8-letter words containing a, b, i
- balywick — Alternative form of bailiwick.
- bambinos — Plural form of bambino.
- banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- banality — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- banalize — to make banal
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- band-aid — A Band-Aid is a small piece of sticky tape that you use to cover small cuts or wounds on your body.
- bandeira — an expedition in search of gold or slaves
- bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- bandhani — A style of tie-dyeing practised in parts of India.
- banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- banditti — a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- banisher — someone who or something which banishes
- banishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of banish.
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- banjoist — a musical instrument of the guitar family, having a circular body covered in front with tightly stretched parchment and played with the fingers or a plectrum.
- banksias — Plural form of banksia.
- bankside — the sloping side of any bank
- banlieue — a suburb of a city
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bantling — a young child; brat
- banville — Théodore de (teɔdɔr də). 1823–91, French poet, who anticipated the Parnassian school in his perfection of form and command of rhythm
- banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptise.
- baptisia — a genus of wild flower native to North America
- baptisms — Plural form of baptism.
- baptista — a female given name.
- baptists — a member of a Christian denomination that baptizes believers by immersion and that is usually Calvinistic in doctrine.
- baptized — Simple past tense and past participle of baptize.
- baptizer — someone who baptises
- baptizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptize.
- bar girl — an attractive girl employed by the management of a bar to befriend male customers and encourage them to buy drinks
- bar line — the vertical line marking the boundary between one bar and the next
- bar-girl — a barmaid.
- barbaric — If you describe someone's behaviour as barbaric, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
- barbican — a walled outwork or tower to protect a gate or drawbridge of a fortification
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- barbital — diethylbarbituric acid, C8H12N2O3, a drug in the form of a white powder, used as a hypnotic and sedative: it is habit-forming and toxic
- barbwire — barbed wire
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
- bareilly — a city in N India, in N central Uttar Pradesh. Pop: 699 839 (2001)
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- barfmail — (messaging) Multiple bounce messages accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse. The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or misbehaves.