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5-letter words containing i, b, l

  • broil — When you broil food, you cook it using very strong heat directly above or below it.
  • build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
  • built — Built is the past tense and past participle of build.
  • climb — If you climb something such as a tree, mountain, or ladder, or climb up it, you move towards the top of it. If you climb down it, you move towards the bottom of it.
  • cybil — Control Data's system programming language in the 80's. Major parts of CDC systems written in this.
  • dibol — Digital Interactive Business Oriented Language. DEC, 1970. Fortran syntax with BCD arithmetic. Versions for PDP-8 and RT-11. ANSI X3.165-1988.
  • eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology
  • erbil — a city in N Iraq: important in Assyrian times. Pop: 870 000 (2005 est)
  • gibel — a carp of Europe and N Asia
  • glibc — GNU C Library
  • glibs — Plural form of glib.
  • hibol — (language)   A variant of DIBOL, used in Infotec computers. HIBOL was considered to be a very high level language and significantly easier to maintain than COBOL. It uses a single type of data object, called a flow, which is an indexed stream of data values. Computation is expressed as operations acting on flows.
  • hubli — a city in W India, in NW Mysore: incorporated with Dharwar in 1961; educational and trading centre. Pop (with Dharwar): 786 018 (2001)
  • iblis — an evil spirit or devil, the chief of the wicked jinn.
  • iqbalMuhammad, 1873–1938, Pakistani poet.
  • irbil — a town in N Iraq: built on the site of ancient Arbela.
  • kibla — the point toward which Muslims turn to pray, especially the Kaʿba, or House of God, at Mecca.
  • labia — plural of labium.
  • labis — a spoon used to give the Eucharist to communicants
  • lebni — A yoghurt-like dairy dish from the eastern Mediterranean region.
  • lgbti — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex
  • li bo — Li Po.
  • libau — German name of Liepāja.
  • libbyWillard Frank, 1908–80, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1960.
  • libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
  • liber — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
  • libia — Libya.
  • libor — London Inter-Bank Offer Rate: the standard rate of interest for loans between financial institutions
  • libra — the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
  • libre — (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
  • libri — phloem.
  • libya — Ancient Geography. the part of N Africa W of Egypt.
  • limba — an African tree, Terminalia superba, having yellowish-brown wood.
  • limbo — (often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
  • limbs — Plural form of limb.
  • limby — Having many limbs, or branches.
  • littb — Bachelor of Letters or Bachelor of Literature
  • obeli — a mark (− or ÷) used in ancient manuscripts to point out spurious, corrupt, doubtful, or superfluous words or passages.
  • obliq — A small, statically scoped untyped language by Luca Cardelli, 1993. Obliq is object-oriented, higher order, concurrent, and distributed. State is local to an address space, while computation can migrate over the network. The distributed computation mechanism is based on Modula-3 network objects.
  • oboli — a modern Greek unit of weight equal to 0.1 gram.
  • pibal — the measurement and computation of the speed and direction of winds by theodolitic tracking of a pilot balloon.
  • qibla — the point toward which Muslims turn to pray, especially the Kaʿba, or House of God, at Mecca.
  • qibli — In the direction of qibla.
  • sibyl — a female given name.
  • stilb — a unit of luminance, equal to one candle per square centimeter.
  • sybil — a female given name.
  • talib — a member of the Taliban
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