7-letter words containing s, a, b
- basking — to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth: to bask in the sunshine.
- basmati — a variety of cultivated long-grain rice that is notably fragrant.
- basoche — a guild of medieval Parisian lawyers, granted the privilege of performing religious plays and known for abusing this privilege by performing comic plays instead
- basotho — a member of the subgroup of the Sotho people who chiefly inhabit Lesotho
- basques — Plural form of basque.
- bassano — Jacopo [yah-kaw-paw] /ˈyɑ kɔ pɔ/ (Show IPA), (Giacomo da Ponte) 1510–92, Italian painter.
- bassein — a city in Myanmar, on the Irrawaddy delta: a port on the Bassein River (the westernmost distributary of the Irrawaddy). Pop: 231 000 (2005 est)
- bassing — Present participle of bass.
- bassist — A bassist is someone who plays the bass guitar or the double bass.
- bassman — Someone who plays the bass guitar.
- bassoon — A bassoon is a large musical instrument of the woodwind family that is shaped like a tube and played by blowing into a curved metal pipe.
- bastard — Bastard is an insulting word which some people use about a person, especially a man, who has behaved very badly.
- basterd — Misspelling of bastard.
- basters — Plural form of baster.
- 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.
- bastrop — a city in N Louisiana.
- bataisk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, S of Rostov, on the Don River.
- batboys — Plural form of batboy.
- batches — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- bateson — William, 1861–1926, English biologist and geneticist.
- 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
- bathers — a swimming costume
- 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.
- batsman — The batsman in a game of cricket is the player who is batting.
- batsmen — Plural form of batsman.
- battels — (at some universities) the account of a member of a college for board, provisions, and other college expenses
- battens — Plural form of batten.
- batters — Plural form of batter.
- batties — Plural form of batty.
- battles — Plural form of battle.
- baubles — a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
- bauhaus — a German school of architecture and applied arts founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius on experimental principles of functionalism and truth to materials. After being closed by the Nazis in 1933, its ideas were widely disseminated by its students and staff, including Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, Moholy-Nagy, and Mies van der Rohe
- bausond — (of animals) dappled with white spots on a black or bay background; esp having a white patch on the face
- bawbees — Plural form of bawbee.
- bawbles — Plural form of bawble.
- bayelsa — a state of Nigeria, on the Niger river delta on the Gulf of Guinea. Capital: Yenagoa. Pop: 1 703 358 (2006). Area: 10 773 sq km (4159 sq miles)
- 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.
- bazaars — Plural form of bazaar.
- bazooms — a woman's breasts
- be cast — (of a sheep) to have fallen and been unable to rise
- beaches — Plural form of beach.
- beacons — a city in SE New York.
- beadles — Plural form of beadle.
- beagles — Plural form of beagle.