9-letter words containing b, a, i, e
- barbarize — to make or become barbarous
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barberite — an alloy of about 88 percent copper, 5 percent nickel, 5 percent tin, and 2 percent silicon, resistant to sea water and sulfuric acid.
- barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- barenboim — Daniel. born 1942, Israeli concert pianist and conductor, born in Argentina
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- bargainer — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
- barrister — In England and Wales, a barrister is a lawyer who represents clients in the higher courts of law. Compare solicitor.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- basaltine — a black or brown-green mineral (Ca, Mg, Fe)SiO3
- base line — a line serving as a base
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- baselines — Plural form of baseline.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- basic dye — a dye soluble in acid and insoluble in basic solution, consisting mostly of amino or imino compounds of xanthene or triarylmethane: used mainly for inks, carbon paper, and typewriter ribbon.
- basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
- basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
- basinlike — resembling a basin
- basipetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the apex downwards so that the youngest are at the base
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- bassanite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of calcium sulphate, found at Vesuvius.
- bassinets — Plural form of bassinet.
- bastilles — Plural form of bastille.
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- batholite — (obsolete) alternative name of batholith.
- batmobile — (slang) To proceed in a fast, urgent, or reckless way, especially in a vehicle.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- batteries — a beating together of the calves or feet during a leap.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- battiness — the characteristic of being batty; craziness; insanity; eccentricity
- baulkline — a straight line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- beachside — situated near a beach
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beam fill — material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.
- beam mill — a rolling mill for roughing a bloom and rolling it into a shape.