9-letter words containing k, e, l
- beastlike — resembling a beast
- bee block — bee2 (def 1).
- bell book — a book in which all orders affecting the main engines of a ship are recorded.
- berkelium — a metallic transuranic element produced by bombardment of americium. Symbol: Bk; atomic no: 97; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Bk: 1400 years; valency: 3 or 4; relative density: 14 (est)
- berrylike — resembling a berry or berries
- berserkly — in a berserk or crazy manner
- bespeckle — to mark with speckles
- bi-weekly — occurring every two weeks.
- bike lane — A bike lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by people riding bicycles.
- black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
- black ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
- blackbead — cat's-claw.
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
- blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
- blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
- bladelike — resembling a blade
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- blinkered — A blinkered view, attitude, or approach is narrow and does not take into account other people's opinions. A blinkered person has this kind of attitude.
- blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
- bloodlike — resembling blood
- blue book — A blue book is an official government report or register of statistics.
- blue duck — a mountain duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, of New Zealand having a mostly lead-blue plumage
- blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- blue jack — a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
- blue pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
- booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.