6-letter words starting with ba
- bagful — an amount that is or can be contained in a bag
- bagged — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
- bagger — A bagger is a person whose job is to put customers' purchases into bags at a supermarket or other store.
- baggie — a variety of thin, strong, sealable plastic bag, used primarily for storing food
- baggit — a female salmon which has not spawned by the end of the spawning season
- baghla — an Arabian sailing vessel, having lugsails on two or three masts, a straight, raking stem, and a transom stern.
- bagley — William Chandler, 1874–1946, U.S. educator and writer.
- bagman — a travelling salesman
- bagmen — Plural form of bagman.
- bagnio — a brothel
- bagram — an air base in NE Afghanistan, near Kabul; now under the control of US forces
- bags i — an indication of the desire to do, be, or have something
- baguet — (architecture, zoology) Alternative form of baguette.
- baguio — a city in the N Philippines, on N Luzon: summer capital of the Republic. Pop: 287 000 (2005 est)
- bagwig — an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag
- baha'i — an adherent of the Baha'í Faith
- bahaei — a religion founded in Iran in 1863 by Husayn ʿAlī (called Bahaullah), teaching the essential worth of all religions, the unity of all peoples, and the equality of the sexes.
- bahutu — Hutu
- baicai — Alternative spelling of bok choy.
- baikal — a type of Russian-made handgun, designed to fire tear-gas cylinders but often modified to fire bullets
- bailed — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- bailee — a person to whom the possession of goods is transferred under a bailment
- bailer — to dip (water) out of a boat, as with a bucket.
- bailey — the outermost wall or court of a castle
- bailie — (in Scotland) a municipal magistrate
- bailor — a person who retains ownership of goods but entrusts possession of them to another under a bailment
- báinín — Irish collarless jacket made of white wool
- bairam — either of two Muslim festivals, one (Lesser Bairam) falling at the end of Ramadan, the other (Greater Bairam) 70 days later at the end of the Islamic year
- baited — food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- baiter — someone who baits or teases
- baizes — Plural form of baize.
- bajada — a scrummaging technique, developed in Argentina, in which all eight forwards in a pack drive forward low and hard
- bakers — Plural form of baker.
- bakery — A bakery is a building where bread, pastries, and cakes are baked, or the shop where they are sold.
- bakgat — fine, excellent, marvellous
- baking — You can use baking to describe weather or a place that is very hot indeed.
- bakkie — a small truck with an open body and low sides
- balaam — a Mesopotamian diviner who, when summoned to curse the Israelites, prophesied future glories for them instead, after being reproached by his ass (Numbers 22–23)
- balata — a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, yielding a latex-like sap
- balboa — Vasco Núñez de (ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ de). ?1475–1519, Spanish explorer, who discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513
- balche — (among the Yucatec Maya) a drink made from the bark of a leguminous tree, Lonchocarpus violaceus, which is soaked in honey and water and fermented.
- balcon — Sir Michael. 1896–1977, British film producer; his films made at Ealing Studios include the comedies Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- baldad — Bildad.
- balded — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- balder — a god, son of Odin and Frigg, noted for his beauty and sweet nature. He was killed by a bough of mistletoe thrown by the blind god Höd, misled by the malicious Loki
- baldie — a bald person (sometimes used as a facetious term of address).
- baldly — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- baleen — whalebone
- balers — Plural form of baler.
- balewa — Sir Abubakar Tafawa [ah-boo-bah-kahr tah-fah-wah,, ah-boo-bah-kahr] /ˌɑ buˈbɑ kɑr tɑˈfɑ wɑ,, ɑˈbu bɑˌkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1912–66, Nigerian statesman: prime minister 1957–66.