8-letter words containing li
- blissout — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blitzing — Military. an overwhelming all-out attack, especially a swift ground attack using armored units and air support. an intensive aerial bombing.
- blizzard — A blizzard is a very heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
- blueline — a blue-toned photographic print used as a proof for platemaking
- boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- bobolink — an American songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the male of which has a white back and black underparts in the breeding season: family Icteridae (American orioles)
- bolivian — Bolivian means belonging or relating to Bolivia or its people.
- boltlike — resembling a bolt
- bootlick — to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
- borrelia — a genus of helical spirochete bacteria, some causing relapsing fever
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- boulimia — bulimia.
- boweling — Anatomy. Usually, bowels. the intestine. a part of the intestine.
- bowllike — resembling a bowl; bowl-shaped
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- brasilia — the capital of Brazil (since 1960), on the central plateau: the former capital was Rio de Janeiro. Pop: 3 341 000 (2005 est)
- brasilin — brazilin
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brazilin — a pale yellow soluble crystalline solid, turning red in alkaline solution, extracted from brazil wood and sappanwood and used in dyeing and as an indicator. Formula: C16H14O5
- bridling — part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- brit lit — British literature, esp current fashionable writing
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- broiling — If the weather is broiling, it is very hot.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
- bubblier — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- bubbling — a nearly spherical body of gas contained in a liquid.
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bulimiac — pertaining to, resembling, or affected by bulimia.
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bulllike — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bundling — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
- bungling — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
- buntline — one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling
- burbling — the bubbling or gurgling sound of water
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.
- bushlike — resembling a bush
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- by-liner — a writer whose work is accompanied by a by-line