11-letter words containing t, b, a
- basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- basket fish — basket star.
- basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
- basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
- basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
- basketballs — Plural form of basketball.
- basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
- basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
- 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
- basse-terre — a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
- bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
- bastard son — an illegitimate son
- bastard-saw — plain-saw.
- 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.
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
- bat mitzvah — (of a Jewish girl) having attained religious majority at the age of twelve
- batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
- bateau neck — boat neck.
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bath tissue — toilet paper.
- bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
- bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
- bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
- bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- batological — relating to the study of brambles
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
- batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
- battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
- battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
- battery jar — a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.
- battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose