6-Letter Words Starting with B: page 2

All 750 six-letter words that start with B: page 2 of 2

BL

• blousy11adj. Resembling or characteristic of a blouse; loose, flowing.
• blower11n. A person who blows.
• blowie11n. A blow job.
• blowsy14adj. Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
• bludge10n. The act of bludging.
• bluesy11adj. Characteristic of, or similar to, blues music.
• bluing9n. A substance used in laundry to whiten clothes.
• bluish11adj. Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue.
• blumea10n. Any plant of the taxonomic genus Blumea, composites found chiefly in...
• blurry11adj. Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
• blushy14adj. Suffused with blushes or blushlike hues.

BO

• boards9n. A stage (as in a theater).
• boater8n. Someone who travels by boat.
• bobbed13adj. Having a bob haircut.
• bobber12n. One who takes part in apple bobbing.
• bobbin12n. A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
• bobble12n. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
• bobbly15adj. Containing bobbles.
• bobcat12n. A North American wildcat (Lynx rufus), having tufted ears and a short...
• boccia12n. A sport, similar to bocce, designed to be played by people with...
• bodega10n. A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery.
• bodger10n. A woodworker in the traditional style characterised by the use of hand...
• bodice11n. A corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with...
• bodied10adj. Having a specified form of body.
• bodily12adj. Of, relating to, or concerning the body.
• boding10adj. Foreboding, ominous, portending.
• bodkin13n. A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
• boetie8n. Brother.
• boffin14n. An engineer or scientist, especially one engaged in technological or...
• bogart9n. An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.
• bogged11adj. Stuck; unable to progress; having been bogged down.
• boggle10v. (literally or figuratively) to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a...
• bogong10n. Synonym of bogong moth.
• boiled9adj. Cooked in boiling water.
• boiler8n. A person who boils something.
• bokken16n. A wooden katana, used as a training sword.
• bokuto12n. Bokken, a wooden katana used for practice.
• bolden9v. Synonym of embolden (“To render (someone) bolder or more courageous”).
• boldly12adv. In a bold manner; with confidence.
• bolero8n. A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo...
• bolete8n. A type of fruiting body produced by certain fungus species in the order...
• bolide9n. An extremely bright meteor.
• bollix15v. To confuse.
• bolson8n. A relatively flat and arid valley that is surrounded by mountains and...
• bolter8n. A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
• bombax19n. Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.
• bombed13adj. Intoxicated; drunk or high.
• bomber12n. A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
• bombus12n. A buzzing or humming.
• bombyx22n. Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars...
• bonang9n. A set of small gongs placed on a rack and usually struck with a padded...
• bonbon10n. A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
• bondar9n. Synonym of Asian palm civet.
• bonded10adj. Secured by bond.
• bonder9n. A machine or substance used to make a bond, or a person who uses such.
• bonham13n. A piglet.
• boning9n. The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
• bonito8n. Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda that are related to and...
• bonker12n. One who bonks.
• bonnet8n. A type of hat, once widely worn by women or children, held in place by...
• bonnie8adj. Merry; happy.
• bonobo10n. A great ape, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.
• bonsai8n. A tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small...
• bonzer17adj. Remarkable; wonderful; excellent; terrific.
• boodle9n. Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
• booger9n. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
• boogie9n. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril...
• boohoo11n. The sailfish.
• booing9n. A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.
• boojum17n. A geometric pattern sometimes observed on the surface of superfluid...
• booker12n. One who makes a reservation.
