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4-letter words containing b, a

  • bota — a small leather wine container
  • brad — a small tapered nail having a small head that is either symmetrical or formed on one side only
  • brae — a hill or hillside; slope
  • brag — If you brag, you say in a very proud way that you have something or have done something.
  • brak — (of water) brackish or salty
  • bram — a male given name.
  • bran — Bran is the outer skin of grain that is left when the grain has been used to make flour.
  • brap — an exclamation used to imitate the sound of a burst of gunfire from an automatic weapon
  • brat — If you call someone, especially a child, a brat, you mean that he or she behaves badly or annoys you.
  • braw — fine or excellent, esp in appearance or dress
  • bray — When a donkey brays, it makes a loud harsh sound.
  • brca — either of two genes (BRCA1 or BRCA2) that, if inherited in a mutated form, may predispose some carriers to develop breast or ovarian cancer.
  • brea — a town in S California.
  • bsja — British Show Jumping Association
  • btoa — (tool, messaging, algorithm, file format)   /B too A/ A binary to ASCII conversion utility. btoa is a uuencode or base 64 equivalent which addresses some of the problems with the uuencode standard but not as many as the base 64 standard. It avoids problems that some hosts have with spaces (e.g. conversion of groups of spaces to tabs) by not including them in its character set, but may still have problems on non-ASCII systems (e.g. EBCDIC). btoa is primarily used to transfer binary files between systems across connections which are not eight-bit clean, e.g. electronic mail. btoa takes adjacent sets of four binary octets and encodes them as five ASCII octets using ASCII characters '!' through to 'u'. Special characters are also used: 'x' marks the beginning or end of the archive; 'z' marks four consecutive zeros and 'y' (version 5.2) four consecutive spaces. Each group of four octets is processed as a 32-bit integer. Call this 'I'. Let 'D' = 85^4. Divide I by D. Call this result 'R'. Make I = I - (R * D) to avoid overflow on the next step. Repeat, for values of D = 85^3, 85^2, 85 and 1. At each step, to convert R to the output character add decimal 33 (output octet = R + ASCII value for '!'). Five output octets are produced. btoa provides some integrity checking in the form of a line checksum, and facilities for patching corrupted downloads. The algorithm used by btoa is more efficient than uuencode or base 64. ASCII files are encoded to about 120% the size of their binary sources. This compares with 135% for uuencode or base 64. Pre-compiled MS-DOS versions are also available.
  • buaf — [alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font. A special form of ASCII art. Various programs exist for rendering text strings into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four and six character cells on a side; this is smaller than the letters generated by older banner programs. These are sometimes used to render one's name in a sig block, and are critically referred to as "BUAF"s. See warlording.
  • buag — [alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Graphic. Pejorative term for ugly ASCII ART, especially as found in sig blocks. For some reason, mutations of the head of Bart Simpson are particularly common in the least imaginative sig blocks. See warlording.
  • buda — an old man
  • buna — a synthetic rubber formed by polymerizing butadiene or by copolymerizing it with such compounds as acrylonitrile or styrene
  • bupa — The British United Provident Association Limited: a company which provides private medical insurance
  • caba — (dated) A cabas, or lady's bag.
  • cabe — Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
  • cabs — Plural form of cab.
  • carb — Carbs are foods such as potatoes, pasta, and bread, that contain a lot of carbohydrate.
  • crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
  • cuba — a republic and the largest island in the Caribbean, at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: became a Spanish colony after its discovery by Columbus in 1492; gained independence after the Spanish-American War of 1898 but remained subject to US influence until declared a people's republic under Castro in 1960; subject of an international crisis in 1962, when the US blockaded the island in order to compel the Soviet Union to dismantle its nuclear missile base. Sugar comprises about 80 per cent of total exports; the economy was badly affected by loss of trade following the collapse of the Soviet Union and by the continuing US trade embargo. Diplomatic ties with the US restored in 2014. Language: Spanish. Religion: nonreligious majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Havana. Pop: 11 061 886 (2013 est). Area: 110 922 sq km (42 827 sq miles)
  • dabs — fingerprints
  • darb — something excellent of its kind
  • daub — When you daub a substance such as mud or paint on something, you spread it on that thing in a rough or careless way.
  • doab — (India) A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers.
  • drab — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
  • eban — Abba [ah-buh] /ˈɑ bə/ (Show IPA), (Aubrey Solomon Eban) 1915–2002, Israeli political leader and diplomat, born in South Africa.
  • ebay — a website that people and companies can use to buy or sell goods; items may be bought for a fixed price, or sold to the buyer who offers the highest price
  • ebla — an ancient city whose remains are located near Aleppo in present-day Syria, the site of the discovery in 1974–75 of cuneiform tablets (Ebla Tablets) documenting a thriving culture of the third millennium b.c.
  • elba — a mountainous island off the W coast of Italy, in the Mediterranean: Napoleon Bonaparte's first place of exile (1814–15). Pop: 30 000 (latest est). Area: 223 sq km (86 sq miles)
  • farb — (US) A historical reenactor (especially a US civil war reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion of the speaker, inadequate. (For example, wearing a modern wristwatch with period costume.) The opposite of farb is \"hard-core\" (or hardcore), someone who is, in the opinion of the speaker, an \"authenticity fanatic\".
  • flab — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
  • frab — to harass; to nag
  • gaba — a neurotransmitter of the central nervous system that inhibits excitatory responses.
  • gabe — a male given name, form of Gabriel.
  • gabo — Naum [noum] /naʊm/ (Show IPA), (Naum Pevsner) 1890–1977, U.S. sculptor, born in Russia (brother of Antoine Pevsner).
  • gabs — to talk or chat idly; chatter.
  • gaby — a fool.
  • gamb — the foreleg of an animal
  • garb — a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind: in the garb of a monk.
  • geba — a river in W Africa, flowing N from NW Guinea-Bissau to the Atlantic Ocean. About 190 miles (305 km) long.
  • grab — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
  • hab. — Habakkuk
  • haba — Alois [ah-lois] /ˈɑ lɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1893–1972, Czech composer.
  • habs — Plural form of hab.
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