6-letter words starting with a
- aroint — to drive away
- arolla — an Arolla pine
- aromas — Plural form of aroma.
- aronia — A plant of the genus Aronia in the rose family, especially (in gardening) a chokeberry.
- around — To be positioned around a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move around a place means to go along its edge, back to your starting point.
- arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
- arpent — a former French unit of length equal to 190 feet (approximately 58 metres)
- arpino — Gerald (Peter) 1928–2008, U.S. choreographer.
- arrack — a coarse spirit distilled in various Eastern countries from grain, rice, sugar cane, etc
- arrant — Arrant is used to emphasize that something or someone is very bad in some way.
- arrays — Plural form of array.
- arrear — in arrears, behind or late, especially in payment: She was three months in arrears on her mortgage and credit card payments. Also, Chiefly Law, in arrear.
- arrect — (of animals' ears) pricked up
- arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- arriba — an exclamation of pleasure or approval
- arride — to gladden or give pleasure or satisfaction to (a person)
- arrish — corn stubble
- arrive — When a person or vehicle arrives at a place, they come to it at the end of a journey.
- arroba — a unit of weight, approximately equal to 11 kilograms, used in some Spanish-speaking countries
- arrose — (obsolete) To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.
- arrowe — Obsolete spelling of arrow.
- arrows — a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight.
- arrowy — having or comprising arrows
- arroyo — An arroyo is a dry stream bed with steep sides.
- arseno — having or containing arsenic
- arshin — a Russian unit of length equal to 28 inches (71 cm).
- arsine — a colourless poisonous gas used in the manufacture of organic compounds, to dope transistors, and as a military poisonous gas. Formula: AsH3
- arsino — having or comprising the radical AsH2
- arsons — Plural form of arson.
- artaud — Antonin (ɑ̃tɔnɛ̃). 1896–1948, French stage director and dramatist, whose concept of the theatre of cruelty is expounded in Manifeste du théâtre de la cruauté (1932) and Le Théâtre et son double (1938)
- artels — Plural form of artel.
- artery — Arteries are the tubes in your body that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body. Compare vein.
- artful — If you describe someone as artful, you mean that they are clever and skilful at achieving what they want, especially by deceiving people.
- arthur — a legendary king of the Britons in the sixth century ad, who led Celtic resistance against the Saxons: possibly based on a historical figure; represented as leader of the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot
- artier — characterized by a showy, pretentious, and often spurious display of artistic interest, manner, or mannerism.
- artily — in an affectedly creative or aesthetic manner
- artist — An artist is someone who draws or paints pictures or creates sculptures as a job or a hobby.
- artois — a former province of N France
- arunta — Aranda.
- arusha — a city in N Tanganyika, in Tanzania.
- arvada — city in NC Colo.: suburb of Denver: pop. 102,000
- as for — You use as for and as to at the beginning of a sentence in order to introduce a slightly different subject that is still connected to the previous one.
- as how — that
- as one — If a group of people does something as one, all the people do the same thing at the same time or in the same way.
- as per — If something happens as per a particular plan or suggestion, it happens in the way planned or suggested.
- as was — in a previous state
- as yet — You use as yet with negative statements to describe a situation that has existed up until the present time.
- asa/bs — an obsolete expression of the speed of a photographic film, replaced by the ISO rating
- asanas — Plural form of asana.
- asante — Ashanti.