8-letter words containing a, b, i
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
- baristas — Plural form of barista.
- 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.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barnlike — resembling a barn
- baronial — If you describe a house or room as baronial, you mean that it is large, impressive, and old-fashioned in appearance, and looks as if it belongs to someone from the upper classes.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- baronize — to make or create (someone) a baron; confer the rank of baron upon.
- 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.
- barriada — a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America.
- barriers — anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like: People may pass through the barrier only when their train is announced.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- barrista — Misspelling of barista.
- barthian — of or relating to Karl Barth, or his ideas
- bartizan — a small turret projecting from a wall, parapet, or tower
- baryonic — of or relating to a baryon
- bas-rhin — a department of NE France in Alsace region. Capital: Strasbourg. Pop: 1 052 698 (2003 est). Area: 4793 sq km (1869 sq miles)
- basaltic — the dark, dense igneous rock of a lava flow or minor intrusion, composed essentially of labradorite and pyroxene and often displaying a columnar structure.
- basanite — a black basaltic rock containing plagioclase, augite, olivine, and nepheline, leucite, or analcite, formerly used as a touchstone
- base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
- baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- basicity — the state of being a base
- basidium — the structure, produced by basidiomycetous fungi after sexual reproduction, in which spores are formed at the tips of projecting slender stalks
- basified — Simple past tense and past participle of basify.
- basifier — anything that makes something alkaline
- basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
- basilary — Basilar.
- basildon — a town in SE England, in S Essex: designated a new town in 1955. Pop: 99 876 (2001)
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- basileus — A title of the Byzantine emperor.
- basilian — a monk of the Eastern Christian order of St Basil, founded in Cappadocia in the 4th century ad
- basilica — A basilica is a church which is rectangular in shape and has a rounded end.
- basilisk — (in classical legend) a serpent that could kill by its breath or glance
- basilius — Saint, Basil, Saint.
- basinful — As much as a basin will hold.
- basophil — (of cells or cell contents) easily stained by basic dyes
- basquine — a tight-fitting bodice worn by women in the Basque region and in Spain
- bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
- bassists — Plural form of bassist.
- bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
- bastides — Plural form of bastide.
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- bastions — Plural form of bastion.
- bat girl — a girl or young woman who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
- batavian — of or relating to Batavia (a former name for Holland or Jakarta) or its inhabitants
- batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- bath oil — scented oil added to bath water
- bathetic — containing or displaying bathos