9-letter words containing k, l
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- breakable — Breakable objects are easy to break by accident.
- breakwall — breakwater
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- brickkiln — a kiln or furnace in which bricks are baked or burned.
- bricklike — resembling a brick
- 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
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
- bucketful — A bucketful of something is the amount contained in a bucket.
- buckishly — in a buckish manner
- buckle up — When you buckle up in a car or a plane, you fasten your seat belt.
- buckley's — no chance at all
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- bulb keel — a narrow keel having a swelling weight of lead or iron at the bottom.
- bulk-mail — to mail as bulk mail.
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- bull dyke — a lesbian who is markedly masculine
- bull kelp — any of various large brown seaweeds of Pacific and Antarctic waters
- bull neck — a short thick neck
- bull-dyke — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian who is notably masculine or assertive in manner or appearance.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- bumpkinly — like a bumpkin
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.