9-letter words containing i, b, l, s
- bismillah — the words which preface all except one of the surahs of the Koran, used by Muslims as a blessing before eating or some other action
- bismuthyl — Chemistry. the univalent group BiO + , occurring in certain bismuth salts, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
- blemished — You use blemished to describe something such as someone's skin or a piece of fruit when its appearance is spoiled by small marks.
- blemisher — a person or thing that blemishes
- blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
- blindless — (of a window) not being fitted with a blind
- blindness — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blindside — If you say that you were blindsided by something, you mean that it surprised you in a negative way.
- blinglish — a form of spoken English that blends British English with Black youth slang
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- bliss-16c — (language) DEC's cross-compiler equivalent of BLISS-11.
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
- 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.
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- braillist — a person who transcribes or creates Braille
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- brasilein — brazilein
- briefless — (said of a barrister) without clients
- brineless — without brine
- bristling — Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows.
- broccolis — a form of a cultivated cruciferous plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, whose leafy stalks and clusters of usually green buds are eaten as a vegetable.
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
- buckishly — in a buckish manner
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- bullishly — in a bullish manner
- bullshits — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- cabbalism — cabala.
- cabbalist — cabala.