8-letter words containing a, b, e
- abnegate — to deny to oneself; renounce (privileges, pleasure, etc)
- aboideau — a dyke with a sluicegate that allows flood water to drain but keeps the sea water out
- aboiteau — (Canada, Acadia) alternate form of aboideau.
- abortive — An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
- abounded — to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers: a stream in which trout abound.
- abraided — Simple past tense and past participle of abraid.
- abrasive — Someone who has an abrasive manner is unkind and rude.
- abridged — An abridged book or play has been made shorter by removing some parts of it.
- abridger — One who abridges. (First attested in the mid 16th century.).
- abridges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abridge.
- abristle — Bristling.
- abrocome — Either of the ratlike rodents that from the genus Abrocoma; rat chinchilla.
- abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
- abrupted — Simple past tense and past participle of abrupt.
- abseiled — Simple past tense and past participle of abseil.
- abseiler — Someone who abseils.
- absences — state of being away or not being present: I acted as supervisor in his absence. Your absence was noted on the records.
- absented — not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present): absent from class.
- absentee — An absentee is a person who is expected to be in a particular place but who is not there.
- absentia — Absence.
- absently — in an absent-minded or preoccupied manner; inattentively
- absinthe — Absinthe is a very strong alcoholic drink that is green and tastes bitter.
- absolute — Absolute means total and complete.
- absolved — Simple past tense and past participle of absolve.
- absolver — to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death.
- absolves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve.
- absorbed — If you are absorbed in something or someone, you are very interested in them and they take up all your attention and energy.
- absorber — a person or thing that absorbs
- absterge — to wipe clean or cleanse
- abstrude — (transitive) To thrust away.
- abstruse — You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
- absurder — Comparative form of absurd.
- abu-bekr — 573–634 ad, companion and father-in-law of Mohammed; the first caliph of Islam
- abumeron — Avenzoar.
- abusable — able to be abused
- abuseful — (rare) Full of abuse; abusive.
- abutment — the state or process of abutting
- abutters — Plural form of abutter.
- acarbose — a type of diabetes medicine taken orally to slow and reduce the supply of glucose to the blood.
- acerbate — to embitter or exasperate
- acerbity — Acerbity is a kind of bitter, critical humour.
- addebted — indebted
- adelbert — a masculine name
- adlibbed — to improvise all or part of (a speech, a piece of music, etc.): to ad-lib one's lines.
- adorable — If you say that someone or something is adorable, you are emphasizing that they are very attractive and you feel great affection for them.
- adsorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of adsorb.
- adsorber — something which adsorbs
- aerobics — Aerobics is a form of exercise which increases the amount of oxygen in your blood, and strengthens your heart and lungs. The verb that follows aerobics may be either singular or plural.
- aerobium — an aerobe
- aerobomb — a bomb dropped from an aircraft