6-letter words containing a, i
- airpot — A container for storing and dispensing coffee or other beverages that maintains a constant temperature by use of glass insulation.
- airted — a direction.
- airtel — A form of communication formerly used within the FBI.
- airway — A person's airways are the passages from their nose and mouth down to their lungs, through which air enters and leaves their body.
- aisles — a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- aitken — Robert Grant. 1864–1951, US astronomer who discovered over three thousand double stars
- aíyina — Aegina
- ajaria — an autonomous region in SW Georgia, bordered by Turkey and the Black Sea. 1120 sq. mi. (2900 sq. km). Capital: Batumi.
- ajwain — A plant in the family Apiaceae (Trachyspermum ammi), and its seed, which is used (especially in South Asian cooking) for its thyme-like flavor.
- akashi — a city on W Honshu, in Japan.
- akhaïa — department of modern Greece, corresponding approximately to ancient Achaea
- akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows bent outward
- aladin — 1. (language) A Language for Attributed Definitions. 2. (tool) An interactive mathematics system for the IBM 360.
- alalia — a complete inability to speak; mutism
- alania — North Ossetia.
- alaric — ?370–410 ad, king of the Visigoths, who served under the Roman emperor Theodosius I but later invaded Greece and Italy, capturing Rome in 410
- albeit — You use albeit to introduce a fact or comment which reduces the force or significance of what you have just said.
- albiet — Misspelling of albeit.
- albino — An albino is a person or animal with very white skin, white hair, and pink eyes.
- albion — Britain or England
- albite — a colourless, milky-white, yellow, pink, green, or black mineral of the feldspar group and plagioclase series, found in igneous sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. It is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. Composition: sodium aluminium silicate. Formula: NaALSi3O8. Crystal structure: triclinic
- alboin — died 573 ad, king of the Lombards (565–73); conqueror of N Italy
- alcaic — of or relating to a metre used by the 7th-century bc Greek lyric poet Alcaeus, consisting of a strophe of four lines each with four feet
- alcids — Plural form of alcid.
- alcuin — 735–804 ad, English scholar and theologian; friend and adviser of Charlemagne
- aldine — relating to Aldus Manutius (1450–1515), Italian printer, or to his editions of the classics
- aldisp — Applicative Language for Digital Signal Processing
- aldiss — Brian W(ilson). born 1925, British novelist, best known for his science fiction. His works include Non-Stop (1958), Enemies of the System (1978), The Helliconia Trilogy (1983–86), Forgotten Life (1988), and The Detached Retina (1995)
- aldrin — a brown to white poisonous crystalline solid, more than 95 per cent of which consists of the compound C12H8Cl6, which is used as an insecticide. Melting pt: 105°C
- alesia — an ancient city and fortress in Gaul: Caesar captured Vercingetorix here 52 b.c.
- alevin — a young fish, esp a young salmon or trout
- alexia — a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by impaired ability to read
- alexic — relating to or of the neurological condition alexia
- alexin — complement (def 10).
- alexis — a masculine and feminine name
- alfoil — Aluminium foil.
- algins — any hydrophilic, colloidal substance found in or obtained from various kelps, as alginic acid or one of its soluble salts.
- algoid — resembling or relating to algae
- alhaji — (in West Africa) a Muslim who has been to Mecca as a pilgrim (often used as a title).
- alibis — Plural form of alibi.
- alible — nourishing; nutritious
- alicia — a feminine name
- alidad — Archaic form of alidade.
- aliens — Plural form of alien.
- alieve — (philosophy, psychology) To subconsciously feel as if something is true, even if one does not believe it; to hold an alief.
- alight — If something is alight, it is burning.
- aligns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of align.
- alined — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- alines — (especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- alioth — a binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major and in the handle of the Big Dipper: magnitude, 1.8