8-letter words containing l, g, e
- bergfall — an avalanche
- bergmehl — a light powdery variety of calcite
- beveling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- big blue — International Business Machines
- big deal — If you say that something is a big deal, you mean that it is important or significant in some way.
- 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
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- blebbing — the formation of a bleb
- bleeding — Bleeding is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they feel strongly about something or dislike something.
- bleeping — (used as a substitute word for one regarded as objectionable): Get that bleeping cat out of here!
- blending — to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
- blessing — A blessing is something good that you are grateful for.
- bletting — the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- blue bag — a fabric bag for a barrister's robes
- blue gas — water gas.
- blue gum — a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
- blue-leg — blewit.
- bluegill — a common North American freshwater sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus: an important food and game fish
- bluegown — a bedesman of the king or, in Scotland, a licensed beggar, who traditionally wore a blue gown
- bluewing — a variety of teal, Anas discors, native to the Americas
- blumberg — Baruch Samuel.1925–2011, US physician, noted for work on antigens: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1976
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- bog hole — a land-surface depression occupied by waterlogged soil and spongy vegetative material that cannot bear the weight of large animals.
- boulogne — a port in N France, on the English Channel. Pop: 45 036 (2006)
- bow legs — a condition in which the legs curve outwards like a bow between the ankle and the thigh
- boweling — Anatomy. Usually, bowels. the intestine. a part of the intestine.
- breughel — Jan Bruegel
- brueghel — Jan (jɑn). 1568–1625, Flemish painter, noted for his detailed still lifes and landscapes
- bullgine — a steam locomotive
- bunghole — a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burleigh — Burghley
- cageless — Without a cage.
- cagelike — resembling a cage
- cageling — a bird kept in a cage
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- calzaghe — Joe. born 1972, Welsh boxer: won all 46 of his professional fights (1993–2008); world champion in the super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions
- ceilings — Plural form of ceiling.
- cerclage — the treatment of an incompetent cervix by means of a suture in early pregnancy to prevent miscarriage
- cetology — the branch of zoology concerned with the study of whales (cetaceans)
- chigwell — a town in S England, in W Essex. Pop: 10 128 (2001)
- chughole — chuckhole.
- clangers — Plural form of clanger.
- claviger — a key- or club-bearer