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9-letter words containing l, o

  • bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
  • bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
  • boomingly — in a booming manner
  • boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
  • boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
  • bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
  • bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
  • botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
  • bottle it — If you say that someone has bottled it, you mean that they have lost their courage at the last moment and have not done something they intended to do.
  • bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
  • bottleful — the amount a bottle will hold
  • botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
  • botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
  • botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
  • boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
  • boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
  • boulderer — a rock climber
  • boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
  • boundable — able to be bound or limited
  • boundedly — having bounds or limits.
  • boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
  • bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
  • bow bells — the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London: it is said that a true Cockney is born within earshot of these bells
  • bowelless — ruthless, merciless
  • bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
  • bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
  • bowlegged — having bowlegs
  • box elder — a medium-sized fast-growing widely cultivated North American maple, Acer negundo, which has compound leaves with lobed leaflets
  • box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
  • box stall — a small stall with four walls for holding a horse
  • boxholder — a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
  • boxwallah — an itinerant pedlar or salesman in India
  • bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
  • bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
  • brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
  • bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
  • briolette — a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets
  • broadbill — any passerine bird of the family Eurylaimidae, of tropical Africa and Asia, having bright plumage and a short wide bill
  • broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
  • broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
  • broadloom — of or designating carpets or carpeting woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams
  • broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
  • broccolis — a form of a cultivated cruciferous plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, whose leafy stalks and clusters of usually green buds are eaten as a vegetable.
  • bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
  • bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
  • bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
  • bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
  • broodless — with no brood
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