8-letter words containing ba
- bar line — the vertical line marking the boundary between one bar and the next
- bar meal — a simple meal served in a bar
- bar none — You use bar none to add emphasis to a statement that someone or something is the best of their kind.
- bar-girl — a barmaid.
- bar-tack — a close series of stitches crossing a piece of cloth, as in an article of clothing, in order to reinforce it at a point of concentrated strain.
- barabara — an Alaskan or north Siberian semisubterranean house built of sod or turf.
- barabbas — a condemned robber who was released at the Passover instead of Jesus (Matthew 27:16)
- barangay — The smallest administrative division in the Philippines; a village, district, or ward.
- barathea — a fabric made of silk and wool or cotton and rayon, used esp for coats
- barbacan — barbican.
- barbados — an island in the Caribbean, in the E Lesser Antilles: a British colony from 1628 to 1966, now an independent state within the Commonwealth. Language: English. Currency: Barbados dollar. Capital: Bridgetown. Pop: 288 725 (2013 est). Area: 430 sq km (166 sq miles)
- barbaric — If you describe someone's behaviour as barbaric, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
- barbasco — an evergreen South American plant, Jacquinia barbasco, which produces a poison harmless to humans but useful for stunning fish to make them easy to catch
- barbecue — A barbecue is a piece of equipment which you use for cooking on in the open air.
- barbells — Plural form of barbell.
- barbeque — barbecue
- barbered — Simple past tense and past participle of barber.
- barberry — any spiny berberidaceous shrub of the widely distributed genus Berberis, esp B. vulgaris, having clusters of yellow flowers and orange or red berries: widely cultivated as hedge plants
- barbette — (formerly) an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top
- barbican — a walled outwork or tower to protect a gate or drawbridge of a fortification
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- barbital — diethylbarbituric acid, C8H12N2O3, a drug in the form of a white powder, used as a hypnotic and sedative: it is habit-forming and toxic
- barbless — without a barb
- barbules — Plural form of barbule.
- barbusse — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1873–1935, French novelist and poet. His novels include L'Enfer (1908) and Le Feu (1916), reflecting the horror of World War I
- barbwire — barbed wire
- barchans — Plural form of barchan.
- barcoded — having a barcode
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- bare-ass — naked; undressed
- bareback — If you ride bareback, you ride a horse without a saddle.
- bareboat — a boat that can be chartered without crew, provisions, etc
- barebone — a very thin person whose bones show through the skin
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
- barehand — to field (the ball) with one's bare hands rather than one's glove
- bareilly — a city in N India, in N central Uttar Pradesh. Pop: 699 839 (2001)
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- bareness — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- baresark — berserker
- barf bag — Slang. a disposable paper bag provided by airlines for each passenger in the event of air sickness and usually placed in the pocket behind every seat.
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- barfmail — (messaging) Multiple bounce messages accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse. The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or misbehaves.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
- bargello — a needlepoint embroidery stitch producing a zigzag pattern
- bargeman — a man who operates, or works aboard, a barge
- bargemen — Plural form of bargeman.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune