7-letter words containing a, b
- aerobat — a person who performs spectacular or dangerous manoeuvres while in an aircraft
- aerobee — a U.S. two-stage, liquid-propellant sounding rocket developed in the 1940s that carried scientific instruments and occasionally biological specimens into the upper stratosphere.
- aerobes — Plural form of aerobe.
- aerobic — Aerobic activity exercises and strengthens your heart and lungs.
- aerobot — an unmanned aircraft used esp in space exploration
- aerobus — a type of monorail that is suspended by an overhead cable
- affable — Someone who is affable is pleasant and friendly.
- affably — pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman.
- ageable — Capable of being aged; suitable for ageing.
- agribiz — agribusiness.
- air bag — a safety device in a car, consisting of a bag that inflates automatically in an accident and prevents the passengers from being thrown forwards
- air bed — an inflatable mattress
- airable — Suitable for broadcast.
- airbags — Plural form of airbag.
- airball — a missed shot that fails to touch the rim of the basket
- airbase — A base for the operation of military aircraft.
- airbill — air waybill.
- airboat — a light, flat-bottomed boat driven by a propeller revolving in the air
- alabama — a state of the southeastern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: consists of coastal and W lowlands crossed by the Tombigbee, Black Warrior, and Alabama Rivers, with parts of the Tennessee Valley and Cumberland Plateau in the north; noted for producing cotton and white marble. Capital: Montgomery. Pop: 4 500 752 (2003 est). Area: 131 333 sq km (50 708 sq miles)
- albania — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula: became independent in 1912 after more than four centuries of Turkish rule; established as a republic (1946) under Communist rule; multiparty constitution adopted in 1991. It is generally mountainous, rising over 2700 m (9000 ft), with extensive forests. Language: Albanian. Religion: Muslim majority. Currency: lek. Capital: Tirana. Pop: 3 011 405 (2013 est). Area: 28 749 sq km (11 100 sq miles)
- albedos — Plural form of albedo.
- albeniz — Isaac (isaˈak). 1860–1909, Spanish composer; noted for piano pieces inspired by folk music, such as the suite Iberia
- albergo — (in Italy) a corporation of noble families typically formed to enable the success of business ventures
- alberta — a province of W Canada: mostly prairie, with the Rocky Mountains in the southwest. Capital: Edmonton. Pop: 3 645 257 (2011 est). Area: 661 188 sq km (255 285 sq miles)
- alberti — Leon Battista (leˈɔn batˈtista). 1404–72, Italian Renaissance architect, painter, writer, and musician; among his architectural designs are the façades of Sta. Maria Novella at Florence and S. Francesco at Rimini
- albinal — related to or affected by albinism
- albinos — Plural form of albino.
- albinus — Alcuin.
- albitic — Of or relating to the mineral albite.
- alborak — the white horse that Muhammad rode to heaven.
- albumen — Albumen is the same as albumin.
- albumin — Albumin is a protein that is found in blood plasma, egg white, and some other substances.
- aldabra — an island group in the Indian Ocean: part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965–76); now administratively part of the Seychelles
- alebion — a son of Poseidon who, with his brother Dercynus, was killed by Hercules while attempting to steal the cattle that Hercules had taken from Geryon.
- alembic — an obsolete type of retort used for distillation
- algebra — Algebra is a type of mathematics in which letters are used to represent possible quantities.
- alibied — Simple past tense and past participle of alibi.
- alibies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alibi.
- all but — All but a particular person or thing means everyone or everything except that person or thing.
- allenby — Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount. 1861–1936, British field marshal who captured Palestine and Syria from the Turks in 1918; high commissioner in Egypt (1919–25)
- allobar — any form of an element with a different isotopic composition than that of the naturally occurring form of the element
- alt bit — meta bit
- amabile — sweet or lovely
- ambages — winding, roundabout paths or ways.
- ambassy — an embassy
- ambatch — a tree or shrub of the Nile Valley, Aeschynomene elaphroxylon, valued for its light-coloured pithlike wood
- ambered — fixed in amber
- ambient — The ambient temperature is the temperature of the air above the ground in a particular place.
- ambitty — relating to glass which has become crystalline or brittle
- ambitus — (music) the range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants.