6-letter words starting with b
- barber — A barber is a man whose job is cutting men's hair.
- barbet — any small tropical brightly coloured bird of the family Capitonidae, having short weak wings and a sharp stout bill with tuftlike feathers at its base: order Piciformes (woodpeckers, etc)
- barbie — A barbie is a barbecue.
- barble — Obsolete form of barbel.
- barbre — (obsolete) barbarian.
- barbut — an open-faced Italian helmet made from one piece of metal and reaching the shoulders
- barcan — an ancient Carthaginian family to which Hamilcar, Hasdrubal, and Hannibal belonged.
- barded — Armor. any of various pieces of defensive armor for a horse.
- bardee — bardy2 .
- bardic — (formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like.
- bardie — an edible white wood-boring grub of Australia
- bardot — Brigitte (briʒit). born 1934, French film actress and animal rights activist
- barege — light silky gauze fabric made of wool
- barely — You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case.
- barens — Plural form of baren.
- barest — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- barfed — Simple past tense and past participle of barf.
- barfly — A barfly is a person who spends a lot of time drinking in bars
- barful — presenting difficulties or obstacles
- barged — a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter.
- bargee — a person employed on or in charge of a barge
- barger — (obsolete) The manager of a barge.
- barges — Plural form of barge.
- barhop — to visit several bars in succession
- barian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals that contain barium.
- baring — Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer. 1841–1917, English administrator. As consul general in Egypt with plenipotentiary powers, he controlled the Egyptian government from 1883 to 1907
- barish — quite thinly covered or bare
- barit. — baritone
- barite — a colourless or white mineral consisting of barium sulphate in orthorhombic crystalline form, occurring in sedimentary rocks and with sulphide ores: a source of barium. Formula: BaSO4
- barium — Barium is a soft, silvery-white metal.
- barked — the external covering of the woody stems, branches, and roots of plants, as distinct and separable from the wood itself.
- barken — consisting of bark
- barker — an animal or person that barks
- barkla — Charles Glover. 1877–1944, British physicist, noted for his work on X-rays: Nobel prize for physics 1917
- barley — Barley is a grain that is used to make food, beer, and whisky.
- barlow — a large strong pocket-knife with a single blade
- barman — A barman is a man who serves drinks behind a bar.
- barmen — a former city in W Germany, now incorporated into Wuppertal.
- barned — a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
- barnes — Djuna. 1892–1982, US novelist, noted for Nightwood (1936)
- barnet — a borough of N Greater London: scene of a Yorkist victory (1471) in the Wars of the Roses. Pop: 324 400 (2003 est). Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- barney — a noisy argument
- barnum — P(hineas) T(aylor). 1810–91, US showman, who created The Greatest Show on Earth (1871) and, with J. A. Bailey, founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1881)
- baroda — a former state of W India, part of Gujarat since 1960
- baroja — Pio (ˈpio). 1872–1956, Spanish Basque novelist, who wrote nearly 100 novels, including a series of twenty-two under the general title Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (1944–49)
- barolo — a dry red wine produced in the Piedmont region of Italy
- barong — a broad-bladed cleaver-like knife used in the Philippines
- barons — a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
- barony — A barony is the rank or position of a baron.
- barque — a sailing ship of three or more masts having the foremasts rigged square and the aftermast rigged fore-and-aft