6-letter words containing b, i
- rhombi — an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; any equilateral parallelogram except a square.
- ribald — vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.
- riband — a decorative ribbon.
- ribbed — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- ribber — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- ribbit — (used to suggest) the croaking of a frog
- ribble — a river in NW England, flowing south and west through Lancashire to the Irish Sea. Length: 121 km (75 miles)
- ribbon — a woven strip or band of fine material, as silk or rayon, varying in width and finished off at the edges, used for ornament, tying, etc.
- ribera — José de [hoh-zey duh;; Spanish haw-se th e] /hoʊˈzeɪ də;; Spanish hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), (Jusepe de Ribera"Lo Spagnoletto") 1588–1652, Spanish printmaker and painter active in Naples.
- ribeye — a cut of beef from the animal's rib section
- ribibe — an old-fashioned string instrument also known as a rebeck
- ribier — a dark-red variety of grape from California
- riblet — a boneless cut of meat from the end of a rib of veal, lamb, or pork.
- ribose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, slightly sweet solid, C 5 H 1 0 O 5 , a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of RNA.
- riboso — rebozo.
- ribozo — rebozo.
- robbia — Andrea della [ahn-dre-ah del-lah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1435–1525, and his uncle, Luca della [loo-kah del-lah] /ˈlu kɑ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA) c1400–82, Italian sculptors.
- rosbif — a term used in France for an English person
- rub in — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubbia — Carlo [jahr-loh;; Italian kahr-law] /ˈdʒɑr loʊ;; Italian ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Italian physicist: Nobel prize 1984.
- rubied — having a color like that of a ruby; deep red.
- rubier — a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
- rubify — to make red; redden: a distant fire that rubified the sky.
- rubric — a title, heading, direction, or the like, in a manuscript, book, statute, etc., written or printed in red or otherwise distinguished from the rest of the text.
- rybnik — a city in S Poland, in Katowice province,on the Nacyna River.
- sabina — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “a Sabine woman.”.
- sabine — of or belonging to an ancient people of central Italy who lived chiefly in the Apennines northeast of Rome and were subjugated by the Romans about 290 b.c.
- sahiba — respectful Indian term of address for a woman
- sbirro — a police officer in Italy
- scribe — Augustin Eugène [oh-gys-tan œ-zhen] /oʊ güsˈtɛ̃ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1791–1861, French dramatist.
- seboim — Zeboim.
- serbia — a republic in S Europe since 2006; includes the autonomous province of Vojvodina and claims sovereignty over the autonomous province of Kosovo, which has declared itself independent; formerly part of Yugoslavia, in the N part: a former kingdom in S Europe. 34,116 sq. mi. (88,360 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- shibah — the mourning period, following the funeral and lasting traditionally for seven days, observed by Jews for a deceased parent, sibling, child, or spouse.
- siabon — a hybrid animal bred from a gibbon and a siamang.
- sibire — Russian name of Siberia.
- sigbus — bus error
- sinbad — Sindbad the Sailor.
- sit by — If you sit by while something wrong or illegal is happening, you allow it to happen and do not do anything about it.
- sitbol — (language) A SNOBOL4 interpreter for the PDP-10.
- skibob — a winter-sport vehicle for riding downhill over snow, often used at mountain resorts, that runs on a fixed ski and has a much shorter, pivoting front ski steered by handlebars, with the rider sitting as on a bicycle and usually wearing miniskis to assist in balancing the vehicle.
- sobeit — provided that
- sorbic — a European tree, Sorbus domestica.
- sqribe — (company) The company formerly known as MITI which bought SQR from Sybase.
- squibb — Edward Robinson, 1819–1900, U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer and medical reformer.
- subbie — a subcontractor
- subfix — subscript (def 4).
- subito — (as a musical direction) suddenly; abruptly: subito pianissimo.
- submit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- swabia — a region and medieval duchy in SW Germany: it constituted the area presently included in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in S Germany.
- t-bill — a U.S. Treasury bill.