6-letter words containing al
- baliol — Edward. ?1283–1364, king of Scotland (1332, 1333–56)
- balise — an electronic beacon used on a railway
- balkan — of, denoting, or relating to the Balkan States or their inhabitants, the Balkan Peninsula, or the Balkan Mountains
- 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.
- balked — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- balker — One who, or that which balks.
- ballad — A ballad is a long song or poem which tells a story in simple language.
- ballas — a spherical aggregate of small diamond crystals used for drilling and for various industrial purposes.
- ballat — a ballad
- balled — a round or roundish body, of various sizes and materials, either hollow or solid, for use in games, as baseball, football, tennis, or golf.
- baller — a ball-game player, esp in basketball
- ballet — Ballet is a type of very skilled and artistic dancing with carefully planned movements.
- ballon — a quality of gracefulness, poise and buoyancy as found in good dancers
- ballot — A ballot is a secret vote in which people select a candidate in an election, or express their opinion about something.
- ballow — a heavy club; a cudgel
- ballsy — You can describe a person or their behaviour as ballsy if you admire them because you think they are energetic and brave.
- ballup — a state of confusion; mix-up.
- 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)
- balots — Plural form of balot.
- balrog — (fantasy) A fiery demonic creature.
- balsam — Balsam is a sweet-smelling oil that is obtained from certain trees or bushes and used to make medicines and perfumes.
- balsas — river in SC Mexico, flowing into the Pacific: c. 450 mi (724 km)
- balter — (intransitive) To tumble; dance clumsily.
- baltic — denoting or relating to the Baltic Sea or the Baltic States
- baltis — Plural form of balti.
- baluba — (Ireland) Unruly or wild person.
- baluch — Baluchi.
- baluns — Plural form of balun.
- balzac — Honoré de (ɔnɔre də). 1799–1850, French novelist: author of a collection of novels under the general title La Comédie humaine, including Eugénie Grandet (1833), Le Père Goriot (1834), and La Cousine Bette (1846)
- barbal — relating to a beard
- basalt — Basalt is a type of black rock that is produced by volcanoes.
- baykal — Lake Baikal
- becall — to use insulting words about someone
- becalm — to calm down
- bedeal — (transitive, obsolete) To deprive (of).
- bedral — a minor official in the Scottish Episcopal Church, similar but not identical to the English beadle
- befall — If something bad or unlucky befalls you, it happens to you.
- begall — to make sore by rubbing
- behalf — interest, part, benefit, or respect (only in the phrases on (someone's) behalf, on or US and Canadian in behalf of, in this (or that) behalf)
- belial — a demon mentioned frequently in apocalyptic literature: identified in the Christian tradition with the devil or Satan
- bengal — a former province of NE India, in the great deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers: in 1947 divided into West Bengal (belonging to India) and East Bengal (Bangladesh)
- benzal — a transparent crystalline substance
- bharal — a wild Himalayan sheep, Pseudois nayaur, with a bluish-grey coat and round backward-curving horns
- bhopal — a city in central India, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state and of the former state of Bhopal: site of a poisonous gas leak from a US-owned factory, which killed over 7000 people in 1984 and was implicated in a further 15 000 deaths afterwards. Pop: 1 433 875 (2001)
- bialik — Hayyim Nahman (ˈhaɪm ˈnɑxman) or Chaim Nachman. 1873–1934, Russian Jewish poet and writer. His long poems The Talmud Student (1894) and In the City of Slaughter (1903) established him as the major Hebrew poet of modern times
- bokmal — one of the two official forms of written Norwegian, closely related to Danish
- boreal — of or relating to the north or the north wind
- bridal — Bridal is used to describe something that belongs or relates to a bride, or to both a bride and her bridegroom.
- bromal — a yellowish oily synthetic liquid formerly used medicinally as a sedative and hypnotic; tribromoacetaldehyde. Formula: Br3CCHO
- brumal — of, characteristic of, or relating to winter; wintry