6-letter words containing i, b, a
- bardic — (formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like.
- bardie — an edible white wood-boring grub of Australia
- barian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals that contain barium.
- baring — Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer. 1841–1917, English administrator. As consul general in Egypt with plenipotentiary powers, he controlled the Egyptian government from 1883 to 1907
- barish — quite thinly covered or bare
- barit. — baritone
- barite — a colourless or white mineral consisting of barium sulphate in orthorhombic crystalline form, occurring in sedimentary rocks and with sulphide ores: a source of barium. Formula: BaSO4
- barium — Barium is a soft, silvery-white metal.
- barrie — very good; attractive
- barrio — A barrio is a mainly Spanish-speaking area in an American city.
- bashir — Dame Marie (Roslyn). born 1930, Australian health administrator and campaigner: governor of New South Wales (2001–14)
- basics — The basics of something are its simplest, most important elements, ideas, or principles, in contrast to more complicated or detailed ones.
- basify — to make basic
- basils — Plural form of basil.
- basing — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- basins — Plural form of basin.
- basion — the midpoint on the forward border of the foramen magnum
- baskin — Leonard, 1922–2000, U.S. sculptor and artist.
- bastia — a port in NE Corsica: the main commercial and industrial town of the island: capital of Haute-Corse department. Pop: 43 315 (2007)
- batida — A Brazilian cocktail made from cachaça, fruit juice, and sugar.
- batiks — Plural form of batik.
- bating — except for; excluding
- battik — to hand-dye (material) using the technique of batik.
- batumi — seaport in Georgia, on the Black Sea, near the Turkish border: pop. 136,000
- bauchi — a state of N Nigeria; tin mining. Capital: Bauchi. Pop: 4 676 465 (2006). Area: 45 837 sq km (17 698 sq miles)
- baucis — a poor peasant woman who, with her husband Philemon, was rewarded for hospitality to the disguised gods Zeus and Hermes
- bavins — Plural form of bavin.
- bawtie — a dog
- baying — a deep, prolonged howl, as of a hound on the scent.
- baylis — Lillian Mary. 1874–1937, British theatre manager: founded the Old Vic (1912) and the Sadler's Wells company for opera and ballet (1931)
- beanie — A beanie is a small, close-fitting cap.
- bejaïa — seaport in NE Algeria, on the Mediterranean: pop. 115,000
- belial — a demon mentioned frequently in apocalyptic literature: identified in the Christian tradition with the devil or Satan
- benita — a female given name.
- bewail — If you bewail something, you express great sorrow about it.
- bhakti — loving devotion to God leading to nirvana
- bhangi — a Hindu scavenger who belongs to one of the untouchable castes.
- bhilai — a city in S Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- biafra — a region of E Nigeria, formerly a local government region: seceded as an independent republic (1967–70) during the Civil War, but defeated by Nigerian government forces
- bialik — Hayyim Nahman (ˈhaɪm ˈnɑxman) or Chaim Nachman. 1873–1934, Russian Jewish poet and writer. His long poems The Talmud Student (1894) and In the City of Slaughter (1903) established him as the major Hebrew poet of modern times
- bianca — a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “white.”.
- bianco — Mon·te [mawn-te] /ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA). Italian name of Mont Blanc.
- biased — If someone is biased, they prefer one group of people to another, and behave unfairly as a result. You can also say that a process or system is biased.
- biases — a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: illegal bias against older job applicants; the magazine’s bias toward art rather than photography; our strong bias in favor of the idea.
- bicarb — Bicarb is an abbreviation for bicarbonate of soda.
- bichat — Marie François Xavier [ma-ree frahn-swa gza-vyey] /maˈri frɑ̃ˈswa gzaˈvyeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1771–1802, French physician.
- biface — a prehistoric stone tool with two faces
- bigamy — Bigamy is the crime of marrying a person when you are already legally married to someone else.
- bigtha — one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of King Ahasuerus. Esther 1:10.
- bihari — a member of an Indian people living chiefly in Bihar but also in other parts of NW India and Bangladesh