9-letter words starting with ba
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- bacon fat — fat made by rendering bacon
- bacterial — Bacterial is used to describe things that relate to or are caused by bacteria.
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bacterio- — indicating bacteria or an action or condition relating to or characteristic of bacteria
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bacterize — to subject to bacterial action
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- bad apple — a person with a corrupting influence
- bad blood — If you say that there is bad blood between people, you mean that they have argued about something and dislike each other.
- bad break — misfortune, period of bad luck
- bad check — A bad check is a check that will not be paid because there is a mistake on it, or because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the check.
- bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
- bad lands — a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad paper — a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.
- bad place — Midland and Southern U.S. hell.
- bad taste — lack of discernment
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- bad-press — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- bada-bing — an expression used to suggest that something can be done with no difficulty or delay
- badassery — (slang) The behaviour or quality of a badass.
- badgeless — without a badge
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- badinerie — a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
- badly off — If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
- badmashes — Plural form of badmash.
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- baekeland — Leo Hendrik [lee-oh hen-drik;; Flemish ley-oh hen-drik] /ˈli oʊ ˈhɛn drɪk;; Flemish ˈleɪ oʊ ˈhɛn drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, U.S. chemist, born in Belgium: developed Bakelite.
- bafflegab — deliberately obscure language employed in official documents
- bag table — a sewing table or worktable having a suspended pouch or bag for holding needlework.
- bagatelle — something of little value or significance; trifle
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- baguettes — Plural form of baguette.
- bahaullah — Husayn ʿAlī Mīrzā.
- bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
- bahuvrihi — a class of compound words consisting of two elements the first of which is a specific feature of the second
- baia-mare — city in NW Romania: pop. 150,000
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- bail bond — a surety bond (money or property) offered or deposited by a defendant or other persons to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial
- bailiwick — the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- bailliage — the office or district of a bailiff
- bairnlike — childlike