6-letter words containing a
- -phane — indicating something resembling a specified substance
- -phany — indicating a manifestation
- -plasm — (in biology) indicating the material forming cells
- -plast — indicating an organized living cell or particle of living matter
- -plasy — -plasia
- -rater — one of a (specified) rate, or class
- -rrhea — flow, discharge
- -saver — -saver combines with words such as 'time' and 'energy' to indicate that something prevents the thing mentioned from being wasted.
- -scape — indicating a scene or view of something, esp a pictorial representation
- -speak — -speak is used to form nouns which refer to the kind of language used by a particular person or by people involved in a particular activity. You use -speak when you disapprove of this kind of language because it is difficult for other people to understand.
- -taker — -taker combines with nouns to form other nouns which refer to people who take things, for example decisions or notes.
- -taxis — indicating movement towards or away from a specified stimulus
- -wards — indicating direction towards
- -watch — indicating a regular television programme or newspaper feature on the topic specified
- -woman — -woman combines with numbers to indicate that something involves the number of women mentioned.
- 16550a — (hardware) A version of the 16550 UART. Superseded by the 16650.
- 8514-a — 8514
- @stake — (security, software) A computer security development group and consultancy dedicated to researching and documenting security flaws that exist in operating systems, network protocols, or software. @stake publishes information about security flaws through advisories, research reports, and tools. They release the information and tools to help system administrators, users, and software and hardware vendors better secure their systems. L0pht merged with @stake in January 2000.
- a bean — Roy ("Judge") 1825?–1903, U.S. frontiersman and justice of the peace: called himself “the law west of the Pecos.”.
- a deux — of or for two persons
- a fond — to or toward the bottom; thoroughly; fully.
- a game — a person’s best effort, abilities, or achievement: The candidate brought her A game to the debate.
- a gogo — as much as one likes; galore
- a head — You use a head or per head after stating a cost or amount in order to indicate that that cost or amount is for each person in a particular group.
- a jour — of or relating to objects that are pierced, perforated, or decorated with an openwork pattern.
- a list — a group of desirable or admired people who are welcomed especially in social and professional situations: Hollywood's A list turned out for the Oscars.
- a mite — A mite means to a small extent or degree. It is sometimes used to make a statement less extreme.
- a pain — In informal English, if you call someone or something a pain or a pain in the neck, you mean that they are very annoying or irritating. Expressions such as a pain in the ass and a pain in the butt are also used, but most people consider them offensive.
- a pied — on foot
- a sage — Alain René [a-lan ruh-ney] /aˈlɛ̃ rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1668–1747, French novelist and dramatist.
- a soda — something easily done; a pushover
- a star — a blue to white star, as Altair, Sirius, or Vega, having a surface temperature between 7500 and 10,000 K and an absorption spectrum dominated by Balmer-series lines of hydrogen.
- a team — a unit composed of 12 U.S. Special Forces soldiers.
- a to j — Appendices to Journals (of the House of Representatives or Parliament)
- a to z — An A to Z is a book of maps showing all the streets and roads in a particular city and its surrounding towns.
- a'asia — Australasia
- a-axis — the horizontal crystallographic axis passing from front to back.
- a-bomb — An A-bomb is an atomic bomb.
- a-hole — Slang. asshole: used as a euphemism.
- a-life — Artificial Life
- a-line — (of a garment, esp a skirt or dress) flaring slightly from the waist or shoulders
- a-list — An A-list celebrity is a celebrity who is very famous indeed.
- a-post — An A-post is part of the bodywork of a vehicle that supports the roof at the front corner of the passenger compartment next to the windshield.
- a-road — In some countries, an A-road is a major road. A-roads are narrower than motorways but are wider and straighter than B-roads.
- a-side — The A-side of a record that has been released as a single is the main song on it. You can also refer to the side of the record that contains this song as the A-side. Compare B-side.
- a.k.a. — also known as
- aachen — a city and spa in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: the northern capital of Charlemagne's empire. Pop: 256 605 (2003 est)
- aargau — a canton in N Switzerland. Capital: Aarau. Pop: 556 200 (2002 est). Area: 1404 sq km (542 sq miles)
- aarhus — Århus
- aarnet — Australian Academic Research Network