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9-letter words containing a, s

  • billables — that may or should be billed: Attorneys put in hundreds of billable hours on the case.
  • billiards — Billiards is a game played on a large table, in which you use a long stick called a cue to hit balls against each other or into pockets around the sides of the table.
  • biomasses — Ecology. the amount of living matter in a given habitat, expressed either as the weight of organisms per unit area or as the volume of organisms per unit volume of habitat.
  • biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
  • biosocial — relating to the interaction of biological and social elements
  • biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
  • biostatic — the branch of biology dealing with the structure of organisms in relation to their functions (opposed to biodynamics).
  • biseriate — (of plant parts, such as petals) arranged in two whorls, cycles, rows, or series
  • biserrate — (of leaf margins, etc) having serrations that are themselves serrate
  • bismillah — the words which preface all except one of the surahs of the Koran, used by Muslims as a blessing before eating or some other action
  • bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
  • bisulcate — marked by two grooves
  • bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
  • bitstream — a sequence of digital data transmitted electronically
  • black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
  • blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
  • blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
  • blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
  • blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
  • bladeless — without a blade
  • blameless — Someone who is blameless has not done anything wrong.
  • blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
  • blaspheme — If someone blasphemes, they say rude or disrespectful things about God or religion, or they use God's name as a swear word.
  • blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
  • blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
  • blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
  • blastemal — of or relating to blastema
  • blastment — shrivelling up due to something in the air
  • blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
  • bleachers — The bleachers are a part of an outdoor sports stadium, or the seats in that area, which are usually uncovered and are the least expensive place where people can sit.
  • bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
  • bleasdale — Alan. born 1946, British playwright, best known for his television series The Boys From the Blackstuff (1983) and GBH (1991)
  • blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
  • bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
  • blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
  • blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
  • blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
  • blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
  • bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
  • bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
  • boa vista — a town in N Brazil, capital of the state of Roraima, on the Rio Branco. Pop: 275 000 (2005 est)
  • boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
  • boastless — without boasting
  • boat shoe — a shoe, usually in a style somewhat like a moccasin, with a rubber sole suitable for walking on the deck of a boat
  • boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
  • boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
  • bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
  • bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
  • body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
  • body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
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