6-letter words containing i, e
- bieldy — sheltered
- bienne — Biel
- bierce — Ambrose (Gwinett). 1842–?1914, US journalist and author of humorous sketches, horror stories, and tales of the supernatural: he disappeared during a mission in Mexico (1913)
- biface — a prehistoric stone tool with two faces
- biffed — a blow; punch.
- biffer — someone, such as a sportsperson, who has a reputation for hitting hard
- biffex — Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange, inaugurated in London in 1985
- biflex — bent or flexed in two places
- bifter — a cannabis cigarette
- bigeye — any tropical or subtropical red marine percoid fish of the family Priacanthidae, having very large eyes and rough scales
- bigger — large, as in size, height, width, or amount: a big house; a big quantity.
- biggie — People sometimes refer to something or someone successful, well-known, or big as a biggie.
- 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.
- bilked — to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars.
- billed — having a bill or beak, especially one of a specified kind, shape, color, etc. (usually used in combination): a yellow-billed magpie.
- biller — the stem of a plant
- billet — If members of the armed forces are billeted in a particular place, that place is provided for them to stay in for a period of time.
- billie — a feminine and masculine name
- bimane — a bimanous animal.
- binate — occurring in two parts or in pairs
- binder — A binder is a hard cover with metal rings inside, which is used to hold loose pieces of paper.
- bindle — a small bundle of possessions carried by a homeless person
- bingen — a town in W Germany on the Rhine: wine trade and tourist centre. Pop: 24 716 (2003 est)
- binger — a person addicted to crack cocaine
- bingle — a minor crash or upset, as in a car or on a surfboard
- binhex — (file format) A Macintosh format for representing a binary file using only printable characters. The file is converted to lines of letters, numbers and punctuation. Because BinHex files are simply text they can be sent through most electronic mail systems and stored on most computers. However the conversion to text makes the file larger, so it takes longer to transmit a file in BinHex format than if the file was represented some other way. See also BinHex 4.0, uuencode.
- biogen — a hypothetical protein assumed to be the basis of the formation and functioning of body cells and tissues
- birder — a person who engages in bird-watching; bird-watcher
- birdie — In golf, if you get a birdie, you get the golf ball into a hole in one stroke fewer than the number of strokes which has been set as the standard for a good player.
- bireme — an ancient galley having two banks of oars
- birken — relating to the birch tree
- 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.