7-letter words containing s, a, b
- abusage — wrong or improper use
- abusers — Plural form of abuser.
- abusing — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- abusion — morally wrong, corrupt, or deceptive use
- abusive — Someone who is abusive behaves in a cruel and violent way towards other people.
- abustle — Showing much activity. (First attested in the mid 20th century.).
- abvolts — Plural form of abvolt.
- abwatts — Plural form of abwatt.
- abysmal — If you describe a situation or the condition of something as abysmal, you think that it is very bad or poor in quality.
- abyssal — of or belonging to the ocean depths, esp below 2000 metres (6500 feet)
- abysses — Plural form of abyss.
- abyssus — (obsolete) alternate form of abyss.
- adsorbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adsorb.
- adverbs — any member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, as modifiers of adjectives, other adverbs, or adverbial phrases, as very in very nice, much in much more impressive, and tomorrow in She'll write to you tomorrow. They relate to what they modify by indicating place (I promise to be there), time (Do your homework now!), manner (She sings beautifully), circumstance (He accidentally dropped the glass when the bell rang), degree (I'm very happy to see you), or cause (I draw, although badly). See also sentence adverb.
- aerobes — Plural form of aerobe.
- aerobus — a type of monorail that is suspended by an overhead cable
- airbags — Plural form of airbag.
- airbase — A base for the operation of military aircraft.
- albedos — Plural form of albedo.
- albinos — Plural form of albino.
- albinus — Alcuin.
- alibies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alibi.
- ambages — winding, roundabout paths or ways.
- ambassy — an embassy
- ambitus — (music) the range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants.
- amboise — a town in NW central France, on the River Loire: famous castle, a former royal residence. Pop: 11 457 (1999)
- ambries — Plural form of ambry.
- ambrose — Saint. ?340–397 ad, bishop of Milan; built up the secular power of the early Christian Church; also wrote music and Latin hymns. Feast day: Dec 7 or April 4
- ambsace — double ace, the lowest throw at dice
- amoebas — Plural form of amoeba.
- ansible — (science fiction) A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.
- antibes — a port and resort in SE France, on the Mediterranean: an important Roman town. Pop: 76 925 (2006)
- antisub — (informal) antisubmarine.
- aquabis — (chemistry, in combination) Containing two molecules of water as a ligand.
- arabist — An Arabist is a person who supports Arab interests or knows a lot about the Arabic language.
- arbores — Plural form of arbor.
- arbours — Plural form of arbour.
- arbutus — any of several temperate ericaceous shrubs of the genus Arbutus, esp the strawberry tree of S Europe. They have clusters of white or pinkish flowers, broad evergreen leaves, and strawberry-like berries
- archbsd — (operating system) 4.4 BSD-Lite for the Acorn Archimedes.
- asbuilt — May refer to a field survey, construction drawing, 3D model, or other descriptive representation of an engineered project or a design. Derived from usage of the adjective asbuilt. (See examples.).
- ascribe — If you ascribe an event or condition to a particular cause, you say or consider that it was caused by that thing.
- 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.
- aubades — Plural form of aubade.
- ausable — a river in NE New York, flowing NE through a gorge (Ausable Chasm) into Lake Champlain. 20 miles (32 km) long.
- autobus — a motor vehicle which can carry a large group of passengers