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8-letter words containing b, a, i, e

  • balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
  • balkline — a line at one end of a table from behind which opening shots with the cue ball are made
  • ball ice — floating balls of slushy ice formed at sea.
  • balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
  • ballsier — Comparative form of ballsy.
  • balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
  • banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
  • banalize — to make banal
  • bandeira — an expedition in search of gold or slaves
  • bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
  • banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
  • banisher — someone who or something which banishes
  • banishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of banish.
  • banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
  • bankside — the sloping side of any bank
  • banlieue — a suburb of a city
  • banville — Théodore de (teɔdɔr də). 1823–91, French poet, who anticipated the Parnassian school in his perfection of form and command of rhythm
  • baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
  • baptises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptise.
  • baptized — Simple past tense and past participle of baptize.
  • baptizer — someone who baptises
  • baptizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptize.
  • bar line — the vertical line marking the boundary between one bar and the next
  • barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
  • barbwire — barbed wire
  • baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
  • bareilly — a city in N India, in N central Uttar Pradesh. Pop: 699 839 (2001)
  • barflies — Plural form of barfly.
  • barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
  • baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
  • barnlike — resembling a barn
  • baronies — Plural form of barony.
  • baronize — to make or create (someone) a baron; confer the rank of baron upon.
  • barred i — a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.
  • barriers — anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like: People may pass through the barrier only when their train is announced.
  • basanite — a black basaltic rock containing plagioclase, augite, olivine, and nepheline, leucite, or analcite, formerly used as a touchstone
  • base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
  • 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.
  • basified — Simple past tense and past participle of basify.
  • basifier — anything that makes something alkaline
  • 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.
  • basquine — a tight-fitting bodice worn by women in the Basque region and in Spain
  • bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
  • bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
  • 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
  • bathetic — containing or displaying bathos
  • battaile — (obsolete spelling of, battle).
  • batterie — a movement in ballet involving the legs beating together
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