9-letter words starting with bl
- bloodlust — If you say that someone is driven by a bloodlust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.
- bloodroot — a North American papaveraceous plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, having a single whitish flower and a fleshy red root that yields a red dye
- bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
- bloodshot — If your eyes are bloodshot, the parts that are usually white are red or pink. Your eyes can be bloodshot for a variety of reasons, for example because you are tired or you have drunk too much alcohol.
- bloodwood — any of several species of Australian eucalyptus that exude a red sap
- bloodworm — the red wormlike aquatic larva of the midge, Chironomus plumosus, which lives at the bottom of stagnant pools and ditches
- bloodwort — a name given to a number of plants which have red leaves or roots, or which are popularly considered either to draw blood or to reduce bleeding
- bloomless — without flowers or blossom
- bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
- blootered — intoxicated; drunk
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- blow down — to open a valve in a steam boiler to eject any sediment that has collected
- blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
- blow mold — a hinged mold for shaping molten glass during blowing.
- blow over — If something such as trouble or an argument blows over, it ends without any serious consequences.
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- blow tube — a tube for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat and direct it onto a small area
- blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
- blow-comb — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance combining a comb and blow-dryer, permitting one to style the hair while drying it.
- blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
- blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- blowtorch — A blowtorch is the same as a blowlamp.
- 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.