6-letter words starting with a
- atrial — Architecture. Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water. a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church. a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- atrium — An atrium is a part of a building such as a hotel or shopping centre, which extends up through several floors of the building and often has a glass roof.
- attach — If you attach something to an object, you join it or fasten it to the object.
- attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
- attain — If you attain something, you gain it or achieve it, often after a lot of effort.
- attars — Plural form of attar.
- attend — If you attend a meeting or other event, you are present at it.
- attent — attentive; intent.
- attest — To attest something or attest to something means to say, show, or prove that it is true.
- attica — a region and department of E central Greece: in ancient times the territory of Athens. Capital: Athens. Pop: 3 336 700 (2001). Area: 14 157 sq km (5466 sq miles)
- attics — Plural form of attic.
- attila — ?406–453 ad, king of the Huns, who devastated much of the Roman Empire, invaded Gaul in 451 ad, but was defeated by the Romans and Visigoths at Châlons-sur-Marne
- attire — Your attire is the clothes you are wearing.
- attius — Lucius, Accius, Lucius.
- attlee — Clement Richard, 1st Earl Attlee. 1883–1967, British statesman; prime minister (1945–51); leader of the Labour party (1935–55). His government instituted the welfare state, with extensive nationalization
- attone — to appease or pacify
- attorn — to acknowledge a new owner of land as one's landlord
- attrap — to catch or ensnare
- attrib — Abbreviation of attribution.
- attrit — to wear down or dispose of gradually
- attune — to adjust or accustom (a person or thing); acclimatize
- atwain — into two parts
- atweel — surely.
- atween — (archaic) between.
- atwixt — (obsolete) betwixt.
- atwood — Margaret (Eleanor) born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist. Her novels include Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid's Tale (1986), Alias Grace (1996), the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin (2000), and Oryx and Crake (2003)
- atypia — (symptom) abnormality in a cell.
- atypic — nonconforming or not typical
- atyrau — a port city in W Kazakhstan, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea.
- au jus — (of meat) served in its own gravy
- au vol — a cry used to encourage a hawk to fly.
- aubade — a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn
- aubrey — John. 1626–97, English antiquary and author, noted for his vivid biographies of his contemporaries, Brief Lives (edited 1898)
- auburn — Auburn hair is reddish brown.
- auceps — a person who catches hawks
- aucuba — an ornamental evergreen Japanese laurel
- audial — of or relating to sound and the sense of hearing
- audile — a person who possesses a faculty for auditory imagery that is more distinct than his visual or other imagery
- auding — the practice of listening to and processing spoken language in order to understand
- audio- — indicating hearing or sound
- audion — an early type of triode.
- audism — The notion that one is superior based on one's ability to hear or behave in the manner of one who hears.
- audits — Plural form of audit.
- audrey — a feminine name
- augcog — augmented cognition
- augean — extremely dirty or corrupt
- augeas — king of the Epeans in Elis and one of the Argonauts.
- augend — a number to which another number, the addend, is added
- augers — Plural form of auger.
- aughts — Archaic. ownership; possession. property; a possession.