6-letter words containing b
- absorb — If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
- absurd — If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
- abukir — bay at the mouth of the Nile, near Alexandria, Egypt: site of the British victory (1798) under Nelson over the French
- abulia — a pathological inability to take decisions
- abulic — a symptom of mental disorder involving impairment or loss of volition.
- abunas — Plural form of abuna.
- aburas — Plural form of abura.
- aburst — in a bursting state
- abused — Simple past tense and past participle of abuse.
- abusee — A person who is the victim of abuse (by an abuser).
- abuser — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- abuses — Plural form of abuse.
- abusio — (rhetoric) Catachresis.
- abvolt — the cgs unit of potential difference in the electromagnetic system; the potential difference between two points when work of 1 erg must be done to transfer 1 abcoulomb of charge from one point to the other: equivalent to 10–8 volt
- abwatt — the cgs unit of power in the electromagnetic system, equal to the power dissipated when a current of 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt: equivalent to 10–7 watt
- abwehr — the German high-command service for espionage, counterintelligence, and sabotage during World War II.
- abydos — an ancient town in central Egypt: site of many temples and tombs
- abying — Present participle of aby.
- achebe — Chinua. 1930–2013, Nigerian novelist. His works include Things Fall Apart (1958), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
- ad-lib — If you ad-lib something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand.
- adabas — (database) A relational database system by Software AG. While it was initially designed for large IBM mainframe systems (e.g. S/370 in the late 1970s), it has been ported to numerous other platforms over the last few years such as several flavors of Unix including AIX. ADABAS stores its data in tables (and is thus "relational") but also uses some non-relational techniques, such as multiple values and periodic groups.
- adlibs — Plural form of adlib.
- adobes — Plural form of adobe.
- adobos — Plural form of adobo.
- adorbs — Informal. very cute; adorable.
- adsorb — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a substance, usually a gas, accumulates on the surface of a solid forming a thin film, often only one molecule thick
- adverb — An adverb is a word such as 'slowly', 'now', 'very', 'politically', or 'fortunately' which adds information about the action, event, or situation mentioned in a clause.
- aerobe — an organism that requires oxygen for respiration
- agabus — a Christian prophet who predicted a great famine. Acts 11:28.
- agbada — A long, flowing robe with wide sleeves worn by men in some parts of West Africa, often decorated with embroidery.
- aintab — Gaziantep
- airbag — An airbag is a safety device in a car which automatically fills with air if the car crashes, and is designed to protect the people in the car when they are thrown forward in the crash.
- airbed — An airbed is a plastic or rubber mattress which can be folded or stored flat and which you fill with air before you use it.
- airbus — An Airbus is an aeroplane which is designed to carry a large number of passengers for fairly short distances.
- akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows bent outward
- aktobe — an industrial city in W Kazakhstan. Pop: 291 000 (2005 est)
- akubra — a brand of Australian hat
- albano — Lake, a crater lake in C Italy, SE of Rome.
- albany — a city in E New York State, on the Hudson River: the state capital. Pop: 93 919 (2003 est)
- albata — a variety of German silver consisting of nickel, copper, and zinc
- albedo — the ratio of the intensity of light reflected from an object, such as a planet, to that of the light it receives from the sun
- albeit — You use albeit to introduce a fact or comment which reduces the force or significance of what you have just said.
- albers — Josef. 1888–1976, US painter, designer, and poet, born in Germany. His works include a series of abstract paintings entitled Homage to the Square
- albert — a kind of watch chain usually attached to a waistcoat
- albiet — Misspelling of albeit.
- albino — An albino is a person or animal with very white skin, white hair, and pink eyes.
- albion — Britain or England
- albite — a colourless, milky-white, yellow, pink, green, or black mineral of the feldspar group and plagioclase series, found in igneous sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. It is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. Composition: sodium aluminium silicate. Formula: NaALSi3O8. Crystal structure: triclinic
- alboin — died 573 ad, king of the Lombards (565–73); conqueror of N Italy
- alborg — seaport in N Jutland, Denmark: pop. 159,000