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.