6-letter words containing ab
- abloom — in flower; blooming
- ablush — (of a person) blushing
- ablute — (intransitive, colloquial) To wash oneself. (First attested in the Late 19th century.).
- abnaki — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Maine and Quebec
- aboard — If you are aboard a ship or plane, you are on it or in it.
- aboded — Simple past tense and past participle of abode.
- abodes — Plural form of abode.
- abohms — Plural form of abohm.
- abolla — a cloak worn by Roman soldiers, worn draped over one shoulder and fastened with a metal brooch
- abomey — a city in SW Benin.
- aborad — (anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral).
- aboral — away from or opposite the mouth
- aborne — auburn
- aborts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abort.
- abound — If things abound, or if a place abounds with things, there are very large numbers of them.
- aboves — in, at, or to a higher place.
- abrade — To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
- abraid — to awake
- abrams — Plural form of abram.
- abrase — (obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank. (Attested only in the 17th century.).
- abrash — any variation or change, typically striation, in the different dyes of an Oriental rug as it ages.
- abrazo — an embrace used as a greeting or on parting in Spain and Latin America
- abread — (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Abroad.
- abrégé — an abridgment
- abrest — Alternative spelling of abreast.
- abroad — If you go abroad, you go to a foreign country, usually one which is separated from the country where you live by an ocean or a sea.
- abrupt — An abrupt change or action is very sudden, often in a way which is unpleasant.
- absail — Misspelling of abseil.
- abscam — the code name for an FBI investigation (1978–80) of bribery, involving members of Congress.
- abseil — To abseil down a cliff or rock face means to slide down it in a controlled way using a rope, with your feet against the cliff or rock.
- absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.
- absorb — If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
- absurd — If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
- abukir — bay at the mouth of the Nile, near Alexandria, Egypt: site of the British victory (1798) under Nelson over the French
- abulia — a pathological inability to take decisions
- abulic — a symptom of mental disorder involving impairment or loss of volition.
- abunas — Plural form of abuna.
- aburas — Plural form of abura.
- aburst — in a bursting state
- abused — Simple past tense and past participle of abuse.
- abusee — A person who is the victim of abuse (by an abuser).
- abuser — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- abuses — Plural form of abuse.
- abusio — (rhetoric) Catachresis.
- abvolt — the cgs unit of potential difference in the electromagnetic system; the potential difference between two points when work of 1 erg must be done to transfer 1 abcoulomb of charge from one point to the other: equivalent to 10–8 volt
- abwatt — the cgs unit of power in the electromagnetic system, equal to the power dissipated when a current of 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt: equivalent to 10–7 watt
- abwehr — the German high-command service for espionage, counterintelligence, and sabotage during World War II.
- abydos — an ancient town in central Egypt: site of many temples and tombs
- abying — Present participle of aby.
- adabas — (database) A relational database system by Software AG. While it was initially designed for large IBM mainframe systems (e.g. S/370 in the late 1970s), it has been ported to numerous other platforms over the last few years such as several flavors of Unix including AIX. ADABAS stores its data in tables (and is thus "relational") but also uses some non-relational techniques, such as multiple values and periodic groups.