6-letter words containing ab
- labret — an ornament worn in a pierced hole in the lip.
- labrid — any of numerous fishes of the family Labridae, including the wrasses, the tautog, and the cunner, and characterized chiefly by well-developed teeth and, often, brilliant colors.
- labrum — a lip or liplike part.
- labrys — A double-headed ax in Minoan mythology.
- labuan — an island off the W coast of Sabah: part of Sabah state, E Malaysia: a free port. 35 sq. mi. (90.65 sq. km).
- lavabo — Ecclesiastical. the ritual washing of the celebrant's hands after the offertory in the Mass, accompanied in the Roman rite by the recitation of Psalm 26:6–12. the passage recited. the small towel or the basin used.
- liable — legally responsible: You are liable for the damage caused by your action.
- liblab — of or relating to a coalition of liberal and labor groups, especially in politics
- lyable — (obsolete) Variant spelling of liable.
- mabela — ground kaffir corn used for making porridge
- mabuse — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- mahlab — An aromatic spice made from cherry stones.
- malabo — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
- marabi — A lively music genre from South Africa.
- matlab — (mathematics, language, application) A high-level language and interactive program from The MathWorks for numeric computation and visualisation. MATLAB supports numerical analysis, matrix computation, signal processing, linear algebra, statistics, Fourier analysis, filtering, optimisation and numerical integration. It can output two and three dimensional graphics and can be integrated with C, C++, Fortran, Java, COM and Microsoft Excel.
- mihrab — (in a mosque) a niche or decorative panel designating the kiblah.
- mugabe — Robert (Gabriel) born 1924, Zimbabwean political leader: prime minister 1980–87; president since 1987.
- nabbed — to arrest or capture.
- nabber — to arrest or capture.
- nablus — a town of ancient Palestine, near the city of Samaria; occupied by Israel 1967–96; since 1996 under Palestinian self-rule: first capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.
- nabobs — Plural form of nabob.
- naboth — the owner of a vineyard coveted by Ahab, slain by the scheming of Jezebel so that Ahab could secure the vineyard. I Kings 21.
- nawabs — Plural form of nawab.
- pablum — (lowercase) trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap.
- prefab — prefabricated.
- prehab — any programme of training designed to prevent sports injury
- punjab — a former province in NW British India: now divided between India and Pakistan.
- qabala — Alternative spelling of Kabballah.
- rabato — a wide, stiff collar of the 17th century, worn flat over the shoulders or open in front and standing at the back.
- rabaul — the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Capital: Rabaul.
- rabbah — the ancient Biblical capital of the Ammonite kingdom east of the Jordan River.
- rabban — master; teacher (used as a term of address and title of respect for a person ranking higher than a rabbi).
- rabbet — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- rabbin — rabbi1 .
- rabbis — Plural form of rabbi.
- rabbit — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- rabble — a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
- rabi i — the third month of the Muslim calendar.
- rabies — an infectious disease of dogs, cats, and other animals, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal and usually fatal if prophylactic treatment is not administered: caused by an RNA virus of the rhabdovirus group; hydrophobia.
- rabona — an unconventional method of kicking the ball in which a player plants one leg and brings the kicking foot round behind it
- raborn — William F. 1905–90, U.S. admiral and government official: CIA director 1965–66.
- sabalo — the tarpon.
- sabata — Victor de [veek-tawr de] /vikˈtɔr dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1967, Italian composer and conductor.
- sabbat — (in the 14th–16th centuries) a secret rendezvous of witches and sorcerers for worshiping the Devil, characterized by orgiastic rites, dances, feasting, etc.
- sabean — of or relating to Saba.
- sabina — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “a Sabine woman.”.
- sabine — of or belonging to an ancient people of central Italy who lived chiefly in the Apennines northeast of Rome and were subjugated by the Romans about 290 b.c.
- sabkha — a flat coastal plain with a salt crust, common in Arabia
- sabora — one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in the rabbinical academies of Babylonia during the 6th century a.d., whose editing of the work of the Babylonian amoraim constituted the final stage in the preparation of the Babylonian Gemara.
- scabby — covered with scabs; having many scabs.