barbarization
Alternative form of barbarisation.

barbarizations
plural of barbarization

barbican
A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
A fortress at the end of a bridge.
An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.

barbicans
plural of barbican

barcade
A bar (drinking establishment) equipped with video arcade games.

barcades
plural of barcade

barfight
A fight that takes place in a bar.

barfights
plural of barfight

barlens
A lens-like component of a barred spiral galaxy whose extent along the bar major axis is shorter than the bar

barlenses
plural of barlens

barleyfield
A field where barley is grown.

barleyfields
plural of barleyfield

barload
Enough to fill a bar (drinking establishment).

barloads
plural of barload

barmate
A friend or acquaintance of the same bar.

barmates
plural of barmate

barmkin
The battlement on the exterior fortification of a castle in northern England and parts of Scotland; a barbican.

barmkins
plural of barmkin

barmkyn
Alternative spelling of barmkin.

barnfloor
The floor of a barn.

barnfloors
plural of barnfloor

barnraising
The collective construction of a barn by members of a community, common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America, and present-day Mennonite and Amish communities.

barnraisings
plural of barnraising

barplot
bar chart

barplots
plural of barplot

barrabkies
plural of barrabkie

barriada
A shanty town or slum in any of several Peruvian cities

barriadas
plural of barriada

barristor
A form of solid-state triode that features a variable barrier

barristors
plural of barristor

barroom
A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.

barrooms
plural of barroom

barrulet
The smallest diminutive of the bar, one quarter as wide.

barrulets
plural of barrulet

barstaff
The staff of a bar.
A member of staff of a bar.

barstaurant
A combined bar and restaurant.

barstaurants
plural of barstaurant

bartisan
A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.

bartisans
plural of bartisan

bartizan
Alternative form of bartisan.

bartizans
plural of bartizan

bartop
The top surface of a bar (counter for serving drinks).

bartops
plural of bartop

barworker
An employee at a bar (drinking establishment)

barythymia
A depressed state of mind.

barzakh
A place separating the living from the hereafter; a phase between death and resurrection.

baseload
The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.

baseloads
plural of baseload

basement
A floor of a building below ground level.
A floor of a building below ground level.
A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
Last place in a sports conference's standings.

basements
plural of basement

basepoint
A point that marks the beginning and the end of a topological loop

basepoints
plural of basepoint

bastillion
A fortress or fortified position.

bastillions
plural of bastillion

batabil
A Mayan town or village, headed by a batab.

batabilob
plural of batabil

batabils
plural of batabil

bathygraphy
The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.

bathylimnion
The lowest sublayer within the hypolimnion of a thermally stratified lake, where the sun no longer meaningfully influences water temperature.

bathymodiolid
Synonym of bathymodiolin.

bathymodiolids
plural of bathymodiolid

bathymodiolin
Any of several deep-sea mussels, of the genus Bathymodiolus, often found near hydrothermal vents.

bathymodiolins
plural of bathymodiolin

bathyscape
Alternative form of bathyscaphe.

bathyscapes
plural of bathyscape

bathyscaph
Alternative spelling of bathyscaphe.

bathyscaphe
A self-propelled deep-sea diving submersible for exploring the ocean depths, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere suspended below a float filled with a buoyant liquid such as petrol.

bathyscaphes
plural of bathyscaphe

bathyscaphs
plural of bathyscaph

bathysphere
A spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are lowered to the depths by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life; the precursor to the bathyscaphe.

bathyspheres
plural of bathysphere

bathyteuthid
Any of the deep ocean squids in the family Bathyteuthidae.

bathyteuthids
plural of bathyteuthid

battlefield
The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.

battlefields
plural of battlefield

battlefront
The region or line along which opposing armies engage in combat.
The area in which opponents or opposing ideas meet.

battlefronts
plural of battlefront

battleground
A location where a battle may be fought, or has been fought.
Any place or situation of dispute or contention.
Any subject of dispute or contention.
Ellipsis of battleground state.

battlegrounds
plural of battleground

battlespace
The conditions and dimensions of battle, including terrain, weather, infrastructure, airspace, seaspace, cyberspace, near space, and outer space, considered in a unified military strategy to integrate and combine armed forces for the military theatre of operations.

battlespaces
plural of battlespace

battlezone
The area in which a battle takes place.

battlezones
plural of battlezone

batture
A sea bed or a river bed that has been raised or elevated.

battures
plural of batture

baygall
Synonym of bayhead (“type of swamp or wetland”).

baygalls
plural of baygall

bayhead
A swamp habitat dominated by bay laurels.
The portion of a bay located farthest inland, farthest from the body of water the bay is confluent with.

bayheads
plural of bayhead

baylet
A little bay.

baylets
plural of baylet

bayman
One of the earliest European settlers of the eventual colony of British Honduras, modern-day Belize.
A sickbay nurse.
A rural Newfoundlander, as opposed to a townie (city dweller).

baymen
plural of bayman

baywood
The wood of the bay tree.

baywop
A rural Newfoundlander.

bazaar
A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic.
A fair or temporary market, often for charity.

bazaars
plural of bazaar

beachcam
A camera set up to record images of a beach.

beachcams
plural of beachcam

beachhead
An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material
A coastal landing place.
An initial success that ensures the possibility of further advances in a project; a foothold.

beachheads
plural of beachhead

beachie
A beach break.

beachies
plural of beachie

bealach
A mountain pass.

bealachs
plural of bealach

beallach
Alternative form of bealach.

beallachs
plural of beallach

beampath
The path of a beam (typically in a particle accelerator)

beampaths
plural of beampath

beampipe
The evacuated chamber through which a beam of particles is accelerated in a particle accelerator

beampipes
plural of beampipe

beaneries
plural of beanery

beanery
An inexpensive restaurant or cafe; a bistro.

beanfield
A field where beans are grown.

beanfields
plural of beanfield

bedform
One of a series of hollows and ripples formed in the bed of a river by the flow of water

bedforms
plural of bedform

bedframe
The frame of a bed; a bedstead.

bedground
The area of ground where a flock of livestock sleeps.

bedgrounds
plural of bedground

bedlam
A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.

bedlams
plural of bedlam

bedlem
Alternative spelling of bedlam.

bedload
The (large particles of) sediment carried along the bottom of a river or stream, rather than in the current.

bedloads
plural of bedload

bedouinism
Nomadic desert life, like that of the bedouins.