6-letter words starting with a
- accord — An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
- accost — If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger, they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way that seems rude or threatening.
- accrue — If money or interest accrues or if you accrue it, it gradually increases in amount over a period of time.
- accuse — If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or dishonest, you say or tell them that you believe that they did it.
- ace it — a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.
- acedia — spiritual sloth or apathy
- acerra — (in Ancient Rome) A small box for holding incense.
- acetal — 1,1-diethoxyethane; a colourless volatile liquid used as a solvent and in perfumes. Formula: CH3CH(OC2H5)2
- acetic — of, containing, producing, or derived from acetic acid or vinegar
- acetin — any of three types of liquid acetate, formed from glycerol and acetic acid, chiefly used in explosives and solvents
- aceto- — containing an acetyl group or derived from acetic acid
- acetum — a solution that has dilute acetic acid as solvent
- acetyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group CH3CO-
- achaea — a department of Greece, in the N Peloponnese. Capital: Patras. Pop: 318 928 (2001). Area: 3209 sq km (1239 sq miles)
- achage — pain, a state of aching
- achebe — Chinua. 1930–2013, Nigerian novelist. His works include Things Fall Apart (1958), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
- achene — a dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall. It may be smooth, as in the buttercup, or feathery, as in clematis
- achest — Archaic second-person singular form of ache.
- achill — an island off the coast of NW Ireland. 14 miles (23 km) long; 11 miles (18 km) wide.
- aching — causing physical pain or distress: treatment for an aching back.
- achish — the king of the Philistine city of Gath, who twice gave refuge to David. I Sam. 21:10–15.
- achkan — a type of man's coat, knee-length or longer and long-sleeved, worn in South Asia, traditionally by the Muslim and Sikh aristocracy of Northern India
- achsah — the daughter of Caleb who was promised in marriage to the conqueror of the city of Debir. Josh. 15:16–19; Judges 1:12–15.
- acidic — Acidic substances contain acid.
- acidly — Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- acinar — of or relating to any of the terminal saclike portions of a compound gland
- acinus — any of the terminal saclike portions of a compound gland
- acknow — to recognize
- ackton — a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- acmite — a silicate mineral with chemical formula NaFeSi2O6, consisting of pyramid-shaped crystals; aegirite
- acnode — a point whose coordinates satisfy the equation of a curve although it does not lie on the curve; an isolated point. The origin is an acnode of the curve y2 + x2 = x3
- acoasm — acouasm.
- acoria — (pathology) Excessive eating due to a lack of the sensation of satiety.
- acorns — Plural form of acorn.
- acount — Misspelling of account.
- acquis — The accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the total body of EU law.
- acquit — If someone is acquitted of a crime in a court of law, they are formally declared not to have committed the crime.
- acrawl — crawling
- across — If someone or something goes across a place or a boundary, they go from one side of it to the other.
- acrost — Eye dialect of across.
- act on — to regulate one's behaviour in accordance with (advice, information, etc)
- act up — If something is acting up, it is not working properly.
- actalk — (language) A Smalltalk-based actor language developed by J-P Briot in 1989.
- actant — (in valency grammar) a noun phrase functioning as the agent of the main verb of a sentence
- actin- — actino-
- acting — Acting is the activity or profession of performing in plays or films.
- action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
- actium — a town of ancient Greece that overlooked the naval battle in 31 bc at which Octavian's fleet under Agrippa defeated that of Mark Antony and Cleopatra
- active — Someone who is active moves around a lot or does a lot of things.
- actons — Plural form of acton.