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9-letter words containing k, l, o

  • blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head
  • blackpool — a town and resort in NW England, in Blackpool unitary authority, Lancashire on the Irish Sea: famous for its tower, 158 m (518 ft) high, and its illuminations. Pop: 142 283 (2001)
  • blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
  • blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
  • blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
  • bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
  • blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
  • blankbook — a book containing blank pages, as a notebook or sketchbook.
  • block off — When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
  • block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
  • block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
  • 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.
  • blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
  • 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
  • blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
  • blockwork — a wall or structure made of bricks or blocks, or the act of building such a structure
  • bloodlike — resembling blood
  • blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
  • blue book — A blue book is an official government report or register of statistics.
  • boardlike — resembling a board
  • boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
  • 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 club — A book club is an organization that offers books at reduced prices to its members.
  • book gill — the gill of a horseshoe crab, composed of numerous membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a closed book.
  • book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
  • book lung — the respiratory organ of a spider, scorpion, or other arachnid, composed of thin, membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a book.
  • 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.
  • booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
  • 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.
  • bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
  • bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
  • 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
  • byelostok — a city in E Poland.
  • cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
  • cellblock — a group of cells in a prison where prisoners are kept
  • chalk out — to outline (a plan, scheme, etc); sketch
  • chockfull — Alternative form of chock full.
  • chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
  • chokecoil — a type of electronic inductor
  • chokehold — the act of holding a person's neck across the windpipe, esp from behind using one arm
  • chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
  • chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
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