7-letter words containing t, a, b
- barthes — Roland. 1915–80, French writer and critic, who applied structuralist theory to literature and popular culture: his books include Mythologies (1957) and Elements of Semiology (1964)
- barthou — (Jean) Louis [zhahn lwee] /ʒɑ̃ lwi/ (Show IPA), 1862–1934, French statesman and author.
- bartica — a town in N Guyana, on the Essequibo River: river transportation center.
- bartoli — Cecilia. born 1966, Italian mezzo-soprano, noted for her performances in Mozart and Rossini operas
- bartram — John1699-1777; Am. botanist
- bartsia — any of several species of semiparasitic scrophulariaceous plants, including red bartsia (Odontites verna), a pink-flowered weed of cornfields
- barytes — a colourless or white mineral consisting of barium sulphate in orthorhombic crystalline form, occurring in sedimentary rocks and with sulphide ores: a source of barium. Formula: BaSO4
- baryton — a bass viol with sympathetic strings as well as its six main strings
- basalts — Plural form of basalt.
- bashtag — (on the Twitter website) a hashtag that is used for critical and abusive comments
- basinet — a close-fitting medieval helmet of light steel usually with a visor
- baskets — Plural form of basket.
- basmati — a variety of cultivated long-grain rice that is notably fragrant.
- basotho — a member of the subgroup of the Sotho people who chiefly inhabit Lesotho
- bassist — A bassist is someone who plays the bass guitar or the double bass.
- 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.
- bat boy — a boy or young man who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
- bat out — to create or compose quickly or hastily
- bat ray — batfish (def 2).
- bat yam — a city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in W central Israel, S of Tel Aviv.
- bat-yam — city in W Israel, on the Mediterranean, near Tel Aviv: pop. 142,000
- batable — debatable; disputable
- bataisk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, S of Rostov, on the Don River.
- batavia — an ancient district of the Netherlands, on an island at the mouth of the Rhine
- batboys — Plural form of batboy.
- batched — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- batcher — anything that makes something into batches
- batches — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- bateaux — Also, batteau. Nautical. Chiefly Canadian and Southern U.S.. a small, flat-bottomed rowboat used on rivers. a half-decked, sloop-rigged boat used for fishing on Chesapeake Bay; skipjack. (in some regions) a scow.
- bateful — (obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
- 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
- batfowl — to catch birds by temporarily blinding them with light
- batgirl — a girl who works at baseball games, carrying bats to players and moving other equipment
- bathers — a swimming costume
- bathing — swimming
- bathmat — A bathmat is a mat which you stand on while you dry yourself after getting out of the bath.
- bathmic — relating to bathmism
- bathtub — A bathtub is a long, usually rectangular container which you fill with water and sit in to wash your body.
- bathyal — denoting or relating to an ocean depth of between 200 and 2000 metres (about 100 and 1000 fathoms), corresponding to the continental slope
- 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
- batlike — any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, of worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions, having modified forelimbs that serve as wings and are covered with a membranous skin extending to the hind limbs.