8-letter words containing l, s, b
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- blurbist — a person who writes blurbs
- blush-on — blusher (def 2).
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- blustery — Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction.
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- bodiless — having no body or substance; incorporeal or insubstantial
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- boldness — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
- bollocks — Bollocks is used by some people to express disagreement, dislike, or annoyance.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- boltless — without any bolts
- bondless — without bonds, unrestrained
- boneless — without bones; specif., with the bones removed
- bonspiel — a curling match
- boodlers — the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
- bookless — having no books
- boonless — useless or unhelpful
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- bootless — of little or no use; vain; fruitless
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- bow legs — a condition in which the legs curve outwards like a bow between the ankle and the thigh
- box sill — a sill for a building frame, composed of a plate resting on the basement wall and a joist or header at the outer edge of the plate, as well as a soleplate for the studs resting either directly on the joists or on the rough flooring.
- brasilia — the capital of Brazil (since 1960), on the central plateau: the former capital was Rio de Janeiro. Pop: 3 341 000 (2005 est)
- brasilin — brazilin
- bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- browless — without eyebrows
- brussels — the capital of Belgium, in the central part: became capital of Belgium in 1830; seat of the European Commission. Pop: 999 899 (2004 est)
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bullbars — large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- bulldust — fine dust
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- bullseye — the circular spot, usually black or outlined in black, at the center of a target marked with concentric circles and used in target practice.
- bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bullyism — the belief in systematic bullying
- bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- burleson — a city in N Texas.