7-letter words containing ba
- ballade — a verse form consisting of three stanzas and an envoy, all ending with the same line. The first three stanzas commonly have eight or ten lines each and the same rhyme scheme
- ballads — Plural form of ballad.
- ballant — a ballad
- ballard — J(ames) G(raham). 1930–2009, British novelist, born in China; his books include Crash (1973), The Unlimited Dream Company (1979), Empire of the Sun (1984), Cocaine Nights (1996), and Super-Cannes (2000)
- ballast — Ballast is any substance that is used in ships or hot-air balloons to make them heavier and more stable. Ballast usually consists of water, sand, or iron.
- ballata — a 14th-century Italian verse form composed of stanzas beginning and ending with a refrain, often set to music and accompanied by dancing.
- ballboy — Alternative spelling of ball boy.
- ballers — Plural form of baller.
- ballets — Plural form of ballet.
- ballett — an early 17th-century dancelike vocal composition similar to the madrigal in style.
- balling — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- balliol — a college of Oxford University, founded before 1268.
- ballism — a condition characterized by twisting, shaking, and jerking motions.
- ballium — bailey.
- ballock — A testicle.
- ballons — Plural form of ballon.
- balloon — A balloon is a small, thin, rubber bag that you blow air into so that it becomes larger and rounder or longer. Balloons are used as toys or decorations.
- ballots — Plural form of ballot.
- ballows — Plural form of ballow.
- ballpen — Alternative form of ball pen.
- ballute — a type of inflatable device resembling a cross between a parachute and a balloon, designed to slow descent rapidly
- ballwin — a town in E Missouri.
- balmain — Pierre Alexandre (pjɛr alɛksɑ̃drə). 1914–82, French couturier
- balmier — Comparative form of balmy.
- balmily — In a balmy manner.
- balming — Present participle of balm.
- balmung — (in the Nibelungenlied) Siegfried's sword
- balneal — of or relating to baths or bathing
- balochi — Baluchi.
- baloney — If you say that an idea or statement is baloney, you disapprove of it and think it is foolish or wrong.
- balqash — Lake, Balkhash.
- balsams — Plural form of balsam.
- balsamy — Like balsam, as of balsam.
- balshem — a person who works miracles by calling upon the name of God, especially one of the German and Polish Jews of the 16th–19th centuries considered to be saintly and to possess magical powers.
- balteus — (on an Ionic capital) the horizontal band connecting the volutes on either side.
- balthus — real name Balthasar Klossowski de Rola. 1908–2001, French painter of Polish descent, noted esp for his paintings of adolescent girls
- baltics — of, near, or on the Baltic Sea.
- baluchi — a member of a Muslim people living chiefly in coastal Pakistan and Iran
- bambara — a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Mali and by the headwaters of the River Niger in Guinea
- bamberg — a town in S Germany, in N Bavaria: seat of independent prince-bishops of the Holy Roman Empire (1007–1802). Pop: 69 899 (2003 est)
- bambini — a small child or baby.
- bambino — a young child, esp an Italian one
- bamboos — Plural form of bamboo.
- bamelot — the Whitehouse during Barack Obama’s presidency
- bamming — a loud thud, as that produced when two objects strike against each other with force.
- ban-lon — a smooth synthetic knitted fabric that resists wrinkling
- banaban — of or relating to the SW Pacific island of Banaba
- banally — devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.
- bananas — crazy (esp in the phrase go bananas)
- banaras — a former name of Varanasi.