9-letter words containing n, u, l
- blackburn — a city in NW England, in Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, Lancashire: formerly important for textiles, now has mixed industries. Pop: 105 085 (2001)
- 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.
- blind gut — cecum
- bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.
- blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- blue john — a blue or purple fibrous variety of fluorspar occurring only in Derbyshire: used for vases, etc
- blue line — either of the two blue lines, parallel to the goal lines, that divide an ice hockey rink into three zones
- 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 nile — a river in E Africa, rising in central Ethiopia as the Abbai and flowing southeast, then northwest to join the White Nile. Length: about 1530 km (950 miles)
- 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
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- blundered — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blunderer — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- bluntness — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- book lung — the respiratory organ of a spider, scorpion, or other arachnid, composed of thin, membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a book.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- brudenell — James Thomas, the 7th Earl of Cardigan
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- bull neck — a short thick neck
- bull nose — a disease of pigs resulting in deformity of the nose, caused by infection with the bacterium Bordatella bronchiseptica
- bull-ring — an arena for a bullfight.
- bulleting — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- bullfinch — A bullfinch is a type of small European bird. The male has a black head and a pinkish-red breast.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bumpkinly — like a bumpkin
- bundle up — If you bundle up a mass of things, you make them into a bundle by gathering or tying them together.
- bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases