8-letter words containing l, a, n
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- bodleian — the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
- bolivian — Bolivian means belonging or relating to Bolivia or its people.
- boltonia — any North American plant of the genus Boltonia, having daisy-like flowers with white, violet, or pinkish rays: family Compositae (composites)
- bondable — able to be bonded, fastened, or secured
- bonemeal — the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- box nail — a nail having a long shank, smooth or barbed, with a sharp point and a flat head.
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- brantail — a redstart
- brasilin — brazilin
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazilin — a pale yellow soluble crystalline solid, turning red in alkaline solution, extracted from brazil wood and sappanwood and used in dyeing and as an indicator. Formula: C16H14O5
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bull ant — any large Australian ant of the genus Myrmecia, having a powerful stinging bite: subfamily Ponerinae
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- burnable — able to be burned
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- c++linda — (language)
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
- cageling — a bird kept in a cage
- cajoling — Present participle of cajole.
- calamine — Calamine is a liquid that you can put on your skin when it is sore or itchy.
- calamint — any aromatic Eurasian plant of the genus Satureja (or Calamintha), having clusters of purple or pink flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
- calanthe — any of various orchids of the genus Calanthe of the family Orchidaceae, found in tropical areas and having long-lasting yellow, white, or pink flowers
- calcanei — Plural form of calcaneus.
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calendal — relating to the calends
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers