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9-letter words containing bl

  • black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
  • black rat — a common rat, Rattus rattus: a household pest that has spread from its native Asia to all countries
  • black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
  • black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
  • black run — an extremely difficult run, suitable for expert skiers
  • black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
  • black tar — black heroin.
  • black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
  • black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
  • black-bag — of, relating to, or distributing money for expenses that has been diverted from the regular budget: Black-bag funds have paid for much overseas travel by the military.
  • black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
  • blackacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from whiteacre).
  • blackball — If the members of a club blackball someone, they vote against that person being allowed to join their club.
  • blackband — a type of iron carbonate
  • blackbead — cat's-claw.
  • blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
  • blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
  • blackbuck — an Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra, the male of which has spiral horns, a dark back, and a white belly
  • 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)
  • blackbutt — any of various Australian eucalyptus trees having rough fibrous bark and hard wood used as timber
  • blackcock — the male of the black grouse
  • blackdamp — air that is low in oxygen content and high in carbon dioxide as a result of an explosion in a mine
  • blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
  • blackener — someone who blackens
  • blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
  • blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
  • blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
  • blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
  • blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
  • blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
  • blackjack — Blackjack is a card game in which players try to obtain a combination of cards worth 21 points.
  • blackland — an area of dark peaty soil
  • blacklead — to colour or rub with black lead
  • blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
  • blackmail — Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
  • blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
  • blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
  • blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head
  • blackpool — a town and resort in NW England, in Blackpool unitary authority, Lancashire on the Irish Sea: famous for its tower, 158 m (518 ft) high, and its illuminations. Pop: 142 283 (2001)
  • blacktail — a variety of mule deer having a black tail
  • blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
  • blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
  • blackweed — the common ragweed.
  • blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
  • blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
  • blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
  • bladdered — intoxicated; drunk
  • bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
  • bladeless — without a blade
  • bladelike — resembling a blade
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