6-letter words containing i, b, e
- birkie — a spirited or lively person
- birled — to pour (a drink) or pour a drink for.
- birler — someone who participates in spinning or twirling
- birsle — (of food) the roasted surface
- bisect — If something long and thin bisects an area or line, it divides the area or line in half.
- bisley — a village in SE England, in Surrey: annual meetings of the National Rifle Association
- bisque — a thick rich soup made from shellfish
- bister — a yellowish-brown to dark-brown pigment made from the soot of burned wood
- bistre — a transparent water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling the soot of wood, used for pen and wash drawings
- biters — a person or animal that bites, especially habitually or viciously: That dog is a biter.
- bitnet — (networking) /bit'net/ (Because It's Time NETwork) An academic and research computer network connecting approximately 2500 computers. BITNET provides interactive, electronic mail and file transfer services, using a store and forward protocol, based on IBM Network Job Entry protocols. Bitnet-II encapsulates the Bitnet protocol within IP packets and depends on the Internet to route them. BITNET traffic and Internet traffic are exchanged via several gateway hosts. BITNET is now operated by CREN. BITNET is everybody's least favourite piece of the network. The BITNET hosts are a collection of IBM dinosaurs, VAXen (with lobotomised communications hardware), and Prime Computer supermini computers. They communicate using 80-character EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind); thus, they tend to mangle the headers and text of third-party traffic from the rest of the ASCII/RFC 822 world with annoying regularity. BITNET is also notorious as the apparent home of BIFF.
- bitser — a mongrel dog
- bitted — Also called bollard. a strong post of wood or iron projecting, usually in pairs, above the deck of a ship, used for securing cables, lines for towing, etc.
- bitten — Bitten is the past participle of bite.
- bitter — In a bitter argument or conflict, people argue very angrily or fight very fiercely.
- bittie — a little bit
- bitzer — George William (Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer"Billy") 1872–1944, U.S. cinematographer.
- biuret — a white crystalline substance, C 2 H 5 O 2 N 3 ⋅H 2 O, soluble in water and alcohol, used for the identification of urea, from which it is formed on heating.
- bivane — a sensitive vane that measures both the horizontal and vertical components of wind direction.
- bizone — an area comprising two administrative zones
- blaine — James G(illespie)1830-93; U.S. statesman: secretary of state (1881, 1889-92)
- blaise — a male given name.
- blewit — an edible pale-bluish mushroom, Tricholoma personatum.
- blimey — You say blimey when you are surprised by something or feel strongly about it.
- blithe — You use blithe to indicate that something is done casually, without serious or careful thought.
- blivet — something annoying, ridiculous, or useless.
- blixen — Karen
- blowie — a blowfly
- boatie — a boating enthusiast
- bobbie — a male given name, form of Robert.
- boccie — an Italian version of bowls played on a lawn smaller than a bowling green
- bodgie — an unruly or uncouth young man, esp in the 1950s; teddy boy
- bodice — The bodice of a dress is the part above the waist.
- bodied — of or relating to the body; bodily.
- bodies — the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
- boeing — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- boiled — that has been brought to boiling point
- boiler — A boiler is a device which burns gas, oil, electricity, or coal in order to provide hot water, especially for the central heating in a building.
- bolide — a large exceptionally bright meteor that often explodes
- boline — (in Wicca) a knife, usually sickle-shaped and with a white handle, used for gathering herbs and carving symbols
- bommie — an outcrop of coral reef, often resembling a column, that is higher than the surrounding platform of reef and which may be partially exposed at low tide
- bonnie — a feminine name: var. Bonny
- bonxie — (originally in Shetland) the great skua
- boodie — a burrowing rat kangaroo, Bettongia lesueur, found on islands off Western Australia
- boogie — When you boogie, you dance to fast pop music.
- boojie — relating to or characteristic of a person who aspires to the upper middle class or a fancy lifestyle: He spends too much on bougie stuff he can’t afford.
- bookie — A bookie is the same as a bookmaker.
- boomie — a person who was an adolescent in the 1960s.
- bootie — a Royal Marine
- boride — a compound in which boron is the most electronegative element, esp a compound of boron and a metal