broken.
- brothel — A brothel is a building where men can go to pay to have sex with prostitutes.
- brutely — in a brutish manner
- bulblet — a small bulb or bulblike structure, especially one growing in the axils of leaves, as in the tiger lily, or replacing flowers, as in the onion.
- bullate — puckered or blistered in appearance
- bullets — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- butlery — a butler's room
- cablets — Plural form of cablet.
- cambelt — Part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft(s) so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
- citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- cluebat — (computing slang) A bat (club) with which someone clueless is (figuratively or in one's imagination) struck.
- colbert — Claudette, real name Claudette Lily Chauchoin. 1905–96, French-born Hollywood actress, noted for her sophisticated comedy roles; her films include It Happened One Night (1934) and The Palm Beach Story (1942)
- datable — Able to be dated to a particular time.
- delbert — a male given name, form of Albert.
- dilbert — (humour) A cartoon computer worker drawn by Scott Adams <[email protected]>, who works in Silicon Valley. The cartoon became so popular he left his day job. The cartoon satirises typical corporate life, especially that which revolves around computers. See also: BOFH.
- doublet — a close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance.
- driblet — a small portion or part.
- eatable — edible.
- eblaite — the Semitic language of the people of Ebla, believed to be closely related to Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Hebrew, but written in cuneiform characters borrowed from Sumerian: decoded from the Ebla Tablets. Compare Ebla.
- eyebolt — A bolt or bar with an eye at the end for attaching a hook or ring to.
- filbert — the thick-shelled, edible nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, especially of Corylus avellana, of Europe.
- flatbed — Also called flatbed trailer, flatbed truck. a truck or trailer having an open body in the form of a platform without sides or stakes. Compare stake truck.
- flybelt — an area having a large number of tsetse flies.
- giblets — The liver, heart, gizzard, and neck of a chicken or other fowl, usually removed before the bird is cooked, and often used to make gravy, stuffing, or soup.
- gilbert — Cass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect.
- gimblet — a small tool for boring holes, consisting of a shaft with a pointed screw at one end and a handle perpendicular to the shaft at the other.
- globate — shaped like a globe.
- goblets — Plural form of goblet.
- halbert — (weapons) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form.
- hatable — meriting hatred or loathing.
- herblet — a little herb
- hilbert — David [dey-vid;; German dah-vit] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; German ˈdɑ vɪt/ (Show IPA), 1862–1943, German mathematician.
- labiate — having parts that are shaped or arranged like lips; lipped.
- labrets — Plural form of labret.
- lambent — running or moving lightly over a surface: lambent tongues of flame.
- lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
- lambeth — a borough of Greater London, England.
- latrobe — Benjamin Henry, 1764–1820, U.S. architect and engineer, born in England.
- liberty — freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
- librate — to oscillate or move from side to side or between two points.
- limbate — bordered, as a flower in which one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
- lizbeth — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- lobelet — a small lobe
- lobster — any of various large, edible, marine, usually dull-green, stalk-eyed decapod crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having large, asymmetrical pincers on the first pair of legs, one used for crushing and the other for cutting and tearing: the shell turns bright red when cooked.
- mutable — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- netball — Tennis. a ball, on a return shot, that hits the top of the net and drops on the other side of the court, thus remaining in play.
- newbolt — Sir Henry John, 1862–1938, English poet, novelist, naval historian, and critic.
- noblest — distinguished by rank or title.
- notable — worthy of note or notice; noteworthy: a notable success; a notable theory.