6-letter words starting with b
- bampot — an idiot; a fool
- banaba — an island in the SW Pacific, in the Republic of Kiribati. Phosphates were mined by Britain (1900–79). Area: about 5 sq km (2 sq miles). Pop: 301 (2005)
- banana — Bananas are long curved fruit with yellow skins.
- banans — Plural form of banan.
- bandar — a male monkey
- banded — If something is banded, it has one or more bands on it, often of a different colour which contrasts with the main colour.
- bander — someone who joins a band or league
- bandit — Robbers are sometimes called bandits, especially if they are found in areas where the law has broken down.
- bandog — a ferocious dog, whether by nature or trained as a guard dog
- bandon — (obsolete) disposal; control; licence.
- banged — Often, bangs. a fringe of hair combed or brushed forward over the forehead.
- banger — Bangers are sausages.
- bangka — an island in Indonesia, separated from Sumatra by the Bangka Strait. Chief town: Pangkalpinang. Area: about 11 914 sq km (4600 sq miles)
- bangle — A bangle is a decorated metal or wooden ring that you can wear round your wrist or ankle.
- bangor — a university town in NW Wales, in Gwynedd, on the Menai Strait. Pop: 15 280 (2001)
- bangue — Alternative form of bhang.
- bangui — the capital of the Central African Republic, in the south part, on the Ubangi River. Pop: 732 000 (2005 est)
- baniak — (humorous pejorative slang, chiefly italicized) A fool.
- banian — banyan
- baning — Present participle of bane.
- banish — If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
- baniya — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
- banjax — to ruin or destroy, often as a result of incompetence
- banjos — Plural form of banjo.
- banjul — the capital of The Gambia, a port at the mouth of the Gambia River. Pop: 392 000 (2005 est)
- banked — A banked stretch of road is higher on one side than the other.
- banker — A banker is someone who works in banking at a senior level.
- bankes — Plural form of banke.
- banket — a gold-bearing conglomerate found in South Africa
- bankit — banquette (def 3).
- banned — to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime.
- banner — A banner is a long strip of cloth with something written on it. Banners are usually attached to two poles and carried during a protest or rally.
- bannet — a bonnet
- banquo — a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth: the ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth, who had ordered his murder
- bantam — A bantam is a breed of small chicken.
- banted — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- banter — Banter is teasing or joking talk that is amusing and friendly.
- banyak — Alternative form of baniak.
- banyan — a moraceous tree, Ficus benghalensis, of tropical India and the East Indies, having aerial roots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
- banzai — a patriotic cheer, battle cry, or salutation
- baobab — a bombacaceous tree, Adansonia digitata, native to Africa, that has a very thick trunk, large white flowers, and a gourdlike fruit with an edible pulp called monkey bread
- baotou — an industrial city in N China, in the central Inner Mongolia AR on the Yellow River. Pop: 1 367 000 (2005 est)
- baraat — (South Asia) A wedding procession carried out by the bridegroom in north India and Pakistan.
- baraka — Imamu Amiri [ih-mah-moo uh-meer-ee] /ɪˈmɑ mu əˈmɪər i/ (Show IPA), (Everett LeRoi Jones) 1934–2014, U.S. dramatist, poet, and political activist.
- barang — Lb Philippines black magic; sorcery.
- barany — Robert. 1876–1936, Austrian physician; devised the Bárány test, which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1914
- baraza — a place where public meetings are held
- barbal — relating to a beard
- barbed — A barbed remark or joke seems polite or humorous, but contains a cleverly hidden criticism.
- barbel — any of several slender tactile spines or bristles that hang from the jaws of certain fishes, such as the catfish and carp