7-letter words containing l, i
- boilery — a place where water is boiled in order to extract salt
- boiling — very warm
- boiloff — quantity of liquified gases lost in evaporation
- bolices — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- bolillo — a crusty hard roll with a soft center.
- bolivar — the standard monetary unit of Venezuela, equal to 100 céntimos
- bolivia — an inland republic in central S America: original Aymara Indian population conquered by the Incas in the 13th century; colonized by Spain from 1538; became a republic in 1825; consists of low plains in the east, with ranges of the Andes rising to over 6400 m (21 000 ft) and the Altiplano, a plateau averaging 3900 m (13 000 ft) in the west; contains some of the world's highest inhabited regions; important producer of tin and other minerals. Official languages: Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara. Religion: Roman Catholic. Currency: boliviano. Capital: La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial). Pop: 10 461 053 (2013 est). Area: 1 098 580 sq km (424 260 sq miles)
- bolixed — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- bolshie — Bolshevik
- boozily — in a boozy manner
- borelli — Giovanni Alfonso [joh-vah-nee al-fon-soh,, -zoh,, jee-uh-;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee ahl-fawn-zaw] /dʒoʊˈvɑ ni ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ,, ˌdʒi ə-;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni ɑlˈfɔn zɔ/ (Show IPA), 1608–79, Italian astronomer, physicist, and physiologist.
- bossily — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- botulin — a potent toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum in imperfectly preserved food, etc, causing botulism
- bouilli — a meat stew
- bowlike — resembling a bow
- bowline — a line for controlling the weather leech of a square sail when a vessel is close-hauled
- bowling — Bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track towards a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
- boxlike — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- braille — Braille is a system of printing for blind people. The letters are printed as groups of raised dots that you can feel with your fingers.
- brawlie — in a fine or healthy manner
- brickle — brittle
- bricole — a shot in which the cue ball touches a cushion after striking the object ball and before touching another ball
- bridled — part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- briefly — Something that happens or is done briefly happens or is done for a very short period of time.
- brimful — Someone who is brimful of an emotion or quality feels or seems full of it. An object or place that is brimful of something is full of it.
- brindle — a brindled animal
- briskly — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- bristle — Bristles are the short hairs that grow on a man's chin after he has shaved. The hairs on the top of a man's head can also be called bristles when they are cut very short.
- bristly — Bristly hair is thick and rough.
- bristol — seaport in Avon, SW England: county district pop. 376,000
- brittle — An object or substance that is brittle is hard but easily broken.
- broglie — Achille Charles Léonce Victor Duc de Broglie1785-1870; Fr. statesman under Napoleon I & Louis Philippe
- broiler — A broiler is a part of a stove which produces strong heat and cooks food placed underneath it.
- bromoil — an offset reproduction produced by the bromoil process.
- brulzie — a noisy dispute; a disturbance
- bucolic — Bucolic means relating to the countryside.
- budlike — resembling a bud
- builder — A builder is a person whose job is to build or repair houses and other buildings.
- buildup — praise or favorable publicity, esp. when systematic and intended to make something popular, well-known, etc.
- buirdly — well-built; stocky
- bulging — a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance; hump: a bulge in a wall.
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bulimic — If someone is bulimic, they are suffering from bulimia.
- bulimus — any of a genus of terrestrial molluscs with elongated spiral shells, commonly found in tropical America
- bulking — the expansion of excavated material to a volume greater than that of the excavation from which it came
- bullied — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bullier — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bulling — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
- bullion — Bullion is gold or silver, usually in the form of bars.
- bullish — On the stock market, if there is a bullish mood, prices are expected to rise. Compare bearish.