6-letter words containing a, k
- bamako — the capital of Mali, in the south, on the River Niger. Pop: 1 379 000 (2005 est)
- bangka — an island in Indonesia, separated from Sumatra by the Bangka Strait. Chief town: Pangkalpinang. Area: about 11 914 sq km (4600 sq miles)
- baniak — (humorous pejorative slang, chiefly italicized) A fool.
- 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).
- banyak — Alternative form of baniak.
- baraka — Imamu Amiri [ih-mah-moo uh-meer-ee] /ɪˈmɑ mu əˈmɪər i/ (Show IPA), (Everett LeRoi Jones) 1934–2014, U.S. dramatist, poet, and political activist.
- barked — the external covering of the woody stems, branches, and roots of plants, as distinct and separable from the wood itself.
- barken — consisting of bark
- barker — an animal or person that barks
- barkla — Charles Glover. 1877–1944, British physicist, noted for his work on X-rays: Nobel prize for physics 1917
- bartok — Béla (ˈbeːlɔ). 1881–1945, Hungarian composer, pianist, and collector of folk songs, by which his music was deeply influenced. His works include six string quartets, three piano concertos, several piano pieces including Mikrokosmos (1926–37), ballets (including The Miraculous Mandarin, 1919), and the opera Bluebeard's Castle (produced 1918)
- basked — to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth: to bask in the sunshine.
- basket — A basket is a stiff container that is used for carrying or storing objects. Baskets are made from thin strips of materials such as straw, plastic, or wire woven together.
- baskin — Leonard, 1922–2000, U.S. sculptor and artist.
- batiks — Plural form of batik.
- battik — to hand-dye (material) using the technique of batik.
- baulks — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- baykal — Lake Baikal
- beaked — Simple past tense and past participle of beak.
- beaker — A beaker is a plastic cup used for drinking, usually one with no handle.
- berake — to rake thoroughly
- betake — to apply (oneself) to
- bhakta — a devotee of God
- bhakti — loving devotion to God leading to nirvana
- bialik — Hayyim Nahman (ˈhaɪm ˈnɑxman) or Chaim Nachman. 1873–1934, Russian Jewish poet and writer. His long poems The Talmud Student (1894) and In the City of Slaughter (1903) established him as the major Hebrew poet of modern times
- bikila — Abebe (əˈbeɪbeɪ). 1932–73, Ethiopian long-distance runner: winner of the Marathon at the Olympic Games in Rome (1960) and Tokyo (1964)
- bipack — an obsolete filming process
- biskra — a town and oasis in NE Algeria, in the Sahara. Pop: 204 000 (2005 est)
- blacky — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- blakey — Art, full name Arthur Blakey. (1919–90), US Black jazz drummer and leader of the Jazz Messengers band
- blanky — a comfort blanket
- bleaks — a European freshwater fish, Alburnus alburnus, having scales with a silvery pigment that is used in the production of artificial pearls.
- bogoak — oak or other wood found preserved in peat bogs; bogwood
- bokmal — one of the two official forms of written Norwegian, closely related to Danish
- bouake — a market town in S central Côte d'Ivoire. Pop: 521 000 (2005 est)
- bpmake — Aspirin
- braker — Shipbuilding. mask (def 19).
- brakes — any of several large or coarse ferns, especially the bracken, Pteridium aquilinum.
- branks — (formerly) an iron bridle used to restrain scolding women
- branky — ostentatious; showy
- bratsk — city in SC Siberian Russia, on the Angara River: pop. 258,000
- buckra — (used contemptuously by Black people, esp in the US) a White man
- bugaku — a classical Japanese dance of Chinese origin, originally designed as entertainment for the imperial palace: performed exclusively by men, who serve as both dancers and musicians.
- bukavu — a port in E Democratic Republic of Congo, on Lake Kivu: commercial and industrial centre. Pop: 294 000 (2005 est)
- burkha — all-enveloping garment worn by Muslim women
- bytalk — trivial conversation