9-letter words containing b, e, l, t
- betrothal — A betrothal is an agreement to be married.
- betumbled — thrown into disorder
- bevelment — the process of bevelling
- biathlete — an athlete taking part in a biathlon
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- big style — to a great degree or extent
- bigotedly — in a bigoted manner
- bilabiate — divided into two lips
- bilateral — Bilateral negotiations, meetings, or agreements, involve only the two groups or countries that are directly concerned.
- bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
- bile salt — a product of a bile acid and a base, functioning as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids for absorption in the duodenum.
- bilection — bolection
- bilestone — gallstone.
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- biliteral — consisting of two letters
- billeting — the activity of assigning soldiers or others to accommodation that is not normally used by them
- biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bit field — (data) Part of an item of data, storage location or message, identified as a certain number of contiguous bits starting at a certain bit position within the data. Bit position zero is usually the least significant bit. For example, in an ARM machine code instruction the four-bit field at bits 28 to 31 (the four most significant bits in the 32-bit word) is the "condition code".
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
- biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
- bivalvate — having or consisting of two valves or similar parts
- bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
- blastemal — of or relating to blastema
- blastment — shrivelling up due to something in the air
- blatherer — someone who blathers
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blethered — weary
- bletherer — someone who blathers
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- blootered — intoxicated; drunk
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blow tube — a tube for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat and direct it onto a small area
- blue note — a flattened third or seventh, used frequently in the blues
- blue stem — a disease of raspberries and blackberries, characterized by blue discoloration of the stem, wilting, and discoloration and decay of the roots, caused by a fungus, Verticillium alboatrum.
- bluemouth — a deep water fish, Helicolenus dactylopterus
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.