6-letter words containing b
- atabal — a drum played by the Moorish people of N Africa
- atabeg — a Turkish leader who had a lower status than the ruler of the country and who acted as teacher and guardian to the male heir apparent
- atabek — Turkish ruler
- atbara — a town in NE Sudan. Pop: 110 000 (2005 est)
- athrob — pulsing or throbbing
- attrib — Abbreviation of attribution.
- aubade — a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn
- aubrey — John. 1626–97, English antiquary and author, noted for his vivid biographies of his contemporaries, Brief Lives (edited 1898)
- auburn — Auburn hair is reddish brown.
- aucuba — an ornamental evergreen Japanese laurel
- aumbry — ambry.
- ausubo — a tropical American tree, Manilkara bidentata, with hard, red wood
- ax job — hatchet job.
- b cell — Also called B lymphocyte. a type of lymphocyte, developed in bone marrow, that circulates in the blood and lymph and, upon encountering a particular foreign antigen, differentiates into a clone of plasma cells that secrete a specific antibody and a clone of memory cells that make the antibody on subsequent encounters.
- b list — a category considered to be slightly below the most socially desirable
- b star — a massive, relatively hot, blue to white star, as Rigel or Spica, having a surface temperature between 10,000 and 30,000 K and with an absorption spectrum dominated by the Balmer series of hydrogen with lines of neutral helium present.
- b-axis — the horizontal crystallographic axis that is in a right-left position.
- b-ball — basketball
- b-cell — any of the lymphocytes not derived from the thymus, that mature in the bone marrow and help to build antibodies
- b-girl — a female break dancer
- b-line — An early CAD language.
- b-post — A B-post is part of the bodywork of a vehicle that supports the roof and against which the front door closes.
- b-road — A B-road is a minor road.
- b-side — The B-side of a pop record has the less important or less popular song on it. Compare A-side.
- b-tree — (algorithm) A multi-way balanced tree. The "B" in B-tree has never been officially defined. It could stand for "balanced" or "Bayer", after one of the original designers of the algorithms and structure. A B-tree is _not_ (necessarily?) a "binary tree". A B+-tree (as used by IBM's VSAM) is a B-tree where the leaves are also linked sequentially, thus allowing both fast random access and sequential access to data.
- b.b.c. — the noncommercial British radio and television broadcasting company. Abbreviation: BBC, B.B.C.
- b.f.a. — Bachelor of Fine Arts
- b.p.e. — Bachelor of Physical Education
- ba jin — (Li Feigan) 1904–2005, Chinese writer.
- ba'ath — designating or of a political party formed in Syria in the 1940s: separate factions of the party have ruled Syria since 1970 and ruled Iraq from 1968 to 2003
- ba--th — a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.
- baaing — The bleating of a sheep.
- baalim — any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.
- babaco — a subtropical parthenocarpic tree, Carica pentagona, originating in South America, cultivated for its fruit: family Caricaceae
- babble — If someone babbles, they talk in a confused or excited way.
- babbly — babbling; chatty; talkative
- babeuf — François Noël (frɑ̃swa nɔɛl) 1760–97, French political agitator: plotted unsuccessfully to destroy the Directory and establish a communistic system
- babied — an infant or very young child.
- babier — an infant or very young child.
- babies — an infant or very young child.
- babish — Like a babe; childish; babyish.
- babism — a pantheistic Persian religious sect, founded in 1844 by the Bab, forbidding polygamy, concubinage, begging, trading in slaves, and indulgence in alcohol and drugs
- bablah — the rind of the fruit of several varieties of acacia, containing tannin and therefore used as a dye
- babool — Alternative form of babul.
- baboon — A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.
- baboos — babu.
- babson — Roger Ward, 1875–1967, U.S. statistician and businessman.
- bacaic — Boeing Airplane Company Algebraic Interpreter Coding system. A pre-Fortran system on the IBM 701 and IBM 650.
- bacall — Lauren (Betty Joan Perske) 1924–2014, U.S. actress.
- bacci- — berry