8-letter words containing b, y, l
- blustery — Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction.
- bodingly — in a boding manner
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bowingly — in a curved manner
- boxology — (graphics) /bok-sol'*-jee/ ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology.
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- breezily — abounding in breezes; windy.
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- broodily — in a broody manner
- brooklyn — a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
- bryology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of bryophytes
- buccally — from the point of view of the cheek or mouth
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bulb fly — a hoverfly, the larvae of which live in bulbs and can become serious pests, esp the yellow and black narcissus bulb fly (Meridon equestris)
- bulk-buy — to buy (goods) in large quantities
- bull bay — evergreen magnolia.
- bulldyke — a mannish lesbian
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- bullseye — the circular spot, usually black or outlined in black, at the center of a target marked with concentric circles and used in target practice.
- bullyboy — a ruffian or tough, esp a hired one
- bullying — the intimidation of weaker people
- bullyism — the belief in systematic bullying
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- by-liner — a writer whose work is accompanied by a by-line
- bye-blow — by-blow (def 2).
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- carbamyl — a radical, NH2CO, that is derived from carbamic acid
- carbaryl — an organic compound of the carbamate group: used as an insecticide, esp to treat head lice
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- celibacy — Celibacy is the state of being celibate.
- chimbley — (UK, dialect) A chimney.
- chubbily — in a chubby way or in the manner of someone who is chubby
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- clayborn — a male given name.
- close-by — nearby; adjacent; neighboring.