7-letter words containing ba
- bantams — Plural form of bantam.
- banteng — a species of wild ox found in SE Asia
- banters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of banter.
- banting — slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat
- bantock — Sir Granville. 1868–1946, British composer. His works include the Hebridean Symphony (1915), five ballets, and three operas
- bantoid — denoting or relating to languages, esp in Cameroon and Nigeria, that possess certain Bantu characteristics
- banyans — Plural form of banyan.
- bao dai — (Nguyen Vinh Thuy) 1913–97, emperor of Annam 1925–45, chief of state of Vietnam 1949–55.
- baobabs — Plural form of baobab.
- baoding — a city in NE China, in N Hebei province. Pop: 810 000 (2005 est)
- baoqing — former name of Shaoyang.
- baoshan — a town in W Yunnan province, in S China, on the Burma Road.
- baptise — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptism — A baptism is a Christian ceremony in which a person is baptized. Compare christening.
- baptist — A Baptist is a Christian who believes that people should not be baptized until they are old enough to understand the meaning of baptism.
- baptize — When someone is baptized, water is put on their heads or they are covered with water as a sign that their sins have been forgiven and that they have become a member of the Christian Church. Compare christen.
- bar car — a railroad car equipped with a bar that serves beverages, especially liquors and beer, and sometimes snacks.
- bar pin — a long, slender, decorative pin or brooch.
- bar pit — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- bar-b-q — barbecue
- bar-hop — If a person bar-hops, they go from one bar to another having drinks in each one.
- baracoa — a seaport in E Cuba: oldest town in Cuba; settled 1512.
- baranof — island in Alexander Archipelago, Alas.: c. 1,600 sq mi (4,144 sq km): largest city, Sitka
- baranov — Aleksandr Andreyevich [uh-lyi-ksahn-dr uhn-drye-yi-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr ʌnˈdryɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1747–1819, Russian fur trader in Alaska.
- barbara — a feminine name: dim. Babs, Barb, Barbie; var. Barbra, Babette
- barbary — a historic name for a region of N Africa extending from W Egypt to the Atlantic and including the former Barbary States of Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
- barbate — having tufts of long hairs; bearded
- barbell — A barbell is a long bar with adjustable weights on either side that people lift to strengthen their arm and shoulder muscles.
- barbels — Plural form of barbel.
- barbera — Joseph
- barbers — Plural form of barber.
- barbets — Plural form of barbet.
- barbies — Plural form of barbie.
- barbing — a point or pointed part projecting backward from a main point, as of a fishhook or arrowhead.
- barbola — small models of flowers and fruit made from plastic paste for decorative purposes
- barbour — John. c. 1320–95, Scottish poet: author of The Bruce (1376), a patriotic epic poem
- barbuda — a coral island in the E Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands: part of the independent state of Antigua and Barbuda. Area: 160 sq km (62 sq miles)
- barbudo — beardfish.
- barbule — a very small barb
- barchan — a crescent-shaped shifting sand dune, convex on the windward side and steeper and concave on the leeward
- barclay — Alexander. c. 1475–1552, English poet. His works include The Ship of Fools (1509) and Eclogues (c. 1513–14)
- barcode — a machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines of different widths printed on a package, which can be electronically scanned at a checkout to register the price of the goods and to activate computer stock-checking and reordering
- bardash — a kept boy in a homosexual relationship; catamite
- bardeen — John. 1908–91, US physicist and electrical engineer, noted for his research on electrical conduction in solids; shared Nobel prize for physics 1956 for research on semiconductors leading to the invention of the transistor; shared Nobel prize for physics 1972 for contributions to the theory of superconductivity
- barding — Armor. any of various pieces of defensive armor for a horse.
- barefit — barefooted
- bareish — Somewhat bare.
- barents — Willem [wil-uh m] /ˈwɪl əm/ (Show IPA), died 1597, Dutch navigator and explorer.
- barfing — Present participle of barf.
- barfish — A vern yellow bass, Morone mississippiensis.