6-letter words containing a, b, n
- bandit — Robbers are sometimes called bandits, especially if they are found in areas where the law has broken down.
- bandog — a ferocious dog, whether by nature or trained as a guard dog
- bandon — (obsolete) disposal; control; licence.
- banged — Often, bangs. a fringe of hair combed or brushed forward over the forehead.
- banger — Bangers are sausages.
- bangka — an island in Indonesia, separated from Sumatra by the Bangka Strait. Chief town: Pangkalpinang. Area: about 11 914 sq km (4600 sq miles)
- bangle — A bangle is a decorated metal or wooden ring that you can wear round your wrist or ankle.
- bangor — a university town in NW Wales, in Gwynedd, on the Menai Strait. Pop: 15 280 (2001)
- bangue — Alternative form of bhang.
- bangui — the capital of the Central African Republic, in the south part, on the Ubangi River. Pop: 732 000 (2005 est)
- baniak — (humorous pejorative slang, chiefly italicized) A fool.
- banian — banyan
- baning — Present participle of bane.
- banish — If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
- baniya — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
- banjax — to ruin or destroy, often as a result of incompetence
- banjos — Plural form of banjo.
- banjul — the capital of The Gambia, a port at the mouth of the Gambia River. Pop: 392 000 (2005 est)
- banked — A banked stretch of road is higher on one side than the other.
- banker — A banker is someone who works in banking at a senior level.
- bankes — Plural form of banke.
- banket — a gold-bearing conglomerate found in South Africa
- bankit — banquette (def 3).
- banned — to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime.
- banner — A banner is a long strip of cloth with something written on it. Banners are usually attached to two poles and carried during a protest or rally.
- bannet — a bonnet
- banquo — a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth: the ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth, who had ordered his murder
- bantam — A bantam is a breed of small chicken.
- banted — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- banter — Banter is teasing or joking talk that is amusing and friendly.
- banyak — Alternative form of baniak.
- banyan — a moraceous tree, Ficus benghalensis, of tropical India and the East Indies, having aerial roots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
- banzai — a patriotic cheer, battle cry, or salutation
- barang — Lb Philippines black magic; sorcery.
- barany — Robert. 1876–1936, Austrian physician; devised the Bárány test, which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1914
- barcan — an ancient Carthaginian family to which Hamilcar, Hasdrubal, and Hannibal belonged.
- barens — Plural form of baren.
- barian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals that contain barium.
- baring — Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer. 1841–1917, English administrator. As consul general in Egypt with plenipotentiary powers, he controlled the Egyptian government from 1883 to 1907
- barken — consisting of bark
- barman — A barman is a man who serves drinks behind a bar.
- barmen — a former city in W Germany, now incorporated into Wuppertal.
- barned — a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
- barnes — Djuna. 1892–1982, US novelist, noted for Nightwood (1936)
- barnet — a borough of N Greater London: scene of a Yorkist victory (1471) in the Wars of the Roses. Pop: 324 400 (2003 est). Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- barney — a noisy argument
- barnum — P(hineas) T(aylor). 1810–91, US showman, who created The Greatest Show on Earth (1871) and, with J. A. Bailey, founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1881)
- barong — a broad-bladed cleaver-like knife used in the Philippines
- barons — a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
- barony — A barony is the rank or position of a baron.