8-letter words containing b, u, l
- blackgum — Nyssa sylvatica, a deciduous tree of the genus Nyssa native to North America
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blackmur — R(ichard) P(almer) 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity
- blesbuck — blesbok.
- bleuatre — blueish
- blissful — A blissful situation or period of time is one in which you are extremely happy.
- blissout — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- block up — If you block something up or if it blocks up, it is blocked completely so that nothing can get through it.
- bloombug — (humour) A bug that accidentally generates money.
- blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
- blousily — in the manner of a blouse
- blousing — a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- blow out — If you blow out a flame or a candle, you blow at it so that it stops burning.
- blow-gun — a pipe or tube through which darts or other missiles are blown by the breath.
- blow-out — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
- blown-up — (of a picture, photograph, image, etc.) enlarged.
- blowtube — a tube used for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat
- blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
- blubbery — of, containing, or like blubber; fat
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- blue bag — a fabric bag for a barrister's robes
- blue box — a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled
- blue cod — a common marine spiny-finned food fish, Parapercis colias, of the sub-Antarctic waters of New Zealand, esp at the Chatham Islands, which is greenish blue with brown marbling and inhabits rocky bottoms. Its smoked flesh is considered a delicacy
- blue flu — a sickout, esp. by policemen
- blue fox — a variety of the arctic fox that has a pale grey winter coat and is bred for its fur
- blue gas — water gas.
- blue gum — a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
- blue ice — the oldest and densest ice in a glacier, distinguished by a pale-blue color.
- blue jay — a common, crested North American jay (Cyanocitta cristata) with a blue upper body and head
- blue jet — a faint discharge of blue light from the top of a thunderstorm cloud that propagates upward: extends approximately from the bottom to the top of the stratosphere and is not detectable from the ground.
- blue law — any of the strict puritanical laws prevalent in colonial New England
- blue mud — a deep-sea sediment of fine silt and clay that derives its bluish color from organic material and iron sulfide.
- blue rod — officer of the Order of St Michael and St George
- blue run — an easy run, suitable for beginners
- blue sky — fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
- blue tit — A blue tit is a small European bird with a blue head, wings, and tail, and a yellow front.
- blue-leg — blewit.
- blue-red — a color about midway between blue and red in the spectrum; purplish.
- blue-sky — of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- blueball — a European herb
- bluebead — corn lily (def 2).
- bluebeat — a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s; a precursor of reggae
- bluebell — Bluebells are plants that have blue bell-shaped flowers on thin upright stems. Bluebells flower in the spring.