5-letter words containing a, b, s
- blaes — hardened clay or shale, esp when crushed and used to form the top layer of a sports pitch: bluish-grey or reddish in colour
- blahs — nonsense; rubbish: What they say is blah.
- blais — Marie-Claire [muh-ree-klair] /məˈriˈklɛər/ (Show IPA), born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist.
- blase — If you describe someone as blasé, you mean that they are not easily impressed, excited, or worried by things, usually because they have seen or experienced them before.
- blash — a heavy splash
- blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
- bmasf — Basic Module Algebra Specification Language? "Design of a Specification Language by Abstract Syntax Engineering", J.C.M. Baeten et al, in LNCS 490, pp.363-394.
- boast — If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.
- bolas — bola (def 1).
- boras — a city in SW Sweden, chiefly producing textiles. Pop: 98 831 (2004 est)
- braes — an upland area
- brash — If you describe someone or their behaviour as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive.
- brass — Brass is a yellow-coloured metal made from copper and zinc. It is used especially for making ornaments and musical instruments.
- braws — fine apparel
- brusa — Bursa.
- bsram — Burst Static Random Access Memory
- bursa — a small fluid-filled sac that reduces friction between movable parts of the body, esp at joints
- busan — a port in SE South Korea, on the Korea Strait: the second largest city and chief port of the country; industrial centre; two universities. Pop: 3 527 000 (2005 est)
- busra — Basra.
- byzas — a son of Poseidon and the eponymous founder of Byzantium.
- cabas — a small ladies' bag
- cambs — Cambridgeshire
- carbs — carbohydrate.
- crabs — the lowest throw in a game of chance, esp two aces in dice
- daubs — Plural form of daub.
- dbase — (tool, product, language) An interactive DBMS, originally from Ashton-Tate Corporation, and the language used by it. dBASE evolved from Vulcan by Wayne Ratliffe, which came out in around 1980 and ran on CP/M. It was called dBaseII when sold to Ashton-Tate Corporation. The first release was dBASE II, ca 1980. There never was a "dBASE I". Later versions included: dBASE III, dBASE III+, and dBASE IV. Ashton-Tate was taken over in the early 1990s by what became Borland Software Corporation who sold dBase in March(?) 1999 to the newly formed dBase Inc. dBase Inc's first release was Visual dBASE 5.7, a Y2K upgrade to Visual dBASE 5.x. Current version, as of 2003-11-24: dBASE PLUS 2.0x build 1703.
- drabs — Plural form of drab.
- flabs — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- gabes — Gulf of, a gulf of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia.
- gabys — a female given name, form of Gabriella.
- garbs — Plural form of garb.
- grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- iambs — Plural form of iamb.
- isbas — the traditional log house of rural Russia, with an unheated entrance room and a single living and sleeping room heated by a clay or brick stove.
- jambs — Plural form of jamb.
- krabs — Plural form of krab.
- labis — a spoon used to give the Eucharist to communicants
- lambs — Plural form of lamb.
- nabes — a neighborhood movie theater.
- nabis — a prophet.
- nasby — Petroleum V. pen name of David Ross Locke.
- pabst — G(eorge) W(ilhelm). 1885–1967, German film director, whose films include Joyless Street (1925), Pandora's Box (1929), and The Last Act (1954)
- rabes — Plural form of rabe.
- rabis — Alternative spelling of rabiz.
- sabah — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
- sabal — a variety of palm tree
- saber — a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
- sabin — Albert Bruce, 1906–93, U.S. physician, born in Poland: developed Sabin vaccine.
- sabir — lingua franca (def 2).
- sable — an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.