16-letter words containing ba
- strike a balance — compromise
- strike a bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- take a back seat — a seat at the rear.
- tanimbar islands — a group of over 600 islands in E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea. About 2100 sq. mi. (5440 sq. km).
- thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
- the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
- the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
- the urban league — a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
- three-ball match — a match among three players each of whom plays a ball.
- to beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
- to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
- tobacco hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca sexta, having a hornlike structure at its posterior end and feeding on the leaves of tobacco and other plants of the nightshade family.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
- verbal adjective — an adjective derived from a verb, as, in English, smiling in smiling eyes, or, in Greek, batós “going,” “moving,” derived from baínen “to go,” “to move.”.
- verbal auxiliary — an auxiliary verb, especially when considered as a member of a separate class of words used with verbs rather than as a special subclass of verbs.
- verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
- virginia tobacco — a type of flue-cured tobacco grown originally in Virginia
- water-base paint — latex paint.
- well-baby clinic — a health-service clinic for preventive monitoring, health education and advice for parents of babies
- wheelbarrow race — a race in which one member of each team of two walks on his or her hands while the legs are held up by the partner.
- witches' sabbath — Sabbat.
- world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington