8-letter words containing l, h
- backheel — (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
- backlash — A backlash against a tendency or recent development in society or politics, is a sudden, strong reaction against it.
- baldhead — a person with a bald head
- balkhash — Lakelarge lake in SE Kazakhstan, half saline & half freshwater, the halves separated by a sandbar: c. 6,500 sq mi (16,835 sq km)
- ballhawk — a sportsman who is skilled at winning possession of the ball, esp in basketball
- ballyhoo — You can use ballyhoo to refer to great excitement or anger about something, especially when you disapprove of it because you think it is unnecessary or exaggerated.
- bashfull — Archaic form of bashful.
- bashless — not ashamed; unabashed
- basophil — (of cells or cell contents) easily stained by basic dyes
- bath oil — scented oil added to bath water
- bathless — without a bath
- bechamel — a basic white sauce made of milk, butter, flour, and, sometimes, cream
- beclothe — to put clothes on (someone)
- bedlight — a bedlamp.
- beerhall — a large pub specializing in beer
- beheadal — a beheading
- beholden — If you are beholden to someone, you are in debt to them in some way or you feel that you have a duty to them because they have helped you.
- beholder — The beholder of something is the person who is looking at it.
- behovely — useful
- belching — to eject gas spasmodically and noisily from the stomach through the mouth; eruct.
- bellpush — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- benchley — Robert (Charles)1889-1945; U.S. humorist
- benthoal — relating to deep-sea plants and animals
- bergmehl — a light powdery variety of calcite
- bethrall — to make a slave of
- bhelpuri — an Indian dish of puffed rice and vegetables
- biathlon — a contest in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a 20-kilometre (12.5-mile) cross-country course
- bihourly — occurring every two hours
- billfish — any of various fishes having elongated jaws, esp any fish of the family Istiophoridae, such as the spearfish and marlin
- billhead — a printed form for making out bills
- billhook — a cutting tool with a wooden handle and a curved blade terminating in a hook at its tip, used for pruning, chopping, etc
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- bleacher — Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
- bleakish — quite pale
- blencher — someone employed to scare or obstruct
- blenheim — a village in SW Germany, site of a victory of Anglo-Austrian forces under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy that saved Vienna from the French and Bavarians (1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blimpish — highly conservative and nationalistic
- blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)