6-letter words starting with a
- aorist — a tense of the verb in classical Greek and in certain other inflected languages, indicating past action without reference to whether the action involved was momentary or continuous
- aortal — the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- aortas — Plural form of aorta.
- aortic — the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- aoudad — a wild mountain sheep, Ammotragus lervia, of N Africa, having horns curved in a semicircle and long hair covering the neck and forelegs
- aouita — Saïd (saɪˈiːd). born 1959, Moroccan middle-distance runner: set new world records for the 1500 metres (1987–93), 2000 metres (1987–95), and 5000 metres (1987–94)
- apache — a member of a North American Indian people, formerly nomadic and warlike, inhabiting the southwestern US and N Mexico
- aparel — A PArse REquest Language
- aparri — a seaport on N Luzon, in the N Philippines.
- apathy — You can use apathy to talk about someone's state of mind if you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about anything.
- apedom — the state of being an ape
- apeing — Present participle of ape.
- apeman — any of various extinct apelike primates thought to have been the forerunners, or closely related to the forerunners, of modern man
- apemen — Plural form of apeman.
- apercu — outline
- aperea — Cavia aperea, the Brazilian guinea pig.
- apexes — the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
- apheta — (astrology) The planet that has the most influence on a person's life.
- aphids — Plural form of aphid.
- aphony — Dated form of aphonia.
- aphtha — a small ulceration on a mucous membrane, as in thrush, caused by a fungal infection
- apiary — a place where bees are kept, usually in beehives
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- apices — apex
- apiece — If people have a particular number of things apiece, they have that number each.
- apises — a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- aplgol — (language) An APL variant with ALGOL-like control structure, from Hewlett-Packard(?).
- aplite — a light-coloured fine-grained acid igneous rock with a sugary texture, consisting of quartz and feldspars
- aplomb — If you do something with aplomb, you do it with confidence in a relaxed way.
- aplweb — (text, tool) A Web to APL and Web to TeX translator by Dr. Christoph von Basum of The University of Bielefeld, Germany.
- apneic — a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
- apnoea — a temporary inability to breathe
- apodal — (of snakes, eels, etc) without feet; having no obvious hind limbs or pelvic fins
- apogee — The apogee of something such as a culture or a business is its highest or its greatest point.
- apollo — a strikingly handsome youth
- aponia — The absence of pain considered as a state of spiritual serenity.
- aporia — a doubt, real or professed, about what to do or say
- apozem — an infusion or decoction
- appair — to make or become worse
- appall — If something appalls you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
- appals — (British) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appal.
- appeal — If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
- appear — If you say that something appears to be the way you describe it, you are reporting what you believe or what you have been told, though you cannot be sure it is true.
- append — When you append something to something else, especially a piece of writing, you attach it or add it to the end of it.
- appkit — (tool) A set of objects used by the application builder for the NEXTSTEP environment.
- apples — well or fine; under control.
- applet — An applet is a computer program which is contained within a page on the World Wide Web, and which transfers itself to your computer and runs automatically while you are looking at that Web page.
- appley — resembling or tasting like an apple
- applog — (language) A language which unifies logic programming and functional programming.
- apport — the production of objects by apparently supernatural means at a spiritualists' seance