6-letter words starting with a
- argyle — made of knitted or woven material with a diamond-shaped pattern of two or more colours
- argyll — former county of W Scotland
- arhant — a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices. Compare Bodhisattva.
- arhats — Plural form of arhat.
- ariane — Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
- ariary — the standard unit of currency of Madagascar
- aridly — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- ariege — a department of SW France, in Midi-Pyrénées region. Capital: Foix. Pop: 139 612 (2003 est). Area: 4903 sq km (1912 sq miles)
- aright — correctly; rightly; properly
- ariled — (of seeds) having an aril
- ariose — characterized by melody
- arioso — a recitative with the lyrical quality of an aria
- arised — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of arise.
- arisen — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- arises — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- arista — a stiff bristle such as the awn of some grasses and cereals
- aristo — an aristocrat
- arjuna — the most important of the five princes in the Mahabharata. Krishna served as his charioteer in the battle with the Kauravas
- arkies — a term used to refer to a migrant worker originally from Arkansas.
- arkite — a passenger in Noah's ark
- arkose — a sandstone consisting of grains of feldspar and quartz cemented by a mixture of quartz and clay minerals
- arleen — a female given name.
- arlene — a feminine name: var. Arline, Arleen
- arliss — George, 1868–1946, English actor.
- arm610 — (processor) A 32-bit RISC microprocessor based on the ARM6 processor core designed by Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. The ARM610 is the successor to the ARM3 processor and is produced by VLSI Technology Inc. It consumes 500mW at 33MHz with a 5V supply.
- arm710 — (processor) A 32-bit RISC microprocessor based on the ARM7 processor core designed by Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. The A710 is the successor to the ARM610 processor. It was released in July 1994 by VLSI Technology Inc. The ARM710 can run at 40MHz (fastest sample 55MHz) dissipating 500mW with a 5V supply or 25MHz with 3.3V supply. It has an 8 kilobyte on-chip cache, memory management unit and write buffer. The ARM700 and ARM710 processors represent a significant improvement over the ARM610 processors. They have a higher maximum clock speed and a number of architectural improvements such as double the size of internal cache, this means that more of any process can be executed internally without accessing the (relatively) slow external memory. Other improvements are an improved write buffer and an enlarged Translation Lookaside Buffer in the MMU. All of these improvements increase the performance of the system and deliver more real performance than a simple comparison of clock speeds would indicate. The ARM710 has been optimised for integer performance. The FPA11 floating point coprocessor has a peak throughput of up to 5 MFLOPS and achieves an average throughput in excess of 3 MFLOPS for a range of calculations.
- arm800 — (processor) A microprocessor based on the ARM8 processor core designed by Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Planned features include a 60-100Mhz clock rate; 0.35-0.4 micron silicon fabrication; an improvement on the ARM7's 1.4 cycle/instruction; a 16 Kbyte cache. Some estimates were 100 MIPS and 120 Kdhrystones at 70Mhz (twice the ARM700). Samples of the ARM800 are expected to be available in late 1995. It may run on a voltage below 3.3V.
- armada — An armada is a large group of warships.
- armado — Obsolete form of armada.
- armagh — a historical county of S Northern Ireland: in 1973 it was replaced for administrative purposes by the districts of Armagh and Craigavon. Area: 1326 sq km (512 sq miles)
- armand — a male given name, French form of Herman.
- armani — Giorgio. born 1936, Italian fashion designer, noted for his restrained classical style
- armbar — (combat sports) A joint lock where the elbow is hyperextended in order to cause pain and/or injury.
- armful — An armful of something is the amount of it that you can carry fairly easily.
- armies — Plural form of army.
- armill — a garment resembling a stole, worn by a British king at his coronation.
- arming — the act of taking arms or providing with arms
- armlet — a small arm, as of a lake, the sea, etc
- armoir — Dated form of armoire.
- armors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of armor.
- armory — armor or armorial bearings
- armour — In former times, armour was special metal clothing that soldiers wore for protection in battle.
- armpad — a small cushion forming part of the arm of a chair, sofa, or the like.
- armpit — Your armpits are the areas of your body under your arms where your arms join your shoulders.
- armure — a silk or wool fabric with a small cobbled pattern
- arnaud — Yvonne. 1892–1958, French actress, who was well-known on the London stage and in British films. A theatre in Guildford is named after her
- arnhem — a city in the E Netherlands, capital of Gelderland province, on the Rhine: site of a World War II battle. Pop: 142 000 (2003 est)
- arnica — any N temperate or arctic plant of the genus Arnica, typically having yellow flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- arnold — a town in N central England, in S Nottinghamshire. Pop: 37 402 (2001)
- arnulf — a.d. 850?–899, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 887–899: crowned 896.