4-letter words containing b, a
- bawl — If you bawl, you shout in a very loud voice, for example because you are angry or you want people to hear you.
- bawn — a fortified enclosure, either for defensive purposes or for keeping cattle
- baya — a common weaverbird, Ploceus philippinus, of India.
- baye — to bathe
- bayo — a pinto or chili bean.
- bays — Plural form of bay.
- baza — Any of three species of small, crested hawks in the genus Aviceda.
- baze — (transitive, obsolete) To stupefy; frighten; alarm.
- bcar — British Civil Airworthiness Requirements
- bdpa — Black Data Processing Associates
- bead — Beads are small pieces of coloured glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through the middle. Beads are often put together on a piece of string or wire to make jewellery.
- beag — (historical) A ring.
- beak — A bird's beak is the hard curved or pointed part of its mouth.
- beal — a god of the ancient Celts, a personification of the sun.
- beam — If you say that someone is beaming, you mean that they have a big smile on their face because they are happy, pleased, or proud about something.
- bean — Beans such as green beans, French beans, or broad beans are the seeds of a climbing plant or the long thin cases which contain those seeds.
- bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
- beas — a female given name, form of Beatrice.
- beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- beau — A woman's beau is her boyfriend or lover.
- beja — a member of a group of nomadic, predominantly Muslim peoples of northeastern Sudan.
- bela — a male given name.
- bema — the speaker's platform in the assembly in ancient Athens
- beta — the second letter in the Greek alphabet (Β, β), a consonant, transliterated as b
- bhai — a title or form of address prefixed to the names of distinguished Sikhs
- bhat — the standard monetary unit of Thailand
- biak — an island in Indonesia, north of New Guinea: the largest of the Schouten Islands. Area: 2455 sq km (948 sq miles)
- bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
- biga — a chariot drawn by two horses
- bima — a platform in a synagogue holding the reading table used when chanting or reading portions of the Torah and the Prophets.
- biwa — Lake, the largest lake in Japan, on Honshu, near Kyoto. 260 sq. mi. (673 sq. km).
- blab — If someone blabs about something secret, they tell people about it.
- blad — a flier or other promotional material distributed by a company to sell a product.
- blae — bluish-grey; slate-coloured
- blag — To blag something such as a concert ticket means to persuade someone to give it to you free.
- blah — You use blah, blah, blah to refer to something that is said or written without giving the actual words, because you think that they are boring or unimportant.
- blam — a representation of the sound of a bullet being fired
- blat — to cry out or bleat like a sheep
- blaw — to blow
- blay — a small European river fish, Leuciscus alburnus
- boac — British Overseas Airways Corporation
- boar — A boar or a wild boar is a wild pig.
- boas — Franz (frants). 1858–1942, US anthropologist, born in Germany. He made major contributions to cultural and linguistic anthropology in studies of North American Indians, including The Mind of Primitive Man (1911; 1938)
- boat — A boat is something in which people can travel across water.
- boaz — a kinsman of Naomi, who married her daughter-in-law Ruth (Ruth 2–4); one of David's ancestors
- boba — a variety of tea containing balls of pearl tapioca, originating in Taiwan in the 1980s
- bola — a missile used by gauchos and Indians of South America, consisting of two or more heavy balls on a cord. It is hurled at a running quarry, such as an ox or rhea, so as to entangle its legs
- boma — an enclosure, esp a palisade or fence of thorn bush, set up to protect a camp, herd of animals, etc
- bona — (italics) Latin. (used with a singular verb) good faith; absence of fraud or deceit; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate: The bona fides of this contract is open to question. Compare mala fides.
- bora — a violent cold north wind blowing from the mountains to the E coast of the Adriatic, usually in winter