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9-letter words containing l, a

  • 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.
  • blaspheme — If someone blasphemes, they say rude or disrespectful things about God or religion, or they use God's name as a swear word.
  • blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
  • blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
  • blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
  • blastemal — of or relating to blastema
  • blastment — shrivelling up due to something in the air
  • blatantly — Blatantly is used to add emphasis when you are describing states or situations which you think are bad.
  • blatherer — someone who blathers
  • blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
  • blazingly — in a blazing manner
  • bleachers — The bleachers are a part of an outdoor sports stadium, or the seats in that area, which are usually uncovered and are the least expensive place where people can sit.
  • bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
  • bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
  • bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
  • bleasdale — Alan. born 1946, British playwright, best known for his television series The Boys From the Blackstuff (1983) and GBH (1991)
  • blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
  • blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
  • blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
  • blizzardy — characterized by blizzards, or resembling a blizzard
  • bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
  • 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
  • bloggable — interesting, enjoyable, or entertaining enough to be a topic for a blog or blog post
  • blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
  • bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
  • bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
  • bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
  • blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
  • blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
  • blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
  • blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
  • blue army — an organization maintaining a directory of tradesmen and checking on the quality of the service they provide.
  • blue baby — A blue baby is a baby whose skin is slightly blue because it has been born with something wrong with its heart.
  • blue crab — any of a genus (Callinectes) of crabs, esp. a blue-legged, edible swimming species (C. sapidus) of the Atlantic coast of North America
  • blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
  • 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 laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
  • blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
  • blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
  • blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
  • bluebeard — a villain in European folk tales who marries several wives and murders them in turn. In many versions the seventh and last wife escapes the fate of the others
  • bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
  • bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
  • bluffable — able to be achieved through or influenced by bluffing
  • blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
  • boardlike — resembling a board
  • boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
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