9-letter words containing ll
- beachball — a large light brightly coloured ball for playing with on a beach
- beam fill — material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.
- beam mill — a rolling mill for roughing a bloom and rolling it into a shape.
- bean ball — a pitch aimed at the batter's head, in violation of the rules
- bedfellow — You refer to two things or people as bedfellows when they have become associated or related in some way.
- beer hall — a bar, cabaret, or the like, chiefly serving beer and usually offering music, dancing, etc.
- befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
- bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
- bell book — a book in which all orders affecting the main engines of a ship are recorded.
- bell buoy — a navigational buoy fitted with a bell, the clapper of which strikes when the waves move the buoy
- bell frog — any of several tree frogs having a bell-like call.
- bell labs — Bell Laboratories
- bell moth — any moth of the family Tortricidae, which when at rest resemble the shape of a bell
- bell pull — a handle, rope, or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or servant's bell
- bell push — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- bell rope — a rope attached to a bell
- bell tent — a cone-shaped tent having a single central supporting pole
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- bellatrix — the third brightest star in the constellation Orion
- bellibone — a beautiful and good woman
- bellicose — You use bellicose to refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight.
- bellowing — to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
- belly pan — a plate enclosing the bottom of an automotive vehicle or the like below the chassis.
- bellyache — Bellyache is a pain inside your abdomen, especially in your stomach.
- bellyband — a strap around the belly of a draught animal, holding the shafts of a vehicle
- ben bella — Mohammed Ahmed (ˈɑːmɪd). 1916–2012, Algerian statesman: first prime minister (1962–65) and president (1963–65) of independent Algeria: overthrown and imprisoned (1965–80)
- 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
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- 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
- best-ball — of, relating to, or denoting a match in which one player competes against the best individual totals of two or more other players at each hole
- bestially — of, relating to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac.
- beta cell — B cell (def 2).
- bevelling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- biaxially — in a biaxial way
- bienville — Sieur de(born Jean Baptiste Le Moyne) 1680-1768; Fr. colonizer & governor of Louisiana: founder of New Orleans
- billables — that may or should be billed: Attorneys put in hundreds of billable hours on the case.
- billabong — a backwater channel that forms a lagoon or pool
- billboard — A billboard is a very large board on which posters are displayed.
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- billeting — the activity of assigning soldiers or others to accommodation that is not normally used by them
- billiards — Billiards is a game played on a large table, in which you use a long stick called a cue to hit balls against each other or into pockets around the sides of the table.
- billionth — The billionth item in a series is the one you count as number one billion.
- billowing — a great wave or surge of the sea.
- billycock — any of several round-crowned brimmed hats of felt, such as the bowler
- bipedally — in a bipedal manner
- bird call — a sound made by a bird.
- bisellium — an ancient Roman seat of honor for two persons.
- bismillah — the words which preface all except one of the surahs of the Koran, used by Muslims as a blessing before eating or some other action
- blackball — If the members of a club blackball someone, they vote against that person being allowed to join their club.
- blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head