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9-letter words containing e, n, l, o

  • blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
  • bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
  • bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
  • body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
  • boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
  • bojanglesBill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
  • bolognese — of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants
  • bondslave — a person held in bondage.
  • bone cell — a cell found in bone in any of its functional states; an osteoblast, osteoclast, or osteocyte.
  • bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
  • bone meal — Bone meal is a substance made from animal bones which is used as a fertilizer.
  • boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
  • bonilasse — an attractive young woman
  • bonnibell — a pretty girl
  • boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
  • boundable — able to be bound or limited
  • boundedly — having bounds or limits.
  • boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
  • brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
  • broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
  • bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
  • brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
  • brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
  • bull nose — a disease of pigs resulting in deformity of the nose, caused by infection with the bacterium Bordatella bronchiseptica
  • bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
  • calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
  • caledonia — Scotland
  • canaletto — original name Giovanni Antonio Canale. 1697–1768, Italian painter and etcher, noted particularly for his highly detailed paintings of cities, esp Venice, which are marked by strong contrasts of light and shade
  • cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
  • candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
  • canoeable — (of a river, etc) able to be navigated in a canoe
  • canoodled — Simple past tense and past participle of canoodle.
  • canoodles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoodle.
  • cantalope — Misspelling of cantaloupe.
  • castellón — seaport in E Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 133,000
  • celloidin — a nitrocellulose compound derived from pyroxylin, used in a solution of alcohol and ether for embedding specimens before cutting sections for microscopy
  • cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
  • censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
  • centriole — either of two rodlike bodies in most animal cells that form the poles of the spindle during mitosis
  • ceylonese — of or relating to Ceylon or its inhabitants
  • ceylonite — a dark blue or black form of spinel
  • chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
  • chalcogen — any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table
  • chameleon — A chameleon is a kind of lizard whose skin changes colour to match the colour of its surroundings.
  • changelog — (computing) A log that records changes between versions, as in source control.
  • charleton — a male given name.
  • chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
  • chelonian — any reptile of the order Chelonia, including the tortoises and turtles, in which most of the body is enclosed in a protective bony capsule
  • chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
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