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7-letter words containing a

  • -rrhoea — (in pathology) a discharge or flow
  • -saurus — lizard
  • -seater — -seater combines with numbers to form adjectives and nouns which indicate how many people something such as a car has seats for.
  • -shaded — -shaded combines with nouns to form adjectives which indicate that sunlight is prevented from reaching a certain place by the thing mentioned.
  • -shaped — -shaped combines with nouns to form adjectives that describe the shape of an object.
  • -soaked — -soaked combines with nouns such as 'rain' and 'blood' to form adjectives which describe someone or something that is extremely wet or extremely damp because of the thing mentioned.
  • -tactic — having a specified kind of pattern or arrangement or having an orientation determined by a specified force
  • -tailed — having a tail of the specified sort
  • -taming — the act of taming a specified animal
  • -tastic — denoting excellence in a specified area
  • -thymia — indicating a certain emotional condition, mood, or state of mind
  • -tropal — -tropic
  • -valent — having a specified valency
  • -waving — waving the thing specified
  • -yarder — something that is a specified number of yards long or high
  • 10base2 — (networking)   (Or "cheapernet") The variant of Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable (RG-58 or similar), as opposed to 10base5 cable. The "10" means 10 Mbps, "base" means "baseband" as opposed to radio frequency and "2" means a maximum single cable length of 200m.
  • 10base5 — (networking)   An Ethernet network cabling specification operating at ten Mbps, "baseband" (as opposed to radio frequency), and with a maximum single cable length of 500 metres. This is normally carried on RG8 cable. Compare 10base2, 10baseT.
  • 10baset — (networking)   A variant of Ethernet which allows stations to be attached via twisted pair cable.
  • 20-gate — (language)   An algebraic language for the G-20, developed at Carnegie around 1965.
  • 802.11a — (networking)   A radio-based LAN protocol which speaks OFDM at 5GHz, one of the two wi-fi protocols.
  • @-party — (event, history)   /at'par-tee/ (Or "@-sign party") An antiquated term for a gathering of hackers at a science-fiction convention (especially the annual Worldcon) to which only people who had an electronic mail address were admitted. The term refers to the commercial at symbol, "@", in an e-mail address and dates back to the era when having an e-mail address was a distinguishing characteristic of the select few who worked with computers. Compare boink.
  • a blanc — blanched.
  • a bliss — Sir Arthur (Edward Drummond) 1891–1975, English composer.
  • a go go — as much as you like; to your heart's content; galore: food and drink à gogo.
  • a go-go — go-go
  • a level — A levels are British educational qualifications which school children take when they are seventeen or eighteen years old. People usually need A levels if they want to go to university in Britain.
  • a point — just in time.
  • a shade — If you say that something is, for example, a shade unusual or a shade disappointing, you mean that it is slightly unusual or disappointing.
  • a sight — a great deal
  • a sizes — a series of paper sizes approved by the International Standards Organization, running from 2AO to A7, each size (defined in mm) being half as large as the one preceding it, as follows: 2AO,1189 × 1682; AO, 841 × 1189; A1, 594 × 841; A2, 420 × 594; A3, 297 × 420; A4, 210 × 297; A5, 148 × 210; A6, 105 × 148; A7, 74 × 105
  • a tempo — to the original tempo
  • a tergo — at or toward the back; from behind; in the rear.
  • a terre — on the ground.
  • a throw — If things cost a particular amount of money a throw, they cost that amount each.
  • a touch — You can use a touch to mean slightly or to a small extent, especially in order to make something you say seem less extreme. For example, if you say that something is a touch expensive, you might really think that it is very expensive.
  • a treat — If you say, for example, that something looks or works a treat, you mean that it looks very good or works very well.
  • a-frame — (of a house) constructed with an A-shaped elevation
  • a. sage — Alain René [a-lan ruh-ney] /aˈlɛ̃ rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1668–1747, French novelist and dramatist.
  • aalborg — a city and port in Denmark, in N Jutland. Pop: 121 549 (2004 est)
  • aap dtd — (standard)   A DTD for a standard SGML document type for scientific documents, defined by the Association of American Publishers.
  • aaronic — of or relating to Aaron, his family, or the priestly dynasty initiated by him
  • ab esse — absent.
  • abacate — Avocado.
  • abacist — a person skilled in using an abacus.
  • abactor — a cattle thief
  • abaddon — the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
  • abagtha — one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of King Ahasuerus. Esther 1:10.
  • abalone — Abalone is a shellfish that you can eat and that has a shiny substance called mother-of-pearl inside its shell.
  • abanded — Simple past tense and past participle of aband.
  • abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
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