6-letter words starting with a
- archbp — archbishop
- archd. — archdeacon
- arched — An arched roof, window, or doorway is curved at the top.
- archer — An archer is someone who shoots arrows using a bow.
- arches — Obsolete. a person who is preeminent; a chief.
- archet — Lb musical instruments violin box.
- archi- — chief, first
- archie — Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- archil — orchil
- archly — in an arch manner; pertly and mischievously
- archon — (in ancient Athens) one of the nine chief magistrates
- arcing — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- arcked — a simple past tense and past participle of arc.
- arcmin — 1⁄60 of a degree of an angle
- arcnet — (networking) A network developed by DataPoint. ARCnet was proprietary until the late 1980s and had about as large a marketshare as Ethernet among small businesses. It was almost as fast and was considerably cheaper at the time.
- arcsch — (mathematics) The area hyperbolic cosecant function, i.e., the inverse hyperbolic cosecant function.
- arcsec — 1⁄3600 of a degree of an angle
- arcsin — arcsine: the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
- arctan — arctangent: the function the value of which for a given argument is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2) the tangent of which is that argument: the inverse of the tangent function
- arctic — The Arctic is the area of the world around the North Pole. It is extremely cold and there is very little light in winter and very little darkness in summer.
- ardeid — belonging or pertaining to the family Ardeidae, comprising the herons and bitterns.
- ardent — Ardent is used to describe someone who has extremely strong feelings about something or someone.
- ardors — Plural form of ardor.
- ardour — Ardour is a strong, intense feeling of love or enthusiasm for someone or something.
- areach — to reach
- arecas — Plural form of areca.
- aren't — Aren't is the usual spoken form of 'are not'.
- arenas — Plural form of arena.
- arendt — Hannah. 1906–75, US political philosopher, born in Germany. Her publications include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961)
- areola — any small circular area, such as the pigmented ring around the human nipple or the inflamed area surrounding a pimple
- areole — a space outlined on a surface, such as an area between veins on a leaf or on an insect's wing
- arepas — Plural form of arepa.
- aretes — Plural form of arete.
- arezzo — a city in central Italy, in E Tuscany. Pop: 91 589 (2001)
- argala — the adjutant bird
- argali — a wild sheep, Ovis ammon, inhabiting semidesert regions in central Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. It is the largest of the sheep, having massive horns in the male, which may almost form a circle
- argall — Sir Samuel, 1572–1639, British explorer: colonial governor of Virginia 1617–19.
- argand — a lamp with a hollow circular wick
- argent — (as adjective; often postpositive, esp in heraldry)
- arghan — any of various plants of the genus Agave and of the family Agavaceae, which are native to tropical America and have tall flower stalks rising from a massive, often armed, rosette of thick fleshy leaves
- argies — a term used to refer to an Argentine.
- argive — (in Homer, Virgil, etc) of or relating to the Greeks besieging Troy, esp those from Argos
- argosy — a large abundantly laden merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships
- argots — Plural form of argot.
- argued — Simple past tense and past participle of argue.
- arguer — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- argues — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- argufy — to argue or quarrel, esp over something trivial
- arguta — the green, smooth-skinned, edible fruit of an Asian vine, Actinidia arguta.
- argute — (of sounds) shrill