6-letter words containing ba
- barfly — A barfly is a person who spends a lot of time drinking in bars
- barful — presenting difficulties or obstacles
- barged — a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter.
- bargee — a person employed on or in charge of a barge
- barger — (obsolete) The manager of a barge.
- barges — Plural form of barge.
- barhop — to visit several bars in succession
- barian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals that contain barium.
- baring — Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer. 1841–1917, English administrator. As consul general in Egypt with plenipotentiary powers, he controlled the Egyptian government from 1883 to 1907
- barish — quite thinly covered or bare
- barit. — baritone
- barite — a colourless or white mineral consisting of barium sulphate in orthorhombic crystalline form, occurring in sedimentary rocks and with sulphide ores: a source of barium. Formula: BaSO4
- barium — Barium is a soft, silvery-white metal.
- barked — the external covering of the woody stems, branches, and roots of plants, as distinct and separable from the wood itself.
- barken — consisting of bark
- barker — an animal or person that barks
- barkla — Charles Glover. 1877–1944, British physicist, noted for his work on X-rays: Nobel prize for physics 1917
- barley — Barley is a grain that is used to make food, beer, and whisky.
- barlow — a large strong pocket-knife with a single blade
- barman — A barman is a man who serves drinks behind a bar.
- barmen — a former city in W Germany, now incorporated into Wuppertal.
- barned — a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
- barnes — Djuna. 1892–1982, US novelist, noted for Nightwood (1936)
- barnet — a borough of N Greater London: scene of a Yorkist victory (1471) in the Wars of the Roses. Pop: 324 400 (2003 est). Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- barney — a noisy argument
- barnum — P(hineas) T(aylor). 1810–91, US showman, who created The Greatest Show on Earth (1871) and, with J. A. Bailey, founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1881)
- baroda — a former state of W India, part of Gujarat since 1960
- baroja — Pio (ˈpio). 1872–1956, Spanish Basque novelist, who wrote nearly 100 novels, including a series of twenty-two under the general title Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (1944–49)
- barolo — a dry red wine produced in the Piedmont region of Italy
- barong — a broad-bladed cleaver-like knife used in the Philippines
- barons — a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
- barony — A barony is the rank or position of a baron.
- barque — a sailing ship of three or more masts having the foremasts rigged square and the aftermast rigged fore-and-aft
- barras — Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras. 1755–1829, French revolutionary: member of the Directory (1795–99)
- barrat — fraudulent dealings
- barred — having bars or stripes
- barrel — A barrel is a large, round container for liquids or food.
- barren — A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
- barres — Maurice (mɔris). 1862–1923, French novelist, essayist, and politician: a fervent nationalist and individualist
- barret — a small flat cap resembling a biretta
- barrie — very good; attractive
- barrio — A barrio is a mainly Spanish-speaking area in an American city.
- barron — Clarence Walker, 1855–1928, U.S. financial publisher.
- barros — João de (ʒuə̃u ˈdəː). 1496–1570, Portuguese historian: noted for his history of the Portuguese in the East Indies, Décadas da Ásia (1552–1615)
- barrow — A barrow is the same as a wheelbarrow.
- barsac — a sweet French white wine produced around the town of Barsac in the Gironde
- barter — If you barter goods, you exchange them for other goods, rather than selling them for money.
- barthe — Richmond, 1901–1989, U.S. sculptor.
- bartok — Béla (ˈbeːlɔ). 1881–1945, Hungarian composer, pianist, and collector of folk songs, by which his music was deeply influenced. His works include six string quartets, three piano concertos, several piano pieces including Mikrokosmos (1926–37), ballets (including The Miraculous Mandarin, 1919), and the opera Bluebeard's Castle (produced 1918)
- barton — a farmyard