6-letter words containing al
- anneal — to temper or toughen (something) by heat treatment
- annual — Annual events happen once every year.
- anodal — Relating to the anode.
- anomal — (archaic) Something anomalous, especially an irregular word in a language.
- antral — a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- anural — having no tail
- aortal — the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- apodal — (of snakes, eels, etc) without feet; having no obvious hind limbs or pelvic fins
- appall — If something appalls you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
- appals — (British) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appal.
- appeal — If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
- aralia — any plant of the genus Aralia of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. The greenhouse and house plant generally known as aralia is Schefflera elegantissima of a related genus, grown for its decorative evergreen foliage: family Araliaceae
- arallu — the ancient Babylonian world of the dead.
- argala — the adjutant bird
- argali — a wild sheep, Ovis ammon, inhabiting semidesert regions in central Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. It is the largest of the sheep, having massive horns in the male, which may almost form a circle
- argall — Sir Samuel, 1572–1639, British explorer: colonial governor of Virginia 1617–19.
- astral — Astral means relating to the stars.
- at all — You use at all at the end of a clause to give emphasis in negative statements, conditional clauses, and questions.
- atabal — a drum played by the Moorish people of N Africa
- atokal — characterized by being non-sexual or creating offspring that are not sexual
- atonal — Atonal music is music that is not written or played in any key or system of scales.
- atrial — Architecture. Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water. a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church. a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- audial — of or relating to sound and the sense of hearing
- avalon — an island paradise in the western seas: in Arthurian legend it is where King Arthur was taken after he was mortally wounded
- avital — relating to a grandfather or ancestor
- avowal — open acknowledgment or declaration
- axonal — Cell Biology. the appendage of the neuron that transmits impulses away from the cell body.
- azalea — An azalea is a woody plant with shiny, dark-green leaves which produces many brightly-coloured flowers in the spring.
- azalia — Archaic form of azalea.
- azonal — not divided into zones
- b-ball — basketball
- baalim — any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.
- bacall — Lauren (Betty Joan Perske) 1924–2014, U.S. actress.
- baikal — a type of Russian-made handgun, designed to fire tear-gas cylinders but often modified to fire bullets
- balaam — a Mesopotamian diviner who, when summoned to curse the Israelites, prophesied future glories for them instead, after being reproached by his ass (Numbers 22–23)
- balata — a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, yielding a latex-like sap
- balboa — Vasco Núñez de (ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ de). ?1475–1519, Spanish explorer, who discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513
- balche — (among the Yucatec Maya) a drink made from the bark of a leguminous tree, Lonchocarpus violaceus, which is soaked in honey and water and fermented.
- balcon — Sir Michael. 1896–1977, British film producer; his films made at Ealing Studios include the comedies Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- baldad — Bildad.
- balded — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- 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
- baldie — a bald person (sometimes used as a facetious term of address).
- baldly — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- baleen — whalebone
- balers — Plural form of baler.
- balewa — Sir Abubakar Tafawa [ah-boo-bah-kahr tah-fah-wah,, ah-boo-bah-kahr] /ˌɑ buˈbɑ kɑr tɑˈfɑ wɑ,, ɑˈbu bɑˌkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1912–66, Nigerian statesman: prime minister 1957–66.
- balgol — (language) ALGOL on Burroughs 220.
- baling — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.