8-letter words containing a, b
- babracot — a wooden grating used by Indians in South America for roasting and drying food.
- babruysk — a city in SE Belarus, in Europe, SE of Minsk.
- babushka — a headscarf tied under the chin, worn by Russian peasant women
- baby boy — a male baby
- baby oil — oil for babies' skin
- baby tee — a form-fitting, short T-shirt worn by girls or women.
- baby-gro — an all-in-one babysuit made of stretchy material
- baby-sit — to act or work as a baby-sitter
- babycino — a drink of frothy milk with a chocolate topping, designed as an alternative to coffee for young children
- babydoll — a short sleeveless nightgown or dress with a loose skirt
- babyfood — food for babies, often puréed
- babygirl — (slang, mostly, AAVE) Friendly or intimate term of address for a woman.
- babyhood — Your babyhood is the period of your life when you were a baby.
- babykins — Fond term of address for a baby, child, or lover.
- babylike — Resembling a baby, or something associated with a baby.
- babysits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of babysit.
- babywear — Babywear is a clothing product category for babies and infants up to 2 years old.
- baccarat — a card game in which two or more punters gamble against the banker
- bacchant — a priest or votary of Bacchus
- bacchiac — of, containing, or consisting of bacchii
- bacchius — a metrical foot of one short syllable followed by two long ones (◡ – –)
- bachelor — A bachelor is a man who has never married.
- bacillar — (biology) Shaped like a rod or staff.
- bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
- back bay — a small bay or inlet of a lake
- 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 lot — an outdoor area, usually adjoining a studio, used for the shooting of exterior scenes.
- back off — If you back off, you move away in order to avoid problems or a fight.
- back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
- back pay — Back pay is money which an employer owes an employee for work that he or she did in the past.
- back row — the forwards at the rear of a scrum
- back rub — a form of massage in which the masseur rubs one's back
- back run — a period during which a particular process, as the flow of materials in manufacturing, is reversed.
- back saw — a short saw with a reinforced back.
- 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.
- backband — a moulding used at the edges of a window casing
- 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)
- backbond — a legal document qualifying the terms of a bond or explaining the purpose for which a bond has been granted
- backbone — Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
- backburn — to clear (an area of scrub, bush, etc) by creating a new fire that burns in the opposite direction to the line of advancing fire
- backcast — a backward casting of a fishing rod
- backchat — the act of answering back, esp impudently
- backcomb — to comb the under layers of (the hair) towards the roots to give more bulk to a hairstyle
- backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
- backdoor — You can use backdoor to describe an action or process if you disapprove of it because you think it has been done in a secret, indirect, or dishonest way.
- backdown — an act of retreating from a previously asserted position