9-letter words containing l, e, s
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- bladeless — without a blade
- blameless — Someone who is blameless has not done anything wrong.
- blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- 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.
- blastemal — of or relating to blastema
- blastment — shrivelling up due to something in the air
- 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.
- 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)
- blemished — You use blemished to describe something such as someone's skin or a piece of fruit when its appearance is spoiled by small marks.
- blemisher — a person or thing that blemishes
- bless me! — an exclamation of surprise
- bless you — You can say 'bless you' to someone who has just sneezed.
- blessedly — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
- blindless — (of a window) not being fitted with a blind
- blindness — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blindside — If you say that you were blindsided by something, you mean that it surprised you in a negative way.
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- bloodless — A bloodless coup or victory is one in which nobody is killed.
- bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
- bloomless — without flowers or blossom
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- 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 lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- blue stem — a disease of raspberries and blackberries, characterized by blue discoloration of the stem, wilting, and discoloration and decay of the roots, caused by a fungus, Verticillium alboatrum.
- bluecurls — a name for the plant Trichostema dichotomum
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- bluntness — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- blushless — without blushes, shameless
- blustered — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- boastless — without boasting
- bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
- bodyshell — the external shell of a motor vehicle
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- bolognese — of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.