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8-letter words containing r, o, l

  • bed-roll — bedding that rolls up for portability and is used especially for sleeping out-of-doors.
  • bedrolls — Plural form of bedroll.
  • beflower — to decorate with flowers
  • beholder — The beholder of something is the person who is looking at it.
  • belabour — If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly.
  • belamour — a beloved person
  • belgorod — city in W European Russia, on the Donets River: pop. 318,000
  • belgrano — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1820, Argentine general.
  • beliquor — to cause to be drunk
  • bellmore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • bellwort — any plant of the North American liliaceous genus Uvularia, having slender bell-shaped yellow flowers
  • belonger — a native-born Caribbean person
  • bicolour — two-coloured
  • bihourly — occurring every two hours
  • binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
  • biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
  • blazonry — the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form
  • blogring — a group of blogs joined in a ring
  • blogroll — a list of blogs
  • bloomers — Bloomers are an old-fashioned kind of women's underwear which consists of wide, loose trousers gathered at the knees.
  • bloomery — a place in which malleable iron is produced directly from iron ore
  • blow-dry — If you blow-dry your hair, you dry it with a hairdryer, often to give it a particular style.
  • blowhard — If you describe someone as a blowhard, you mean that they express their opinions very forcefully, and usually in a boastful way.
  • blowiron — blowpipe (def 2).
  • blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
  • blue rod — officer of the Order of St Michael and St George
  • bobowler — a large moth
  • bog roll — a toilet roll; toilet paper
  • boilover — a surprising result in a sporting event, esp in a horse race
  • bollworm — any of various moth caterpillars, such as Pectinophora (or Platyedra) gossypiella (pink bollworm), that feed on and destroy cotton bolls
  • boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
  • boodlers — the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
  • booklore — any knowledge or belief gained from books
  • borazole — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
  • bordello — A bordello is a brothel.
  • borecole — kale (def 1).
  • borehole — A borehole is a deep round hole made by a special tool or machine, especially one that is made in the ground when searching for oil or water.
  • borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.
  • boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
  • bornholm — an island in the Baltic Sea, south of Sweden: administratively part of Denmark. Chief town: Rønne. Pop: 43 956 (2003 est). Area: 588 sq km (227 sq miles)
  • borrelia — a genus of helical spirochete bacteria, some causing relapsing fever
  • braciola — (in Italian cooking) a thin slice of pan-fried beef
  • braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
  • breloque — an ornament or charm attached to a watch chain
  • bresaola — (in Italian cookery) air-dried, salted beef
  • brigalow — any of various acacia trees
  • bristols — a woman's breasts
  • bro talk — Māori English
  • brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
  • broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
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