5-letter words containing a
- bauru — a city in E Brazil.
- bavin — a bundle of brushwood or firewood
- bawds — a woman who maintains a brothel; madam.
- bawdy — A bawdy story or joke contains humorous references to sex.
- bawls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bawl.
- bawns — Plural form of bawn.
- baxis — the horizontal crystallographic axis that is in a right-left position.
- bayan — A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century.
- bayar — Celâl [je-lahl] /dʒɛˈlɑl/ (Show IPA), 1884–1986, Turkish statesman: president 1950–60.
- bayed — a deep, prolonged howl, as of a hound on the scent.
- bayer — reddish brown.
- bayle — Pierre (pjɛr). 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic, noted for his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), which profoundly influenced Voltaire and the French Encyclopedists
- bayou — A bayou is a slow-moving, marshy area of water in the southern United States, especially Louisiana.
- bayze — Obsolete form of baize.
- bazar — a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East.
- bazil — Alternative form of basil (a tanned sheepskin).
- bazin — René François Nicolas Marie [ruh-ney frahn-swa nee-kaw-lah ma-ree] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa ni kɔˈlɑ maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1853–1932, French novelist.
- bazoo — the mouth
- baʿth — a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.
- beach — A beach is an area of sand or stones beside the sea.
- beads — a necklace
- beady — Beady eyes are small, round, and bright.
- beaks — Plural form of beak.
- beaky — having a large beak
- beale — Dorothea. 1831–1906, British schoolmistress, a champion of women's education and suffrage. As principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College (1858–1906) she introduced important reforms
- beams — Plural form of beam.
- beamy — sending out beams of light; radiant; bright
- beano — a celebration, party, or other enjoyable time
- beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- beany — Resembling or characteristic of beans.
- beard — A man's beard is the hair that grows on his chin and cheeks.
- bearn — historical region in SW France, in the Pyrenees
- bears — Plural form of bear.
- beast — You can refer to an animal as a beast, especially if it is a large, dangerous, or unusual one.
- beath — to heat, esp unseasoned wood in order to straighten it
- beats — Plural form of beat.
- beaty — (of music) having a strong rhythm
- beaus — Plural form of beau.
- beaut — You describe someone or something as a beaut when you think they are very good.
- beaux — beau
- beave — (vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
- becap — to put a cap on someone's head
- bedad — an exclamation of affirmation
- befal — (obsolete) befall.
- begad — an emphatic exclamation
- began — Began is the past tense of begin.
- begar — compulsory labour, usually without payment; slave labour
- begat — simple past tense of beget.
- behan — Brendan. 1923–64, Irish writer, noted esp for his plays The Quare Fellow (1954) and The Hostage (1958) and for an account of his detention as a member of the Irish Republican Army, Borstal Boy (1958)
- beira — a port in E Mozambique: terminus of a transcontinental railway from Lobito, Angola, through the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Pop: 566 000 (2005 est)