9-letter words starting with ba
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- batterers — Plural form of batterer.
- batteries — a beating together of the calves or feet during a leap.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- battersea — a district in London, in Wandsworth: noted for its dogs' home, power station (now a leisure centre), and park
- battiness — the characteristic of being batty; craziness; insanity; eccentricity
- battle-ax — a heavy ax with a wide blade, formerly used as a weapon of war
- 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).
- baud barf — (jargon) /bawd barf/ The garbage one gets on the display screen when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (especially line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection. Baud barf is not completely random, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can identify particular speeds.
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- baulkline — a straight line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
- bavardage — idle chattering
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- bay state — Massachusetts
- baybars i — 1223–77, sultan of Egypt and Syria (1260–77), of the Mameluke dynasty
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- bazillion — a very large, indefinite number