9-letter words containing b, u, i, l
- 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 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.
- blue wire — (IBM) Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems. These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire.
- blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
- bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
- blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brimfully — in a brimfull manner
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
- buckishly — in a buckish manner
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bug light — a yellow light bulb, used mainly outdoors, that does not attract insects.
- buildable — suitable for building on
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bulb mite — a widespread mite, Rhizaglophus eclinops, that tunnels in the bulbs of lilies and other plants
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bulk-mail — to mail as bulk mail.
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- bull-ring — an arena for a bullfight.
- bullarium — a collection of papal bulls.
- bullbrier — a prickly vine of the genus Smilax, with small green flowers and inedible black berries
- bulleting — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- bullfight — A bullfight is a public entertainment in which people fight and kill bulls. Bullfights take place in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
- bullfinch — A bullfinch is a type of small European bird. The male has a black head and a pinkish-red breast.
- bullishly — in a bullish manner
- bullshits — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- bullycide — the act or an instance of killing oneself intentionally as a result of bullying
- bumpkinly — like a bumpkin
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- buthelezi — Mangosouthu Gatsha (ˌmæŋɡəʊˈsuːtuː ˈɡætʃə), known as Chief Buthelezi. born 1928, Zulu leader, chief minister of the KwaZulu territory of South Africa from 1970 until its abolition in 1994; founder of the Inkatha movement and advocate of Zulu autonomy; minister of home affairs (1994–2004)
- butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
- buzzingly — in a buzzing manner
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- colubriad — a poem about a snake