9-letter words starting with ba
- banqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of banquet.
- banqueter — A guest at a banquet.
- banquette — A banquette is a long, low, cushioned seat. Banquettes are usually long enough for more than one person to sit on at a time.
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- bantustan — (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people, with limited self-government; abolished in 1993
- baptisand — Alternative spelling of baptizand.
- baptising — Present participle of baptise.
- baptismal — Baptismal means relating to or connected with baptism.
- baptistic — Of or for baptism; baptismal.
- baptistry — a part of a Christian church in which baptisms are carried out
- baptizand — A person about to submit to baptism.
- baptizing — Present participle of baptize.
- bar chart — A bar chart is a graph which uses parallel rectangular shapes to represent changes in the size, value, or rate of something or to compare the amount of something relating to a number of different countries or groups.
- bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
- bar clamp — a clamp having two jaws attached to a bar, one fixed and the other adjustable by means of a screw mechanism.
- bar ditch — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- bar gemel — a charge consisting of two barrulets separated by an area the width of a barrulet.
- bar graph — A bar graph is the same as a bar chart.
- bar joist — a welded steel joist having an open web consisting of a single bent bar running in a zigzag pattern between horizontal upper and lower chords.
- bar kokba — Simon, died a.d. 135, Hebrew leader of insurrection against the Romans a.d. 132–135.
- bar snack — a light quick meal, such as a sandwich or pie, served in a bar
- bar-b-que — barbecue
- bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- bar-stool — a high backless seat found chiefly in bars, at the serving counter
- baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- barasinga — a species of deer, Cervus duvaucelii, native to India and Nepal, known for the many-pointed nature of its antlers
- barathrum — any deep abyss
- barb bolt — a bolt having barbs for resisting pull.
- barbadian — Barbadian means belonging or relating to Barbados or its people.
- barbarian — In former times, barbarians were people from other countries who were thought to be uncivilized and violent.
- barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
- barbarity — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
- barbarize — to make or become barbarous
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barbastel — a type of insectivorous forest bat, Barbastellus communis, native to Europe and known for its hairy lips
- barbecued — Cooked in a barbecue.
- barbecuer — someone who cooks using a barbecue
- barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
- barbequed — Alternative spelling of barbecued.
- barbeques — Plural form of barbeque.
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barberite — an alloy of about 88 percent copper, 5 percent nickel, 5 percent tin, and 2 percent silicon, resistant to sea water and sulfuric acid.
- barberton — a city in NE Ohio.
- barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- barcarole — a Venetian boat song in a time of six or twelve quaver beats to the bar
- barcelona — the chief port of Spain, on the NE Mediterranean coast: seat of the Republican government during the Civil War (1936–39); the commercial capital of Spain. Pop: 1 582 738 (2003 est)