6-letter words starting with a
- advene — to become part of or be added to something
- advent — In the Christian church, Advent is the period between Advent Sunday, the Sunday closest to the 30th of November, and Christmas Day.
- adverb — An adverb is a word such as 'slowly', 'now', 'very', 'politically', or 'fortunately' which adds information about the action, event, or situation mentioned in a clause.
- advert — An advert is an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about something such as a product, event, or job.
- advice — If you give someone advice, you tell them what you think they should do in a particular situation.
- advise — If you advise someone to do something, you tell them what you think they should do.
- adviso — (obsolete) information; advice; intelligence.
- advoke — To summon or call (to a higher tribunal).
- advsys — (language, games) An adventure game language designed by David Betz in 1986. ADVSYS is object-oriented and Lisp-like.
- adware — a type of computer software that collects information about a user's browsing patterns in order to display relevant advertisements in his or her Web browser
- adygei — a member of a Circassian people of the Northwest Caucasus
- adytum — the most sacred place of worship in an ancient temple from which the laity was prohibited
- adzing — an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
- adzuki — a leguminous plant, Phaseolus angularis, that has yellow flowers and pods containing edible brown seeds; widely cultivated as a food crop in China and Japan
- aeacus — a king of Aegina who, after he dies, becomes one of the three judges of the dead in the lower world, with Minos and Rhadamanthus
- aecial — relating to or resembling an aecium
- aecium — a globular or cup-shaped structure in some rust fungi in which aeciospores are produced
- aedile — a magistrate of ancient Rome in charge of public works, games, buildings, and roads
- aedine — relating to mosquitoes of the genus Aedes
- aeetes — a king of Colchis, father of Medea and keeper of the Golden Fleece
- aegean — of or relating to the Aegean Sea or Islands
- aegeus — an Athenian king and father of Theseus
- aegina — an island in the Aegean Sea, in the Saronic Gulf. Area: 85 sq km (33 sq miles)
- aegium — a town in ancient Achaea, on the Gulf of Corinth: the Achaean League met here.
- aeneas — a Trojan prince, the son of Anchises and Aphrodite, who escaped the sack of Troy and sailed to Italy via Carthage and Sicily. After seven years, he and his followers established themselves near the site of the future Rome
- aeneid — an epic poem in Latin by Virgil relating the experiences of Aeneas after the fall of Troy, written chiefly to provide an illustrious historical background for Rome
- aeneus — a tropical fish, Corydoras aeneus, that is commonly found in aquariums
- aeolia — Aeolis
- aeolic — of or relating to the Aeolians or their dialect
- aeolis — the ancient name for the coastal region of NW Asia Minor, including the island of Lesbos, settled by the Aeolian Greeks (about 1000 bc)
- aeolus — the god of the winds
- aeonic — lasting for an aeon
- aerate — To aerate a substance means to cause air or gas to pass through it.
- aerial — You talk about aerial attacks and aerial photographs to indicate that people or things on the ground are attacked or photographed by people in aeroplanes.
- aeried — located in a very high place
- aerier — ethereal; aerial.
- aeries — the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- aerify — to change or cause to change into a gas
- aerily — in an aery manner
- aerobe — an organism that requires oxygen for respiration
- aeron. — aeronautics
- aerope — the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- aerugo — verdigris.
- aether — ether
- aethon — triethyl orthoformate.
- afeard — frightened; afraid
- affair — If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
- affear — (archaic) To frighten, to scare; to terrify.
- affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
- affeer — to assess, to decide upon an amount