• bookie12n. A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the...
• boomer10n. Something that makes a booming sound.
• boomie10n. A barge rigged as a ketch.
• boondi9n. An Indian snack made from fried chickpea flour, either as a savory...
• booted9adj. Wearing a boot or boots.
• booter8n. A program or process that boots.
• bootie8n. A soldier.
• bootsy11adj. Bad, not good; (by extension) ugly or crazy.
• bootup10n. The process of booting up.
• booyah14interj. Expressing excitement and anticipation.
• boozer17n. One who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard.
• bopper12n. A person who dances the bop.
• borage9n. Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored...
• borane8n. Any binary compound of boron and hydrogen.
• borate8n. The oxyanion BO₃³⁻ or any of several more complex derivatives.
• bordel9n. A brothel.
• border9n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
• boreal8adj. Of, relating to, or coming from the north.
• boreas8n. The north wind.
• boride9n. The B³⁻ anion.
• boring9n. The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of...
• borked13adj. Particularly of computers or other complex devices: broken, damaged...
• borken12adj. Broken; wrongly designed or configured.
• borrel8n. A sort of pear with a smooth soft pulp; a red butter pear.
• borrow11v. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return...
• borzoi17n. A dog of a particular breed, similar in shape to a greyhound but with...
• bosker12adj. Excellent; wonderful; bonzer.
• boskin12n. A partition in a cowshed to separate cattle.
• bosomy13adj. Full of sheltered hollows or recesses.
• bosque17n. A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain...
• bossed9adj. Having a boss (employer etc.), or controlled by one.
• bossie8n. A small bush.
• boster8n. A particularly impressive and admirable person or thing.
• botana8n. A Mexican appetiser.
• botany11n. A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
• botfly14n. One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of...
• bother11v. To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make...
• botnet8n. Spyware.
• botted9adj. Populated with bots (automated players).
• botter8n. A homosexual man.
• bottle8n. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered...
• bottom10n. The lowest part of anything.
• boubou10n. A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to...
• bouche13n. A slit, notch or opening in the edge of a (physical or heraldic)...
• boudin9n. A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related...
• bouffe14n. A comic opera.
• bought12adj. Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
• bougie9n. A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a...
• boules8n. Bowls; a game played with metal balls.
• bounce10v. To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
• bouncy13adj. Easily bounced.
• bounty11n. Generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.
• bourne8n. A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream...
• bourse8n. A stock exchange.
• bouton8n. A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon.
• boutta8v. About to.
• bovine11adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
• bovver14n. Violence, especially that associated with youth gangs.
• bowels11n. The deepest or innermost part.
• bowery14n. Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public...
• bowfin14n. Especially, a ruddy bowfin (Amia calva).
• bowgun12n. Synonym of crossbow.
• bowing12n. The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.
• bowled12adj. Having a bowl or bowl-shaped element.
• bowler11n. One who engages in the sport of bowling.
• bowman13n. A man who uses a bow; an archer.
• bowser11n. A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
• bowtie11n. A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
• bowyer14n. A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).
• boxcar17n. An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
• boxers15n. Boxer shorts.
• boxful18n. As much as a box will hold.
• boxing16n. A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head...
• boxman17n. A casino employee who supervises the craps table.
• boyfie14n. Boyfriend.
• boyish14adj. Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
• boykin15n. A little boy.

