8-letter words containing a, b, s
- 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.
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- basename — (file system) The name of a file which, in contrast to a pathname, does not mention any of the directories containing the file. Examples:
- baseness — morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly.
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- bash out — If you say that someone bashes something out, you mean that they produce it quickly or in large quantities, but without much care or thought.
- bashfull — Archaic form of bashful.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- bashless — not ashamed; unabashed
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- 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.
- basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
- 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
- bass-bar — a strip of wood glued lengthwise inside the belly of instruments of the violin family, used to spread vibrations over the surface.
- basseted — an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
- 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
- bassness — the quality of being low-pitched
- bassoons — Plural form of bassoon.
- basswood — any of several North American linden trees, esp Tilia americana
- bastards — Plural form of bastard.
- bastardy — the condition of being a bastard; illegitimacy
- 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.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- batangas — a port in the Philippines, in SW Luzon. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- bateless — not abating or not able to be abated
- bathless — without a bath
- bathmats — Plural form of bathmat.
- bathmism — a hypothetical growth-force, once thought to animate living beings
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathtubs — Plural form of bathtub.
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)