7-letter words containing i, s, a, b
- bassist — A bassist is someone who plays the bass guitar or the double bass.
- bastian — Adolf [ah-dawlf] /ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1826–1905, German anthropologist.
- bastide — a large manor house in the south of France
- basting — loose temporary stitches; tacking
- bastion — If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended.
- bataisk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, S of Rostov, on the Don River.
- batfish — any angler of the family Ogcocephalidae, having a flattened scaleless body and moving on the sea floor by means of fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
- batista — Fulgencio (fulˈxenθjo), full name Batista y Zaldívar. 1901–73, Cuban military leader and dictator: president of Cuba (1940–44, 1952–59); overthrown by Fidel Castro
- batiste — a fine plain-weave cotton fabric: used esp for shirts and dresses
- batshit — Completely mad or crazy.
- batties — Plural form of batty.
- bayliss — Sir William Maddock [mad-uh k] /ˈmæd ək/ (Show IPA), 1860–1924, English physiologist: codiscoverer of secretin.
- bayside — On or near the shore of a bay.
- beamish — smiling; radiant
- beanies — Plural form of beanie.
- bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- beastie — a small animal
- beauish — vain and showy
- besaint — to give the status of a saint to
- bestain — to stain
- bestial — If you describe behaviour or a situation as bestial, you mean that it is very unpleasant or disgusting.
- biassed — a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: illegal bias against older job applicants; the magazine’s bias toward art rather than photography; our strong bias in favor of the idea.
- bibasic — with two bases
- biomass — the total number of living organisms in a given area, expressed in terms of living or dry weight per unit area
- biovars — a group of microorganisms, usually bacteria, that have identical genetic but different biochemical or physiological characters.
- bisayan — Visayan
- bisnaga — a large barrel-shaped cactus found in SW USA and NW Mexico
- bistate — involving two states
- blastie — a wretched, ugly little creature
- boarish — coarse, cruel, or sensual
- bosnian — of or relating to Bosnia or its inhabitants
- braised — cooked by braising
- brasier — brazier1
- brassai — real name Gyula Halész. 1899–1984, French photographer, artist, and writer, born in Hungary: noted for his photographs of Paris by night
- brassie — a former name for a club, a No. 2 wood, originally having a brass-plated sole and with a shallower face than a driver to give more loft
- brescia — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy: at its height in the 16th century. Pop: 187 567 (2001)
- bwbasic — Bywater BASIC interpreter. A BASIC interpreter by Ted A. Campbell <[email protected]> which implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) in ANSI C, and offers a simple interactive environment including some shell program facilities as an extension of BASIC. The interpreter source has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms including MS-DOS, Unix, and Acorn RISC OS. Version 2.10 was posted to news:comp.sources.misc, volume 40.
- cabbies — Plural form of cabby.
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cambism — cambistry
- cambist — a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
- caribes — Plural form of caribe.
- chablis — a dry white burgundy wine made around Chablis, in central France
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- daboias — Plural form of daboia.
- darbies — handcuffs
- diabase — an altered dolerite
- diablos — Plural form of diablo.
- dibasic — (of an acid, such as sulphuric acid, H2SO4) containing two acidic hydrogen atoms
- disable — make not work