5-letter words containing b
- bitte — you're welcome!
- bitty — If you say that something is bitty, you mean that it seems to be formed from a lot of different parts which you think do not fit together or go together well.
- bivvy — a small tent or shelter
- bixie — /bik'see/ Variant emoticons used on Byte Information eXchange. The smiley bixie is <@[email protected]>, apparently intending to represent two cartoon eyes and a mouth. A few others have been reported.
- biysk — a city in SW Russia, at the foot of the Altai Mountains. Pop: 216 000 (2005 est)
- bizet — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1838–75, French composer, whose works include the opera Carmen (1875) and incidental music to Daudet's L'Arlésienne (1872)
- bizzo — empty and irrelevant talk or ideas; nonsense
- bizzy — a policeman
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blade — The blade of a knife, axe, or saw is the edge, which is used for cutting.
- blaes — hardened clay or shale, esp when crushed and used to form the top layer of a sports pitch: bluish-grey or reddish in colour
- blaeu — Willem Janszoon [vil-uh m yahn-suh n,, -sohn] /ˈvɪl əm ˈyɑn sən,, -soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.
- blaff — a West Indian seafood stew
- blahs — nonsense; rubbish: What they say is blah.
- blain — a blister, blotch, or sore on the skin
- blair — Tony, full name Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. born 1953, British politician; leader of the Labour Party (1994–2007); prime minister (1997–2007); Middle East peace envoy (2007–2015)
- blais — Marie-Claire [muh-ree-klair] /məˈriˈklɛər/ (Show IPA), born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist.
- blake — Sir Peter. born 1932, British painter, a leading exponent of pop art in the 1960s: co-founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1969)
- blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
- blanc — (Jean Joseph Charles) Louis (lwi). 1811–82, French socialist and historian: author of L'Organisation du travail (1840), in which he advocated the establishment of cooperative workshops subsidized by the state
- bland — If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
- blare — If something such as a siren or radio blares or if you blare it, it makes a loud, unpleasant noise.
- blart — to sound loudly and harshly
- blase — If you describe someone as blasé, you mean that they are not easily impressed, excited, or worried by things, usually because they have seen or experienced them before.
- blash — a heavy splash
- blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
- 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.
- bleed — When you bleed, you lose blood from your body as a result of injury or illness.
- bleep — A bleep is a short, high-pitched sound, usually one of a series, that is made by an electrical device.
- blend — If you blend substances together or if they blend, you mix them together so that they become one substance.
- blent — blend
- blert — a fool
- bless — When someone such as a priest blesses people or things, he asks for God's favour and protection for them.
- blest — bless
- bleve — A BLEVE is an explosion caused by a liquid which is boiling and continuing to produce a flammable vapor.
- blida — a city in N Algeria, on the edge of the Mitidja Plain. Pop: 269 000 (2005 est)
- bligh — William. 1754–1817, British admiral; Governor of New South Wales (1806–9), deposed by the New South Wales Corps: as a captain, commander of H.M.S. Bounty when the crew mutinied in 1789
- blimp — A blimp is the same as an airship.
- blind — Someone who is blind is unable to see because their eyes are damaged.
- bling — Some people refer to expensive or fancy jewellery as bling or bling-bling.
- blini — Russian pancakes made of buckwheat flour and yeast
- blink — When you blink or when you blink your eyes, you shut your eyes and very quickly open them again.