9-letter words containing b, e, a
- barkeeper — A barkeeper is someone who serves drinks behind a bar.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barm cake — a round flat soft bread roll
- barmaster — (historical) A local judge among miners.
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barnacled — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- barometer — A barometer is an instrument that measures air pressure and shows when the weather is changing.
- barometre — (nonstandard) Alternative form of barometer.
- barometry — the process of measuring atmospheric pressure.
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- baroquely — in a baroque fashion
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- barquette — a boat-shaped pastry shell
- barracked — Simple past tense and past participle of barrack.
- barracker — to shout boisterously for or against a player or team; root or jeer.
- barrelage — an amount, esp of beer, as measured in barrels
- barreleye — any of the bathypelagic fishes of the family Opisthoproctidae, especially Macropinna microstoma, having telescoping eyes.
- barrelful — as much or as many as a barrel will hold
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- barrelled — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- barretter — a form of detector or control device employing a resistor that varies in proportion to its temperature.
- barrettes — Plural form of barrette.
- 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.
- barrymore — a US family of actors, esp Ethel (1879–1959), John (1882–1942), Lionel (1878–1954), and Drew (born 1975)
- bartended — Simple past tense and past participle of bartend.
- bartender — A bartender is a person who serves drinks behind a bar.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- barthelme — Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- basaltine — a black or brown-green mineral (Ca, Mg, Fe)SiO3
- base camp — an encampment that serves as a staging area for a larger activity, for example in mountaineering
- base coat — the first coat of paint applied to a prepared surface
- base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
- base head — a person who is addicted to cocaine
- base jump — a parachute jump from the top of a building, bridge, cliff, etc., usually at a height of 1,000 feet (305 meters) or less.
- base line — a line serving as a base
- base load — the more or less constant part of the total load on an electrical power-supply system
- 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 path — the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.
- base rate — In Britain, the base rate is the rate of interest that banks use as a basis when they are calculating the rates that they charge on loans.
- 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
- base year — a year used as an index for some phenomenon measured in other years
- baseballs — Plural form of baseball.
- basebands — Plural form of baseband.
- baseboard — A baseboard is a narrow length of wood which goes along the bottom of a wall in a room and makes a border between the walls and the floor.