13-letter words containing ba
- battle jacket — a closefitting jacket reaching to the waist
- battlecruiser — A large warship of a type built in the early 20th century, carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored.
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bay for blood — If you say that people are baying for blood, you mean that they are demanding that someone should be hurt or punished.
- bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
- bay of biscay — a large bay of the Atlantic Ocean between W France and N Spain: notorious for storms
- bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
- bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
- beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
- beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
- big brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- billiard ball — a hard ball used in billiards
- birthday bash — a birthday party
- birthing ball — a large soft rubber ball used by women during childbirth to give support and to aid pain relief
- black-bag job — surreptitious or illegal entry or activity by government agents seeking incriminating evidence.
- blair's babes — (in Britain) the female Members of Parliament elected as part of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997
- blasco ibanez — Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)
- bombastically — (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
- bombax family — the plant family Bombacaceae, typified by tropical deciduous trees having palmate leaves, large and often showy solitary or clustered flowers, and dry fruit with a woolly pulp, and including the baobab and silk-cotton tree.
- bouillabaisse — Bouillabaisse is a rich stew or soup of fish and vegetables.
- breakfast bar — a counter in a kitchen where people can sit and have breakfast
- breaking ball — any pitch that breaks; specif., a curve or slider
- broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
- brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
- buzzard's bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, in SE Massachusetts. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
- cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
- cabbalistical — cabbalistic
- calabash tree — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calisaya bark — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- canada balsam — a yellow transparent resin obtained from the balsam fir. Because its refractive index is similar to that of glass, it is used as an adhesive in optical devices and as a mounting medium for microscope specimens
- cannibalistic — Cannibalistic people and practices are connected with cannibalism.
- cannibalizing — Present participle of cannibalize.
- canning basin — an arid basin in NW Western Australia, largely unexplored. Area: 400 000 sq km (150 000 sq miles)
- cannonballing — Present participle of cannonball.
- carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
- carbamic acid — hypothetical compound known only in carbamate salts
- caribbee bark — the bark of any of various tropical American and Caribbean rubiaceous trees of the genus Exostema, used as a substitute for cinchona bark
- carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
- carpetbaggery — the practice of being a carpetbagger
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- chiaochou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea, in E China, in Shandong province. 20 miles (32 km) long; 15 miles (24 km) wide.
- chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
- cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
- circumambages — round-about methods
- citizens band — a two-way radio service (Citizens Radio Service) licensed by the FCC to a U.S. citizen for short-distance personal or business communications between fixed or mobile stations. Abbreviation: CB.