8-letter words containing t, a, b, l
- beltrami — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1900, Italian mathematician.
- benthoal — relating to deep-sea plants and animals
- bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- betazole — a substance, C 5 H 9 N 3 , used in medicine to stimulate gastric secretion.
- bethrall — to make a slave of
- betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
- biacetyl — a liquid with a strong, butter-like odour
- biathlon — a contest in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a 20-kilometre (12.5-mile) cross-country course
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- big talk — bragging or boasting talk
- bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- biotical — pertaining to life.
- bistable — having two stable states
- biteable — denoting something which can be bitten
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
- bladelet — a small, blade-shaped, sometimes retouched piece of stone used as the cutting edge of a weapon or tool by late Stone Age peoples.
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blatting — bleat.
- bleakest — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bletilla — any of several terrestrial orchids of the genus Bletilla, of eastern Asia, as B. striata, having terminal clusters of showy purple or white flowers.
- bleuatre — blueish
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
- blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
- bluebeat — a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s; a precursor of reggae
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boatable — able to be carried by boat
- boatbill — a nocturnal tropical American wading bird, Cochlearius cochlearius, similar to the night herons but with a broad flattened bill: family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes
- boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
- boatlike — resembling a boat