7-letter words containing a
- agonize — If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- agoroth — agorot
- agoutis — Plural form of agouti.
- agraffe — a fastening consisting of a loop and hook, formerly used in armour and clothing
- agrapha — sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels
- agravic — relating to zero gravity
- agreers — Plural form of agreer.
- agreeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agree.
- agreges — a degree awarded by a French university, based on a competitive examination given by the state and qualifying the recipient for the highest teaching positions in a lycée or for the rank of professor in a school of law or medicine.
- agribiz — agribusiness.
- agriope — Eurydice.
- agrippa — Marcus Vipsanius (ˈmɑːkəs vɪpˈseɪnɪəs). 63–12 bc, Roman general: chief adviser and later son-in-law of Augustus
- aground — If a ship runs aground, it touches the ground in a shallow part of a river, lake, or the sea, and gets stuck.
- agulhas — Capesouthernmost point of Africa, in Western Cape province, South Africa
- agynous — (botany) Without female organs; male.
- ahaziah — a son of Ahab and his successor as king of Israel, reigned 853?–852? b.c. I Kings 22:40.
- aheight — at a significant height
- ahiezer — a Danite who assisted Moses with the census and was head of the tribe of Dan in the wilderness. Num. 1:12; 2:35; 10:25.
- ahimaaz — a priest who supported David during the revolt of Absalom. II Sam. 18:19–32.
- ahishar — a chamberlain in Solomon's household. I Kings 4:6.
- ahriman — the supreme evil spirit and diabolical opponent of Ormazd
- ahungry — hungry
- ai koan — (humour) /A-I koh'an/ One of a series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture. See also ha ha only serious, mu. In reading these, it is at least useful to know that Marvin Minsky, Gerald Sussman, and Drescher are AI researchers of note, that Tom Knight was one of the Lisp machine's principal designers, and that David Moon wrote much of Lisp Machine Lisp. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. Moon patiently told the student the following story: "One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understand how to make a better garbage collector... [Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.] "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe", Sussman replied. "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said. Minsky then shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened. "I would like to give you this personality test", said the outsider, "because I want you to be happy." Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the toaster, saying: "I wish the toaster to be happy, too."
- aidance — help
- aidless — without help; unassisted
- aileron — An aileron is a section on the back edge of the wing of an aircraft that can be raised or lowered in order to control the aircraft's movement.
- ailette — a shoulder component of a knight's armour, normally made of leather or parchment and displaying the bearer's coat of arms
- ailment — An ailment is an illness, especially one that is not very serious.
- aimless — A person or activity that is aimless has no clear purpose or plan.
- aineias — Greek form of Aeneas.
- ainsell — one's own self
- ainsley — Sir Ben, full name Charles Benedict Ainsley. born 1977, English competitive sailor: won gold medals for Britain at four consecutive Olympics (2000–2012)
- aintree — a suburb of Liverpool, in Merseyside: site of the racecourse over which the Grand National steeplechase has been run since 1839
- air arm — the aviation section of a national military force, including aircraft, base and support facilities, and personnel.
- 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
- air dam — any device, such as a spoiler, that reduces air resistance and increases the stability of a car, aircraft, etc
- air gap — Electricity. the space between two objects magnetically related, as between the rotor and the stator in a dynamo, or between two objects electrically related, as between the electrode and the tip of a spark plug.
- air gas — dry air charged with vapor from petroleum or some other hydrocarbon, used for lighting or heating
- air gun — a gun operated by means of compressed air
- air log — Aeronautics. a device for recording the distance traveled by an aircraft, relative to the air through which it moves.
- air map — a map constructed from aerial photographs.
- air out — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- air sac — any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds, which increase the efficiency of gaseous exchange in the lungs
- air tee — a large, T -shaped weather vane on or near an airfield.
- air war — the part of a political campaign that is conducted over the radio and television airwaves by senior politicians
- air-con — Air-con is the same as air conditioning.
- air-dry — to dry by exposure to the air
- airable — Suitable for broadcast.
- airbags — Plural form of airbag.