7-letter words containing a, t
- bimetal — an object or material made from sheets of two types of metal
- biodata — information regarding an individual's education and work history, esp in the context of a selection process
- biofact — an item of biological information
- biparty — involving two parties
- biretta — a stiff clerical cap having either three or four upright pieces projecting outwards from the centre to the edge: coloured black for priests, purple for bishops, red for cardinals, and white for certain members of religious orders
- bistate — involving two states
- bitable — which can be bitten
- bitonal — consisting of black and white tones
- blanket — A blanket is a large square or rectangular piece of thick cloth, especially one which you put on a bed to keep you warm.
- blasted — Some people use blasted to express anger or annoyance at something or someone.
- blaster — a sudden and violent gust of wind: Wintry blasts chilled us to the marrow.
- blastie — a wretched, ugly little creature
- blasto- — (in biology) indicating an embryo or bud or the process of budding
- blatant — You use blatant to describe something bad that is done in an open or very obvious way.
- blately — bashful; shy.
- blather — If someone is blathering on about something, they are talking for a long time about something that you consider boring or unimportant.
- blatted — drunk
- blatter — a prattle
- blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
- bleated — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bleaunt — a short tunic or blouse, worn in the Middle Ages.
- bloated — If someone's body or a part of their body is bloated, it is much larger than normal, usually because it has a lot of liquid or gas inside it.
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- blokart — a single-seat three-wheeled vehicle with a sail, built to be propelled over land by the wind
- boasted — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boaster — a chisel for boasting stone.
- boatage — the act of hauling by boat.
- boatful — an amount or number that could be carried by a boat
- boating — Boating is travelling on a lake or river in a small boat for pleasure.
- boatman — A boatman is a man who is paid by people to take them across an area of water in a small boat, or a man who hires boats out to them for a short time.
- bobstay — a strong stay between a bowsprit and the stem of a vessel for holding down the bowsprit
- bobtail — a docked or diminutive tail
- boeotia — a region of ancient Greece, northwest of Athens. It consisted of ten city-states, which formed the Boeotian League, led by Thebes: at its height in the 4th century bc
- boggart — a ghost or poltergeist
- bombast — Bombast is trying to impress people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- boniato — a variety of sweet potato grown in the Caribbean
- boothia — Gulf ofinlet of the Arctic Ocean between Boothia Peninsula & Baffin Island
- borotra — Jean (Robert) (ʒɑ̃). 1898–1994, French tennis player: secretary general of physical education under the Vichy government (1940)
- borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
- botanic — Botanic means the same as botanical.
- botargo — a relish consisting of the roe of mullet or tunny, salted and pressed into rolls
- bothnia — Gulf ofarm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland & Sweden
- bottega — a workshop or studio, particularly that part used by a master artist's assistants or pupils
- boutade — an outburst; sally
- bra top — an item of women's clothing that looks like a bra but is worn as outerwear
- brabant — a former duchy of W Europe: divided when Belgium became independent (1830), the south forming the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Brabant and the north forming the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands
- bracket — If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
- bradsot — braxy (def 1).
- brantle — a French dance
- brattle — a rattling or clattering sound