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8-letter words containing l, d

  • bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
  • bordello — A bordello is a brothel.
  • borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.
  • brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
  • bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
  • bridling — part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
  • brindled — brown or grey streaked or patched with a darker colour
  • brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
  • bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
  • brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
  • broodily — in a broody manner
  • brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
  • brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
  • buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
  • buddleia — any ornamental shrub of the genus Buddleia, esp B. davidii, which has long spikes of mauve flowers and is frequently visited by butterflies: family Buddleiaceae
  • build in — to incorporate or construct as an integral part
  • build on — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
  • build-up — the physical structure, especially of a person; physique; figure: He had a strong build.
  • building — A building is a structure that has a roof and walls, for example a house or a factory.
  • bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
  • bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
  • bulldust — fine dust
  • bulldyke — a mannish lesbian
  • bulleted — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
  • bullhead — any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
  • bullweed — knapweed
  • bundling — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
  • bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
  • burlwood — wood taken or cut from a burl.
  • bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
  • c++linda — (language)  
  • caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
  • caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
  • cadillac — something that is the most luxurious or highest quality of its kind
  • caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
  • calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
  • calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
  • caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
  • calderas — Plural form of caldera.
  • caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
  • caldwell — Erskine (ˈɜːskɪn). 1903–87, US novelist whose works include Tobacco Road (1933)
  • calendal — relating to the calends
  • calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
  • calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
  • calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
  • calicoed — dressed in calico.
  • calidity — warmth
  • caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.
  • callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
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