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11-letter words containing bas

  • basse-terre — a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
  • bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
  • bastard son — an illegitimate son
  • bastard-saw — plain-saw.
  • bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
  • bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
  • bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
  • bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
  • bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
  • bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
  • bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
  • broad-based — comprehensive and inclusive
  • bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
  • calico bass — crappie
  • catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
  • circumbasal — surrounding the base.
  • client base — A business's client base is the same as its customer base.
  • cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
  • contrabasso — (music) The largest kind of bass viol.
  • counterbase — a double bass
  • demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
  • double bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
  • drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
  • faith-based — affiliated with, supported by, or based on a religion or religious group: faith-based charities.
  • futurebasic — (language)   A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
  • geodatabase — (geography, computing) A database containing geographical and spatial data.
  • great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
  • ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
  • hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
  • handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
  • have a bash — to make an attempt
  • jaboticabas — Plural form of jaboticaba.
  • kettle base — a bombé base to a piece of furniture.
  • minas basin — a bay in E Canada, the easternmost arm of the Bay of Fundy, in N Nova Scotia: noted for its high tides.
  • nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.
  • river basin — the area of land drained by a river and its branches.
  • schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
  • second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
  • shabbas goy — a gentile who performs tasks for Jews in the home or synagogue on the Sabbath or on a holy day that are forbidden Jews on such occasions, as turning on the lights or heat.
  • silver bass — white bass.
  • string bass — double bass.
  • subassemble — to assemble a basic unit of (a larger assembly).
  • subassembly — a structural assembly, as of electronic or machine parts, forming part of a larger assembly.
  • subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
  • sugar basin — sugar bowl.
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