barquette
A kind of small sailboat.
A small boat-shaped pastry shell with a sweet or savoury filling.

barquettes
plural of barquette

barra
A barrow; a hand-pushed cart of the type commonly used in markets.

barristerships
plural of barristership

barrow
A mountain.
A hill.
A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.

barrows
plural of barrow

barspin
A BMX bicycle trick in which the rider whips the handlebars around while in the air and then catches them while still in the air.

barwalking
A form of showmanship in which a musician stands on the bar

baseball
A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

baseballs
plural of baseball

basic
Necessary, essential for life or some process.
Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

basics
plural of basic

basidorsal
At the base of the rear

basidorsals
plural of basidorsal

basipodia
plural of basipodium

basipodium
The carpus or tarsus of an animal or bird; the equivalent of the wrist or ankle in the human limbs

basipterygia
plural of basipterygium

basipterygium
A cartilage at the base of the fins of some fish that develops into the metapterygium upon maturity.

bassboat
Alternative form of bass boat.

bassboats
plural of bassboat

basset
The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
A basset hound.
A card game resembling faro.

bassets
plural of basset

bassetta
Alternative form of basset (“card game”).

basshole
Alternative spelling of asshole.

bassholes
plural of basshole

basto
A card of the suit clubs in Spanish-suited playing cards

bastos
plural of basto

batardeau
A cofferdam.
A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

batardeaus
plural of batardeau

bateau
A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.

bateaux
plural of bateau

bateel
Alternative form of batil.

bateels
plural of bateel

bathchair
Alternative form of Bath chair.

bathchairs
plural of bathchair

bathook
Synonym of skyhook.

bathooks
plural of bathook

bathorhodopsin
A transient intermediate produced from photorhodopsin when rhodopsin is irradiated with light; it immediately forms lumirhodopsin and other products

batil
A type of traditional sailing vessel used in the Arabian Sea.

batils
plural of batil

batsman
A player of the batting side now on the field.
The player now receiving strike; the striker.
Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
A hitter.
An officer who used a pair of hand-held bats to signal to aircraft as they came in to land on the flight deck.

batsmen
plural of batsman

batteau
Alternative form of bateau.

batteaux
plural of batteau

battlecarrier
A hybrid between a battleship and an aircraft carrier, with both one or more heavy gun turrets and a large aircraft hangar and flight deck.

battlecarriers
plural of battlecarrier

battlecraft
The art of fighting battles; combat skill.
A spacecraft or other vehicle used for combat.

battlecrafts
plural of battlecraft

battlecruiser
A fast warship with thicker armor and heavier guns than a typical cruiser, but with armor, armament, or both still inferior to that of a dreadnought battleship; designed to act as an advanced scout of the battle fleet and to destroy enemy cruisers.
A warship of intermediate size and/or capability between a heavy cruiser and a (light) battleship.
A boozer; a public house.

battlecruisers
plural of battlecruiser

battleship
A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
A ship of the line.
A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

battleships
plural of battleship

battlewaggon
Alternative form of battlewagon.

battlewaggons
plural of battlewaggon

battlewagon
A heavily-armed combat vehicle.
A heavily-armed combat vehicle.

battlewagons
plural of battlewagon

baucan
A long red streamer hoisted by ships during the Middle Ages to indicate combat to the death.

baucans
plural of baucan

bauleah
Alternative form of boliah.

bauleahs
plural of bauleah

bawdships
plural of bawdship

bawley
A small fishing boat, equipped with sails, used mainly in the estuary of the Thames, England.

bawleys
plural of bawley

bawlies
plural of bawly

bawly
Alternative form of bawley.

bayamo
A violent storm in the Caribbean.
A violent force.

bayamos
plural of bayamo

bayplan
A map of a storage bay in a ship, used to determine where various containers will be placed.

bayplans
plural of bayplan

bbg
Alternative form of baby girl (term of endearment).

bbl
Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).
Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).
Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).

bbls
plural of bbl

beachmaster
In pinnipeds, the dominant male of a territory with whom the females exclusively mate.
An officer who supervises soldiers' disembarkation.
The caretaker of a beach.

beachmasters
plural of beachmaster

beadhook
A kind of boat-hook.

beadhooks
plural of beadhook

beakhead
A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.
An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.

beakheads
plural of beakhead

beam
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building.
One of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid, and acting as part of the support for keeping the sides of the vessel in shape — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones; cf. abeam, beam-ends.
The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
The straight part or shank of an anchor.
The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
The pole of a carriage or chariot.
A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
A ray; a gleam.
A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
A balance beam.
A balance beam.
A broad smile.

beamhole
Alternative form of beam hole.

beams
plural of beam