9-letter words containing l, b, e, a
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
- bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
- brainless — If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- branchlet — a small branch
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brasilein — brazilein
- brazeless — seamless
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- brazilein — a red crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of brazilin and used as a dye. Formula: C16H12O5
- breadless — without bread; without food
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- breakable — Breakable objects are easy to break by accident.
- breakwall — breakwater
- breathful — full of breath; living
- breedable — to produce (offspring); procreate; engender.
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- browsable — able to be browsed
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buildable — suitable for building on
- bull gear — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- cabaletta — a short aria with a repetitive rhythm
- caballero — a Spanish gentleman
- caballine — pertaining to a horse
- cable box — an electronic device that allows cable television channels to be viewed by a subscriber.
- cable car — A cable car is a vehicle for taking people up mountains or steep hills. It is pulled by a moving cable.
- cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.
- cablecast — the transmission of a TV programme via a cable system
- cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- calaboose — a prison; jail