5-Letter Words That Start With: BAN

• English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)

• have legs that curve outward at the knees

• toss or strike a ball back and forth

• exchange blows

• discuss lightly

• A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.

• Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court.

• a vigorous blow

• a sudden very loud noise

• a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• a conspicuous success

• directly

• strike violently

• to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound

• close violently

• move noisily

• have sexual intercourse with

• leap, jerk, bang

• an unofficial association of people or groups

• instrumentalists not including string players

• a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

• an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material

• a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing

• a range of frequencies between two limits

• a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)

• a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure

• jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger

• a driving belt in machinery

• a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration

• a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)

• a restraint put around something to hold it together

• bind or tie together, as with a band

• attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify

• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse