9-letter words containing l, o
- blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head
- blackpool — a town and resort in NW England, in Blackpool unitary authority, Lancashire on the Irish Sea: famous for its tower, 158 m (518 ft) high, and its illuminations. Pop: 142 283 (2001)
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
- blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- bland out — to become bland
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blankbook — a book containing blank pages, as a notebook or sketchbook.
- blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blennioid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Blennioidea, a large suborder of small mainly marine spiny-finned fishes having an elongated body with reduced pelvic fins. The group includes the blennies, butterfish, and gunnel
- bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- bless you — You can say 'bless you' to someone who has just sneezed.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
- block off — When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
- block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
- block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
- blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- blockwork — a wall or structure made of bricks or blocks, or the act of building such a structure
- bloggable — interesting, enjoyable, or entertaining enough to be a topic for a blog or blog post
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- blood red — of the deep-red color of blood: a fiery, blood-red sunset.
- blood-red — Something that is blood-red is bright red in colour.
- bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- bloodless — A bloodless coup or victory is one in which nobody is killed.
- bloodlike — resembling blood
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- bloodlust — If you say that someone is driven by a bloodlust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.
- bloodroot — a North American papaveraceous plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, having a single whitish flower and a fleshy red root that yields a red dye
- bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.