9-letter words containing n, o, l
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
- bjoerling — Jussi [yoo s-ee] /ˈyʊs i/ (Show IPA), 1911–60, Swedish tenor.
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
- bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.
- blow down — to open a valve in a steam boiler to eject any sediment that has collected
- blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- blue john — a blue or purple fibrous variety of fluorspar occurring only in Derbyshire: used for vases, etc
- blue moon — If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.
- blue note — a flattened third or seventh, used frequently in the blues
- blue onyx — jasper stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
- blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
- bob-bling — a repeated, jerky movement; bob.
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
- body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- boilingly — in a boiling manner
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
- boliviano — (until 1963 and from 1987) the standard monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos
- bolognese — of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants
- bolt down — fasten, secure sth
- boltzmann — Ludwig (ˈluːtvɪç). 1844–1906, Austrian physicist. He established the principle of the equipartition of energy and developed the kinetic theory of gases with J. C. Maxwell
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bone cell — a cell found in bone in any of its functional states; an osteoblast, osteoclast, or osteocyte.
- bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
- bone meal — Bone meal is a substance made from animal bones which is used as a fertilizer.
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bonilasse — an attractive young woman
- bonnibell — a pretty girl
- book lung — the respiratory organ of a spider, scorpion, or other arachnid, composed of thin, membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a book.
- boomingly — in a booming manner
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.