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8-letter words containing b, l, i, n

  • oblation — the offering to God of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist.
  • obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
  • obliging — willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
  • oblivion — the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
  • olibanum — frankincense.
  • openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
  • opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
  • panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
  • pebbling — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
  • pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
  • pintable — a pinball machine
  • plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
  • plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
  • polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
  • publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
  • purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
  • rabbling — a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
  • rambling — aimlessly wandering.
  • ringbolt — a bolt with a ring fitted in an eye at its head.
  • roeblingJohn Augustus, 1806–69, U.S. engineer, born in Germany: pioneer of wire-rope suspension bridges, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
  • rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
  • runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
  • saibling — the European char, Salvelinus alpinus, introduced into North America
  • sensible — having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.
  • sensibly — having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.
  • sibilant — hissing.
  • siblings — a brother or sister.
  • signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
  • sinalbin — a white, crystalline, water-soluble glucoside, C 3 0 H 4 2 N 2 O 1 5 S 2 , found in the seeds of the white mustard.
  • singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
  • sinkable — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
  • snobbily — in a snobby manner
  • snobling — a little snob
  • stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
  • stilbene — a colorless to slightly yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 4 H 1 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes (stilbene dyes)
  • subtilin — an antibiotic peptide drug derived from Bacillus subtilis, predominantly used to combat various pathogenic fungi as well as Gram-positive bacteria
  • sunblind — a blind, such as a Venetian blind, that shades a room from the sun's glare
  • tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
  • tailband — a band sewn or glued to the tail of a book. Compare headband (def 3).
  • tailbone — the coccyx.
  • talabani — Jalal. born 1933, Iraqi politician, a Kurd, president of Iraq (2005–2014)
  • tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
  • tangibly — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
  • tensible — capable of being stretched; tensile.
  • thinglab — A simulation system written in Smalltalk-80. It solves constraints using value inference. Version: ThingLab II.
  • trebling — threefold; triple.
  • tribunal — a court of justice.
  • tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
  • turbinal — turbinate.
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