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11-letter words containing b, a, s, r

  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • barrelheads — Plural form of barrelhead.
  • barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
  • base memory — (hardware, jargon)   The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • base runner — any member of the team at bat who has reached first, second, or third base safely or is trying to reach a base or home plate
  • basehearted — having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited.
  • basepersons — Plural form of baseperson.
  • baserunning — the act of running around bases
  • basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
  • basicranial — of or relating to the base of the skull
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
  • baskerville — a style of type
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
  • basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
  • basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
  • bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
  • bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
  • bass reflex — a loudspeaker equipped with a baffle having openings designed to improve the reproduction of low-frequency sounds.
  • bass strait — a channel between mainland Australia and Tasmania, linking the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea
  • basse-terre — a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
  • bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
  • bastard son — an illegitimate son
  • bastard-saw — plain-saw.
  • bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
  • bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
  • bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
  • bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
  • batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
  • battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
  • battle star — a small star worn on a campaign ribbon, awarded to a member of the armed forces for participation in a particular battle or campaign
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
  • be all ears — to be listening attentively or eagerly
  • beach aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
  • beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
  • beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
  • beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
  • beam search — (algorithm)   An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
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