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8-letter words containing b, l, i

  • breccial — of or relating to breccia
  • breezily — abounding in breezes; windy.
  • bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
  • bridling — part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
  • brigalow — any of various acacia trees
  • brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
  • brindled — brown or grey streaked or patched with a darker colour
  • brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
  • brinkleyDavid, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
  • brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
  • bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
  • bristols — a woman's breasts
  • brit lit — British literature, esp current fashionable writing
  • brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
  • broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
  • broiling — If the weather is broiling, it is very hot.
  • bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
  • bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
  • broodily — in a broody manner
  • brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
  • brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
  • bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
  • bubblier — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
  • bubbling — a nearly spherical body of gas contained in a liquid.
  • buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
  • bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
  • bucolics — a pastoral poem.
  • buddleia — any ornamental shrub of the genus Buddleia, esp B. davidii, which has long spikes of mauve flowers and is frequently visited by butterflies: family Buddleiaceae
  • bugzilla — (programming)   The web-based bug tracking system used by the Mozilla project.
  • build in — to incorporate or construct as an integral part
  • build on — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
  • build-up — the physical structure, especially of a person; physique; figure: He had a strong build.
  • building — A building is a structure that has a roof and walls, for example a house or a factory.
  • built-in — Built-in devices or features are included in something as a part of it, rather than being separate.
  • built-up — A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it.
  • bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
  • bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
  • bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
  • bulimiac — pertaining to, resembling, or affected by bulimia.
  • bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
  • bullgine — a steam locomotive
  • bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
  • bulllike — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
  • bullring — A bullring is a circular area of ground surrounded by rows of seats where bullfights take place.
  • bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
  • bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
  • bullying — the intimidation of weaker people
  • bullyism — the belief in systematic bullying
  • bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
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