6-letter words containing o
- become — If someone or something becomes a particular thing, they start to change and develop into that thing, or start to develop the characteristics mentioned.
- bedhop — Alternative spelling of bed-hop.
- bedrop — to drop upon or cover with drops
- beento — a person who has resided in Britain, esp during part of his or her education
- beeton — Isabella Mary, known as Mrs Beeton. 1836–65, British cookery writer, author of The Book of Household Management (1861)
- befoam — to cover with foam
- befool — to make a fool of
- before — If something happens before a particular date, time, or event, it happens earlier than that date, time, or event.
- befoul — to make dirty or foul; soil; defile
- begone — go away!
- behold — If you behold someone or something, you see them.
- behoof — advantage or profit
- behove — If it behoves you to do something, it is right, necessary, or useful for you to do it.
- behowl — to howl at
- beknot — to tie a knot or knots in
- belloc — Hilaire (ˈhɪlɛə, hɪˈlɛə). 1870–1953, British poet, essayist, and historian, born in France, noted particularly for his verse for children in The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) and Cautionary Tales (1907)
- bellow — If someone bellows, they shout angrily in a loud, deep voice.
- beloit — a city in S Wisconsin.
- belong — If something belongs to you, you own it.
- belote — a card game for two players, using 32 cards and following the same basic rules as klabberjass, popular in France.
- belove — to love
- belovo — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia.
- belton — a town in W Missouri.
- bemoan — If you bemoan something, you express sorrow or dissatisfaction about it.
- bemock — to mock
- bemoil — to soil with mud
- benbow — John. 1653–1702, English admiral, noted esp for his heroic death during the War of the Spanish Succession
- benoit — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (or Peter) Léonard Léopold [ley-aw-nar ley-aw-pawld] /leɪ ɔˈnar leɪ ɔˈpɔld/ (Show IPA), 1834–1901, Belgian composer.
- benoni — a city in NE South Africa: gold mines. Pop: 94 341 (2001)
- benson — E(dward) F(rederic). 1867–1940, British writer, noted esp for a series of comic novels featuring the characters Mapp and Lucia
- benton — Thomas Hart. 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s
- benzo- — indicating a benzene ring fused to another ring in a polycyclic compound
- benzol — a crude form of benzene, containing toluene, xylene, and other hydrocarbons, obtained from coal tar or coal gas and used as a fuel
- bercow — John (Simon). born 1963, British Conservative politician; speaker of the House of Commons from 2009
- beshow — a sablefish.
- besnow — to whiten
- besoin — need
- besort — the type of company that is befitting
- bespot — to mark with spots or blemishes
- bestow — To bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them.
- betoil — to worry
- betony — a Eurasian plant, Stachys (or Betonica) officinalis, with a spike of reddish-purple flowers, formerly used in medicine and dyeing: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- betook — simple past tense of betake.
- betoss — to toss about
- bettor — a person who bets
- beworm — to fill or infest with worms
- beyond — If something is beyond a place or barrier, it is on the other side of it.
- bezoar — a hard mass, such as a stone or hairball, in the stomach and intestines of animals, esp ruminants, and man: formerly thought to be an antidote to poisons
- 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
- bhopal — a city in central India, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state and of the former state of Bhopal: site of a poisonous gas leak from a US-owned factory, which killed over 7000 people in 1984 and was implicated in a further 15 000 deaths afterwards. Pop: 1 433 875 (2001)