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11-letter words containing r, a, i

  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • barley wine — an exceptionally strong beer
  • barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
  • baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • barographic — Measured using a barograph.
  • baronetical — pertaining to baronets
  • barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
  • barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • barricading — Present participle of barricade.
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • baserunning — the act of running around bases
  • basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
  • basicranial — of or relating to the base of the skull
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
  • baskerville — a style of type
  • bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
  • bass strait — a channel between mainland Australia and Tasmania, linking the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea
  • bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
  • bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
  • bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
  • bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
  • batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
  • baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
  • be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
  • beach chair — A beach chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Beach chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
  • beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
  • beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
  • beam aerial — an aerial system, such as a Yagi aerial, having directional properties
  • beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
  • bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
  • bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
  • bearberries — Plural form of bearberry.
  • bearded tit — a small European bird, Panurus biarmicus, found in reedy places, the male of which has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
  • bearer bill — a bill payable to the person in possession
  • bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
  • bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
  • beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
  • beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
  • beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
  • beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
  • bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
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