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9-letter words containing o, b, l, i

  • biosolids — semisolid or solid organic material obtained from the recycling of sewage, used esp as a fertilizer
  • biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
  • 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.
  • 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
  • blimp out — to become greatly overweight
  • 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
  • bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
  • block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
  • blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
  • bloodlike — resembling blood
  • bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
  • bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
  • blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
  • blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
  • blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
  • bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
  • boardlike — resembling a board
  • boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
  • boat tail — a body style in which the rear end of the vehicle tapers to a point or a cone.
  • bob-bling — a repeated, jerky movement; bob.
  • bobadilla — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), died 1502, Spanish colonial governor in the West Indies: sent Columbus back to Spain in chains.
  • bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
  • bobtailed — having the tail cut short
  • body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
  • boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
  • boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
  • 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.
  • boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
  • boil-over — an unexpected result.
  • boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
  • boilingly — in a boiling manner
  • 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
  • bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
  • bone idle — very idle; extremely lazy
  • bonilasse — an attractive young woman
  • bonnibell — a pretty girl
  • boobialla — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Myoporum, esp M. insulare
  • book gill — the gill of a horseshoe crab, composed of numerous membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a closed book.
  • book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
  • book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc.
  • booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
  • boomingly — in a booming manner
  • boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
  • bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
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