5-letter words containing b, l
- botel — a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- boule — the parliament in modern Greece
- boult — Sir Adrian (Cedric). 1889–1983, English conductor
- bowel — Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
- bowls — a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
- boyla — an Aboriginal Australian magician or medicine-man
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- bphil — Bachelor of Philosophy
- brail — one of several lines fastened to the leech of a fore-and-aft sail to aid in furling it
- brawl — A brawl is a rough or violent fight.
- brill — If you say that something is brill, you are very pleased about it or think that it is very good.
- broil — When you broil food, you cook it using very strong heat directly above or below it.
- brool — a low roaring sound, a deep murmur
- brule — (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
- bubal — any of various antelopes, esp an extinct N African variety of hartebeest
- buell — Don Carlos [kahr-lohs] /ˈkɑr loʊs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- bugle — A bugle is a simple brass musical instrument that looks like a small trumpet. Bugles are often used in the army to announce when activities such as meals are about to begin.
- build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
- built — Built is the past tense and past participle of build.
- bulg. — Bulgaria(n)
- bulge — If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
- bulgy — having a bulge or bulges
- bulks — copies of newspapers sold in bulk at a discounted price to hotels, airlines, etc, who issue them free to their customers
- bulky — Something that is bulky is large and heavy. Bulky things are often difficult to move or deal with.
- bull- — of a bull or bulls
- bulla — a leaden seal affixed to a papal bull, having a representation of Saints Peter and Paul on one side and the name of the reigning pope on the other
- bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
- bulow — Prince Bernhard von (ˈbɛrnhart fɔn). 1849–1929, chancellor of Germany (1900–09)
- bulse — a purse or bag for diamonds
- burly — A burly man has a broad body and strong muscles.
- butle — to act as butler
- butyl — of, consisting of, or containing any of four isomeric forms of the group C4H9–
- bylaw — A bylaw is a law which is made by a local authority and which applies only in their area.
- cabal — a secret or exclusive set of people; clique
- cable — A cable is a thick wire, or a group of wires inside a rubber or plastic covering, which is used to carry electricity or electronic signals.
- caleb — a masculine name
- celeb — A celeb is the same as a celebrity.
- climb — If you climb something such as a tree, mountain, or ladder, or climb up it, you move towards the top of it. If you climb down it, you move towards the bottom of it.
- clomb — climb
- clubs — the suit of cards marked with the black trefoil symbol
- clumb — (dialect) Simple past tense and past participle of climb.
- coble — a small single-masted flat-bottomed fishing boat
- cobol — a high-level computer programming language designed for general commercial use
- colby — a type of mild-tasting hard cheese
- cybil — Control Data's system programming language in the 80's. Major parts of CDC systems written in this.
- debel — to overcome or beat (an opponent) in combat
- dibol — Digital Interactive Business Oriented Language. DEC, 1970. Fortran syntax with BCD arithmetic. Versions for PDP-8 and RT-11. ANSI X3.165-1988.
- dobla — a former gold coin of Spain.
- dolby — Dolby is a system which reduces the background noise on electronic cassette players.
- eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology