5-letter words containing l
- blurb — The blurb about a new book, film, or exhibition is information about it that is written in order to attract people's interest.
- blurt — If someone blurts something, they say it suddenly, after trying hard to keep quiet or to keep it secret.
- blush — When you blush, your face becomes redder than usual because you are ashamed or embarrassed.
- blype — a small piece of skin, particularly one which has peeled off following sunburn
- blyth — a port in N England, in SE Northumberland, on the North Sea. Pop: 35 691 (2001)
- bobol — a fraud carried out by one or more persons with access to public funds in collusion with someone in a position of authority
- bodle — a Scottish coin issued under Charles II, worth two Scots pennies or approximately one sixth of an English penny
- bogle — a scarecrow
- bohol — an island of the central Philippines. Chief town: Tagbilaran. Pop: 1 139 130 (2000). Area: about 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- bolar — of or relating to clay
- bolas — bola (def 1).
- boldo — a Chilean evergreen tree, Peumus boldus, cultivated in California for its aromatic foliage.
- boles — any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
- bolix — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- bolts — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- bolus — a small round soft mass, esp of chewed food
- boole — George. 1815–64, English mathematician. In Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), he applied mathematical formulae to logic, creating Boolean algebra
- bools — the game of bowls or marbles
- boral — the powdered mixture of boron carbide and aluminium
- borel — rustic, rude
- botel — a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- boule — the parliament in modern Greece
- boult — Sir Adrian (Cedric). 1889–1983, English conductor
- bowel — Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
- bowls — a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
- boyla — an Aboriginal Australian magician or medicine-man
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- bphil — Bachelor of Philosophy
- brail — one of several lines fastened to the leech of a fore-and-aft sail to aid in furling it
- brawl — A brawl is a rough or violent fight.
- brill — If you say that something is brill, you are very pleased about it or think that it is very good.
- broil — When you broil food, you cook it using very strong heat directly above or below it.
- brool — a low roaring sound, a deep murmur
- brule — (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
- bubal — any of various antelopes, esp an extinct N African variety of hartebeest
- buell — Don Carlos [kahr-lohs] /ˈkɑr loʊs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- bugle — A bugle is a simple brass musical instrument that looks like a small trumpet. Bugles are often used in the army to announce when activities such as meals are about to begin.
- build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
- built — Built is the past tense and past participle of build.
- bulg. — Bulgaria(n)
- bulge — If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
- bulgy — having a bulge or bulges
- bulks — copies of newspapers sold in bulk at a discounted price to hotels, airlines, etc, who issue them free to their customers
- bulky — Something that is bulky is large and heavy. Bulky things are often difficult to move or deal with.
- bull- — of a bull or bulls
- bulla — a leaden seal affixed to a papal bull, having a representation of Saints Peter and Paul on one side and the name of the reigning pope on the other
- bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
- bulow — Prince Bernhard von (ˈbɛrnhart fɔn). 1849–1929, chancellor of Germany (1900–09)
- bulse — a purse or bag for diamonds
- burly — A burly man has a broad body and strong muscles.