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9-letter words starting with ba

  • barrators — a person who commits barratry.
  • barrelage — an amount, esp of beer, as measured in barrels
  • barreleye — any of the bathypelagic fishes of the family Opisthoproctidae, especially Macropinna microstoma, having telescoping eyes.
  • barrelful — as much or as many as a barrel will hold
  • barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • barrelled — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • barretter — a form of detector or control device employing a resistor that varies in proportion to its temperature.
  • barrettes — Plural form of barrette.
  • barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
  • barricado — a barricade.
  • barrister — In England and Wales, a barrister is a lawyer who represents clients in the higher courts of law. Compare solicitor.
  • barrowful — The amount that can fit in a barrow.
  • barrymore — a US family of actors, esp Ethel (1879–1959), John (1882–1942), Lionel (1878–1954), and Drew (born 1975)
  • bartended — Simple past tense and past participle of bartend.
  • bartender — A bartender is a person who serves drinks behind a bar.
  • bartering — Present participle of barter.
  • barthelme — Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
  • bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
  • bartizans — Plural form of bartizan.
  • bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
  • basaltine — a black or brown-green mineral (Ca, Mg, Fe)SiO3
  • base camp — an encampment that serves as a staging area for a larger activity, for example in mountaineering
  • base coat — the first coat of paint applied to a prepared surface
  • base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
  • base head — a person who is addicted to cocaine
  • base jump — a parachute jump from the top of a building, bridge, cliff, etc., usually at a height of 1,000 feet (305 meters) or less.
  • base line — a line serving as a base
  • base load — the more or less constant part of the total load on an electrical power-supply system
  • base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
  • base path — the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.
  • base rate — In Britain, the base rate is the rate of interest that banks use as a basis when they are calculating the rates that they charge on loans.
  • base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
  • base year — a year used as an index for some phenomenon measured in other years
  • baseballs — Plural form of baseball.
  • basebands — Plural form of baseband.
  • baseboard — A baseboard is a narrow length of wood which goes along the bottom of a wall in a room and makes a border between the walls and the floor.
  • baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
  • baselines — Plural form of baseline.
  • basements — Plural form of basement.
  • baseplate — a flat supporting plate or frame at the base of a column, designed to distribute the column's weight over a greater area and provide increased stability
  • basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
  • bashawism — the combined characteristics of a bashaw, esp haughtiness, imperiousness
  • bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
  • bashfully — In a bashful manner.
  • bashments — Plural form of bashment.
  • basic dye — a dye soluble in acid and insoluble in basic solution, consisting mostly of amino or imino compounds of xanthene or triarylmethane: used mainly for inks, carbon paper, and typewriter ribbon.
  • basically — You use basically for emphasis when you are stating an opinion, or when you are making an important statement about something.
  • basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
  • basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
  • basilical — royal, regal
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