6-letter words containing b, i
- nibble — to bite off small bits.
- nimble — quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid: nimble feet.
- nimbly — quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid: nimble feet.
- nimbus — Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- ningbo — a seaport in E Zhejiang province, in E China.
- niobic — of or relating to niobium; columbic.
- niobid — any of the children of Niobe.
- nobile — Umberto [oo m-ber-taw] /ʊmˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1978, Italian aeronautical engineer and arctic explorer.
- nubain — an opiate drug, nalbuphine hydrochloride, used as a painkiller and, illegally, by bodybuilders and others to increase their pain threshold and as a recreational drug, being a cheap alternative to heroin
- nubbin — a small lump or stunted piece; stub.
- nubian — a member of any of the various peoples inhabiting Nubia.
- nubile — (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- obelia — a colonial hydroid of the genus Obelia, common in temperate seas and appearing as a delicate, mosslike growth on rocks, pilings, etc.
- obiism — Belief in, or the practice of, the obi superstitions and rites.
- obital — documenting or remembering the date on which a person died
- obiter — Incidentally; in passing.
- oblige — to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
- oboist — a player of the oboe.
- obsign — to certify by means of, or as if with, a seal or a mark of ratification
- obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- ojibwa — a member of a large tribe of North American Indians found in Canada and the U.S., principally in the region around Lakes Huron and Superior but extending as far west as Saskatchewan and North Dakota.
- orbier — like or pertaining to an orb.
- orbits — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- orbity — a bereavement or the state of being bereaved
- oribis — Plural form of oribi.
- outbid — to outdo in bidding; make a higher bid than (another bidder).
- ovibos — an Arctic ox
- phibbi — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- philby — Harold Adrian Russell ("Kim") 1912–1998, British double agent: defected to U.S.S.R. 1963.
- phobia — a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
- phobic — of or relating to a phobia or phobias.
- pinbol — (language, games) A decision table language for controlling pinball machines used at Atari. PINBOL included a multitasking executive and an interpreter that worked on data structures compiled from condition:action lists.
- prebid — occurring prior to a bid
- probie — a probationer, especially a firefighter who has recently joined a department.
- probit — a normal equivalent deviate increased by five.
- public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- qbasic — (language) Quick basic. A version of BASIC from Microsoft, later known as MS-BASIC.
- qubits — Plural form of qubit.
- quibdo — a city in W Colombia.
- rabbin — rabbi1 .
- rabbis — Plural form of rabbi.
- rabbit — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- rabi i — the third month of the Muslim calendar.
- rabies — an infectious disease of dogs, cats, and other animals, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal and usually fatal if prophylactic treatment is not administered: caused by an RNA virus of the rhabdovirus group; hydrophobia.
- rbasic — Database language for Revelation, by Cosmos, Inc. Combines features of BASIC, Pascal and Fortran.
- re-bid — to bid again, for example in a card game such as bridge
- rebait — food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- rebill — to bill or charge (someone or something) again
- rebind — fasten together again
- rebite — to give (a printing plate or a particular area of a printing plate) another application of acid in order to cause further cutting