6-letter words containing n, a, b, e
- 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
- benday — to produce using the Ben Day process
- 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)
- benita — a female given name.
- benzal — a transparent crystalline substance
- berean — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- besant — Annie, née Wood. 1847–1933, British theosophist, writer, and political reformer in England and India
- beslan — a town in the North Ossetian Republic in Russia: scene of a massacre in 2004 when Chechen extremists held a school hostage, leading to a siege in which 344 people were killed. Pop: 35 550 (2002)
- bezant — a medieval Byzantine gold coin
- bimane — a bimanous animal.
- binate — occurring in two parts or in pairs
- bivane — a sensitive vane that measures both the horizontal and vertical components of wind direction.
- blaine — James G(illespie)1830-93; U.S. statesman: secretary of state (1881, 1889-92)
- borane — any compound of boron and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of other boron compounds and as high-energy fuels
- braine — John (Gerard). 1922–86, English novelist, whose works include Room at the Top (1957) and Life at the Top (1962)
- branle — an old French country dance performed in a linked circle
- brazen — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brazen, you mean that they are very bold and do not care what other people think about them or their behaviour.
- brenda — a feminine name
- butane — Butane is a gas that is obtained from petroleum and is used as a fuel.
- bylane — a side lane or alley off a road
- byname — a name that is additional to a person's main name, such as a surname
- cabane — a mastlike structure on some early airplanes, used for supporting the wing.
- cabmen — Plural form of cabman.
- chenab — a river rising in the Himalayas and flowing southwest to the Sutlej River in Pakistan. Length: 1087 km (675 miles)
- cubane — a rare octahedral hydrocarbon formed by eight CH groups, each of which is situated at the corner of a cube. Formula: C8H8
- danube — a river in central and SE Europe, rising in the Black Forest in Germany and flowing to the Black Sea. Length: 2859 km (1776 miles)
- debian — (operating system) /deb'ee`n/, *not* /deeb'ee`n/ The non-profit volunteer organisation responsible for Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd. Debian's Linux distribution is dedicated to free and open source software; the main goal of the distribution is to ensure that one can download and install a fully-functional operating system that is completely adherent to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, and was sponsored by the Free Software Foundation from November 1994 to November 1995. The name Debian is a contraction of DEB(ra) and IAN Murdock. Debian's packaging system (dpkg) is similar to other popular packaging systems like RPM. There are over 2200 packages of precompiled software available in the main (free) section of the Debian 2.1 distribution alone -- this is what sets Debian apart from many other Linux distributions. The high quality and huge number of official packages (most Debian systems' /usr/local/ remains empty -- almost everything most Linux users want is officially packaged) are what draw many people to use Debian. Another unique aspect to the Debian project is the open development; pre-releases are made available from Day 1 and if anyone wishes to become a Debian developer, all that is needed is proof of identification and a signed PGP or GPG key. There are over 400 Debian developers all around the world -- many developers have never met face-to-face, and most development talks take place on the many mailing lists and the IRC network.
- embank — Construct a wall or bank of earth or stone in order to confine (a river) within certain limits.
- enable — Give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something.
- enjamb — to encroach
- graben — a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has dropped downward in relation to adjacent portions.
- ibanez — Vicente Blasco [bee-then-te blahs-kaw] /biˈθɛn tɛ ˈblɑs kɔ/ (Show IPA), Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente.
- inable — (obsolete, now nonstandard) Unable, not able.
- labent — Sliding; gliding.
- labneh — a Mediterranean soft cheese produced by straining yogurt
- nabbed — to arrest or capture.
- nabber — to arrest or capture.
- namibe — a port in SW Angola: fishing industry. Pop: 132 900 (2004 est)
- nanobe — a microbe that measures between 50 and 100 nanometres across and is smaller than the smallest known bacterium
- naseby — a village in W Northamptonshire, in central England: Royalist defeat 1645.
- nearby — close at hand; not far off; adjacent; neighboring: a nearby village.
- nebula — Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
- onbeat — the first and third beats in a bar of four-four time
- sabean — of or relating to Saba.
- sabine — of or belonging to an ancient people of central Italy who lived chiefly in the Apennines northeast of Rome and were subjugated by the Romans about 290 b.c.
- theban — an ancient city in Upper Egypt, on the Nile, whose ruins are located in the modern towns of Karnak and Luxor: a former capital of Egypt.
- unable — lacking the necessary power, competence, etc., to accomplish some specified act: He was unable to swim.
- unbale — to remove from a bale or tightly bound package