5-letter words containing b, l
- balot — Alternative form of balut.
- balpa — British Airline Pilots' Association
- balsa — Balsa or balsa wood is a very light wood from a South American tree.
- balti — A balti is a vegetable or meat dish of Indian origin which is cooked and served in a bowl-shaped pan.
- balun — a device for coupling two electrical circuit elements, such as an aerial and its feeder cable, where one is balanced and the other is unbalanced
- balut — Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell.
- banal — If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
- basal — Basal means relating to or forming the base of something.
- basel — city in NW Switzerland, on the Rhine: pop. 180,000
- basil — Basil is a strong-smelling and strong-tasting herb that is used in cooking, especially with tomatoes.
- basle — a canton of NW Switzerland, divided into the demicantons of Basle-Landschaft and Basle-Stadt. Pops.: 263 200 and 186 900 (2002 est). Areas: 427 sq km (165 sq miles) and 36 sq km (14 sq miles) respectively
- baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
- bawls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bawl.
- bayle — Pierre (pjɛr). 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic, noted for his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), which profoundly influenced Voltaire and the French Encyclopedists
- bazil — Alternative form of basil (a tanned sheepskin).
- bbls. — barrel.
- bdle. — bundle.
- beale — Dorothea. 1831–1906, British schoolmistress, a champion of women's education and suffrage. As principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College (1858–1906) she introduced important reforms
- bebel — August (ˈauɡʊst). 1840–1913, German socialist leader: one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party (1869)
- bedel — Obsolete form of beadle.
- befal — (obsolete) befall.
- bejel — a nonvenereal syphilis occurring mainly among children in certain subtropical areas of southern Africa and southeastern Asia, caused by the spirochete strain Treponema pallidum endemicum.
- belah — an Australian casuarina tree, Casuarina cristata, yielding a useful timber
- belau — Palau
- belay — to make fast (a line) by securing to a pin, cleat, or bitt
- belch — If someone belches, they make a sudden noise in their throat because air has risen up from their stomach.
- belee — to position on the sheltered side
- belem — a port in N Brazil, the capital of Pará state, on the Pará River: major trading centre for the Amazon basin. Pop: 2 097 000 (2005 est)
- belg. — Belgian
- belga — a former Belgian monetary unit worth five francs
- belie — If one thing belies another, it hides the true situation and so creates a false idea or image of someone or something.
- bella — a feminine name
- belle — A belle is a beautiful woman, especially the most beautiful woman at a party or in a group.
- bello — Andrés [ahn-dres] /ɑnˈdrɛs/ (Show IPA), 1781–1865, Venezuelan poet, philologist, and educator.
- bells — Acton [ak-tuh n] /ˈæk tən/ (Show IPA) pen name of Anne Brontë.
- belly — The belly of a person or animal is their stomach or abdomen. In British English, this is an informal or literary use.
- belon — a type of European oyster
- below — If something is below something else, it is in a lower position.
- belyi — Andrei (ʌnˈdreɪ), real name Boris Nikolayevich Bugaev. 1880–1934, Russian poet, novelist, and critic: a leading exponent of symbolism. His novels include Petersburg (1913)
- berle — Milton, 1908–2002, U.S. comedian.
- beryl — a white, blue, yellow, green, or pink mineral, found in coarse granites and igneous rocks. It is a source of beryllium and is sometimes used as a gemstone; the green variety is emerald, the blue is aquamarine. Composition: beryllium aluminium silicate. Formula: Be3Al2Si6O18. Crystal structure: hexagonal
- betel — an Asian piperaceous climbing plant, Piper betle, the leaves of which are chewed, with the betel nut, by the peoples of SE Asia
- bevel — a surface that meets another at an angle other than a right angle
- beyle — Marie Henri [ma-ree ahn-ree] /maˈri ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA) real name of Stendhal.
- bezel — the sloping face adjacent to the working edge of a cutting tool
- bhili — an Indic language of west central India, the language of the Bhil.
- bialy — (in Polish Ashkenazi cuisine) a type of bagel
- bible — The Bible is the holy book on which the Jewish and Christian religions are based.
- bicol — Bikol.
- bield — a shelter; house