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4-letter words containing a, b

  • habu — a large venomous snake, Trimeresurus flavoviridis, of Okinawa and other Ryukyu Islands: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
  • hiba — A Japanese conifer with evergreen scalelike leaves that form flattened sprays of foliage, widely planted as an ornamental and yielding durable timber.
  • iamb — a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.
  • iban — Also called Sea Dayak. a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak.
  • isba — 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.
  • izba — 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.
  • jabs — Plural form of jab.
  • jamb — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
  • joab — a commander of David's army and the slayer of Abner and Absalom. II Sam. 3:27; 18:14.
  • juba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
  • kaba — a small, cubical building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca containing a sacred black stone: regarded by Muslims as the House of God and the objective of their pilgrimages.
  • kalb — Baron, Johann Kalb.
  • kbar — a kilobar
  • knab — (colloquial) To nab or steal.
  • krab — Short for carabiner.
  • labe — a river in central Europe, flowing from the W Czech Republic NW through Germany to the North Sea. 725 miles (1165 km) long.
  • labs — Plural form of lab.
  • lamb — Charles ("Elia") 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
  • lapb — Link Access Protocol Balanced
  • larb — A popular Laotian or Thai spicy diced-meat salad with ground, chopped, or minced meat and vegetables.
  • luba — a member of any of various groups of agricultural and hunting people inhabiting the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of whom are famous for their wood carvings.
  • m'ba — Léon [le-awn] /lɛˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1902–67, African statesman: president of Gabon 1961–67.
  • mabe — a type of spherical pearl often used in jewellery
  • mlab — Modeling LABoratory. An interactive mathematical modelling system.
  • moab — an ancient kingdom E of the Dead Sea, in what is now Jordan.
  • nabe — a neighborhood movie theater.
  • nabi — a prophet.
  • nabk — a prickly shrub, Ziziphus spina-christi, native to Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern areas
  • nabs — Simple past tense and past participle of nab.
  • nbpa — National Basketball Players Association
  • nuba — a member of a formerly warlike Nilotic people living chiefly in the hills of S central Sudan
  • oban — a small port and resort in W Scotland, in Argyll and Bute on the Firth of Lorne. Pop: 8120 (2001)
  • obas — Plural form of oba.
  • paba — para-aminobenzoic acid.
  • pabx — (communications)   (PABX) A telephone exchange operated within an organisation, used for switching calls between internal lines and between internal and PSTN lines. In contrast to a PMBX, a PABX can route calls without manual intervention, based entirely on the number dialed. Not all PABXs can route external calls to internal numbers automatically however.
  • peba — nine-banded armadillo.
  • quab — An unfledged bird.
  • raab — Julius, 1891–1964, Austrian engineer and statesman: chancellor of Austria 1953–61.
  • rabe — David (William) born 1940, U.S. playwright.
  • rabi — the fourth month of the Muslim calendar.
  • raob — Meteorology. a radiosonde or rawinsonde observation.
  • rdba — Remote Database Access
  • riba — (in Islam) interest or usury, as forbidden by the Koran
  • rlab — A MATLAB-like matrix-oriented programming language/toolbox. RLaB focusses on creating a good experimental environment (or laboratory) in which to do matrix mathematics. Currently RLaB has numeric scalars and matrices (real and complex), and string scalars, and matrices. RLaB also contains a list variable type, which is a heterogeneous associative array. Version 0.95 includes an interpreter, libraries and documentation. E-mail: Ian Searle <[email protected]>. ftp://evans.ee.adfa.oz.au. Requires GNUPLOT, lib[IF]77.a (from f2c). Ported to many platforms including Unix, OS/2, Amiga.
  • saba — an island in the Netherlands Antilles, in the N Leeward Islands. 5 sq. mi. (13 sq. km).
  • sabc — South African Broadcasting Corporation
  • sabe — sense or savvy
  • sabs — South African Bureau of Standards
  • satb — soprano, alto, tenor, bass: a combination of voices in choral music
  • scab — the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.
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