11-letter words containing ba
- baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- baby-walker — a light frame on casters or wheels to help a baby learn to walk
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
- babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- bacchanalia — orgiastic rites associated with Bacchus
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- bacillaemia — the presence of bacilli in the blood
- bacillicide — anything that kills a bacillus; a bactericide
- bacilliform — shaped like a rod
- back anchor — a small anchor for backing a larger one.
- back and to — back-and-forth; to and fro.
- back boiler — a tank or series of pipes at the back of a fireplace for heating water
- back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
- back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
- back matter — the parts of a book, such as the index and appendices, that follow the main text
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back office — the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business
- back out of — to withdraw from (an enterprise)
- back stairs — stairs at the back of a house, as for use by servants.
- back street — A back street in a town or city is a small, narrow street with very little traffic.
- back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- back-loaded — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- back-logged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- back-mutate — to undergo back mutation.
- back-paddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
- back-stitch — stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.
- back-street — taking place in secrecy and often illegally: back-street political maneuvering; back-street drug dealing.
- backbencher — A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party.
- backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.
- backbreaker — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler uses his knee or shoulder as a fulcrum to bend his opponent's body backwards
- backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
- backchannel — an unofficial or covert means of conveying information, originally or esp in political or diplomatic circles
- backchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of backcheck.
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
- backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
- backfilling — material used for refilling an excavation.
- backflowing — Flowing backwards.
- backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.