6-letter words containing a, d
- houdah — (in the East Indies) a seat or platform for one or more persons, commonly with a railing and a canopy, placed on the back of an elephant.
- houdan — one of a French breed of chickens having a V -shaped comb, five toes, and mottled or black plumage.
- howard — Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
- howdah — (in the East Indies) a seat or platform for one or more persons, commonly with a railing and a canopy, placed on the back of an elephant.
- hstead — Homestead.
- hyades — Astronomy. a group of stars comprising a moving cluster in the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the approach of rain when they rose with the sun.
- hydras — Plural form of hydra.
- hydria — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a large water jar
- hydroa — any skin condition characterized by red vesicular areas.
- ibadah — the following of Islamic beliefs and practices
- ibadan — a city in SW Nigeria.
- idaean — of, pertaining to, associated with, or inhabiting Mount Ida in Asia Minor or Crete.
- ideals — a conception of something in its perfection.
- ideata — (in epistemology) the object of knowledge as known by the mind. Compare datum (def 3).
- ideate — to form an idea, thought, or image of.
- idiota — (pejorative, slang) fool or imbecile.
- idumea — Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- illiad — a wink
- imaged — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- in bad — not good in any manner or degree.
- indaba — a conference or consultation between or with native peoples of South Africa.
- indart — to dart in
- indear — Alternative form of endear.
- indian — Also called American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, Native American. a member of the aboriginal people of America or of any of the aboriginal North or South American stocks, usually excluding the Eskimos.
- induna — an official functionary of a king or chief in South African Bantu societies.
- inlaid — set into the surface of something: an inlaid design on a chest.
- inland — pertaining to or situated in the interior part of a country or region: inland cities.
- inlead — (transitive, mechanical, and, electrical) To lead into; conduct.
- innard — Eye dialect of inward.
- inroad — a damaging or serious encroachment: inroads on our savings.
- invade — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- inward — toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.
- iodate — Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- irades — Plural form of irade.
- irda-c — IrDA Control
- irdata — (robotics) Industrial Robot DATA. A standardised robot control code. "IRDATA, Industrial Robot Data", DIN 66313, Beuth-Verlag 1991.
- iridal — (rare) Pertaining to a rainbow.
- island — a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
- isolda — a female given name, form of Iseult.
- izzard — the letter Z.
- jabbed — a poke with the end or point of something; a sharp, quick thrust.
- jabrud — a Paleolithic site in SW Syria, in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range.
- jacked — Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss.
- jadery — ill-tempered or wearied behaviour
- jading — a worn-out, broken-down, worthless, or vicious horse.
- jadish — (of a horse) Vicious and ill-tempered, like a jade.
- jagged — having ragged notches, points, or teeth; zigzag: the jagged edge of a saw; a jagged wound.
- jailed — Simple past tense and past participle of jail.
- jammed — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
- jandal — (New Zealand) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps mounted between the big toe and index toe.