4-letter words containing b
- anba — father: a title of a clergyman or saint in the Coptic Church.
- aocb — any other competent business
- aonb — Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: an area designated by the appropriate government bodies as requiring protection to conserve and enhance its natural beauty
- arab — Arabs are people who speak Arabic and who come from the Middle East and parts of North Africa.
- arbs — Plural form of arb.
- asbo — An ASBO is a legal order restricting the activities or movements of someone who has repeatedly behaved in a way that upsets or annoys other people. ASBO is an abbreviation for 'anti-social behaviour order'.
- atob — (tool) /A too B/ Utility software that converts ASCII to binary. The reverse process is btoa.
- aube — a department of N central France, in Champagne-Ardenne region. Capital: Troyes. Pop: 293 925 (2003 est). Area: 6026 sq km (2350 sq miles)
- b-17 — Flying Fortress.
- b-29 — Superfortress.
- b.b. — Billie Jean (Moffitt) [mof-it] /ˈmɒf ɪt/ (Show IPA), born 1943, U.S. tennis player.
- b.d. — bondage and discipline: used in reference to sadomasochistic sexual practices.
- b.e. — Law. the crime of breaking and entering: two of the elements of the crime of burglary.
- b.o. — B.O. is an unpleasant smell caused by sweat on a person's body. B.O. is an abbreviation for 'body odour'.
- b.v. — Elihu, 1853–1937, U.S. inventor, born in England.
- b.w. — (of a motion picture, photograph, drawing, etc.) black and white, as distinguished from color.
- b1ff — biff
- baal — any of several ancient Semitic fertility gods
- baan — (company) A provider of enterprise resource planning and manufacturer resource planning software.
- baas — a South African word for a boss: often used by Black or Coloured people addressing a White manager or overseer
- baba — a small cake of leavened dough, sometimes mixed with currants and usually soaked in rum (rum baba)
- babe — Some people use babe as an affectionate way of addressing someone they love.
- babi — a disciple of the Bab
- babs — abbreviated form of Bab ed-Din.
- babu — (in India) a title or form of address more or less equivalent to Mr, placed before a person's full name or after his first name
- baby — A baby is a very young child, especially one that cannot yet walk or talk.
- bace — (rare) A blow; a drubbing.
- bach — a term of friendly address: used esp after a person's name
- back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
- bacs — Bankers' Automated Clearing System; a method of making payments direct to a creditor's bank without using a cheque
- bact — bacteriology
- badb — a spirit who, delighting in war, incited armies to fight and appeared to warriors about to be defeated.
- bade — Bade is a past tense of bid2.
- badr — Battle of, Islam. a decisive battle in the early days of Islam (a.d. 624), in which Muhammad with about 300 men overcame a force of about 1000 Meccans.
- bads — Plural form of bad.
- baed — Simple past tense and past participle of ba.
- bael — a spiny Indian rutaceous tree, Aegle marmelos
- baer — Karl Ernst von [kahrl urnst von,, fuh n] /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn,, fən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.
- baes — Plural form of bae.
- baez — Joan. born 1941, US rock and folk singer and songwriter, noted for the pure quality of her voice and for her committed pacifist and protest songs
- baff — a blow or stroke using a soft or flat object
- baft — a coarse fabric, usually cotton-based, made in India
- bagh — (in India and Pakistan) a garden
- bags — a lot; a great deal
- bahr — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1863–1934, Austrian playwright and critic.
- baht — the standard monetary unit of Thailand, divided into 100 satang
- bahu — (in India) a daughter-in-law
- bail — Bail is a sum of money that an arrested person or someone else puts forward as a guarantee that the arrested person will attend their trial in a law court. If the arrested person does not attend it, the money will be lost.
- bain — (Now chiefly dialectal) Ready; willing.
- bais — a yellow mist occurring in eastern China and Japan during the spring and fall, caused by dust from the interior of China.