9-letter words containing l, w
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
- blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
- blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- blockwork — a wall or structure made of bricks or blocks, or the act of building such a structure
- bloodwood — any of several species of Australian eucalyptus that exude a red sap
- bloodworm — the red wormlike aquatic larva of the midge, Chironomus plumosus, which lives at the bottom of stagnant pools and ditches
- bloodwort — a name given to a number of plants which have red leaves or roots, or which are popularly considered either to draw blood or to reduce bleeding
- blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- blow down — to open a valve in a steam boiler to eject any sediment that has collected
- blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
- blow mold — a hinged mold for shaping molten glass during blowing.
- blow over — If something such as trouble or an argument blows over, it ends without any serious consequences.
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- blow tube — a tube for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat and direct it onto a small area
- blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
- blow-comb — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance combining a comb and blow-dryer, permitting one to style the hair while drying it.
- blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
- blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- blowtorch — A blowtorch is the same as a blowlamp.
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- 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.
- blutwurst — a German blood sausage
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- bob-wheel — a metrical device found in Middle English and Middle Scots poetry, where a very short line (the 'bob') is followed by longer lines with an internal rhyme scheme (the 'wheel')
- body blow — A body blow is something that causes great disappointment and difficulty to someone who is trying to achieve something.
- boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- bollywood — the Indian film industry
- bolt down — fasten, secure sth
- bow bells — the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London: it is said that a true Cockney is born within earshot of these bells
- bowelless — ruthless, merciless
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
- bowlegged — having bowlegs
- boxwallah — an itinerant pedlar or salesman in India
- breakwall — breakwater
- bridewell — a house of correction; jail, esp for minor offences
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- brown owl — nocturnal bird of prey
- browsable — able to be browsed
- bugleweed — any aromatic plant of the genus Lycopus, having small whitish or pale blue flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)