5-letter words starting with a
- abele — white poplar (sense 1)
- abend — (computing) An abnormal termination of a program.
- abets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abet.
- abhor — If you abhor something, you hate it very much, especially for moral reasons.
- abide — to tolerate; put up with
- abies — a fir tree
- abihu — a son of Aaron who, with Nadab, was destroyed by fire from heaven for disobeying the Lord. Lev. 10:1–5.
- abite — (transitive, obsolete) To bite; eat; devour.
- abjad — (linguistics) A writing system, similar to a syllabary, in which there is one glyph (that is a symbol or letter) for each consonant or consonantal phoneme. Some languages that use abjads are Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. Abjads differ from syllabaries (such as the Japanese hiragana) in that the vowel quality of each letter is left unspecified, and must be inferred from context and grammar.
- abled — having a range of physical powers as specified (esp in the phrases less abled, differently abled)
- abler — having necessary power, skill, resources, or qualifications; qualified: able to lift a two-hundred-pound weight; able to write music; able to travel widely; able to vote.
- ables — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of able.
- ablet — a small freshwater fish, Leuciscus alburnus
- ablow — in bloom; blossoming
- abmho — a unit of electrical conductance
- abner — a masculine name
- abode — Your abode is the place where you live.
- abohm — the cgs unit of resistance in the electromagnetic system: equivalent to 10-9 ohm
- aboil — boiling
- aboma — a large South American snake, Boa aboma
- abood — Obsolete spelling of abode.
- abord — to approach or accost someone
- abore — Simple past form of abear (carry, bear; develop; put up with, thole, tolerate, abide).
- aborn — Born, begotten, created, developed.
- abort — If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
- about — You use about to introduce who or what something relates to or concerns.
- above — If one thing is above another one, it is directly over it or higher than it.
- abowt — Obsolete spelling of about.
- abram — auburn
- abray — to awake
- abrim — filled to the brim
- abrin — a highly poisonous compound found in the seed of the Indian liquorice (Abrus precatorius)
- abris — a shelter, especially a dugout.
- abset — (language) An early declarative language from the University of Aberdeen.
- absit — permission for a student to be absent from university for a short period
- absys — (language) An early declarative language from the University of Aberdeen which anticipated a number of features of Prolog.
- abuja — the federal capital of Nigeria, in the centre of the country. Pop: 467 000 (2005 est)
- abuna — the title given to the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox church
- abura — A medium-sized tropical African tree, Mitragyne macrophylla, from the family Loganiaceae.R:MW3 1976 page=8(First attested in the mid 20th century.)0.
- aburn — Burning.
- abury — Avebury (def 2).
- abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
- abuts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abut.
- abutt — Archaic form of abut.
- abuzz — If someone says that a place is abuzz with rumours or plans, they mean that everyone there is excited about them.
- abyla — a mountain at Ceuta, N Africa
- abysm — an abyss
- abyss — An abyss is a very deep hole in the ground.
- abzug — Bella (Savitzky) [suh-vit-skee] /səˈvɪt ski/ (Show IPA), 1920–98, U.S. politician and women's-rights activist: congresswoman 1971–76.
- ac-dc — sexually responsive to both men and women; bisexual.