9-letter words containing b, i, l, o
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- bottle it — If you say that someone has bottled it, you mean that they have lost their courage at the last moment and have not done something they intended to do.
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- briolette — a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets
- broadbill — any passerine bird of the family Eurylaimidae, of tropical Africa and Asia, having bright plumage and a short wide bill
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
- broccolis — a form of a cultivated cruciferous plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, whose leafy stalks and clusters of usually green buds are eaten as a vegetable.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- 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
- browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
- catabolic — destructive metabolism; the breaking down in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones, with the release of energy (opposed to anabolism).
- celecoxib — an anti-inflammatory drug
- charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- cobalamin — vitamin B12
- cobaltite — a rare silvery-white mineral consisting of cobalt arsenic sulphide in cubic crystalline form: a major ore of cobalt, used in ceramics. Formula: CoAsS
- coercible — to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition: They coerced him into signing the document.
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- cogitable — conceivable
- cohesible — capable of cohesion
- colombian — Colombian means belonging or relating to Colombia or its people or culture.
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columbium — niobium
- comboloio — A Muslim rosary consisting of ninety-nine beads.
- comptible — (obsolete) accountable; responsible.