6-letter words containing r, a
- aerial — You talk about aerial attacks and aerial photographs to indicate that people or things on the ground are attacked or photographed by people in aeroplanes.
- aeried — located in a very high place
- aerier — ethereal; aerial.
- aeries — the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- aerify — to change or cause to change into a gas
- aerily — in an aery manner
- aerobe — an organism that requires oxygen for respiration
- aeron. — aeronautics
- aerope — the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- aerugo — verdigris.
- aether — ether
- afeard — frightened; afraid
- affair — If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
- affear — (archaic) To frighten, to scare; to terrify.
- affeer — to assess, to decide upon an amount
- affirm — If you affirm that something is true or that something exists, you state firmly and publicly that it is true or exists.
- afford — If you cannot afford something, you do not have enough money to pay for it.
- affors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affor.
- affrap — to hit, land a blow
- affray — An affray is a noisy and violent fight, especially in a public place.
- affret — a fierce and raging attack
- aflare — Flaring.
- afore- — before
- afraes — Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- afraid — If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
- afreet — a powerful evil demon or giant monster
- afresh — If you do something afresh, you do it again in a different way.
- africa — the second largest of the continents, on the Mediterranean in the north, the Atlantic in the west, and the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Indian Ocean in the east. The Sahara desert divides the continent unequally into North Africa (an early centre of civilization, in close contact with Europe and W Asia, now inhabited chiefly by Arabs) and Africa south of the Sahara (relatively isolated from the rest of the world until the 19th century and inhabited chiefly by Negroid peoples). It was colonized mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries by Europeans and now comprises independent nations. The largest lake is Lake Victoria and the chief rivers are the Nile, Niger, Congo, and Zambezi. Pop: 1 100 000 000 (2013 est). Area: about 30 300 000 sq km (11 700 000 sq miles)
- afroed — (of the hair) Styled into an afro.
- afront — in front of
- after- — After- is added to nouns to form adjectives which indicate that something takes place or exists after an event or process.
- afters — dessert; sweet
- afther — Eye dialect of after.
- agadir — a port in SW Morocco, which became the centre of an international crisis (1911), when a gunboat arrived to protect German interests. Britain issued a strong warning to Germany but the French negotiated and war was averted. In 1960 the town was virtually destroyed by an earthquake, about 10 000 people being killed. Pop: 385 000 (2003)
- agaric — any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the family Agaricaceae, having gills on the underside of the cap. The group includes the edible mushrooms and poisonous forms such as the fly agaric
- aggers — aggressive
- aglare — glaring
- agoras — Plural form of agora.
- agreed — If people are agreed on something, they have reached a joint decision on it or have the same opinion about it.
- agreer — A person who agrees.
- agrees — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agree.
- agrege — winner in examination for university teaching post
- agress — Misspelling of aggress.
- agrise — to fear or shudder at (something frightful)
- agrius — one of the Gigantes.
- agrize — to fear or shudder at (something frightful)
- ahorse — on horseback
- aimers — Plural form of aimer.
- airbag — An airbag is a safety device in a car which automatically fills with air if the car crashes, and is designed to protect the people in the car when they are thrown forward in the crash.
- airbed — An airbed is a plastic or rubber mattress which can be folded or stored flat and which you fill with air before you use it.