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9-letter words containing l, i

  • bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
  • bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
  • blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
  • blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
  • blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
  • blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
  • blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
  • blue line — either of the two blue lines, parallel to the goal lines, that divide an ice hockey rink into three zones
  • 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 nile — a river in E Africa, rising in central Ethiopia as the Abbai and flowing southeast, then northwest to join the White Nile. Length: about 1530 km (950 miles)
  • blue pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes.
  • blue pill — a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.
  • blue wire — (IBM) Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems. These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire.
  • blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
  • bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
  • blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
  • bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
  • blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
  • 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
  • boardlike — resembling a board
  • boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
  • boat tail — a body style in which the rear end of the vehicle tapers to a point or a cone.
  • bob-bling — a repeated, jerky movement; bob.
  • bobadilla — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), died 1502, Spanish colonial governor in the West Indies: sent Columbus back to Spain in chains.
  • bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
  • bobtailed — having the tail cut short
  • body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
  • boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
  • boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
  • boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
  • boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
  • boil-over — an unexpected result.
  • boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
  • boilingly — in a boiling manner
  • bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
  • boliviano — (until 1963 and from 1987) the standard monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos
  • 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.
  • bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
  • bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
  • bonilasse — an attractive young woman
  • bonnibell — a pretty girl
  • boobialla — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Myoporum, esp M. insulare
  • book gill — the gill of a horseshoe crab, composed of numerous membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a closed book.
  • book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
  • book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc.
  • booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
  • boomingly — in a booming manner
  • boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
  • bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
  • botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
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