6-letter words containing b, a
- ambler — Eric. 1909–1998, English novelist. His thrillers include The Mask of Dimitrios (1939), Journey into Fear (1940), A Kind of Anger (1964), and Doctor Frigo (1974)
- ambles — Plural form of amble.
- ambush — If a group of people ambush their enemies, they attack them after hiding and waiting for them.
- amebae — any of numerous freshwater, marine, or parasitic one-celled protozoa of the order Amoebida, characterized by a granular nucleus surrounded by a jellylike mass of cytoplasm that forms temporary extensions, or pseudopodia, by which the organism moves, engulfs food particles, and forms food vacuoles.
- amebic — of, relating to, or resembling an ameba.
- amoeba — An amoeba is the smallest kind of living creature. Amoebae consist of only one cell, and are found in water or soil.
- anabas — any of several labyrinth fishes of the genus Anabas, esp the climbing fish
- anbury — a soft spongy tumour occurring in horses and oxen
- annaba — a port in NE Algeria: site of the Roman city of Hippo Regius. Pop: 382 000 (2005 est)
- anubis — a deity, a son of Osiris, who conducted the dead to judgment. He is represented as having a jackal's head and was identified by the Greeks with Hermes
- aplomb — If you do something with aplomb, you do it with confidence in a relaxed way.
- aplweb — (text, tool) A Web to APL and Web to TeX translator by Dr. Christoph von Basum of The University of Bielefeld, Germany.
- aqtobe — a city in NW Kazakhstan, on the Ilek River.
- 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
- asa/bs — an obsolete expression of the speed of a photographic film, replaced by the ISO rating
- asbury — Francis1745-1816; 1st Methodist bishop in U.S.
- ashbin — Ashcan.
- at bat — In baseball, an at bat is a turn at hitting the ball.
- at bay — (of a person or animal) forced to turn and face attackers
- at-bat — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- atabal — a drum played by the Moorish people of N Africa
- atabeg — a Turkish leader who had a lower status than the ruler of the country and who acted as teacher and guardian to the male heir apparent
- atabek — Turkish ruler
- atbara — a town in NE Sudan. Pop: 110 000 (2005 est)
- athrob — pulsing or throbbing
- attrib — Abbreviation of attribution.
- aubade — a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn
- 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.
- aucuba — an ornamental evergreen Japanese laurel
- aumbry — ambry.
- ausubo — a tropical American tree, Manilkara bidentata, with hard, red wood
- ax job — hatchet job.
- 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-axis — the horizontal crystallographic axis that is in a right-left position.