9-letter words containing b, l, u
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- flour bin — a small container for flour
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- foul ball — a batted ground ball that is hit and played outside the foul lines, or that passes outside the foul lines at first or third base, or that is played outside the foul line between home and first or third base regardless of where hit.
- foulbrood — any of several bacterial diseases of honeybee larvae, characterized by the putrefying of body tissues.
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- full beam — the brightest light transmitted from car headlights
- full bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- full-back — sports; player , position
- full-bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- fullblood — person of unmixed race
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- funnelweb — A literate-programming tool by Ross Williams <[email protected]>. It emphasises simplicity and reliability. It provides a macro facility and assists in the production of typeset documentation. It is independent of the input programming language. Posted to comp.sources.unix volume 26 under CopyLeft. Runs on Sun, Vax, Macintosh and IBM PC.
- furbelows — Plural form of furbelow.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- gaugeable — Capable of being gauged.
- glabellum — glabella.
- glee club — a chorus organized for singing choral music.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- globulite — (mineral) A rudimentary spherical form of crystallite.
- globulous — globe-shaped; spherical.
- gluggable — (of wine) easy and pleasant to drink
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- gobble up — to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- golf club — any of various long-handled clubs with wooden or metal heads, for hitting the ball in golf. Compare iron (def 5), wood1 (def 8).
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- guessable — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
- gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
- hair bulb — the end of a hair follicle containing active hair-growing cells; situated under the skin
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- half-blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- half-butt — a snooker cue longer than an ordinary cue, usually used with a long rest
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- hellbound — Bound for Hell; damned.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- humblebee — bumblebee.
- humblesse — humbleness, humility, or abasement
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- immutable — not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
- immutably — In an immutable manner. In a way that cannot be varied, or changed.
- imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- imputably — In an imputable manner; by imputation.