5-letter words containing b
- bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
- baddy — A baddy is a person in a story or film who is considered to be evil or wicked, or who is fighting on the wrong side. You can also refer to the baddies in a situation in real life.
- baden — a former state of West Germany, now part of Baden-Württemberg
- bader — Sir Douglas. 1910–82, British fighter pilot. Despite losing both legs after a flying accident (1931), he became a national hero as a pilot in World War II
- badge — A badge is a piece of metal or cloth which you wear to show that you belong to an organization or support a cause. American English usually uses button to refer to a small round metal badge.
- badly — If something is done badly or goes badly, it is not very successful or effective.
- baeck — Leo. 1873–1956, German Jewish theologian: a leader of the German Jews during the Nazi period; major work The Essence of Judaism (1905)
- baeda — Saint, Bede, Saint.
- baels — Plural form of bael.
- baffs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baff.
- baffy — a short golf club used to add lift to the ball
- bafta — British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- bagel — A bagel is a ring-shaped bread roll.
- baggs — Alternative spelling of bags (
- baggy — If a piece of clothing is baggy, it hangs loosely on your body.
- baghs — Plural form of bagh.
- bagie — a turnip
- bague — (architecture) The annular moulding or group of mouldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
- bahai — a religion founded in Iran in 1863 by Husayn ʿAlī (called Bahaullah), teaching the essential worth of all religions, the unity of all peoples, and the equality of the sexes.
- bahar — A weight used in parts of the East Indies, varying from about 223 to 625 pounds.
- bahau — a member of any of several Dayak tribes of central and eastern Borneo.
- bahia — a state of E Brazil, on the Atlantic coast. Capital: Salvador. Pop: 13 323 212 (2002). Area: about 562 000 sq km (217 000 sq miles)
- bahts — Plural form of baht.
- bahut — a portable, decorative chest, often with a round lid, primarily used for transporting clothing
- baiae — an ancient resort city in SW Italy, near Naples: villas of Caesar, Nero, and Pompey.
- baila — (music) A genre of music from Sri Lanka and India.
- baile — (in the southwestern US and parts of Central and South America) a gathering for dancing.
- bails — Plural form of bail.
- baily — one of the largest craters on the moon, about 293 kilometres in diameter, lying in the SE quadrant
- baird — John Logie (ˈləʊɡɪ). 1888–1946, Scottish engineer: inventor of a 240-line mechanically scanned system of television, replaced in 1935 by a 405-line electrically scanned system
- baire — mosquito net.
- bairn — A bairn is a child.
- baisa — a unit of currency in Oman, worth one-thousandth of a rial
- baith — both
- baits — Plural form of bait.
- baiza — a monetary unit of Oman, equal to 1⁄1000 of a rial
- baize — Baize is a thick woollen material which is used for covering tables on which games such as cards and snooker are played.
- bajaj — (Indonesia) A tuk-tuk.
- bajan — a native of Barbados
- bajer — Fredrik [fred-rik;; Danish frith -rik] /ˈfrɛd rɪk;; Danish ˈfrɪð rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1837–1922, Danish politician and author: Nobel Peace Prize 1908.
- bajra — a type of millet grown in India
- baked — to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
- baker — A baker is a person whose job is to bake and sell bread, pastries, and cakes.
- bakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bake.
- bakra — a White person, esp one from Britain
- bakst — Leon Nikolayevich (lɪˈɔn nikaˈlajɪvitʃ). 1866–1924, Russian painter and stage designer, noted particularly for his richly coloured sets for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909–21)
- balak — a Moabite king who sent for Balaam to come and curse the Israelites. Num. 22–23.
- balao — a halfbeak, Hemiramphus balao, of tropical western Atlantic seas.
- balas — a red variety of spinel, used as a gemstone
- balbo — Italo (ˈitalo). 1896–1940, Italian Fascist politician and airman: minister of aviation (1929–33)