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.