8-letter words containing t, a, b
- bandelet — a small band of any kind, particularly one worn around the head
- banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- banditti — a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
- bandmate — a fellow member of a band
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- bang out — If a company bangs out a poor quality product, they produce large quantities of it in order to make money.
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- banjoist — a musical instrument of the guitar family, having a circular body covered in front with tightly stretched parchment and played with the fingers or a plectrum.
- banknote — Banknotes are pieces of paper money.
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- bankster — a banker or investor whose financial practices have been exposed as illegal
- banneret — a knight who was entitled to command other knights and men-at-arms under his own banner
- banquets — Plural form of banquet.
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- banterer — One who banters.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bantling — a young child; brat
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptise.
- baptisia — a genus of wild flower native to North America
- baptisms — Plural form of baptism.
- baptista — a female given name.
- baptists — a member of a Christian denomination that baptizes believers by immersion and that is usually Calvinistic in doctrine.
- baptized — Simple past tense and past participle of baptize.
- baptizer — someone who baptises
- baptizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptize.
- bar cart — a small table on wheels, outfitted for serving drinks; a portable bar.
- bar foot — a foot having the form of a bar connecting the corresponding front and rear legs of a piece.
- bar-tack — a close series of stitches crossing a piece of cloth, as in an article of clothing, in order to reinforce it at a point of concentrated strain.
- barathea — a fabric made of silk and wool or cotton and rayon, used esp for coats
- barbette — (formerly) an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top
- barbital — diethylbarbituric acid, C8H12N2O3, a drug in the form of a white powder, used as a hypnotic and sedative: it is habit-forming and toxic
- bareboat — a boat that can be chartered without crew, provisions, etc
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- baristas — Plural form of barista.
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- barletta — a port in SE Italy, in Apulia. Pop: 92 094 (2001)
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- barostat — a device for maintaining constant pressure, such as one used in an aircraft cabin
- barrator — a person guilty of barratry
- barratry — (formerly) the vexatious stirring up of quarrels or bringing of lawsuits
- barrault — Jean-Louis (ʒɑ̃lwi). 1910–94, French actor and director, noted particularly as a mime
- barretor — someone who deals fraudulently
- barretry — barratry