9-letter words starting with bl
- bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- bless me! — an exclamation of surprise
- bless you — You can say 'bless you' to someone who has just sneezed.
- blessedly — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
- blethered — weary
- bletherer — someone who blathers
- blighting — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- blind bid — an offer on the part of a big investor to buy a number of different stocks without knowing exactly which stocks are included in the package
- blind gut — cecum
- blind pig — speak-easy
- blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- blindheim — Blenheim
- blindless — (of a window) not being fitted with a blind
- blindness — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blindside — If you say that you were blindsided by something, you mean that it surprised you in a negative way.
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- blinglish — a form of spoken English that blends British English with Black youth slang
- blinkered — A blinkered view, attitude, or approach is narrow and does not take into account other people's opinions. A blinkered person has this kind of attitude.
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- bliss-16c — (language) DEC's cross-compiler equivalent of BLISS-11.
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
- blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- blizzardy — characterized by blizzards, or resembling a blizzard
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
- block off — When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
- block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
- block tin — pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
- blockable — able to be blocked or prevented
- blockaded — the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
- blockhead — a stupid person
- blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- blockwork — a wall or structure made of bricks or blocks, or the act of building such a structure
- bloggable — interesting, enjoyable, or entertaining enough to be a topic for a blog or blog post
- blondness — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- blood red — of the deep-red color of blood: a fiery, blood-red sunset.
- blood-red — Something that is blood-red is bright red in colour.
- bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- bloodless — A bloodless coup or victory is one in which nobody is killed.
- bloodlike — resembling blood
- bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.