BR

• braced11adj. Having braces or similar supports.
• bracer10n. That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
• braces10n. A device worn on the teeth to straighten them.
• bracha13n. Blessing.
• brachy16n. A breve, as applied to Ancient Greek <˘>.
• braggy13adj. Prone to brag.
• brahmi13n. Herb of grace, Bacopa monnieri.
• braies8n. Braccae, breeches; an undergarment worn in medieval Europe.
• brains8n. The substance of a brain, as a material or foodstuff.
• brainy11adj. Very intellectually capable.
• braise8n. A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising.
• braked13adj. Equipped with brakes (the vehicle-stopping devices).
• braker12n. One who brakes.
• branch13n. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
• brandy12n. An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
• brasco10n. A lavatory: a room for urination and defecation.
• brasse8n. The zander (Sander lucioperca), a European freshwater fish.
• brassy11adj. Resembling brass.
• bratty11adj. Characteristic of a brat; unruly and impolite.
• bratva11n. A Russian organized crime syndicate/family.
• braven11v. To make or become brave.
• braver11n. One who braves something.
• brawly14adj. Having or characterised by brawls.
• brawny14adj. Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong.
• brayer11n. A hand printing tool, in the US often a roller, used to spread a thin...
• brazen17adj. Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.
• brazer17n. An instrument used in brazing.
• brazil17n. The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae...
• breach13n. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall...
• bready12adj. Resembling bread.
• breaky15adj. Easily broken.
• breath11n. The act or process of breathing.
• breech13n. A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
• breeks12n. Pants, breeches.
• breeze17n. A light, gentle wind.
• breezy20adj. With a breeze blowing, with a lively wind, pleasantly windy.
• bregma11n. The anatomical structure on the skull where the coronal suture and...
• brehon11n. A judge or lawgiver in ancient Celtic Ireland.
• brevet11n. A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher...
• brewer11n. A person who brews (vocationally or avocationally); especially, one...
• brewis11n. A kind of broth thickened with bread or meal.
• briber10n. A person who bribes.
• bricky17adj. Covered with brick.
• bridal9adj. Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.
• bridey12adj. Resembling or characteristic of a bride.
• bridge10n. A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from a height...
• bridie9n. A Scottish meat pastry, similar to a Cornish pasty.
• bridle9n. The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and...
• briefs11n. A very short, close-fitting type of underpants.
• briery11n. A place where briars grow.
• bright12adj. Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
• brille8n. A transparent scale that covers the eye of a snake and is periodically...
• brillo8adj. Brilliant; excellent.
• brills8n. Spectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.
• brined9adj. Stored in brine.
• briner8n. One who pickles food in brine.
• broach13n. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example...
• broady12n. Broadcloth.
• brogan9n. A heavy working shoe; a brogue.
• brogue9n. A strong dialectal accent, usually Irish or Scottish.
• broham13n. Bro, brother; a male comrade or friend.
• broken12adj. Fragmented; in separate pieces.
• broker12n. A mediator between a buyer and seller.
• brolga9n. A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of...
• bronco10n. A horse of western North America that is wild or not fully broken.
• bronze17n. A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in...
• bronzy20adj. Resembling or suggestive of a bronze color.
• brooch13n. A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to...
• broody12adj. Of birds: sitting persistently and protectively on a nest, in order to...
• broski12n. A trusted male friend.
• brough12n. A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in...
• browed12adj. Having a brow of the specified kind.
• browny14adj. Somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.
• browse11v. To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest...
• bruery11n. Heathland for grazing animals.
• bruise8v. To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now...
• brumby15n. A wild or feral horse.
• brunch13n. A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch...
• brunet8adj. Of a man's or boy's hair: brown or dark brown.
• brushy14adj. Having a similar texture to a fox’s tail; brushlike, bushy.
• brutal8adj. Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an...
• bryony14n. A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild...

BU

• bubber12n. A person who steals plate from public houses.
• bubble12n. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas in a liquid...
• bubbly15adj. Full of bubbles.
• buccal12adj. Of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.
• bucker14n. A horse or other animal that bucks.
• bucket14n. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry...
• buckle14n. A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or...
• budded11adj. That has developed buds.
• budder10n. A plant that buds.
• buddha13n. Marijuana.
• buddhi13n. A transpersonal faculty of mind higher than the rational mind that...
• buddle10n. An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed.
• budget10n. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular...
• budgie10n. A budgerigar.
• buffer14n. A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
• buffet14n. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be...
• buffon14n. Synonym of buffont.
• bugeye12n. A sailboat once used for oystering out of Chesapeake Bay.
• bugfix19n. A patch or change that fixes the unwanted behaviour caused by a bug.
• bugged11adj. Affected by a bug (computer error).
• bugger10n. Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
• bugler9n. Someone who plays a bugle.
• bulbar10adj. Relating to, or having the form of, a bulb; used especially of the...
• bulbul10n. Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae...
• bulbus10n. Bulb (e.g., flower bulb, body part).
• bulger9n. A driver or a brassy with a convex face.
• bulgur9n. Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried, and crushed; a staple of...
• bulker12n. A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
• bulled9adj. Swollen.
• buller8v. To boil or seethe.
• bullet8n. A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
• bumble12n. A confusion; a jumble.
• bumbly15adj. Bumbling; inept or clumsy.
• bummed13adj. Synonym of bummed out.
• bummer12n. An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a...
• bumped13adj. Containing bumps.
• bumper12n. Someone or something that bumps.
• bunchy16adj. Having, or growing in bunches.
• bunder9n. A type of surf boat used in India.
• bundle9n. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
• bungee9n. An elastic fabric-bound strap with a hook at each end, used for...
• bunger9n. A cigarette.
• bungle9v. To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through...
• bunion8n. A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the...
• bunker12n. A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed...
• bunkie12n. A bunkmate, someone with whom one shares a bunk bed.
• bunkum14n. Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense.
• bunter8n. One who bunts.
• bunton8n. A wooden cross-stay in a shaft; a support for shaft slides.
• bunyip13n. A mythical Australian monster, said to inhabit swamps and lagoons.
• buoyed12adj. Marked with buoys.
• bupkis14n. Absolutely nothing; nothing of value, significance, or substance.
• buraku12n. The burakumin, a Japanese minority group descended from feudal outcast...
• burble10n. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
• burbot10n. A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the...
• burden9n. A heavy load.
• burdon9n. A pilgrim's staff.
• bureau8n. An administrative unit of government; office.
• burgee9n. A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail...
• burger9n. A hamburger.
• burgle9v. To commit burglary.
• burgoo9n. A dish which originated among seafarers during the days of sail: a sort...
• burial8n. The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.
• burian8n. A tomb; sepulchre.
• buried9adj. Placed in a grave at a burial.
• buriti8n. The moriche palm.
• burlap10n. A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to...
• burley11n. A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes.
• burned9adj. Damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process.
• burner8n. An element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized...
• burnet8n. Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium), including salad...
• burnie8n. A small brook.
• burnup10n. A measure of the consumption of fuel in a nuclear reactor.
• burpee10n. A physical exercise performed by bending over, performing a squat...
• burrow11n. A tunnel or hole, or a system of tunnels, often as dug by a small...
• bursal8adj. Relating to, or resembling, a bursa.
• bursar8n. The treasurer of a university, college or school.
• bursty11adj. Occurring in abrupt bursts, especially of information.
• burton8n. An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging...
• busbar10n. An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one...
• busboy13n. An assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables.
• bushed12adj. Very tired; exhausted.
• bushel11n. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two...
• busher11n. A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small...
• bushie11n. Someone who lives in or is familiar with the Australian outback; a...
• busily11adv. In a busy manner; actively.
• busing9n. The transportation of schoolchildren, by bus, to schools in other...
• busked13adj. Wearing a busk.
• busker12n. A person who solicits donations while entertaining the public, often by...
• buskin12n. A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.
• busman10n. A person employed to drive a bus.
• bussed9adj. Having or involving transportation by bus.
• busser8n. A mid-sized horse used to pull a bus.
• busted9adj. Having a certain type of bust (breasts; cleavage).
• buster8n. Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified...
• bustle8n. An excited activity; a stir.
• busway14n. A right of way, roadway, or lane for the exclusive use of buses...
• butane8n. A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C₄H₁₀, n-butane and...
• butchy16adj. Like or characteristic of a butch.
• butene8n. Any of several forms of butylene.
• butler8n. A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
• butted9adj. Affixed with a butt joint.
• butter8n. A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally...
• button8n. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving...
• buying12n. The act of making a purchase.
• buyout11n. The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation...
• buzzed27adj. Slightly intoxicated.
• buzzer26n. One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.
• buzzie26n. A hand-held pneumatic drill used in mining.

BY

• bygone12adj. Having been or happened in the distant past.
• byland12n. A peninsula.
• byline11n. A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the...
• byname13n. Synonym of epithet, a descriptive and distinguishing additional name.
• bypass13n. A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or...
• byplay16n. Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the...
• bypoll13n. Synonym of by-election.
• byssal11adj. Of or pertaining to the byssi, filaments secreted by certain bivalves.
• byssus11n. The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks...
• bytown14n. A subsidiary or subordinate town.
• byword15n. A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used...

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