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15-letter words containing ba

  • bateau neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bathing machine — a small hut, on wheels so that it could be pulled to the sea, used in the 18th and 19th centuries for bathers to change their clothes
  • bathing-machine — a small bathhouse on wheels formerly used as a dressing room and in which bathers could also be transported from the beach to the water.
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • bathurst island — an island off the coast of N Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago: present south of the North Magnetic Pole nearby. 7609 sq. mi. (19,707 sq. km).
  • bathymetrically — In a bathymetric way.
  • bathythermogram — a record made by a bathythermograph.
  • battery charger — a device that can restore the charge to a battery, usually by means of electricity
  • battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
  • batting average — in baseball, a figure expressing the average batting efficiency of a player or team, figured by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official at-bats
  • battle hardened — toughened by the experience of battle
  • battle of wills — A battle of wills is a situation that involves people who try to defeat each other by refusing to change their own aims or demands and hoping that their opponents will weaken first.
  • battle stations — the places to which soldiers, sailors, warships, etc. are assigned for a battle or an emergency
  • battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
  • bay of campeche — the SW part of the Gulf of Mexico
  • bayeux tapestry — an 11th- or 12th-century embroidery in Bayeux, nearly 70.5 m (231 ft) long by 50 cm (20 inches) high, depicting the Norman conquest of England
  • bayonet fitting — a type of fastening in which a cylindrical member is inserted into a socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
  • bedsheet ballot — a very long, involved paper ballot
  • best-ball match — a match, scored by holes, in which one player competing against two or more others must score lower than the lowest scoring opponent to win a hole.
  • big bang theory — In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.
  • blueback salmon — sockeye salmon.
  • body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
  • boil-in-the-bag — (of food) able to be boiled in a sealed bag until ready to eat
  • brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • buys-ballot law — the law stating that if one stands with one's back to the wind, in the Northern Hemisphere the atmospheric pressure will be lower on one's left and in the Southern Hemisphere it will be lower on one's right: descriptive of the relationship of horizontal winds to atmospheric pressure.
  • cabbage lettuce — any of several varieties of lettuce that have roundish flattened heads resembling cabbages
  • cabbalistically — Alternative spelling of cabalistically.
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • cannibalisation — Alternative form of cannibalization.
  • cannibalization — to subject to cannibalism.
  • cannonball tree — a South American tree, Couroupita guianensis, bearing round, woody-husked fruit whose shells are used to make containers and utensils.
  • carbazotic acid — picric acid.
  • carry one's bat — (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • charles babbage — Charles, 1792–1871, English mathematician: invented the precursor of the modern computer.
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chinese cabbage — a Chinese plant, Brassica pekinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has crisp edible leaves growing in a loose cylindrical head
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • circumambagious — in a round-about manner
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
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