BL (or similar) may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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  • Boys' love, a Japanese term for fiction featuring romantic relationships between male characters
  • BL Publishing, a division of the wargames manufacturing company, Games Workshop
  • Boston Legal, a US legal comedy-drama

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Businesses and organizations

  • Balmer Lawrie, an Indian central public sector undertaking conglomerate
  • Bell Labs, an audio-technology research and design enterprise
  • Boys' Latin School of Maryland, a US private school
  • Brisbane Lions, an Australian rules football team in the Australian Football League
  • British Library, the UK's national library
  • British Leyland, a former UK vehicle manufacturing company
  • Pacific Airlines (IATA code BL), a low-cost airline
  • Lytvyn Bloc, a Ukrainian political party

Food and drink

  • Bitter lemon, a carbonated soft drink
  • Bud Light, an American lager beer

Law

  • Bachelor of Laws (B.L.), an undergraduate degree in law
  • Barrister-at-Law, a degree and professional qualification in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Nigeria.

Places

  • BL postcode area, UK, covering Bolton and Bury in Greater Manchester
  • Bakerloo line, a London Underground line
  • Banja Luka, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Saint Barthélemy [ISO country code BL], a Caribbean overseas collectivity of France
  • Basel-Landschaft (Basel-Country), a canton of Switzerland
  • Province of Belluno, Italy (car-license plate abbreviation BL)
  • Bolivia (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram BL), a central South American country
  • Brazil, LOC MARC code

Science and technology

Mathematics and computing

  • <b style="font-family:sans-serif">BL</b> (logic), basic fuzzy logic
  • BL register, the low byte of an X86 16-bit BX register
  • Bootloader

Health and medicine

  • Accupressure or acupuncture points, e.g., BL-34 or BL-54
  • Burkitt's lymphoma, a disease
  • Borderline lepromatous leprosy, a disease

Other uses in science and technology

  • B − L (B minus L), in physics
  • Backhoe loader, an engineering vehicle
  • Black light, a lamp which operates near the ultraviolet range of light
  • Carl Ludwig Blume, botanist, abbreviated Bl.
  • Breech-loading weapon, designated BL in British artillery
  • One of the Thiele/Small electromechanical parameters of loudspeakers <!--specifically measuring magnetism-->

Other uses

  • Ы, Yery or Yeru, a letter in the Cyrillic script, which resembles lowercase B and L written together (bl)
  • BL, braille shorthand for blind
  • Bakerloo line, a London Underground line
  • Bill of lading, a receipt issued by a shipping carrier
  • Blessed, an honorific prefix given to beatified Catholics
  • Blue Line (Washington Metro)
  • Body language, a form of non-verbal communication
  • Bhutia-Lepcha, an ethnic grouping of people for which there are reserved seats in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly, in India
  • BL, the production code of the second generation Mazda3/Axela
  • Aceh (vehicle registration prefix BL)

See also

  • List of BL dramas