12-letter words containing bas
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- channel bass — red drum.
- contrabasses — Plural form of contrabass.
- contrabbasso — a double bass
- demibastions — Plural form of demibastion.
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
- linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
- make-up base — a primer of make-up applied to the face in order to prepare it for the main layer of make-up
- marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
- missile base — a military base used for storing and firing missiles
- moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
- one-base hit — single (def 24).
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- salad basket — a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.
- self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
- semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
- specbaserate — A variant of SPECrate that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules. See SPECrate_base_fp92, SPECrate_base_int92.
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- sybase, inc. — (company) A software vendor focused on database management software. Yearly sales: $903.9 million (1997). Address: 6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, California, USA.
- the bastille — a state prison in Paris that was stormed and destroyed (1789) in the French Revolution: its destruction is commemorated on Bastille Day, July 14
- through bass — figured bass.
- trachybasalt — a fine-grained volcanic rock containing sanidine and calcic plagioclase.
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- upright bass — double bass
- visual basic — (language) (VB) A popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows. VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen. It is widely used for in-house application program development and for prototyping. It can also be used to create ActiveX and COM components. Version 1 was released in 1991 [by Microsoft?].
- visual dbase — (language) A Rapid Application Development suite with a compiler and intranet tools to enable developers to publish data on the web. Originally a Borland product, the first version released by dBase, Inc. was Visual dBase 5.7.
- walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
- wastebaskets — Plural form of wastebasket.