8-letter words containing e, l, d
- blue rod — officer of the Order of St Michael and St George
- blue-red — a color about midway between blue and red in the spectrum; purplish.
- bluebead — corn lily (def 2).
- bluebird — any North American songbird of the genus Sialia, having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
- bluehead — either of two fish of the wrasse family, Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum
- blueweed — a bristly weed (Echium vulgare) of the borage family with blue flowers and pink buds
- bluewood — a kind of shrub of the buckthorn family, Condalia obovata, found in Texas and northern Mexico
- bodiless — having no body or substance; incorporeal or insubstantial
- bodleian — the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- boldness — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
- bolloxed — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- bolthead — the head of a bolt
- bondable — able to be bonded, fastened, or secured
- bondless — without bonds, unrestrained
- boodlers — the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
- bordello — A bordello is a brothel.
- brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- 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
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- 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
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
- bulldyke — a mannish lesbian
- bulleted — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- bullhead — any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
- bullweed — knapweed
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldwell — Erskine (ˈɜːskɪn). 1903–87, US novelist whose works include Tobacco Road (1933)
- calendal — relating to the calends
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- cameloid — a member of the camel family
- canceled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- candelas — Plural form of candela.
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- cardenal — Ernesto (ˈɜːnɛstaʊ). born 1925, Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, and Roman Catholic priest; an influential figure in the Sandinista movement