8-letter words containing l, u, e, b
- bemuffle — to muffle, wrap up warmly
- bemuzzle — to put a muzzle on
- benguela — a port in W Angola: founded in 1617; a terminus (with Lobito) of the railway that runs from Beira in Mozambique through the Copper Belt of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Pop: about 200 000 (1990 est)
- beplumed — decorated with feathers
- besouled — having a soul
- betelnut — the seed of the betel palm, chewed with betel leaves and lime by people in S and SE Asia as a digestive stimulant and narcotic
- beuncled — having many uncles
- bhelpuri — an Indian dish of puffed rice and vegetables
- big blue — International Business Machines
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- blesbuck — blesbok.
- bleuatre — blueish
- blowtube — a tube used for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat
- blubbery — of, containing, or like blubber; fat
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- blue bag — a fabric bag for a barrister's robes
- blue box — a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled
- blue cod — a common marine spiny-finned food fish, Parapercis colias, of the sub-Antarctic waters of New Zealand, esp at the Chatham Islands, which is greenish blue with brown marbling and inhabits rocky bottoms. Its smoked flesh is considered a delicacy
- blue flu — a sickout, esp. by policemen
- blue fox — a variety of the arctic fox that has a pale grey winter coat and is bred for its fur
- blue gas — water gas.
- blue gum — a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
- blue ice — the oldest and densest ice in a glacier, distinguished by a pale-blue color.
- blue jay — a common, crested North American jay (Cyanocitta cristata) with a blue upper body and head
- blue jet — a faint discharge of blue light from the top of a thunderstorm cloud that propagates upward: extends approximately from the bottom to the top of the stratosphere and is not detectable from the ground.
- blue law — any of the strict puritanical laws prevalent in colonial New England
- blue mud — a deep-sea sediment of fine silt and clay that derives its bluish color from organic material and iron sulfide.
- blue rod — officer of the Order of St Michael and St George
- blue run — an easy run, suitable for beginners
- blue sky — fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
- blue tit — A blue tit is a small European bird with a blue head, wings, and tail, and a yellow front.
- blue-leg — blewit.
- blue-red — a color about midway between blue and red in the spectrum; purplish.
- blue-sky — of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- blueball — a European herb
- bluebead — corn lily (def 2).
- bluebeat — a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s; a precursor of reggae
- bluebell — Bluebells are plants that have blue bell-shaped flowers on thin upright stems. Bluebells flower in the spring.
- bluebill — any of various American ducks with bluish bills; esp., the scaup
- bluebird — any North American songbird of the genus Sialia, having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
- bluebook — (in Britain) a government publication bound in a stiff blue paper cover: usually the report of a royal commission or a committee
- bluebush — any of various blue-grey herbaceous Australian shrubs of the genus Maireana
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bluegill — a common North American freshwater sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus: an important food and game fish