9-letter words containing e, o, l, i
- boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
- boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- boil-over — an unexpected result.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bonnibell — a pretty girl
- book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- bottle it — If you say that someone has bottled it, you mean that they have lost their courage at the last moment and have not done something they intended to do.
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- briolette — a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets
- 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
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- brooklike — resembling a brook
- brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- cacomixle — Alternative spelling of cacomixl.
- calcicole — any plant that thrives in lime-rich soils
- caledonia — Scotland
- calliopes — Plural form of calliope.
- camisoles — Plural form of camisole.
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
- celecoxib — an anti-inflammatory drug
- celiotomy — laparotomy (def 2).
- celloidin — a nitrocellulose compound derived from pyroxylin, used in a solution of alcohol and ether for embedding specimens before cutting sections for microscopy
- celluloid — You can use celluloid to refer to films and the cinema.
- 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
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- ceylonite — a dark blue or black form of spinel
- chamomile — camomile
- charleroi — a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province: centre of an industrial region. Pop: 200 608 (2004 est)
- cheilosis — Inflammation of one or both of the corners of the mouth.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- cheliform — shaped like a chela; pincer-like
- 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
- chicalote — a poppy, Argemone platyceras, of the southwestern US and Mexico with prickly leaves and white or yellow flowers
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.