5-letter words starting with ba
- baro- — indicating weight or pressure
- baron — A baron is a man who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility.
- barra — a barramundi
- barre — a rail at hip height used for ballet practice and leg exercises
- barro — embarrassing
- barry — a mistake or blunder; a disappointing performance
- barth — Heinrich. 1821–65, German explorer: author of Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (1857–58)
- barye — a unit of pressure in the cgs system equal to 1 dyne per square centimetre. 1 barye is equivalent to 1 microbar
- basad — toward the base.
- basal — Basal means relating to or forming the base of something.
- basan — sheepskin tanned in the bark of either oak or larch trees
- based — If you are based in a particular place, that is the place where you live or do most of your work. See also base.
- basel — city in NW Switzerland, on the Rhine: pop. 180,000
- baser — Music Obsolete. bass1 (defs 3, 4).
- bases — Bases is the plural of base.
- basha — A tarpaulin or plastic waterproof sheet.
- basho — a grand tournament in sumo wrestling
- bashy — (music) Intensely percussive.
- basic — You use basic to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or necessary, and on which others depend.
- basie — William, known as Count Basie. 1904–84, US jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer: associated particularly with the polished phrasing and style of big-band jazz
- basil — Basil is a strong-smelling and strong-tasting herb that is used in cooking, especially with tomatoes.
- basin — A basin is a large or deep bowl that you use for holding liquids, or for mixing or storing food.
- basis — If something is done on a particular basis, it is done according to that method, system, or principle.
- basks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bask.
- basle — a canton of NW Switzerland, divided into the demicantons of Basle-Landschaft and Basle-Stadt. Pops.: 263 200 and 186 900 (2002 est). Areas: 427 sq km (165 sq miles) and 36 sq km (14 sq miles) respectively
- bason — a basin.
- basov — Nikolai Gennediyevich (nikaˈlaj ɡjiˈnadjejivitʃ). 1922–2001, Russian physicist: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1964) for his pioneering work on the maser
- basra — a port in SE Iraq, on the Shatt-al-Arab. Pop: 1 187 000 (2005 est)
- bassa — Obsolete spelling of bashaw (16th-18th c.).
- bassi — a person who sings bass; a bass.
- basso — (esp in operatic or solo singing) a singer with a bass voice
- bassy — manifesting strong bass tones
- basta — enough! stop!
- baste — If you baste meat, you pour hot fat and the juices from the meat itself over it while it is cooking.
- basti — (in India) a slum inhabited by poor people
- basto — the ace of clubs in certain card games, esp quadrille and ombre
- batak — a member of a group of people chiefly inhabiting north-central Sumatra.
- batch — A batch of things or people is a group of things or people of the same kind, especially a group that is dealt with at the same time or is sent to a particular place at the same time.
- bated — (of breath) held
- bates — Sir Alan (Arthur). 1934–2003, British film and stage actor. His films include A Kind of Loving (1962), Women in Love (1969), The Go-Between (1971), and The Cherry Orchard (1999)
- bathe — If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe.
- baths — a place having baths or a swimming pool for pubic use
- batik — Batik is a process for printing designs on cloth. Wax is put on those areas of the cloth that you do not want to be coloured by dye.
- batin — (Islam) The internal or hidden meaning of the Qur'an.
- batna — city in NE Algeria: pop. 182,000
- baton — A baton is a short heavy stick which is sometimes used as a weapon by the police.
- batta — money given to soldiers, esp in British India, as or in addition to their regular pay
- batts — Plural form of batt.
- battu — (of a step) involving a beating movement
- batty — If you say that someone is batty, you mean that they are rather eccentric or slightly crazy.