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16-letter words containing ba

  • cannonball serve — (in tennis) a very fast low serve
  • cassia-bark tree — a lauraceous tree, Cinnamomum cassia, of eastern Asia.
  • cedar of lebanon — a cedar, Cedrus libani, of SW Asia with level spreading branches and fragrant wood
  • chinese snowball — a Chinese shrub, Viburnum macrocephalum, of the honeysuckle family, having scurfy, hairy twigs, hairy leaves, and white flowers in large, showy, globelike clusters.
  • class background — a person's background with reference to social class
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • contrabassoonist — Someone who plays the contrabassoon.
  • cooperative bank — a cooperative savings institution, chartered and regulated by a state or the federal government, that receives deposits in exchange for shares of ownership and invests its funds chiefly in loans secured by first mortgages on homes.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • creme de bananes — a liqueur flavored with bananas.
  • cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
  • database analyst — (job)   A person who uses data modeling to analyse and specify data use within an application area. A database analyst defines both logical views and physical data structures. In a client/server environment, he defines the database part of the back end system.
  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • desktop database — Macintosh file system
  • development bank — A development bank is a bank that provides money for projects in poor countries or areas.
  • diamondback moth — a small moth Plutella xylostella that has diamond-shaped markings on the underside of its front wings that are visible when the wings are folded
  • disembarrassment — Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
  • double-barrelled — A double-barrelled gun has two barrels.
  • drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
  • dry-cell battery — a dry battery
  • dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
  • economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
  • fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
  • fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • fantasy football — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • feedback control — (electronics)   A control system which monitors its effect on the system it is controlling and modifies its output accordingly. For example, a thermostat has two inputs: the desired temperature and the current temperature (the latter is the feedback). The output of the thermostat changes so as to try to equalise the two inputs. Computer disk drives use feedback control to position the read/write heads accurately on a recording track. Complex systems such as the human body contain many feedback systems that interact with each other; the homeostasis mechanisms that control body temperature and acidity are good examples.
  • first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • fortin barometer — an adjustable cistern barometer, the most common of those employing mercury.
  • fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • gapless playback — audio or visual playback without any interruptions or silence between tracks or scenes
  • garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
  • granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • hamadryas baboon — a baboon, Papio (Comopithecus) hamadryas, of Ethiopia, the male of which has a mantle of long, dark hair about the head and shoulders: held sacred by the ancient Egyptians.
  • himalayan balsam — a tall flowering plant, Impatiens glandulifera, brought from Asia to Europe as a garden plant but now growing wild in Europe, especially on river banks. It is considered invasive and environmentally damaging.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • imperturbability — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
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