9-letter words containing i, b, a
- babylonia — the southern kingdom of ancient Mesopotamia: a great empire from about 2200–538 bc, when it was conquered by the Persians
- bacchical — Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.
- bacciform — shaped like a berry
- bacillary — of, relating to, or caused by bacilli
- back dive — a dive in which the diver stands on the springboard with the back to the water and jumps up, arching backward to land either feetfirst facing the springboard or headfirst facing away from the springboard.
- back link — (hypertext) A link in one direction implied by the existence of an explicit link in the other direction.
- back nine — the holes of a golf course numbered 10 through 18, regarded as a unit
- back pain — pain that is felt in the back
- back-wind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backbiter — to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
- backbites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backbite.
- backfield — the area behind the line of scrimmage from which the backfield begin each play
- backfiles — Plural form of backfile.
- backfills — Plural form of backfill.
- backfired — Simple past tense and past participle of backfire.
- backfires — Plural form of backfire.
- backfisch — a teenage girl; a girl who has not yet reached maturity
- backflips — Plural form of backflip.
- backlifts — Plural form of backlift.
- backlight — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- backlists — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backlist.
- backpiece — a tattoo on the back
- backprint — The mark or impression left by a person's back having been pressed against a surface.
- backshift — The changing of a present tense in direct speech to a past tense in reported speech (or a past tense to pluperfect).
- backshish — Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
- backsides — Plural form of backside.
- backsight — the sight of a rifle nearer the stock
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- bacterial — Bacterial is used to describe things that relate to or are caused by bacteria.
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bacterio- — indicating bacteria or an action or condition relating to or characteristic of bacteria
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bacterize — to subject to bacterial action
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bada-bing — an expression used to suggest that something can be done with no difficulty or delay
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- badinerie — a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
- bahuvrihi — a class of compound words consisting of two elements the first of which is a specific feature of the second
- baia-mare — city in NW Romania: pop. 150,000
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.