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9-letter words containing e, o, l

  • bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
  • bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
  • 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.
  • bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
  • bottleful — the amount a bottle will hold
  • boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
  • 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
  • boulderer — a rock climber
  • boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
  • 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.
  • bow bells — the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London: it is said that a true Cockney is born within earshot of these bells
  • bowelless — ruthless, merciless
  • bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
  • bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
  • bowlegged — having bowlegs
  • box elder — a medium-sized fast-growing widely cultivated North American maple, Acer negundo, which has compound leaves with lobed leaflets
  • box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
  • boxholder — a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
  • bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
  • brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
  • 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
  • broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
  • 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
  • bromfieldLouis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
  • broodless — with no brood
  • 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
  • brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
  • brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
  • browsable — able to be browsed
  • bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
  • buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • bull nose — a disease of pigs resulting in deformity of the nose, caused by infection with the bacterium Bordatella bronchiseptica
  • bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
  • bulldozer — A bulldozer is a large vehicle with a broad metal blade at the front, which is used for knocking down buildings or moving large amounts of earth.
  • bumbledom — self-importance in a minor office
  • bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
  • burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
  • byelostok — a city in E Poland.
  • caballero — a Spanish gentleman
  • cable box — an electronic device that allows cable television channels to be viewed by a subscriber.
  • cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
  • cacomixle — Alternative spelling of cacomixl.
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