Name Report For First Name BLANCH:

BLANCH

First name BLANCH's origin is Other. BLANCH means "white". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BLANCH below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of blanch.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with BLANCH and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with BLANCH - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BLANCH

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BLANCH AS A WHOLE:

blanche blancheflor blancheflour blancheflo blanchefleur

NAMES RHYMING WITH BLANCH (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (lanch) - Names That Ends with lanch:

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (anch) - Names That Ends with anch:

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (nch) - Names That Ends with nch:

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ch) - Names That Ends with ch:

adanech laoidheach toirdealbach vach coaxoch xiloxoch bich abdimelech cynfarch rhydderch conlaoch culhwch gwernach matholwch twrch uisnech bearach coigleach coilleach deasach ealadhach muireach toirdealbhach erich friedrich heinrich baruch cailleach deoch luighseach moireach rioghnach abimelech abukcheech aldrich bailoch birch buach calbhach carthach ceallach ceardach cearnach clach cruadhlaoich darach darroch deutsch dietrich enoch feich fytch keallach kellach muireadhach murdoch nathrach nixkamich parisch pesach pessach raleich rich seanlaoch searbhreathach shadrach tearlach tiarchnach tighearnach treasach welch zach noach avimelech ulrich dutch diederich raghallach rabhartach leamhnach fionnlaoch dubhthach dubhloach diomasach choilleich clunainach cleirach bradach roch lach fitch burch usenech aballach cathasach yuroch gerlach upchurch gwenhwyfach awarnach

NAMES RHYMING WITH BLANCH (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (blanc) - Names That Begins with blanc:

blanca blanco

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (blan) - Names That Begins with blan:

blandford blandina blane blaney blanford

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bla) - Names That Begins with bla:

blacey black blade bladud blaec blaecl blaecleah blaed blaeey blagdan blagden blagdon blaine blainey blair blaire blais blaisdell blaise blaize blake blakeley blakely blakemore blakey blamor blar blas blasa blase blathma blathnaid blayne blayney blayze blaze

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bl) - Names That Begins with bl:

bleecker bleoberis blerung blessing bletsung blian bliant bliss blisse blithe bliths blondell blondelle blondene blossom blostm bluinse bly blyana blyss blysse blyth blythe

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BLANCH:

First Names which starts with 'bl' and ends with 'ch':

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'h':

badriyyah baigh baillidh baleigh barakah bardalph bardolph bariah barth bartleah bartleigh bashirah basimah basmah beartlaidh ben-aryeh bentleah bentleigh beolagh berakhiah bercleah beruriah beth beulah binah binh boadhagh bocleah booth bosworth both brachah bradaigh bradleah braleah brandubh braweigh brawleigh briannah brinleigh brocleah brocleigh bromleah bromleigh brothaigh bryleigh buagh burleigh buthaynah byreleah

English Words Rhyming BLANCH

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BLANCH AS A WHOLE:

blanchingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blanch

blanchnoun (n.) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
 adjective (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
 adjective (a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
 adjective (a.) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
 adjective (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
 adjective (a.) To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
 adjective (a.) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
 verb (v. i.) To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
 verb (v. t.) To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
 verb (v. i.) To use evasion.

blanchernoun (n.) One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.
 noun (n.) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

blanchimeternoun (n.) An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BLANCH (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (lanch) - English Words That Ends with lanch:


flanchnoun (n.) A flange.
 noun (n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

planchnoun (n.) A plank.
 verb (v. t.) To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.


Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (anch) - English Words That Ends with anch:


anabranchnoun (n.) A branch of a river that reenters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil.

branchnoun (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
 noun (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
 noun (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
 noun (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
 noun (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
 noun (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
 adjective (a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
 verb (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
 verb (v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
 verb (v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
 verb (v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

elasmobranchnoun (n.) One of the Elasmobranchii.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.

ganchnoun (n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

labyrinthibranchnoun (n.) One of the Labyrinthici.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici.

lamellibranchnoun (n.) One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.

lophobranchnoun (n.) One of the Lophobranchii.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.

marsipobranchnoun (n.) One of the Marsipobranchia.

menobranchnoun (n.) Alt. of Menobranchus

nucleobranchnoun (n.) One of the Nucleobranchiata.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to the Nucleobranchiata.

nudibranchnoun (n.) One of the Nudibranchiata.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.

panchnoun (n.) See Paunch.

pectinibranchnoun (n.) One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

pleurobranchnoun (n.) Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

podobranchnoun (n.) One of the branchiae attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.

prosobranchnoun (n.) One of the Prosobranchiata.

pseudobranchnoun (n.) Same as Pseudobranchia.

ranchnoun (n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.
 verb (v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.

scutibranchnoun (n.) One of the Scutibranchiata.
 adjective (a.) Scutibranchiate.

stanchnoun (n.) That which stanches or checks.
 noun (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
 verb (v. t.) To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
 verb (v. t.) To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
 verb (v. i.) To cease, as the flowing of blood.
 verb (v. t.) Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
 verb (v. t.) Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.
 verb (v. t.) Close; secret; private.
 verb (v. t.) To prop; to make stanch, or strong.

tectibranchnoun (n.) One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

underbranchnoun (n.) A lower branch.
 noun (n.) A twig or branchlet.


