8-letter words containing l, b, t
- boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- boatload — A boatload of people or things is a lot of people or things that are, or were, in a boat.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- boattail — a large species of blackbird, Quiscalus major, found in coastal areas of the southeastern US
- bobfloat — a small buoyant float, usually consisting of a quill stuck through a piece of cork
- bolo tie — a cord, worn as a necktie, with an ornamented fastening for adjusting the neck loop
- bolthead — the head of a bolt
- bolthole — a place of escape from danger
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- boltless — without any bolts
- boltlike — resembling a bolt
- boltonia — any North American plant of the genus Boltonia, having daisy-like flowers with white, violet, or pinkish rays: family Compositae (composites)
- boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- bootable — containing software used to boot a computer
- bootheel — an area of SE Missouri where the Missouri-Arkansas border dips southward forming a rectangular-shaped extension of the state.
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- bootless — of little or no use; vain; fruitless
- bootlick — to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
- bothwell — Earl of, title of James Hepburn. 1535–78, Scottish nobleman; third husband of Mary Queen of Scots. He is generally considered to have instigated the murder of Darnley (1567)
- bottle-o — a dealer in empty bottles
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- bowl out — In a sport such as cricket, if a team is bowled out, each player in that team has had to stop batting and leave the pitch and there is nobody left to bat.
- box bolt — a rod-shaped bolt of rectangular section for fastening a door or the like, attached to the inside of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame.
- box plot — a graphic representation of a distribution by a rectangle, the ends of which mark the maximum and minimum values, and in which the median and first and third quartiles are marked by lines parallel to the ends.
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- brantail — a redstart
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- bretelle — one of a pair of ornamental suspenderlike shoulder straps that attach to the waistband at the front and back of a garment.
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- brit lit — British literature, esp current fashionable writing
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- bro talk — Māori English
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brooklet — a small brook
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- built-in — Built-in devices or features are included in something as a part of it, rather than being separate.
- built-up — A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it.
- bull ant — any large Australian ant of the genus Myrmecia, having a powerful stinging bite: subfamily Ponerinae
- bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
- bulldust — fine dust
- bulleted — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bullpout — a type of fish