8-letter words containing b, a, s, r
- barostat — a device for maintaining constant pressure, such as one used in an aircraft cabin
- barracks — A barracks is a building or group of buildings where soldiers or other members of the armed forces live and work.
- barrages — Plural form of barrage.
- 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.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- barrista — Misspelling of barista.
- barrooms — Plural form of barroom.
- barspoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- barstool — a stool or seat, usually high and having a round, cushioned top, of a type often used for seating customers at a bar.
- bas-rhin — a department of NE France in Alsace region. Capital: Strasbourg. Pop: 1 052 698 (2003 est). Area: 4793 sq km (1869 sq miles)
- baseborn — born of humble parents
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- basifier — anything that makes something alkaline
- basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
- basilary — Basilar.
- basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
- bass-bar — a strip of wood glued lengthwise inside the belly of instruments of the violin family, used to spread vibrations over the surface.
- bastards — Plural form of bastard.
- bastardy — the condition of being a bastard; illegitimacy
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- battlers — Plural form of battler.
- baudrons — a cat
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- be arsed — to be willing, inclined, or prepared (esp in the phrase can't be arsed)
- bearcats — Plural form of bearcat.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bedstraw — any of numerous rubiaceous plants of the genus Galium, which have small white or yellow flowers and prickly or hairy fruits: some species formerly used as straw for beds as they are aromatic when dry
- bedwards — towards bed
- beermats — Plural form of beermat.
- bejabers — by Jesus!
- bepraise — to praise highly
- berascal — to accuse someone of being a rascal
- bermudas — a group of islands in the Atlantic, 580 miles (935 km) E of North Carolina: a British colony; resort. 19 sq. mi. (49 sq. km). Capital: Hamilton.
- bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- bescrawl — to cover with scrawls
- beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
- bespread — to cover (a surface) with something
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- bestreak — to streak
- bierkase — a semisoft, strong white cow's-milk cheese that originated in Germany, and is eaten especially with beer.
- binaries — binary file
- binarism — the state of being binary
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- biserial — in two rows
- bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)