6-letter words containing b
- abegge — (obsolete) Variant of aby.
- abeigh — aloof
- abeles — Plural form of abele.
- abelia — an ornamental garden shrub with pink or white flowers
- abends — Plural form of abend.
- abhors — to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- abhour — Obsolete form of abhor.
- abided — to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.
- abider — to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.
- abides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abide.
- abient — tending to move away from a stimulus or situation.
- abitur — the final school examination in Germany
- abject — You use abject to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
- abjure — If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
- abkhaz — a member of a Georgian people living east of the Black Sea
- ablate — to remove by ablation
- ablaut — vowel gradation, esp in Indo-European languages
- ablaze — Something that is ablaze is burning very fiercely.
- ablest — having necessary power, skill, resources, or qualifications; qualified: able to lift a two-hundred-pound weight; able to write music; able to travel widely; able to vote.
- abloom — in flower; blooming
- ablush — (of a person) blushing
- ablute — (intransitive, colloquial) To wash oneself. (First attested in the Late 19th century.).
- abnaki — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Maine and Quebec
- aboard — If you are aboard a ship or plane, you are on it or in it.
- aboded — Simple past tense and past participle of abode.
- abodes — Plural form of abode.
- abohms — Plural form of abohm.
- abolla — a cloak worn by Roman soldiers, worn draped over one shoulder and fastened with a metal brooch
- abomey — a city in SW Benin.
- aborad — (anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral).
- aboral — away from or opposite the mouth
- aborne — auburn
- aborts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abort.
- abound — If things abound, or if a place abounds with things, there are very large numbers of them.
- aboves — in, at, or to a higher place.
- abrade — To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
- abraid — to awake
- abrams — Plural form of abram.
- abrase — (obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank. (Attested only in the 17th century.).
- abrash — any variation or change, typically striation, in the different dyes of an Oriental rug as it ages.
- abrazo — an embrace used as a greeting or on parting in Spain and Latin America
- abread — (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Abroad.
- abrégé — an abridgment
- abrest — Alternative spelling of abreast.
- abroad — If you go abroad, you go to a foreign country, usually one which is separated from the country where you live by an ocean or a sea.
- abrupt — An abrupt change or action is very sudden, often in a way which is unpleasant.
- absail — Misspelling of abseil.
- abscam — the code name for an FBI investigation (1978–80) of bribery, involving members of Congress.
- abseil — To abseil down a cliff or rock face means to slide down it in a controlled way using a rope, with your feet against the cliff or rock.
- absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.