BL (or similar) may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* BL Publishing, a division of the wargames manufacturing company, Games Workshop * '' Boston Legal'', a US legal comedy drama * Boys' love, Japanese term for female-oriented fiction featuring idealized romantic relationships between two males

Businesses and organizations

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

, an audio-technology research and design enterprise * Boys' Latin School of Maryland, a US private school *

Brisbane Lions The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of t ...

, an Australian rules football team in the Australian Football League *

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the Briti ...

, 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 Anheuser-Busch, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, is the largest brewing company in the United States, with a market share of 45 percent in 2016. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and nearly 20 in ot ...

, an American lager beer

In law

Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of ...

(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 The BL postcode area, also known as the Bolton postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of ten postcode districts in North West England. These cover most of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton and the northern and ...

, UK, covering Bolton and Bury in Greater Manchester * Bakerloo line, a London Underground line * Banja Luka, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Saint Barthélemy SO country code ''BL'' a Caribbean overseas collectivity of France *

Basel-Landschaft Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (; german: Kanton Basel-Landschaft ; rm, Chantun Basilea-Champagna; french: Canton de Bâle-Campagne; it, Canton Basilea Campagna), is one of the 26 cantons forming ...

(Basel-Country), a canton of Switzerland * Province of Belluno, Italy (car-license plate abbreviation ''BL'') *

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(FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram ''BL''), a central South-American country

Science and technology

Mathematics and computing

* BL (logic), the logic of continuous t-norms * 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 Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796, Braunschweig – 3 February 1862, Leiden) was a Germany, German-Netherlands, Dutch botanist. He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his ...

, botanist, abbreviated Bl. * Breech-loading weapon, designated BL in British artillery * One of the Thiele/Small electromechanical parameters of loudspeakers

Other uses

* Ы, Yery or Yeru, a letter in the Cyrillic script * BL,

braille Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille display ...

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 Beatification (from Latin ''beatus'', "blessed" and ''facere'', "to make”) is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to Intercession of saints, intercede on behalf of individua ...

Catholics * 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 {{disambiguation