6-letter words containing a, b, r
- anbury — a soft spongy tumour occurring in horses and oxen
- araban — a pentosan, found chiefly in vegetable gums, that yields arabinose upon hydrolysis.
- arabel — a female given name.
- arabia — a great peninsula of SW Asia, between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf: consists chiefly of a desert plateau, with mountains rising over 3000 m (10 000 ft) in the west and scattered oases; includes the present-day countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 2 600 000 sq km (1 000 000 sq miles)
- arabic — Arabic is a language that is spoken in the Middle East and in parts of North Africa.
- arabin — the essence of gum arabic, being a carbohydrate gum composed of hexoses and D-arabinose
- arabis — any plant of the annual or perennial genus Arabis, some of which form low-growing mats with downy grey foliage and white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- arable — Arable farming involves growing crops such as wheat and barley rather than keeping animals or growing fruit and vegetables. Arable land is land that is used for arable farming.
- arbela — an ancient city in Assyria, near which the Battle of Arbela took place (331 bc), in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians
- arblay — Madame Frances, Burney, Frances.
- arbors — Plural form of arbor.
- arbour — An arbour is a shelter in a garden which is formed by leaves and stems of plants growing close together over a light framework.
- arbute — (archaic) The wood of the strawberry tree.
- archbp — archbishop
- armbar — (combat sports) A joint lock where the elbow is hyperextended in order to cause pain and/or injury.
- arriba — an exclamation of pleasure or approval
- arroba — a unit of weight, approximately equal to 11 kilograms, used in some Spanish-speaking countries
- asbury — Francis1745-1816; 1st Methodist bishop in U.S.
- atbara — a town in NE Sudan. Pop: 110 000 (2005 est)
- athrob — pulsing or throbbing
- attrib — Abbreviation of attribution.
- 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.
- aumbry — ambry.
- b star — a massive, relatively hot, blue to white star, as Rigel or Spica, having a surface temperature between 10,000 and 30,000 K and with an absorption spectrum dominated by the Balmer series of hydrogen with lines of neutral helium present.
- b-road — A B-road is a minor road.
- babier — an infant or very young child.
- backer — A backer is someone who helps or supports a project, organization, or person, often by giving or lending money.
- backra — a White person
- bactra — an ancient country in W Asia, between the Oxus River and the Hindu Kush Mountains. Capital: Bactra.
- badder — not good in any manner or degree.
- badger — A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
- baeyer — Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von (joˈhan ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈaːdɔlf fɔn). 1835–1917, German chemist, noted for the synthesis of indigo: Nobel prize for chemistry 1905
- bagger — A bagger is a person whose job is to put customers' purchases into bags at a supermarket or other store.
- bagram — an air base in NE Afghanistan, near Kabul; now under the control of US forces
- bailer — to dip (water) out of a boat, as with a bucket.
- bailor — a person who retains ownership of goods but entrusts possession of them to another under a bailment
- 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
- baiter — someone who baits or teases
- 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.
- 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
- balers — Plural form of baler.
- balkar — a member of a Sunni Muslim people living mainly in the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation, closely related to the Karachai.
- balker — One who, or that which balks.
- baller — a ball-game player, esp in basketball
- balmer — Johann Jakob. 1825–98, Swiss mathematician; discovered a formula giving the wavelengths of a series of lines in the hydrogen spectrum (the Balmer series)
- balrog — (fantasy) A fiery demonic creature.
- balter — (intransitive) To tumble; dance clumsily.
- bammer — (of marijuana) of poor quality