6-letter words containing i, b, s
- bessie — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- bestie — Your bestie is your best friend.
- bestir — to cause (oneself, or, rarely, another person) to become active; rouse
- betise — folly or lack of perception
- bevies — a group of birds, as larks or quail, or animals, as roebuck, in close association.
- bhisho — a town in S South Africa, on the Buffalo River adjacent to King Williams Town; the capital of Eastern Cape, it was formerly the capital of the Ciskei Bantu homeland: it is the centre of a sheep and cattle ranching area with various industries
- bi sex — sex with both male and female partners
- 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.
- biceps — Your biceps are the large muscles at the front of the upper part of your arms.
- bicmos — (hardware) A manufacturing process for semiconductor devices that combines bipolar and CMOS to give the best balance between available output current and power consumption.
- biders — Archaic. to endure; bear.
- bilges — Nautical. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull. Also, bilges. (in a hull with a double bottom) an enclosed area between frames at each side of the floors, where seepage collects. Also called bilge well. a well into which seepage drains to be pumped away. Also called bilge water. seepage accumulated in bilges.
- binocs — binoculars
- biogas — a gas that is produced by the action of bacteria on organic waste matter: used as a fuel
- biopsy — A biopsy is the removal and examination of fluids or tissue from a patient's body in order to discover why they are ill.
- birrus — a hooded cloak of coarse wool, a common article of apparel in the later Roman Empire.
- birsle — (of food) the roasted surface
- biscay — Bay ofpart of the Atlantic, on the N coast of Spain & the W coast of France
- bisect — If something long and thin bisects an area or line, it divides the area or line in half.
- bishop — A bishop is a clergyman of high rank in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox churches.
- biskra — a town and oasis in NE Algeria, in the Sahara. Pop: 204 000 (2005 est)
- bisley — a village in SE England, in Surrey: annual meetings of the National Rifle Association
- bismar — a type of weighing scale
- bisque — a thick rich soup made from shellfish
- bissau — a port on the Atlantic, the capital of Guinea-Bissau (until 1974 Portuguese Guinea). Pop: 369 000 (2005 est)
- bisson — blind
- 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
- bistro — A bistro is a small, informal restaurant or a bar where food is served.
- bisync — Binary Synchronous Transmission
- biters — a person or animal that bites, especially habitually or viciously: That dog is a biter.
- bitser — a mongrel dog
- blains — an inflammatory swelling or sore.
- blaise — a male given name.
- blinds — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blinks — a small temperate portulacaceous plant, Montia fontana with small white flowers
- blosim — Block-Diagram Simulator. A block-diagram simulator. "A Tool for Structured Functional Simulation", D.G. Messerschmitt, IEEE J on Selected Areas in Comm, SAC-2(1):137-147, 1984.
- bluish — Something that is bluish is slightly blue in colour.
- bodies — the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
- bonism — the doctrine that the world is good, although not the best of all possible worlds
- bonsai — A bonsai or a bonsai tree is a tree or shrub that has been kept very small by growing it in a little pot and cutting it in a special way.
- borsic — a strong light composite material of boron fibre and silicon carbide used in aviation
- bosnia — a region of central Bosnia-Herzegovina: belonged to Turkey (1463–1878), to Austria-Hungary (1879–1918), then to Yugoslavia (1918–91)
- bowsie — a low-class mean or obstreperous person
- boyish — If you describe a man as boyish, you mean that he is like a boy in his appearance or behaviour, and you find this characteristic quite attractive.
- braids — to weave together strips or strands of; plait: to braid the hair.
- brains — an animal's brain, cooked and eaten as food
- braise — When you braise meat or a vegetable, you fry it quickly and then cook it slowly in a covered dish with a small amount of liquid.
- brasil — Brazil