5-letter words starting with ba
- bandh — (in India) a general strike
- bando — A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
- bands — Plural form of band.
- bandy — If you bandy words with someone, you argue with them.
- baned — Simple past tense and past participle of bane.
- banes — a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
- banff — a town in NE Scotland, in Aberdeenshire. Pop: 3991 (2001)
- bangs — Bangs are hair that is cut so that it hangs over your forehead.
- bangy — (India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
- bania — banyan (def 2).
- banjo — A banjo is a musical instrument that looks like a guitar with a circular body, a long neck, and four or more strings.
- banka — Bangka
- banke — Obsolete spelling of bank.
- banks — Iain (Menzies). 1954–2013, Scottish novelist and science fiction writer. His novels include The Wasp Factory (1984), The Crow Road (1992), and The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007); science-fiction (under the name Iain M. Banks) includes Look to Windward (2000)
- banns — When a minister or priest reads or publishes the banns, he or she makes a public announcement in church that two people are going to be married.
- banon — a small, round goat cheese from Provence, France, that is dipped in brandy before being wrapped in chestnut leaves.
- bants — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- bantu — Bantu means belonging or relating to a group of peoples in central and southern Africa. This use could cause offence.
- banty — a person resembling such a bird, namely short and often aggressive
- bantz — Alternate spelling of bants.
- banya — a traditional Russian steam bath
- baoji — a city in W Shaanxi province, in central China.
- bapt. — baptism
- barak — Ehud (ɛˈhʊd). born 1942, Israeli politician, prime minister (1999–2001); left the Labour Party (2011) to form the breakaway party Independence
- barba — the beard.
- barbe — a Waldensian missionary
- barbs — barbiturates
- barbu — a threadfin, Polydactylus virginicus, inhabiting western Atlantic coastal waters.
- barca — the surname of several noted Carthaginian generals, including Hamilcar, Hasdrubal, and Hannibal
- barch — Bachelor of Architecture
- barde — Armor. any of various pieces of defensive armor for a horse.
- bardo — (in Tibetan Buddhism) the state of the soul between its death and its rebirth
- bards — Plural form of bard.
- bardy — defiant; bold; daring
- barea — Arturo [ahr-too r-oh;; Spanish ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtʊər oʊ;; Spanish ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1897–1957, Spanish author, critic, lecturer, and broadcaster: in England after 1939.
- bared — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- baren — A tool for pressing woodcuts, consisting of a disk with a coil of string glued to one side, covered with a smooth sheet.
- barer — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- bares — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- barfi — An Indian dessert made from sweetened, condensed milk flavoured with fruit and spices.
- barfs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barf.
- barge — A barge is a long, narrow boat with a flat bottom. Barges are used for carrying heavy loads, especially on canals.
- baria — (dated) baryta.
- baric — of or containing barium
- barke — Obsolete spelling of bark.
- barks — Plural form of bark.
- barky — consisting of or being covered in bark
- barmy — If you say that someone or something is barmy, you mean that they are slightly crazy or very foolish.
- barns — Plural form of barn.
- barny — reminiscent of a barn