5 letter words starting with ban

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with ban.

  • BANAK
  • BANAL
  • BANCO
  • BANCS
  • BANDA
  • BANDH
  • BANDS
  • BANDY
  • BANED
  • BANES
  • BANGS
  • BANIA
  • BANJO
  • BANKS
  • BANKY
  • BANNS
  • BANTS
  • BANTU
  • BANTY
  • BANTZ
  • BANYA

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of bandh

bandh (noun)

  1. A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work.

Definition of bands

bands (noun)

  1. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
  2. A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
  3. A strip of decoration.
  4. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
  5. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  6. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
  7. A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  8. A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
  9. A bond.
  10. Pledge; security.
  11. A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
  12. Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
  13. Short for band cell.
  14. (hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money

bands (verb)

  1. To fasten with a band.
  2. To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).

bands (noun)

  1. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
  2. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
  3. A marching band.
  4. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
  5. A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
  6. A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.

bands (verb)

  1. To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
  2. To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.

Definition of banjo

banjo (noun)

  1. A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
  2. Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
  3. An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
  4. (Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.

banjo (verb)

  1. To play a banjo.
  2. To beat, to knock down.
  3. To shell or attack (a target).

Definition of banks

banks (noun)

  1. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
  2. A branch office of such an institution.
  3. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
  4. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  5. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
  6. Money; profit
  7. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  8. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
  9. A device used to store coins or currency.

banks (verb)

  1. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
  2. To put into a bank.
  3. To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

banks (noun)

  1. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  2. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
  3. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
  4. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
  5. An incline, a hill.
  6. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
  7. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  8. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  9. The ground at the top of a shaft.

banks (verb)

  1. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
  2. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
  3. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
  4. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
  5. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  6. To pass by the banks of.
  7. To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

banks (noun)

  1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
  2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
  3. A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
  4. A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

banks (verb)

  1. (order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

banks (noun)

  1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
  3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.
  4. A kind of table used by printers.
  5. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  6. Slang for money