8-letter words containing a, b, e
- barathea — a fabric made of silk and wool or cotton and rayon, used esp for coats
- barbecue — A barbecue is a piece of equipment which you use for cooking on in the open air.
- barbells — Plural form of barbell.
- barbeque — barbecue
- barbered — Simple past tense and past participle of barber.
- barberry — any spiny berberidaceous shrub of the widely distributed genus Berberis, esp B. vulgaris, having clusters of yellow flowers and orange or red berries: widely cultivated as hedge plants
- barbette — (formerly) an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- barbless — without a barb
- barbules — Plural form of barbule.
- barbusse — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1873–1935, French novelist and poet. His novels include L'Enfer (1908) and Le Feu (1916), reflecting the horror of World War I
- barbwire — barbed wire
- barcoded — having a barcode
- bare-ass — naked; undressed
- bareback — If you ride bareback, you ride a horse without a saddle.
- bareboat — a boat that can be chartered without crew, provisions, etc
- barebone — a very thin person whose bones show through the skin
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
- barehand — to field (the ball) with one's bare hands rather than one's glove
- bareilly — a city in N India, in N central Uttar Pradesh. Pop: 699 839 (2001)
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- bareness — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- baresark — berserker
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
- bargello — a needlepoint embroidery stitch producing a zigzag pattern
- bargeman — a man who operates, or works aboard, a barge
- bargemen — Plural form of bargeman.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- barkless — (of a dog) not tending to bark
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barletta — a port in SE Italy, in Apulia. Pop: 92 094 (2001)
- barn egg — an egg laid by a chicken that is allowed to move freely within a barn
- barnacle — Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
- barnlike — resembling a barn
- barnsley — an industrial town in N England, in Barnsley unitary authority, South Yorkshire. Pop: 71 599 (2001)
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- baronage — barons collectively
- baroness — A baroness is a woman who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility, or who is the wife of a baron.
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- baronize — to make or create (someone) a baron; confer the rank of baron upon.
- baroques — (often initial capital letter) of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.
- barouche — a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, having a retractable hood over the rear half, seats inside for two couples facing each other, and a driver's seat outside at the front
- barrable — able to be barred
- barraged — Simple past tense and past participle of barrage.
- barrages — Plural form of barrage.
- barred i — a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.