8-letter words containing l, e, c
- balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barnacle — Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
- bascules — Plural form of bascule.
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- bechamel — a basic white sauce made of milk, butter, flour, and, sometimes, cream
- becknell — William, c1790–1865, U.S. frontier trader: opened Santa Fe Trail 1822.
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- beclothe — to put clothes on (someone)
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- becudgel — to arm with a cudgel
- belching — to eject gas spasmodically and noisily from the stomach through the mouth; eruct.
- bell cow — a cow, especially the lead cow of a herd, having a bell attached to a collar around its neck so that the herd can be located easily.
- bellcote — a small roofed structure for bells
- benchley — Robert (Charles)1889-1945; U.S. humorist
- benzylic — relating to benzyl
- berascal — to accuse someone of being a rascal
- bernicle — barnacle goose: a N European goose that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
- bescrawl — to cover with scrawls
- beuncled — having many uncles
- biacetyl — a liquid with a strong, butter-like odour
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- biocycle — the cycling of chemicals through the biosphere
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
- blackice — (software, security) A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
- blackleg — a person who acts against the interests of a trade union, as by continuing to work during a strike or taking over a striker's job
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- bleacher — Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
- blencher — someone employed to scare or obstruct
- blesbuck — blesbok.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- bloncket — of a blue-grey colour
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- blue cod — a common marine spiny-finned food fish, Parapercis colias, of the sub-Antarctic waters of New Zealand, esp at the Chatham Islands, which is greenish blue with brown marbling and inhabits rocky bottoms. Its smoked flesh is considered a delicacy
- blue ice — the oldest and densest ice in a glacier, distinguished by a pale-blue color.
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- bluetick — a type of coonhound commonly bred in the southern United States
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- borecole — kale (def 1).