5-letter words containing a
- blate — exhibiting corpselike qualities, for example a pallid tone, insensibility, or lack of spirits
- blatt — a newspaper
- blaud — a large amount
- blaze — When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly.
- bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- bleam — (jargon) To transmit or send data. "Bleam that binary to me in an e-mail".
- blear — to make (eyes or sight) dim with or as if with tears; blur
- bleat — When a sheep or goat bleats, it makes the sound that sheep and goats typically make.
- blida — a city in N Algeria, on the edge of the Mitidja Plain. Pop: 269 000 (2005 est)
- bloat — to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- bmasf — Basic Module Algebra Specification Language? "Design of a Specification Language by Abstract Syntax Engineering", J.C.M. Baeten et al, in LNCS 490, pp.363-394.
- board — A board is a flat, thin, rectangular piece of wood or plastic which is used for a particular purpose.
- boart — low-quality diamond, in granular aggregate or small fragments, valuable only in crushed or powdered form, especially for industrial use as an abrasive.
- boast — If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.
- bobak — a species of marmot found in the steppes of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
- bocca — the round opening of a glass-furnace from which the fused glass is taken
- bogan — (esp in the Maritime Provinces) a sluggish side stream
- bohai — a large inlet of the Yellow Sea on the coast of NE China
- bohea — a black Chinese tea, once regarded as the choicest, but now as an inferior grade
- bolar — of or relating to clay
- bolas — bola (def 1).
- bonpa — a member of the Bön sect.
- borah — William Edgar, 1865–1940, U.S. senator from Idaho 1906–40.
- borak — rubbish; nonsense
- boral — the powdered mixture of boron carbide and aluminium
- boras — a city in SW Sweden, chiefly producing textiles. Pop: 98 831 (2004 est)
- borax — Borax is a white powder used, for example, in the making of glass and as a cleaning chemical.
- botha — Louis. 1862–1919, South African statesman and general; first prime minister of the Union of South Africa (1910–19)
- bouar — a city in the W Central African Republic.
- bowat — a small lamp or lantern
- boyar — a member of an old order of Russian nobility, ranking immediately below the princes: abolished by Peter the Great
- boyau — a minor connecting trench often built in a zigzag pattern
- boyla — an Aboriginal Australian magician or medicine-man
- braai — to grill or roast (meat) over open coals
- brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
- brach — a bitch hound
- bract — a specialized leaf, usually smaller than the foliage leaves, with a single flower or inflorescence growing in its axil
- brady — Mathew B. (ˈmæθju ) ; mat hˈyo̅o) 1823?-96; U.S. photographer, esp. of Lincoln & the Civil War
- braes — an upland area
- braga — a city in N Portugal: capital of the Roman province of Lusitania; 12th-century cathedral, seat of the Primate of Portugal. Pop: 164 193 (2001)
- bragg — Billy. born 1957, British rock singer and songwriter, noted for his political protest songs; recordings include Between the Wars (1985), Workers' Playtime (1988), Mermaid Avenue (1998), and England, Half English (2002)
- bragi — the god of poetry and music, son of Odin
- brahe — Tycho (ˈtyːço). 1546–1601, Danish astronomer, who designed and constructed instruments that he used to plot accurately the positions of the planets, sun, moon, and stars
- braid — Braid is a narrow piece of decorated cloth or twisted threads, which is used to decorate clothes or curtains.
- brail — one of several lines fastened to the leech of a fore-and-aft sail to aid in furling it
- brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
- brake — Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop.
- braky — overgrown with brambles or ferns
- brame — a fierce passion or vexation
- brand — If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.