9-letter words containing u, l, e
- bengaluru — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- bensulide — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 14 H 24 O 4 NPS 3 , used primarily to control crabgrass and broadleaf weeds.
- berkelium — a metallic transuranic element produced by bombardment of americium. Symbol: Bk; atomic no: 97; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Bk: 1400 years; valency: 3 or 4; relative density: 14 (est)
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- beryllium — a corrosion-resistant toxic silvery-white metallic element that occurs chiefly in beryl and is used mainly in X-ray windows and in the manufacture of alloys. Symbol: Be; atomic no: 4; atomic wt: 9.012; valency: 2; relative density: 1.848; melting pt: 1289°C; boiling pt: 2472°C
- berzelius — Baron Jöns Jakob (ˈjœns ˈjɑːkɔp). 1779–1848, Swedish chemist, who invented the present system of chemical symbols and formulas, discovered several elements, and determined the atomic and molecular weight of many substances
- betel nut — the fruit of the betel palm, chewed with leaves of the betel pepper by some Southeast Asian peoples as a mild stimulant
- betumbled — thrown into disorder
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- bice blue — a medium or deep sky-blue color, duller than aquamarine or azure.
- bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- biofouler — an animal that obstructs or pollutes the environment
- biofueled — running on biofuel
- bisellium — an ancient Roman seat of honor for two persons.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- bless you — You can say 'bless you' to someone who has just sneezed.
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blow tube — a tube for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat and direct it onto a small area
- blue army — an organization maintaining a directory of tradesmen and checking on the quality of the service they provide.
- blue baby — A blue baby is a baby whose skin is slightly blue because it has been born with something wrong with its heart.
- blue book — A blue book is an official government report or register of statistics.
- blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
- blue comb — a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.
- blue crab — any of a genus (Callinectes) of crabs, esp. a blue-legged, edible swimming species (C. sapidus) of the Atlantic coast of North America
- blue duck — a mountain duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, of New Zealand having a mostly lead-blue plumage
- blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
- blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- blue glue — Systems Network Architecture
- blue jack — a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
- blue john — a blue or purple fibrous variety of fluorspar occurring only in Derbyshire: used for vases, etc
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue line — either of the two blue lines, parallel to the goal lines, that divide an ice hockey rink into three zones
- blue lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- blue mold — any of various species of a fungus (genus Penicillium) that produce bluish masses of spores: some species yield penicillin and some are used to ripen certain cheeses
- 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 pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes.
- blue pill — a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.
- blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs