8-letter words containing ba
- battered — Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot.
- batteree — (nonstandard) One who is battered (beaten by spouse etc.).
- batterer — a person who batters someone
- batterie — a movement in ballet involving the legs beating together
- battleax — If you call a middle-aged or older woman a battleax, you mean she is very difficult and unpleasant because of her fierce and determined attitude.
- battlers — Plural form of battler.
- battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- batucada — A style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba.
- batwoman — a female servant in any of the armed forces
- baudekin — baldachin
- baudouin — 1930-93; king of Belgium (1951-93): son of Leopold III
- baudrons — a cat
- bauhinia — any climbing or shrubby leguminous plant of the genus Bauhinia, of tropical and warm regions, widely cultivated for ornament
- baulking — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- bauxitic — consisting of, containing or resembling bauxite
- bavarian — of or relating to Bavaria or its inhabitants
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- bawl out — If someone bawls you out, they shout at you angrily because you have done something wrong.
- bay area — region in W Calif., generally consisting of the counties surrounding San Francisco Bay
- bay city — a lake port in E Michigan, near the mouth of the Saginaw River.
- bay leaf — A bay leaf is a leaf of an evergreen tree that can be dried and used as a herb in cooking.
- bay lynx — bobcat
- bay salt — salt derived by evaporating seawater in the sun.
- bay tree — laurel (def 1).
- bayadere — a dancing girl, esp one serving in a Hindu temple
- bayberry — any of several North American aromatic shrubs or small trees of the genus Myrica, that bear grey waxy berries: family Myricaceae
- bayesian — (of a theory) presupposing known a priori probabilities which may be subjectively assessed and which can be revised in the light of experience in accordance with Bayes' theorem. A hypothesis is thus confirmed by an experimental observation which is likely given the hypothesis and unlikely without it
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- bayreuth — a city in E Germany, in NE Bavaria: home and burial place of Richard Wagner; annual festivals of his music. Pop: 74 818 (2003 est)
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- baziotes — William, 1912–63, U.S. painter.
- bazookas — Plural form of bazooka.
- beachbag — a large handbag, sometimes of canvas, used to carry personal items, as a bathing suit, towel, and suntan lotion, to and from a beach.
- bean bag — A bean bag is a large round cushion filled with tiny pieces of plastic or rubber. It takes the shape of your body when you sit on it.
- beanbags — Plural form of beanbag.
- beanball — a ball pitched with the intention of hitting the batsman
- bee balm — Oswego tea
- belt bag — a bag that can be attached to a belt
- berimbau — a Brazilian single-stringed bowed instrument, used to accompany capoeira
- bibation — the activity of drinking to excess
- bibimbap — a Korean dish of rice, sautéed and seasoned vegetables, and hot pepper paste
- big band — A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.
- big bang — any sudden forceful beginning or radical change
- bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
- bimbashi — a Turkish military official
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
- bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
- blowback — the escape to the rear of gases formed during the firing of a weapon or in a boiler, internal-combustion engine, etc
- blowball — the seed head of a dandelion
- blue bag — a fabric bag for a barrister's robes