6-letter words containing s
- 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.
- blashy — very rainy
- blast- — blasto-
- blasty — blustery
- blazes — (intensifier)
- bleaks — a European freshwater fish, Alburnus alburnus, having scales with a silvery pigment that is used in the production of artificial pearls.
- 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
- blocks — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- 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.
- blouse — A blouse is a kind of shirt worn by a girl or woman.
- blousy — like a blouse
- blowse — a brash, red-faced woman
- blowsy — (esp of a woman) untidy in appearance; slovenly or sluttish
- bluest — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- bluesy — If you describe a song or the way it is performed as bluesy, you mean that it is performed in a way that is characteristic of the blues.
- bluffs — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- bluish — Something that is bluish is slightly blue in colour.
- bo's'n — boatswain
- bodies — the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
- bolshy — If you say that someone is bolshy, you mean that they easily get angry and often do not do what other people want them to do.
- bolson — a desert valley surrounded by mountains, with a shallow lake at the centre
- 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.
- booksy — inclined to be bookish or literary
- bootes — a constellation in the N hemisphere lying near Ursa Major and containing the first magnitude star Arcturus