BL

BL (or similar) may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Boys' Love, Japanese term for female-oriented fiction featuring idealized romantic relationships between two males
• ECW Barely Legal, an ECW PPV
• BL Publishing, the publishing division of the wargames manufacturing, Games Workshop
• Bionicle Legends, a series of science-fiction novels based on Lego toys

Computing

• Blockland (video game), a game made by Step 1:Games
• Bahamut Lagoon, a Japanese role-playing video game
• abbreviation for Bootloader
• BL register, the low byte of an X86 16-bit BX register
• Borderlands (video game) a video game developt by Gearbox

Television series

• Boston Legal, a US legal comedy drama
• Big Love, a US drama about a polygamous family
• The Biggest Loser, a reality show featuring competitive weight loss
• Black Lagoon, a Japanese anime (and manga) series following a band of mercenaries

Music

• "Beautiful Liar", an R&B song by Beyoncé and Shakira
• "Bleeding Love", a British R&B ballad from Leona Lewis' debut album, Spirit
• Bong Load Custom Records, an independent record label from Los Angeles, US
• Blake Lewis, an American singer

Other performers or characters

• Bobby Lashley, an American professional WWE wrestler
• Bruce Lee, an American-Chinese martial artist and actor
• Brock Lesnar, an American professional WWE wrestler
• Buzz Lightyear, a character from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story films
• Barry Letts, a producer well known for his work on Doctor Who

Commerce

• Bell Labs, an audio-technology research and design enterprise
• A Bill of lading, a receipt issued by a carrier

Health

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

Law

• Bachelor of Laws (B.L.), Bachelor of Laws in some jurisdictions
• Barrister-at-Law, a qualification in Ireland and Nigeria

Organizations

• The British Library, the UK's national library
• British Leyland, a former UK vehicle manufacturing company
• The IATA code for the low-cost airline Jetstar Pacific Airlines
• Boys' Latin School of Maryland, a US private school
• Lytvyn Bloc, a Ukrainian political party

Places

• Saint Barthélemy [ISO country code: BL], a Caribbean overseas collectivity of France
• Bolivia (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram: BL), a central South-American country
• Banja Luka, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Basel-Landschaft (Basel-Country), a canton of Switzerland
• The BL postcode area covering Bolton and Bury in Greater Manchester
• The Province of Belluno with BL being the car-license plate abbreviation of this Italian Province

Science and technology

• BL (logic), the logic of continuous t-norms
• Black light, a lamp which operates near the ultraviolet range of light
• B − L, B minus L - in physics
• Bl., an abbreviation in botany for Carl Ludwig Blume

Other uses

• Backhoe loader, an engineering vehicle
• Bakerloo line, a London Underground line.
• Bitter lemon, a carbonated soft drink
• Blessed, an honorific prefix given to beatified Catholics
• Body language, a form of non-verbal communication
• BL in braille is shorthand for blind.
• The Brisbane Lions, an Australian rules football team in the Australian Football League
• A breech-loading weapon, specifically the BL designation for British artillery.
• The Anheuser-Busch product Bud Light, a pale lager drink
• One of the Thiele/Small electromechanical parameters of loudspeakers