8-letter words starting with ba
- backsaws — Plural form of backsaw.
- backseat — relating to or taking place on the back seat of a vehicle
- backsets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backset.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- backslap — a slap on the back indicating joviality or congratulation
- backslid — Simple past tense and past participle of backslide.
- backspin — a backward spinning motion imparted to a ball to reduce its speed at impact, as by hitting it with a downward or undercutting motion
- backstab — to attack in a deceitful manner
- backstay — a stay leading aft from the upper part of a mast to the deck or stern
- backstop — a screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area
- backtalk — an impudent response; impudence.
- backtick — back quote
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- backward — A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- backwash — The backwash of an event or situation is an unpleasant situation that exists after it and as a result of it.
- backwind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backwood — (often used with a singular verb) wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts.
- backword — the act or an instance of failing to keep a promise or commitment (esp in the phrase give (someone) backword)
- backwork — work carried out under the ground
- backwrap — anything that can be wrapped around the back to provide back support or relieve back pain
- backyard — A backyard is an area of land at the back of a house.
- baclofen — a muscle-relaxing drug used to treat muscle spasms
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- baconian — of or relating to Francis Bacon, the philosopher, or to his inductive method of reasoning
- baconism — of or relating to the philosopher Francis Bacon or his doctrines.
- bacronym — Alternative spelling of backronym.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- bactrian — of or relating to Bactria
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bad bank — a financial institution set up to hold and manage underperforming assets owned by other banks
- bad debt — A bad debt is a sum of money that has been lent but is not likely to be repaid.
- bad form — If you say that it is bad form to behave in a particular way, you mean that it is rude and impolite.
- bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
- bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable
- bad seed — a person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others
- bad time — inopportune moment
- bad trip — a mentally or physically horrifying drug-taking experience, as one accompanied by nightmarish hallucinations or by physical pain.
- bad trot — a period of ill fortune
- badalona — a port in NE Spain: an industrial suburb of Barcelona. Pop: 214 440 (2003 est)
- badarian — designating or of a Neolithic culture of Egypt, characterized by cattle-breeding, fine pottery, and a large range of ornaments
- badgered — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badgerer — One who badgers.
- badgerly — resembling a badger
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- badlands — any deeply eroded barren area
- badmouth — (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
- badoglio — Pietro (ˈpjetro). 1871–1956, Italian marshal; premier (1943–44) following Mussolini's downfall: arranged an armistice with the Allies (1943)