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8-letter words containing l, d, r

  • bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
  • bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
  • barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
  • barreled — Having the specified number of barrels.
  • baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
  • basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
  • beadroll — a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
  • bed-roll — bedding that rolls up for portability and is used especially for sleeping out-of-doors.
  • bedlamer — a harp seal, beyond the beater stage but not yet mature.
  • bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
  • bedrivel — to drivel upon or cover in dribble
  • bedrolls — Plural form of bedroll.
  • begirdle — to surround with a girdle
  • beholder — The beholder of something is the person who is looking at it.
  • belandre — bilander.
  • belfried — with a belfry
  • belgorod — city in W European Russia, on the Donets River: pop. 318,000
  • belgrade — the capital of Serbia, in the E part at the confluence of the Danube and Sava Rivers: became the capital of Serbia in 1878, of Yugoslavia in 1929, and later of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006). Pop: 1 280 639 (2002)
  • bellbird — any of several tropical American passerine birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call: family Cotingidae (cotingas)
  • benadryl — an antihistamine drug used in sleeping tablets; diphenhydramine. Formula: C17H21NO
  • bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
  • bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
  • billiard — of or relating to billiards
  • biradial — showing both bilateral and radial symmetry, as certain sea anemones
  • bird flu — Bird flu is a virus which can be transmitted from chickens, ducks, and other birds to people.
  • birdcall — the characteristic call or song of a bird
  • birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
  • birdlike — If someone has a birdlike manner, they move or look like a bird.
  • birdlime — a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
  • bladdery — like a bladder
  • blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
  • blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
  • blizzard — A blizzard is a very heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
  • blow-dry — If you blow-dry your hair, you dry it with a hairdryer, often to give it a particular style.
  • blowhard — If you describe someone as a blowhard, you mean that they express their opinions very forcefully, and usually in a boastful way.
  • blue rod — officer of the Order of St Michael and St George
  • blue-red — a color about midway between blue and red in the spectrum; purplish.
  • bluebird — any North American songbird of the genus Sialia, having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
  • boodlers — the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
  • bordello — A bordello is a brothel.
  • borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.
  • brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
  • bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
  • bridling — part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
  • brindled — brown or grey streaked or patched with a darker colour
  • brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
  • bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
  • brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
  • broodily — in a broody manner
  • brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
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