6-letter words starting with bi
- bigtha — one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of King Ahasuerus. Esther 1:10.
- bigwig — If you refer to an important person as a bigwig, you are being rather disrespectful.
- bihari — a member of an Indian people living chiefly in Bihar but also in other parts of NW India and Bangladesh
- bihzad — Kamal ad-Din [key-mahl ahd-deen] /ˈkeɪ mɑl ɑdˈdin/ (Show IPA), c1440–c1527, Persian painter and calligrapher.
- bijoux — a jewel.
- bikila — Abebe (əˈbeɪbeɪ). 1932–73, Ethiopian long-distance runner: winner of the Marathon at the Olympic Games in Rome (1960) and Tokyo (1964)
- biking — Informal. a bicycle. a motorbike. a motorcycle.
- bikini — A bikini is a two-piece swimming costume worn by women.
- bilbao — a port in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay: the largest city in the Basque Provinces: famous since medieval times for the production of iron and steel goods: modern buildings include the Guggenheim Art Museum (1997). Pop: 353 567 (2003 est)
- bildad — a friend of Job. Job 2:11.
- bilges — Nautical. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull. Also, bilges. (in a hull with a double bottom) an enclosed area between frames at each side of the floors, where seepage collects. Also called bilge well. a well into which seepage drains to be pumped away. Also called bilge water. seepage accumulated in bilges.
- bilhah — the mother of Dan and Naphtali. Gen. 30:1–8.
- bilian — a type of ironwood from Borneo
- bilith — a prehistoric structure consisting of a horizontal stone slab supported by an upright stone.
- bilked — to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars.
- billed — having a bill or beak, especially one of a specified kind, shape, color, etc. (usually used in combination): a yellow-billed magpie.
- biller — the stem of a plant
- billet — If members of the armed forces are billeted in a particular place, that place is provided for them to stay in for a period of time.
- billie — a feminine and masculine name
- billon — an alloy consisting of gold or silver and a base metal, usually copper, used esp for coinage
- billow — When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind.
- biloxi — a member of a North American Indian people that lived in the lower Mississippi Valley
- bimane — a bimanous animal.
- binary — Binary describes something that has two different parts.
- binate — occurring in two parts or in pairs
- binchy — Maeve (meɪˈɪv). 1940–2012, Irish novelist and journalist; her bestselling novels include Circle of Friends (1990) and Quentins (2002)
- binder — A binder is a hard cover with metal rings inside, which is used to hold loose pieces of paper.
- bindle — a small bundle of possessions carried by a homeless person
- bingen — a town in W Germany on the Rhine: wine trade and tourist centre. Pop: 24 716 (2003 est)
- binger — a person addicted to crack cocaine
- binghi — an Aboriginal person
- bingle — a minor crash or upset, as in a car or on a surfboard
- binhex — (file format) A Macintosh format for representing a binary file using only printable characters. The file is converted to lines of letters, numbers and punctuation. Because BinHex files are simply text they can be sent through most electronic mail systems and stored on most computers. However the conversion to text makes the file larger, so it takes longer to transmit a file in BinHex format than if the file was represented some other way. See also BinHex 4.0, uuencode.
- biniou — a small high-pitched Breton bagpipe
- binnig — Gerd (Karl). born 1947, German physicist: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1986) for work on the superconductivity of semiconductors and development of the scanning tunnelling microscope
- binocs — binoculars
- binyon — (Robert) Laurence. 1869–1943, British poet and art historian, best known for his elegiac war poems "For the Fallen" (1914) and "The Burning of the Leaves" (1944)
- biodot — a temperature-sensitive device stuck to the skin in order to monitor stress
- biofog — a fog, resembling steam fog, produced by the contact of very cold air with the warmth and moisture issuing from animal or human bodies.
- biogas — a gas that is produced by the action of bacteria on organic waste matter: used as a fuel
- biogen — a hypothetical protein assumed to be the basis of the formation and functioning of body cells and tissues
- biondi — Matt(hew) born 1965, U.S. swimmer.
- bionic — In science fiction books or films, a bionic person is someone who has special powers, such as being exceptionally strong or having exceptionally good sight, because parts of their body have been replaced by electronic machinery.
- biopic — A biopic is a film that tells the story of someone's life.
- biopsy — A biopsy is the removal and examination of fluids or tissue from a patient's body in order to discover why they are ill.
- biotic — of or relating to living organisms
- biotin — a vitamin of the B complex, abundant in egg yolk and liver, deficiency of which causes dermatitis and loss of hair. Formula: C10H16N2O3S
- biovar — a group of microorganisms, usually bacteria, that have identical genetic but different biochemical or physiological characters.
- bipack — an obsolete filming process
- birder — a person who engages in bird-watching; bird-watcher