9-letter words containing b, i, o, l
- leibowitz — René [ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1913–1972, French conductor and composer, born in Poland.
- libations — Plural form of libation.
- libellous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- liberator — a four-engined heavy bomber widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. Symbol: B-24.
- libration — a real or apparent oscillatory motion, especially of the moon.
- libratory — oscillatory.
- librettos — Plural form of libretto.
- libriform — (of a fibre of woody tissue) elongated and having a pitted thickened cell wall
- lie about — sth: remain unused
- life buoy — any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeblood — the blood, considered as essential to maintain life: to spill one's lifeblood in war.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift bolt — an eyebolt, as on a yardarm, to which a topping lift is secured.
- light box — a boxlike object having a uniformly lighted surface, as of ground glass, against which films or transparencies can be held for examination.
- lightboat — a small lightship.
- lobbyists — Plural form of lobbyist.
- lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
- log cabin — house made of trimmed tree trunks
- lombardia — a region of N central Italy, bordering on the Alps: dominated by prosperous lordships and city-states during the Middle Ages; later ruled by Spain and then by Austria before becoming part of Italy in 1859; intensively cultivated and in parts highly industrialized. Pop: 9 108 645 (2003 est). Area: 23 804 sq km (9284 sq miles)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- loony bin — an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- love bird — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- love bite — A love bite is a mark which someone has on their body as a result of being bitten by their partner when they were kissing or making love.
- lovebirds — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- lovebites — Plural form of lovebite.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- mail bomb — letter bomb.
- mail-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microblog — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- millboard — a strong, thick pasteboard used to make book covers.
- mindblown — Having a blown mind.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- mobbishly — in a mobbish, chaotic or turbulent manner
- mobilised — Simple past tense and past participle of mobilise.
- mobilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mobilise.
- mobilized — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobilizer — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mobilize.
- moonblind — (obsolete) Dim-sighted; purblind.
- moonblink — Nyctalopia.
- multiboot — dual boot
- multilobe — having several lobes
- myofibril — a contractile fibril of skeletal muscle, composed mainly of actin and myosin.
- myoglobin — hemoglobin of muscle, weighing less and carrying more oxygen and less carbon monoxide than blood hemoglobin.