13-letter words containing ba
- playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
- pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
- polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- pork-barreler — a politician, especially a senator or member of Congress who is party to or benefits from a pork barrel.
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
- probate court — a special court with power over administration of estates of deceased persons, the probate of wills, etc.
- proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- rabbath ammon — Amman.
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- robber barons — History/Historical. a noble who robbed travelers passing through his lands.
- rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
- run on a bank — A run on a bank is a situation in which borrowers are worried that the bank will fail and they all try to withdraw money at the same time.
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
- sacred bamboo — nandina.
- saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- saleleaseback — leaseback.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- san pablo bay — the N part of San Francisco Bay, in W California.
- san sebastian — a seaport in N Spain: resort.
- santa barbara — a city on the SW coast of California: Spanish mission.
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- seaplane base — a base for seaplanes
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- second banana — a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- silent barter — dumb barter.
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
- sinus sabaeus — an area in the southern hemisphere and near the equator of Mars, appearing dark when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
- snowball bush — guelder rose.
- snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
- solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
- sonic barrier — sound barrier.
- sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.