6-letter words containing a
- aerate — To aerate a substance means to cause air or gas to pass through it.
- 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
- aethon — triethyl orthoformate.
- 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.
- affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
- affeer — to assess, to decide upon an amount
- affied — Simple past tense and past participle of affy.
- affine — of, characterizing, or involving transformations which preserve collinearity, esp in classical geometry, those of translation, rotation and reflection in an axis
- affirm — If you affirm that something is true or that something exists, you state firmly and publicly that it is true or exists.
- afflux — a flowing towards a point
- 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
- afghan — Afghan means belonging or relating to Afghanistan, or to its people or language.
- afield — away from one's usual surroundings or home (esp in the phrase far afield)
- aflame — If something is on fire, you can say it is aflame.
- aflare — Flaring.
- afloat — If someone or something is afloat, they remain partly above the surface of water and do not sink.
- aflush — (archaic, or, poetic) flushed, blushing.
- afocal — denoting a method for transferring an image without bringing it into focus
- afonso — Portuguese name of Alfonso I and Alfonso V.
- 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
- afscme — American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
- 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.
- aftosa — foot-and-mouth disease.
- agabus — a Christian prophet who predicted a great famine. Acts 11:28.
- 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)