8-letter words containing a, b, e
- babouche — a Middle-Eastern, particularly Turkish, heelless slipper
- baby tee — a form-fitting, short T-shirt worn by girls or women.
- babylike — Resembling a baby, or something associated with a baby.
- babywear — Babywear is a clothing product category for babies and infants up to 2 years old.
- bachelor — A bachelor is a man who has never married.
- back emf — an electromagnetic force appearing in an inductive circuit in such a direction as to oppose any change of current in the circuit
- back end — autumn
- back-end — (programming) Any software performing either the final stage in a process, or a task not apparent to the user. A common usage is in a compiler. A compiler's back-end generates machine language and performs optimisations specific to the machine's architecture. The term can also be used in the context of network applications. E.g. "The back-end of the system handles socket protocols". Contrast front end.
- backache — Backache is a dull pain in your back.
- backbeat — the second and fourth beats of a bar written in even time or, in more complex time signatures, the last beat of the bar
- backbend — a gymnastic exercise in which the trunk is bent backwards until the hands touch the floor
- backbite — to talk spitefully about (an absent person)
- backbone — Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
- backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backfile — the archives of a newspaper or magazine
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- backheel — (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
- backhoes — Plural form of backhoe.
- backless — A backless dress leaves most of a woman's back uncovered down to her waist.
- backline — (in some team sports) the defensive players considered as a unit
- backlite — (in automotive styling) the rear window of a vehicle.
- backread — (Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- backseat — relating to or taking place on the back seat of a vehicle
- backsets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backset.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- baclofen — a muscle-relaxing drug used to treat muscle spasms
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bad debt — A bad debt is a sum of money that has been lent but is not likely to be repaid.
- bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable
- bad seed — a person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others
- bad time — inopportune moment
- badgered — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badgerer — One who badgers.
- badgerly — resembling a badger
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- baedeker — any of a series of travel guidebooks issued by the German publisher Karl Baedeker (1801–59) or his firm
- baggages — Plural form of baggage.
- bagheera — a crush-resistant velvet made of uncut pile and used in the manufacture of evening wear and wraps.
- baghouse — a dust-filtering chamber consisting of fabric filter bags
- bagpiper — a person who plays the bagpipes
- bagpipes — Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
- baguette — A baguette is a type of long, thin, white bread which is traditionally made in France.