5-letter words containing a, b, s
- sabot — a shoe made of a single block of wood hollowed out, worn especially by farmers and workers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, etc.
- sabra — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person born in Israel.
- sabre — to strike, wound, or kill with a saber.
- sahib — (in India) sir; master: a term of respect used, especially during the colonial period, when addressing or referring to a European.
- samba — a rhythmic, Brazilian ballroom dance of African origin.
- sambo — a term used to refer to a black person, especially a male.
- sauba — a South American ant, Ecodoma cephalotes, known for defoliating trees and carrying the leaves into underground nests
- scrab — to scratch or scrape
- scuba — a portable breathing device for free-swimming divers, consisting of a mouthpiece joined by hoses to one or two tanks of compressed air that are strapped on the back.
- shaba — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- sheba — Queen of, the queen who visited Solomon to test his wisdom. I Kings 10:1–13.
- squab — a nestling pigeon, marketed when fully grown but still unfledged.
- subah — a province in the Mogul empire
- subha — a string of beads used in praying and meditating
- sumba — one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia, S of Flores. 4306 sq. mi. (11,153 sq. km).
- tabes — a gradually progressive emaciation.
- trabs — training shoes
- tsuba — a sword guard of a Japanese sword
- wfbas — West Florida Baptist Academy Sports
- xbase — Generic term for the dBASE family of database languages. Coined in response to threatened litigation over use of the copyrighted trademark "dBASE."