9-letter words containing bat
- battleaxe — Alternative spelling of battle-ax.
- battlebus — the coach that transports politicians and their advisers round the country during an election campaign
- battology — the unnecessary repetition of words
- batty boy — a male homosexual
- batu khan — d. 1255, Mongol conqueror: leader of the Golden Horde (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
- 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.
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- celibates — Plural form of celibate.
- celibatic — of or relating to celibacy
- cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- combatant — A combatant is a person, group, or country that takes part in the fighting in a war.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- debatable — If you say that something is debatable, you mean that it is not certain.
- debatably — in a debatable or disputable manner
- debateful — quarrelsome
- do battle — fight, struggle
- dust bath — the action of a bird of driving dust into its feathers, which may dislodge parasites
- embattled — (of a place or people) involved in or prepared for war, especially because surrounded by enemy forces.
- embattles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embattle.
- exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- footbaths — Plural form of footbath.
- fruit bat — any fruit-eating bat, especially of the suborder Megachiroptera, of tropical regions throughout the Old World, typically having erect, catlike ears and large eyes adapted for night vision, and either tailless or with a rudimentary tail, the numerous species ranging in wingspan from 10 inches to 5 feet (25 cm to 1.5 meters).
- futabatei — Shimei [shee-mey] /ʃiˈmeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Tatsunosuke Hasegawa) 1864–1909, Japanese author.
- gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
- half bath — a bathroom containing only a toilet and wash basin; powder room.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- intubated — Simple past tense and past participle of intubate.
- intubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intubate.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- katabatic — (of a wind or air current) moving downward or down a slope. Compare anabatic (def 1).
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- libations — Plural form of libation.
- metabatic — Relating to metabasis.
- nabataean — a subject of the ancient kingdom of Nabataea.
- nonbattle — Not of or pertaining to battle.
- noncombat — not including, entailing, or requiring combat: noncombat duty.
- outdebate — to outdo or defeat in debate
- prebattle — existing, occurring or carried out in the period before a battle
- predebate — occurring or produced before a given debate; of or pertaining to the period leading up to a given debate