7-letter words containing ba
- bassist — A bassist is someone who plays the bass guitar or the double bass.
- bassman — Someone who plays the bass guitar.
- bassoon — A bassoon is a large musical instrument of the woodwind family that is shaped like a tube and played by blowing into a curved metal pipe.
- bastard — Bastard is an insulting word which some people use about a person, especially a man, who has behaved very badly.
- basterd — Misspelling of bastard.
- basters — Plural form of baster.
- bastian — Adolf [ah-dawlf] /ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1826–1905, German anthropologist.
- bastide — a large manor house in the south of France
- basting — loose temporary stitches; tacking
- bastion — If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended.
- bastrop — a city in N Louisiana.
- bat boy — a boy or young man who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
- bat out — to create or compose quickly or hastily
- bat ray — batfish (def 2).
- bat yam — a city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in W central Israel, S of Tel Aviv.
- bat-yam — city in W Israel, on the Mediterranean, near Tel Aviv: pop. 142,000
- batable — debatable; disputable
- bataisk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, S of Rostov, on the Don River.
- batavia — an ancient district of the Netherlands, on an island at the mouth of the Rhine
- batboys — Plural form of batboy.
- batched — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- batcher — anything that makes something into batches
- batches — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- bateaux — Also, batteau. Nautical. Chiefly Canadian and Southern U.S.. a small, flat-bottomed rowboat used on rivers. a half-decked, sloop-rigged boat used for fishing on Chesapeake Bay; skipjack. (in some regions) a scow.
- bateful — (obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
- bateson — William, 1861–1926, English biologist and geneticist.
- batfish — any angler of the family Ogcocephalidae, having a flattened scaleless body and moving on the sea floor by means of fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
- batfowl — to catch birds by temporarily blinding them with light
- batgirl — a girl who works at baseball games, carrying bats to players and moving other equipment
- bathers — a swimming costume
- bathing — swimming
- bathmat — A bathmat is a mat which you stand on while you dry yourself after getting out of the bath.
- bathmic — relating to bathmism
- bathtub — A bathtub is a long, usually rectangular container which you fill with water and sit in to wash your body.
- bathyal — denoting or relating to an ocean depth of between 200 and 2000 metres (about 100 and 1000 fathoms), corresponding to the continental slope
- batista — Fulgencio (fulˈxenθjo), full name Batista y Zaldívar. 1901–73, Cuban military leader and dictator: president of Cuba (1940–44, 1952–59); overthrown by Fidel Castro
- batiste — a fine plain-weave cotton fabric: used esp for shirts and dresses
- batlike — any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, of worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions, having modified forelimbs that serve as wings and are covered with a membranous skin extending to the hind limbs.
- batling — A young, small, or baby bat.
- batonic — (linguistics) Not representing anything specific; non-representational.
- batshit — Completely mad or crazy.
- batsman — The batsman in a game of cricket is the player who is batting.
- batsmen — Plural form of batsman.
- battani — Al- [al] /æl/ (Show IPA), c850–929, Arab astronomer.
- batteau — bateau (def 1).
- battell — Obsolete spelling of battle.
- battels — (at some universities) the account of a member of a college for board, provisions, and other college expenses
- battens — Plural form of batten.
- battero — a heavy club
- batters — Plural form of batter.