4-letter words containing ab
- flab — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- frab — to harass; to nag
- gaba — a neurotransmitter of the central nervous system that inhibits excitatory responses.
- gabe — a male given name, form of Gabriel.
- gabo — Naum [noum] /naʊm/ (Show IPA), (Naum Pevsner) 1890–1977, U.S. sculptor, born in Russia (brother of Antoine Pevsner).
- gabs — to talk or chat idly; chatter.
- gaby — a fool.
- grab — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- hab. — Habakkuk
- haba — Alois [ah-lois] /ˈɑ lɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1893–1972, Czech composer.
- habs — Plural form of hab.
- habu — a large venomous snake, Trimeresurus flavoviridis, of Okinawa and other Ryukyu Islands: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- jabs — Plural form of jab.
- joab — a commander of David's army and the slayer of Abner and Absalom. II Sam. 3:27; 18:14.
- kaba — a small, cubical building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca containing a sacred black stone: regarded by Muslims as the House of God and the objective of their pilgrimages.
- knab — (colloquial) To nab or steal.
- krab — Short for carabiner.
- labe — a river in central Europe, flowing from the W Czech Republic NW through Germany to the North Sea. 725 miles (1165 km) long.
- labs — Plural form of lab.
- mabe — a type of spherical pearl often used in jewellery
- mlab — Modeling LABoratory. An interactive mathematical modelling system.
- moab — an ancient kingdom E of the Dead Sea, in what is now Jordan.
- nabe — a neighborhood movie theater.
- nabi — a prophet.
- nabk — a prickly shrub, Ziziphus spina-christi, native to Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern areas
- nabs — Simple past tense and past participle of nab.
- paba — para-aminobenzoic acid.
- pabx — (communications) (PABX) A telephone exchange operated within an organisation, used for switching calls between internal lines and between internal and PSTN lines. In contrast to a PMBX, a PABX can route calls without manual intervention, based entirely on the number dialed. Not all PABXs can route external calls to internal numbers automatically however.
- quab — An unfledged bird.
- raab — Julius, 1891–1964, Austrian engineer and statesman: chancellor of Austria 1953–61.
- rabe — David (William) born 1940, U.S. playwright.
- rabi — the fourth month of the Muslim calendar.
- rlab — A MATLAB-like matrix-oriented programming language/toolbox. RLaB focusses on creating a good experimental environment (or laboratory) in which to do matrix mathematics. Currently RLaB has numeric scalars and matrices (real and complex), and string scalars, and matrices. RLaB also contains a list variable type, which is a heterogeneous associative array. Version 0.95 includes an interpreter, libraries and documentation. E-mail: Ian Searle <[email protected]>. ftp://evans.ee.adfa.oz.au. Requires GNUPLOT, lib[IF]77.a (from f2c). Ported to many platforms including Unix, OS/2, Amiga.
- saba — an island in the Netherlands Antilles, in the N Leeward Islands. 5 sq. mi. (13 sq. km).
- sabc — South African Broadcasting Corporation
- sabe — sense or savvy
- sabs — South African Bureau of Standards
- scab — the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.
- slab — a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
- stab — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- swab — a large mop used on shipboard for cleaning decks, living quarters, etc.
- tabi — a covering for the foot, similar to a sock, having a separate pouchlike stall for the large toe, worn especially in Japan, often with zoris.
- tabs — tabloid (def 1).
- tabu — to put under a taboo; prohibit or forbid. Synonyms: prohibit, ban, forbid, proscribe. Antonyms: allow, permit, sanction.
- wabi — Windows Application Binary Interface
- wabs — web.
- yaba — /ya'b*/ [Cambridge] Yet Another Bloody Acronym. Whenever some program is being named, someone invariably suggests that it be given a name that is acronymic. The response from those with a trace of originality is to remark ironically that the proposed name would then be "YABA-compatible". Also used in response to questions like "What is WYSIWYG?" See also YA-, TLA.