6-letter words containing b, i
- whitby — a port in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario.
- wibble — (British, slang) Meaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble.
- wilbur — Richard, born 1921, U.S. poet: U.S. poet laureate 1987–88.
- wimble — a device used especially in mining for extracting the rubbish from a bored hole.
- woobie — (US, baby talk) Any object, typically a blanket, garment or stuffed animal that is used simply for its comforting characteristics.
- woubit — a type of hairy caterpillar, esp from the tiger moth
- yabbie — Alternative spelling of yabby.
- zambia — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 288,130 sq. mi. (746,256 sq. km). Capital: Lusaka.
- zariba — A protective enclosure of thorn bushes or stakes surrounding a campsite or village in northeastern Africa.
- zeboim — one of the cities destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah. Deut. 29:23.
- zibets — Plural form of zibet.
- zombie — the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose. the supernatural force itself.
- \begin — (text, chat) The LaTeX command used with \end to delimit an environment within which the text is formatted in a certain way. E.g. \begintable...\endtable. Used humorously in writing to indicate a context or to remark on the surrounded text. For example: \begin{flame} Predicate logic is the only good programming language. Anyone who would use anything else is an idiot. Also, all computers should be tredecimal instead of binary. \end{flame} Scribe users at CMU and elsewhere used to use @Begin/@End in an identical way (LaTeX was built to resemble Scribe). On Usenet, this construct would more frequently be rendered as "
" and " " (a la HTML), or "#ifdef FLAME" and "#endif FLAME" (a la C preprocessor).