6-letter words containing b, i
- fibbed — Simple past tense and past participle of fib.
- fibber — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- fibers — Plural form of fiber.
- fibred — (especially in combination) Having (a specified form of) fibres.
- fibres — Plural form of fibre.
- fibril — a small or fine fiber or filament.
- fibrin — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- fibro- — indicating fibrous tissue
- fibula — Anatomy. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg, extending from the knee to the ankle.
- fimble — the male or staminate plant of hemp, which is harvested before the female or pistillate plant.
- foible — a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect: an all-too-human foible.
- forbid — to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.
- gabbai — a minor official of a synagogue, having limited ceremonial or administrative functions.
- gabies — a fool.
- gabion — a cylinder of wickerwork filled with earth, used as a military defense.
- galibi — a member of an Indian people of French Guiana.
- gambia — a river in W Africa, flowing W to the Atlantic. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- gambir — an astringent extract obtained from the leaves and young shoots of a tropical Asian shrub, Uncaria gambir, of the madder family, used in medicine, dyeing, tanning, etc.
- gambit — Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
- gerbil — any of numerous small burrowing rodents of the genus Gerbillus and related genera, of Asia, Africa, and southern Russia, having long hind legs used for jumping.
- ghibli — a hot dust-bearing wind of the North African desert.
- gibbed — (of a cat) castrated.
- gibber — to speak inarticulately or meaninglessly.
- gibbet — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- gibeon — a town in ancient Palestine, NW of Jerusalem. Josh. 9:3.
- gibing — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- giblet — (usually plural) the edible viscera of a bird.
- gibran — Kahlil [kah-leel] /kɑˈlil/ (Show IPA), 1883–1931, Lebanese mystic, poet, dramatist, and artist; in the U.S. after 1910.
- gibson — Althea, 1927–2003, U.S. tennis player.
- gimbal — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- gimbel — Jacob, 1850–1922, U.S. retail merchant.
- gimble — To grimace.
- glibly — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- globin — the protein component of hemoglobin, made up of alpha and beta chains.
- gobian — a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia. About 500,000 sq. mi. (1,295,000 sq. km).
- gobies — any small marine or freshwater fish of the family Gobiidae, often having the pelvic fins united to form a suctorial disk.
- gobiid — a goby
- goblin — a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious toward people.
- gossib — gossip
- gybing — Present participle of gybe.
- habile — skillful; dexterous; adroit.
- habima — a Hebrew-language theater company, founded in Moscow in 1917: now the national theater of Israel.
- habiru — a nomadic people mentioned in Assyro-Babylonian literature: possibly the early Hebrews.
- habits — Plural form of habit.
- harbin — a province in NE China, S of the Amur River. 108,880 sq. mi. (281,999 sq. km). Capital: Harbin.
- henbit — a common weed, Lamium amplexicaule, of the mint family, having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers.
- hijabs — Plural form of hijab.
- hitbox — (computer graphics) An invisible shape bounding all or part of a model (in a video game, etc.) in order to facilitate collision detection.
- hobbit — a member of a race of imaginary creatures related to and resembling humans, living in underground holes and characterized by their good nature, diminutive size, and hairy feet.