9-letter words containing b, l, i, n
- blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- blue line — either of the two blue lines, parallel to the goal lines, that divide an ice hockey rink into three zones
- blue nile — a river in E Africa, rising in central Ethiopia as the Abbai and flowing southeast, then northwest to join the White Nile. Length: about 1530 km (950 miles)
- blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
- 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.
- boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
- bob-bling — a repeated, jerky movement; bob.
- body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- boilingly — in a boiling manner
- bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
- boliviano — (until 1963 and from 1987) the standard monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bonnibell — a pretty girl
- boomingly — in a booming manner
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- 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.
- brabbling — to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- brasilein — brazilein
- brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
- brazilian — Brazilian means belonging or relating to Brazil, or to its people or culture.
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- brickkiln — a kiln or furnace in which bricks are baked or burned.
- brilliant — A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- brineless — without brine
- bristling — Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows.
- brittling — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- 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
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.