6-letter words containing l, b
- beloit — a city in S Wisconsin.
- belong — If something belongs to you, you own it.
- belote — a card game for two players, using 32 cards and following the same basic rules as klabberjass, popular in France.
- belove — to love
- belovo — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia.
- belsen — a village in NE Germany: with Bergen, the site of a Nazi concentration camp (1943–45)
- belted — If someone's jacket or coat, for example, is belted, it has a belt fastened round it.
- belter — an event, person, quality, etc, that is admirable, outstanding, or thrilling
- belton — a town in W Missouri.
- beltsy — a city in NW Moldavia, NW of Kishinev.
- beluga — a large white sturgeon, Acipenser (or Huso) huso, of the Black and Caspian Seas: a source of caviar and isinglass
- bemaul — to maul
- bemoil — to soil with mud
- bengal — a former province of NE India, in the great deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers: in 1947 divided into West Bengal (belonging to India) and East Bengal (Bangladesh)
- benzal — a transparent crystalline substance
- benzil — a yellowish organic compound
- benzol — a crude form of benzene, containing toluene, xylene, and other hydrocarbons, obtained from coal tar or coal gas and used as a fuel
- benzyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group C6H5CH2–
- bepelt — to pelt energetically
- berley — bait scattered on water to attract fish
- berlin — the capital of Germany (1871–1945 and from 1990), formerly divided (1945–90) into the eastern sector, capital of East Germany, and the western sectors, which formed an exclave in East German territory closely affiliated with West Germany: a wall dividing the sectors was built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989 and the city was formally reunited in 1990: formerly (1618–1871) the capital of Brandenburg and Prussia. Pop: 3 388 477 (2003 est)
- beslan — a town in the North Ossetian Republic in Russia: scene of a massacre in 2004 when Chechen extremists held a school hostage, leading to a siege in which 344 people were killed. Pop: 35 550 (2002)
- bessel — Friedrich Wilhelm (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1784–1846, German astronomer and mathematician. He made the first authenticated measurement of a star's distance (1841) and systematized a series of mathematical functions used in physics
- bethel — an ancient town in the West Bank, near Jerusalem: in the Old Testament, the place where the dream of Jacob occurred (Genesis 28:19)
- betoil — to worry
- beulah — the land of Israel (Isaiah 62:4)
- bewail — If you bewail something, you express great sorrow about it.
- bexley — a borough of SE Greater London. Pop: 219 100 (2003 est). Area: 61 sq km (23 sq miles)
- beylic — a province ruled over by a bey
- bezzle — to waste (money)
- bharal — a wild Himalayan sheep, Pseudois nayaur, with a bluish-grey coat and round backward-curving horns
- bhilai — a city in S Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- bhopal — a city in central India, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state and of the former state of Bhopal: site of a poisonous gas leak from a US-owned factory, which killed over 7000 people in 1984 and was implicated in a further 15 000 deaths afterwards. Pop: 1 433 875 (2001)
- bialik — Hayyim Nahman (ˈhaɪm ˈnɑxman) or Chaim Nachman. 1873–1934, Russian Jewish poet and writer. His long poems The Talmud Student (1894) and In the City of Slaughter (1903) established him as the major Hebrew poet of modern times
- bibble — a pebble
- bibful — secret information (esp in the phrase spill a bibful)
- biddle — John. 1615–62, English theologian; founder of Unitarianism in England
- bieldy — sheltered
- biflex — bent or flexed in two places
- bifold — foldable in two places
- bigloo — (language) A Scheme interpreter, compiler and run-time system by Manuel Serrano <[email protected]> which aims to deliver small, fast stand-alone applications. It supports modules and optimisation. Bigloo's features enable Scheme programs to be used where C or C++ might usually be required. The Bigloo compiler produces ANSI C which is compiled into stand-alone executables, JVM bytecode, or .NET bytecode. Hence Bigloo enables Scheme programs to interwork with C, Java and C# programs. Bigloo conforms to the IEEE Scheme standard with some extensions for regular expression handling. It runs on Sun, Sony News, SGI, Linux, HP-UX and is easy to port to any Unix system.
- bikila — Abebe (əˈbeɪbeɪ). 1932–73, Ethiopian long-distance runner: winner of the Marathon at the Olympic Games in Rome (1960) and Tokyo (1964)
- bilbao — a port in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay: the largest city in the Basque Provinces: famous since medieval times for the production of iron and steel goods: modern buildings include the Guggenheim Art Museum (1997). Pop: 353 567 (2003 est)
- bildad — a friend of Job. Job 2:11.
- bilges — Nautical. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull. Also, bilges. (in a hull with a double bottom) an enclosed area between frames at each side of the floors, where seepage collects. Also called bilge well. a well into which seepage drains to be pumped away. Also called bilge water. seepage accumulated in bilges.
- bilhah — the mother of Dan and Naphtali. Gen. 30:1–8.
- bilian — a type of ironwood from Borneo
- bilith — a prehistoric structure consisting of a horizontal stone slab supported by an upright stone.
- bilked — to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars.
- billed — having a bill or beak, especially one of a specified kind, shape, color, etc. (usually used in combination): a yellow-billed magpie.