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (nch) - English Words That Ends with nch:


alebenchnoun (n.) A bench in or before an alehouse.

benchnoun (n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
 noun (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
 noun (n.) The seat where judges sit in court.
 noun (n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
 noun (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
 noun (n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with benches.
 verb (v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.
 verb (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

blenchnoun (n.) A looking aside or askance.
 verb (v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
 verb (v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside.
 verb (v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
 verb (v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.
 verb (v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale.

bullfinchnoun (n.) A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

bunchnoun (n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
 noun (n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
 noun (n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
 verb (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
 verb (v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.

chaffinchnoun (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

chinchnoun (n.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
 noun (n.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

cinchnoun (n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
 noun (n.) A tight grip.
 noun (n.) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called right pedro) and the five of the same color (called left pedro, and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) each count five on the score. Fifty-one points make a game. Called also double pedro and high five.
 verb (v. t.) To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly.
 verb (v. t.) To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission.
 verb (v. i.) To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; -- often with up.
 verb (v. t.) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.

clenchnoun (n. & v. t.) See Clinch.

clinchnoun (n.) The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
 noun (n.) A pun.
 noun (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
 verb (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
 verb (v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
 verb (v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
 verb (v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
 verb (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

clunchnoun (n.) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.
 noun (n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.

coldfinchnoun (n.) A British wagtail.

conchnoun (n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
 noun (n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
 noun (n.) One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
 noun (n.) See Concha, n.
 noun (n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.

drawbenchnoun (n.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.

drenchnoun (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.
 verb (v. t.) To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
 verb (v. t.) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.

elenchnoun (n.) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.
 noun (n.) A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.

finchnoun (n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.

flinchnoun (n.) The act of flinching.
 verb (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
 verb (v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

frenchnoun (n.) The language spoken in France.
 noun (n.) Collectively, the people of France.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

glunchnoun (n.) A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike.
 adjective (a.) Frowning; sulky; sullen.

goldfinchnoun (n.) A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
 noun (n.) The yellow-hammer.
 noun (n.) A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.

greenfinchnoun (n.) A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
 noun (n.) The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.

haunchnoun (n.) The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.
 noun (n.) Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.

hawfinchnoun (n.) The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.

hunchnoun (n.) A hump; a protuberance.
 noun (n.) A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.
 noun (n.) A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
 noun (n.) A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; -- said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.
 verb (v. t.) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
 verb (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.

inchnoun (n.) An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.
 noun (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds ("), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic.
 noun (n.) A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment.
 adjective (a.) Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.
 verb (v. t.) To drive by inches, or small degrees.
 verb (v. t.) To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
 verb (v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.

launchnoun (n.) The act of launching.
 noun (n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
 noun (n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.
 verb (v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
 verb (v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
 verb (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
 verb (v. i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
 verb (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.

linchnoun (n.) A ledge; a right-angled projection.

lunchnoun (n.) A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.
 verb (v. i.) To take luncheon.

maunchnoun (n.) See Manche.
 verb (v. t.) To munch.

paunchnoun (n.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
 noun (n.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
 noun (n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
 verb (v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
 verb (v. t.) To stuff with food.

pinchnoun (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
 noun (n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
 noun (n.) Pian; pang.
 noun (n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
 verb (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
 verb (v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
 verb (v. t.) To plait.
 verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
 verb (v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
 verb (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
 verb (v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
 verb (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
 verb (v. t.) To seize by way of theft; to steal; also, to catch; to arrest.

pinefinchnoun (n.) A small American bird (Spinus, / Chrysomitris, spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin.
 noun (n.) The pine grosbeak.

prickpunchnoun (n.) A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.

protoconchnoun (n.) The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.

punchnoun (n.) A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.
 noun (n.) The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
 noun (n.) A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
 noun (n.) One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.
 noun (n.) A thrust or blow.
 noun (n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
 noun (n.) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
 noun (n.) A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
 noun (n.) To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.
 verb (v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.
  () A punch for making indentations or dots in a piece of work, as for suspension between lathe centers, etc.
  () A punch for punching holes in sheet metal, having a small conical center to insure correct locating.

redfinchnoun (n.) The European linnet.

rosefinchnoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.

runchnoun (n.) The wild radish.

sinchnoun (n.) A saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass.
 verb (v. t.) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle.

squinchnoun (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

starfinchnoun (n.) The European redstart.

stenchnoun (n.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.
 verb (v. t.) To stanch.
 verb (v. i.) A smell; an odor.
 verb (v. i.) An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.

stormfinchnoun (n.) The storm petrel.

tenchnoun (n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

trunchnoun (n.) A stake; a small post.

valinchnoun (n.) A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.

wenchnoun (n.) A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
 noun (n.) A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.
 noun (n.) A colored woman; a negress.
 verb (v. i.) To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.

winchnoun (n.) A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
 noun (n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
 noun (n.) An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
 noun (n.) An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.
 noun (n.) A wince.
 verb (v. i.) To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.

workbenchnoun (n.) A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BLANCH (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (blanc) - Words That Begins with blanc:


blancardnoun (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

blancmangenoun (n.) A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.

blancmangernoun (n.) A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.

blancnoun (n.) A white cosmetic.
 noun (n.) A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used esp. for braised meat.


Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (blan) - Words That Begins with blan:


blandadjective (a.) Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.
 adjective (a.) Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.

blandationnoun (n.) Flattery.

blandiloquencenoun (n.) Mild, flattering speech.

blandiloquousadjective (a.) Alt. of Blandiloquious

blandiloquiousadjective (a.) Fair-spoken; flattering.

blandishingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blandish

blandishernoun (n.) One who uses blandishments.

blandishmentnoun (n.) The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.

blandnessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being bland.

blanknoun (n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
 noun (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
 noun (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
 noun (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
 noun (n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
 noun (n.) Aim; shot; range.
 noun (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
 noun (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
 noun (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
 adjective (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color.
 adjective (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
 adjective (a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited.
 adjective (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
 adjective (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
 adjective (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
 adjective (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
 verb (v. t.) To make void; to annul.
 verb (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

blankingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blank

blanketadjective (a.) A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
 adjective (a.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
 adjective (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with a blanket.
 verb (v. t.) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
 verb (v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

blanketingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blanket
 noun (n.) Cloth for blankets.
 noun (n.) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

blanknessnoun (n.) The state of being blank.

blanquettenoun (n.) A white fricassee.

blanquillonoun (n.) A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (Caulolatilus chrysops). It is red, marked with yellow.


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bla) - Words That Begins with bla:


blabbingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blab

blabnoun (n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.
 verb (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
 verb (v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.

blabbernoun (n.) A tattler; a telltale.

blacknoun (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
 noun (n.) A black pigment or dye.
 noun (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
 noun (n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
 noun (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
 noun (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
 noun (n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.
 adjective (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
 adjective (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
 adjective (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
 adjective (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
 adjective (a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
 adverb (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

blackingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Black
 noun (n.) Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
 noun (n.) The act or process of making black.

blackamoornoun (n.) A negro or negress.

blackballnoun (n.) A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
 noun (n.) A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
 verb (v. t.) To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.
 verb (v. t.) To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.

blackballingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackball

blackbandnoun (n.) An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.

blackberrynoun (n.) The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

blackbirdnoun (n.) In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.
 noun (n.) Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian.
 noun (n.) A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called also Kanaka.

blackboardnoun (n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

blackcapnoun (n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
 noun (n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
 noun (n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
 noun (n.) The black raspberry.

blackcoatnoun (n.) A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

blackcocknoun (n.) The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

blackeningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blacken

blackenernoun (n.) One who blackens.

blackfeetnoun (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

blackfinnoun (n.) See Bluefin.

blackfishnoun (n.) A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
 noun (n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
 noun (n.) The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.
 noun (n.) A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.
 noun (n.) The female salmon in the spawning season.

blackfootnoun (n.) A Blackfoot Indian.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.

blackguardnoun (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
 noun (n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
 noun (n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
 noun (n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
 adjective (a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
 verb (v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

blackguardingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackguard

blackguardismnoun (n.) The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism.

blackheadnoun (n.) The scaup duck.

blackheartnoun (n.) A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

blackishadjective (a.) Somewhat black.

blacklegnoun (n.) A notorious gambler.
 noun (n.) A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.

blackmailnoun (n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
 noun (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
 noun (n.) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
 verb (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

blackmailingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackmail
 noun (n.) The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

blackmailernoun (n.) One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

blackmoornoun (n.) See Blackamoor.

blacknessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

blackpollnoun (n.) A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).

blackrootnoun (n.) See Colicroot.

blacksnoun (n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
 noun (n. pl.) Soot flying in the air.
 noun (n. pl.) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

blacksalternoun (n.) One who makes crude potash, or black salts.

blacksmithnoun (n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
 noun (n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.

black snakenoun (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake

blacksnakenoun (n.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

blackstrapnoun (n.) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
 noun (n.) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

blacktailnoun (n.) A fish; the ruff or pope.
 noun (n.) The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.

blackthornnoun (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
 noun (n.) A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.

black washnoun (n.) Alt. of Blackwash

blackwashnoun (n.) A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
 noun (n.) A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.

blackwoodnoun (n.) A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

blackworknoun (n.) Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.

bladdernoun (n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.
 noun (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
 noun (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
 noun (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
 verb (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
 verb (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

bladderingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladder

bladderwortnoun (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BLANCH:

English Words which starts with 'bl' and ends with 'ch':

bleachadjective (a.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
 verb (v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

blotchadjective (a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.
 adjective (a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.