8-letter words containing b, l, a, n
- labeling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labornet — An IGC network serving groups, unions and labour advocates interested in information sharing and collaboration with the intent of enhancing the human rights and economic justice of workers. Issues covered include workplace and community health and safety issues, trade issues and international union solidarity and collaboration.
- laburnum — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lambkins — Plural form of lambkin.
- lambling — a small lamb
- lambskin — the skin of a lamb, especially when dressed with its wool, and used for clothing.
- landable — Capable of being landed.
- landbank — An area of land held in reserve by a house-building firm.
- landgrab — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- lansberg — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 29 miles (46 km) in diameter.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lap-band — a device fitted around the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
- lebanese — of or relating to Lebanon or its natives or inhabitants.
- lendable — reserved or at hand for purposes of lending: lendable stock; lendable money.
- lesbians — Plural form of lesbian.
- libation — a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- libelant — a person who libels, or institutes suit.
- liberian — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- lienable — capable of being made the subject of a lien
- lin biao — 1907–71, Chinese marshal and Communist leader: defense minister 1959–71; leader of abortive coup 1971.
- linear b — an ancient system of writing representing a very early form of Greek, deciphered by Michael Ventris chiefly from clay tablets found at Knossos on Crete and at Pylos.
- linkback — (Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.
- loanable — that can be loaned.
- loanback — a facility offered by some life-assurance companies in which an individual can borrow from his pension fund
- lobation — lobate formation.
- longboat — (formerly) the largest boat carried by a sailing ship.
- lubyanka — a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.
- mableton — a town in NW Georgia.
- malibran — Maria Felicita [Spanish mah-ree-ah fe-lee-thee-tah] /Spanish mɑˈri ɑ ˌfɛ liˈθi tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1808–36, Spanish opera singer, born in France.
- mandible — the bone of the lower jaw.
- maniable — (obsolete) manageable.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- meanable — (mostly, philosophy) Capable of being meant.
- mendable — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
- miliband — David (Wright). born 1965, British Labour politician; foreign secretary (2007–10)
- mineable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- minilabs — Plural form of minilab.
- moonball — a high lob in tennis.
- nail bar — a type of beauty salon specializing in manicure and the decoration of, esp women's, fingernails
- nail bed — the dermis and epidermis under a fingernail or toenail.
- nameable — capable of or susceptible to being named or identified; identifiable.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- neoblast — any large and undifferentiated stem cell in certain worms, esp planarian worms, involved in regeneration and repair
- nestable — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- nettable — net income, profit, or the like.
- nobleman — a man of noble birth or rank; noble; peer.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- nonlabor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.