7-letter words containing a, b
- ash bin — a dustbin
- ashbery — John, born 1927, U.S. poet.
- astable — not stable
- astbury — John. 1688–1743, English potter; earliest of the great Staffordshire potters
- astilbe — any perennial saxifragaceous plant of the genus Astilbe of E Asia and North America: cultivated for their ornamental spikes or panicles of pink or white flowers
- at best — You use at best to indicate that even if you describe something as favourably as possible or if it performs as well as it possibly can, it is still not very good.
- attaboy — an expression of approval or exhortation
- attrib. — attribute
- aubades — Plural form of aubade.
- aubaine — (historical, legal) succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
- aubanel — Théodore [tey-aw-dawr] /teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1829–86, French poet.
- auberge — an inn or tavern
- audible — A sound that is audible is loud enough to be heard.
- audibly — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- audubon — John James. 1785–1851, US naturalist and artist, noted particularly for his paintings of birds in Birds of America (1827–38)
- aufgabe — a task or an assignment
- ausable — a river in NE New York, flowing NE through a gorge (Ausable Chasm) into Lake Champlain. 20 miles (32 km) long.
- autobio — autobiography.
- autobus — a motor vehicle which can carry a large group of passengers
- avebury — a village in Wiltshire, site of an extensive Neolithic stone circle
- averbal — Not verbal; without words and speech.
- awlbird — the green woodpecker
- axebird — a nightjar of northern Queensland and New Guinea with a cry that sounds like a chopping axe
- b and d — bondage and discipline: used in reference to sadomasochistic sexual practices.
- b and e — Law. the crime of breaking and entering: two of the elements of the crime of burglary.
- b and s — a dance held for young people in country areas, usually in a field or barn
- b and w — (of a motion picture, photograph, drawing, etc.) black and white, as distinguished from color.
- b quark — the quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and bottom quantum number −1. It is more massive than the up, down, strange, and charmed quarks.
- b&b — B&B is the same as bed and breakfast.
- b-grade — A B-grade person or thing is one that you consider to be inferior or of poor quality.
- baalbek — a town in E Lebanon: an important city in Phoenician and Roman times; extensive ruins. Pop: 150 000 (1998 est)
- baalism — the worship of false gods or idols
- baaskap — (formerly in South Africa) control by White people of non-White people
- babalas — drunk; hungover
- babassu — a Brazilian palm tree, Orbignya martiana (or O. speciosa), having hard edible nuts that yield an oil used in making soap, margarine, etc
- babbage — Charles 1792–1871, English mathematician and inventor, who built a calculating machine that anticipated the modern electronic computer
- babbies — Plural form of babby.
- babbitt — a narrow-minded and complacent member of the middle class
- babbled — Simple past tense and past participle of babble.
- babbler — a person who babbles
- babbles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of babble.
- babelic — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
- babesia — any of several species of parasite that affect humans and animals, esp Babesia bigemina, which causes fever in cattle
- babette — a female given name, form of Barbara.
- babiche — thongs or lacings of rawhide
- babinet — Jacques (ʒɑk) 1794–1872, French physicist, noted for his work on the diffraction of light
- baboons — Plural form of baboon.
- babudom — the rule of babus
- baby at — (hardware) The redesigned AT motherboard that had the same size as the XT motherboard had (8.5" x 11") and could thus fit into an XT case. The original 12" x 13" AT motherboards are now largely forgotten. Compare ATX.
- babying — an infant or very young child.