6-letter words containing a, d
- beaded — A beaded dress, cushion, or other object is decorated with beads.
- beader — an implement used in crafts such as woodwork or silverwork to make a decorative pattern resembling beads
- beadle — (formerly, in the Church of England) a minor parish official who acted as an usher and kept order
- beaked — Simple past tense and past participle of beak.
- beamed — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- beaned — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- beards — Plural form of beard.
- beardy — wearing a beard
- beared — Stock Exchange. to force prices down in (a market, stock, etc.).
- beated — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of beat.
- becard — any of several passerine birds of the genus Pachyramphus, of the American tropics, having large heads and swollen bills, and variously classified with the flycatchers or the cotingas.
- bedamn — to damn, to curse thoroughly
- bedash — to dash against (something), as for example waves dash against rocks
- bedaub — to smear all over with something thick, sticky, or dirty
- bedaze — to daze, to make dazed
- bedeal — (transitive, obsolete) To deprive (of).
- bedlam — Bedlam means a great deal of noise and disorder. People often say 'It was bedlam' to mean 'There was bedlam'.
- bedpad — a pad or other protective covering used between the mattress and the bottom sheet of a bed.
- bedpan — A bedpan is a shallow bowl shaped like a toilet seat, which is used instead of a toilet by people who are too ill to get out of bed.
- bedral — a minor official in the Scottish Episcopal Church, similar but not identical to the English beadle
- beglad — to make glad
- behead — If someone is beheaded, their head is cut off, usually because they have been found guilty of a crime.
- bejade — to jade; tire
- belady — to call (someone) a lady
- belaud — to praise highly
- beldam — an old woman, esp an ugly or malicious one; hag
- benaud — Richard, known as Richie. 1930–2015, Australian cricketer; played in 63 test matches, 28 as captain; an all-rounder, he was the first to score 2000 runs and take 200 wickets in tests; TV commentator on the sport for many decades
- benday — to produce using the Ben Day process
- biased — If someone is biased, they prefer one group of people to another, and behave unfairly as a result. You can also say that a process or system is biased.
- bihzad — Kamal ad-Din [key-mahl ahd-deen] /ˈkeɪ mɑl ɑdˈdin/ (Show IPA), c1440–c1527, Persian painter and calligrapher.
- bildad — a friend of Job. Job 2:11.
- bladed — having a blade or blades (often used in combination): a single-bladed leaf.
- blader — a person who skates with in-line skates
- blamed — damned
- blared — to emit a loud, raucous sound: The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.
- blated — bleat.
- bodach — an old man
- bodega — a shop selling wine and sometimes groceries, esp in a Spanish-speaking country
- bodrag — an enemy attack or raid
- bogard — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- boland — an area of high altitude in S South Africa
- bordar — a smallholder of low social rank who held a cottage in return for menial work
- boyard — Russian History. a member of the old nobility of Russia, before Peter the Great made rank dependent on state service.
- braced — something that holds parts together or in place, as a clasp or clamp.
- brady- — indicating slowness
- braide — given to deceit
- braids — to weave together strips or strands of; plait: to braid the hair.
- braird — the first shoots of grass or crops
- brando — Marlon. 1924–2004, US actor; his films include On the Waterfront (1954) and The Godfather (1972), for both of which he won Oscars, Last Tango in Paris (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), A Dry White Season (1989), and Don Juan de Marco (1995)
- brandt — Bill, full name William Brandt. 1905–83, British photographer. His photographic books include The English at Home (1936) and Perspectives of Nudes (1961)