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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
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