11-letter words containing a, b
- bag of wind — windbag.
- baggage car — A baggage car is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
- baggy green — the Australian Test cricket cap
- bagna cauda — a dip made from garlic, anchovies, butter, and olive oil, usually served hot over a spirit burner, with raw vegetables
- bahā' allah — (born Mirzā Ḥoseyn ʼAli Nūrī) 1817-92; Iran. Muslim religious leader: founder of Bahaism
- bahia grass — a grass, Paspalum notatum, of tropical America, grown in the southern United States for lawns and pasturage.
- bail bandit — a person who either commits a crime while on bail or who jumps bail and fails to appear in court
- bailiffship — the office of a bailiff
- báinín wool — white woollen thread
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- bake-wares' — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
- baked beans — Baked beans are dried beans cooked in tomato sauce in Britain or cooked with salt pork in North America. Baked beans are usually sold in cans.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
- baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
- baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
- bal musette — a dance hall in France in which the music is provided by an accordion band.
- balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
- balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
- balbriggans — underwear made from balbriggan fabric, for example long men's underpants
- baldacchino — baldachin
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
- balistraria — (in a medieval fortification) an opening, usually in the form of a cross, through which a crossbow could be fired.
- ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
- ball of wax — everything, including all details, parts, etc., relating to a particular matter: He came back from Chicago with the contract for the whole ball of wax.
- ball tearer — something exceptional in its class, for good or bad qualities
- ball-buster — an arduous, often unpleasant task.
- ball-flower — a decoration in a molding that looks like a ball held in the petals of a flower
- ballbearing — Alternative form of ball bearing.
- ballbreaker — a person, esp a woman, whose character and behaviour may be regarded as threatening a man's sense of power
- ballcarrier — an attacking player in possession of the ball
- ballesteros — Severiano (sevɛˈrjano). 1957–2011, Spanish professional golfer: won the British Open Championship (1979; 1984; 1988) and the US Masters (1980; 1983)
- ballet flat — a shoe with a very flat heel or no heel, resembling a ballet slipper worn by dancers.
- ballet shoe — a flexible, lightweight shoe designed for ballet dancing; typically made of leather or silk, and often fastened with ribbons
- balletomane — a person enthusiastic about the ballet
- ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
- ballicatter — (in Newfoundland) ice that forms along a shore from waves and spray
- balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
- balloonists — Plural form of balloonist.
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- ballyhooing — Present participle of ballyhoo.
- balmain bug — a flattish edible Australian shellfish, Ibacus peronii, similar to the Moreton Bay bug
- balmorality — an idealization of Scottish traditions and culture
- balsam pear — an Old World tropical vine, Momordica charantia, of the gourd family, having yellow flowers and orange-yellow fruit.
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- balustraded — Having balustrades.
- balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
- bambocciata — a genre painting of usually small size produced in Rome in the 17th century.
- bamboo ware — a cane-colored Wedgwood stoneware of c1770 imitating bamboo.