6-letter words containing en
- bengal — a former province of NE India, in the great deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers: in 1947 divided into West Bengal (belonging to India) and East Bengal (Bangladesh)
- bengbu — a city in E China, in Anhui province. Pop: 779 000 (2005 est)
- benign — You use benign to describe someone who is kind, gentle, and harmless.
- benita — a female given name.
- bennet — herb bennet.
- benoit — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (or Peter) Léonard Léopold [ley-aw-nar ley-aw-pawld] /leɪ ɔˈnar leɪ ɔˈpɔld/ (Show IPA), 1834–1901, Belgian composer.
- benoni — a city in NE South Africa: gold mines. Pop: 94 341 (2001)
- benson — E(dward) F(rederic). 1867–1940, British writer, noted esp for a series of comic novels featuring the characters Mapp and Lucia
- benton — Thomas Hart. 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s
- benumb — to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold
- benzal — a transparent crystalline substance
- benzil — a yellowish organic compound
- benzin — a colorless, volatile, flammable, liquid mixture of various hydrocarbons, obtained in the distillation of petroleum, and used in cleaning, dyeing, etc.
- benzo- — indicating a benzene ring fused to another ring in a polycyclic compound
- benzol — a crude form of benzene, containing toluene, xylene, and other hydrocarbons, obtained from coal tar or coal gas and used as a fuel
- benzyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group C6H5CH2–
- bergen — a large rucksack with a capacity of over 50 litres
- bidden — Bidden is a past participle of bid2.
- bident — an instrument with two prongs
- bienne — Biel
- bingen — a town in W Germany on the Rhine: wine trade and tourist centre. Pop: 24 716 (2003 est)
- biogen — a hypothetical protein assumed to be the basis of the formation and functioning of body cells and tissues
- birken — relating to the birch tree
- bitten — Bitten is the past participle of bite.
- blench — to shy away, as in fear; quail
- blende — any of several sulphide ores, such as antimony sulphide
- blenny — any blennioid fish of the family Blenniidae of coastal waters, esp of the genus Blennius, having a tapering scaleless body, a long dorsal fin, and long raylike pelvic fins
- blixen — Karen
- bohlen — Charles Eustis [yoo-stis] /ˈyu stɪs/ (Show IPA), ("Chip") 1904–74, U.S. diplomat.
- böhmen — an area of the W Czech Republic, formerly a province of Czechoslovakia (1918–1949). From 1939 until 1945 it formed part of the German protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia
- bolden — Buddy, real name Charles Bolden. 1868–1931, US Black jazz cornet player; a pioneer of the New Orleans style
- borden — ˈLizzie (Andrew) (ˈlɪzi ) ; lizˈē) 1860-1927; U.S. woman accused and acquitted in a sensational trial (1893) of murdering her father & stepmother (1892)
- boreen — a country lane or narrow road
- brazen — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brazen, you mean that they are very bold and do not care what other people think about them or their behaviour.
- bremen — a state of NW Germany, centred on the city of Bremen and its outport Bremerhaven. Pop: 663 000 (2003 est). Area: 404 sq km (156 sq miles)
- brenda — a feminine name
- brenne — to burn
- brienz — Lake of, a lake in SE Bern canton in Switzerland. 11.5 sq. mi. (30 sq. km).
- broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
- bunsen — Robert Wilhelm (ˈroːbɛrt ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1811–99, German chemist who with Kirchhoff developed spectrum analysis and discovered the elements caesium and rubidium. He invented the Bunsen burner and the ice calorimeter
- burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
- butene — a pungent colourless gas existing in four isomeric forms, all of which are used in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C4H8
- cabmen — Plural form of cabman.
- cadent — having cadence; rhythmic
- camden — a borough of N Greater London. Pop: 210 700 (2003 est). Area: 21 sq km (8 sq miles)
- careen — To careen somewhere means to rush forward in an uncontrollable way.
- carene — (religion, obsolete) A fast of forty days on bread and water.
- carmen — an opera (1875) by Georges Bizet.
- carven — carve
- casten — (archaic, poetic) Past participle of cast.