9-letter words containing l, o
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- 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.