6-letter words containing e, n
- beaned — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- beaner — A Mexican or a person of Mexican descent.
- beanie — A beanie is a small, close-fitting cap.
- beaten — Beaten earth has been pressed down, often by people's feet, until it is hard.
- beaton — Sir Cecil (Walter Hardy). 1904–80, British photographer, noted esp for his society portraits
- beaune — a town in E France, near Dijon: an important trading centre for Burgundy wines. Pop: 22 218 (2008)
- bebung — a vibrato effect given to any sustained note, esp to one produced by a clavichord
- beckon — If you beckon to someone, you signal to them to come to you.
- bed in — to fit (parts) together accurately or (of parts) to be fitted together, either through machining or use, as in fitting a bearing to its shaft
- bedamn — to damn, to curse thoroughly
- bedpan — A bedpan is a shallow bowl shaped like a toilet seat, which is used instead of a toilet by people who are too ill to get out of bed.
- beduin — an Arab of the desert, in Asia or Africa; nomadic Arab.
- bedung — to cover or make dirty with dung
- bedzin — an industrial and mining town in S Poland.
- beeing — Archaic spelling of being.
- beenah — understanding; insight
- beento — a person who has resided in Britain, esp during part of his or her education
- beeton — Isabella Mary, known as Mrs Beeton. 1836–65, British cookery writer, author of The Book of Household Management (1861)
- befana — (in Italian folklore) an ugly good fairy who brings gifts to good children on Epiphany eve
- begins — to proceed to perform the first or earliest part of some action; commence; start: The story begins with their marriage.
- begnaw — to gnaw at
- begone — go away!
- beguin — a Beghard.
- begunk — a deceiving trick
- behind — If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
- behmen — Jakob [jey-kuh b] /ˈdʒeɪ kəb/ (Show IPA), Böhme, Jakob.
- beknot — to tie a knot or knots in
- belong — If something belongs to you, you own it.
- belsen — a village in NE Germany: with Bergen, the site of a Nazi concentration camp (1943–45)
- belton — a town in W Missouri.
- bemean — to make mean; demean; debase (usually used reflexively).
- bemoan — If you bemoan something, you express sorrow or dissatisfaction about it.
- bename — to name; call by name.
- benaud — Richard, known as Richie. 1930–2015, Australian cricketer; played in 63 test matches, 28 as captain; an all-rounder, he was the first to score 2000 runs and take 200 wickets in tests; TV commentator on the sport for many decades
- benbow — John. 1653–1702, English admiral, noted esp for his heroic death during the War of the Spanish Succession
- benchy — (of a hillside) hollowed out in benches
- benday — to produce using the Ben Day process
- bended — bend1
- bender — If someone goes on a bender, they drink a very large amount of alcohol.
- beneba — (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)
- bengal — a former province of NE India, in the great deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers: in 1947 divided into West Bengal (belonging to India) and East Bengal (Bangladesh)
- bengbu — a city in E China, in Anhui province. Pop: 779 000 (2005 est)
- benign — You use benign to describe someone who is kind, gentle, and harmless.
- benita — a female given name.
- bennet — herb bennet.
- benoit — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (or Peter) Léonard Léopold [ley-aw-nar ley-aw-pawld] /leɪ ɔˈnar leɪ ɔˈpɔld/ (Show IPA), 1834–1901, Belgian composer.
- benoni — a city in NE South Africa: gold mines. Pop: 94 341 (2001)
- benson — E(dward) F(rederic). 1867–1940, British writer, noted esp for a series of comic novels featuring the characters Mapp and Lucia
- benton — Thomas Hart. 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s
- benumb — to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold