6-letter words containing b, a
- bypast — past; bygone
- bypath — a little-used path or track, esp in the country
- byplay — action, gestures, etc. going on aside from the main action or conversation, as in a play
- byroad — a secondary or side road
- byssal — relating to the byssus of molluscs
- bytalk — trivial conversation
- byzant — bezant (def 2).
- c-bias — grid bias.
- cabala — a Jewish mystical movement based on a symbolic interpretation of the Scriptures: it flourished from the end of the 12th cent.
- cabals — Plural form of cabal.
- cabana — a tent used as a dressing room by the sea
- cabane — a mastlike structure on some early airplanes, used for supporting the wing.
- cabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of cab.
- cabbie — A cabbie is a person who drives a taxi.
- cabbin — Obsolete spelling of cabin.
- cabble — Metallurgy. to cut up (iron or steel bars) for fagoting.
- cabell — James Branch1879-1958; U.S. novelist
- cabers — Plural form of caber.
- cabins — Plural form of cabin.
- cabiri — a group of gods, probably of Eastern origin, worshiped in mysteries in various parts of ancient Greece, the cult centers being at Samothrace and Thebes.
- cabled — Simple past tense and past participle of cable.
- cabler — a cable broadcasting company
- cables — Plural form of cable.
- cablet — a small cable, esp a cable-laid rope that has a circumference of less than 25 centimetres (ten inches)
- cabman — the driver of a cab
- cabmen — Plural form of cabman.
- cabral — Pedro Álvares (ˈpɛːdru ˈɑlvərəʃ). ?1460–?1526, Portuguese navigator: discovered and took possession of Brazil for Portugal in 1500
- cabrie — a ruminant mammal, Antilocapra americana, that inhabits rocky deserts of North America and has small branched horns
- cabuya — Mauritius hemp.
- cahaba — a river in N central Alabama, flowing S to the Alabama River. 191 miles (307 km) long.
- calaba — a tree, Calophyllum brasiliense, of the West Indies and Central and South America, having leathery leaves and fragrant white flowers.
- cambay — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- camber — A camber is a gradual downward slope from the centre of a road to each side of it.
- cambia — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambio — a currency exchange.
- cambre — Obsolete form of camber.
- carbo- — carbon
- carbon — Carbon is a chemical element that diamonds and coal are made up of.
- carbos — carbohydrate.
- carboy — a large glass or plastic bottle, usually protected by a basket or box, used for containing corrosive liquids such as acids
- caribe — a piranha
- carobs — Plural form of carob.
- casaba — a kind of winter muskmelon having a yellow rind and sweet juicy flesh
- casbah — the crowded quarter of Algiers, Algeria
- cbasic — A BASIC compiler by Gordon Eubanks, now at Symantec. It evolved from/into EBASIC.
- cembra — a large Swiss pine which yields nuts (cembra nuts)
- chabuk — (in Asia, especially the East) a horsewhip, formerly often used for inflicting corporal punishment.
- chenab — a river rising in the Himalayas and flowing southwest to the Sutlej River in Pakistan. Length: 1087 km (675 miles)
- cibola — the Seven Cities of, legendary cities of great wealth believed by earlier Spanish explorers to exist in the SW United States.
- ciluba — Luba (def 2).