5-letter words starting with a
- acton — a jacket or jerkin, originally of quilted cotton, worn under a coat of mail
- actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
- actos — a short, realistic play, usually in Spanish, that dramatizes the social and economic problems of Chicanos.
- actra — Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists
- actus — An Ancient Roman unit of length, approximately 35.5 metres.
- acuff — Roy1903-92; U.S. composer & country music singer
- acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
- ad in — server's advantage
- ada-o — (language) An Ada subset developed at the University of Karlsruhe in 1979, used for compiler bootstrapping. It lacks overloading, derived types, real numbers, tasks and generics.
- adage — An adage is something which people often say and which expresses a general truth about some aspect of life.
- adam7 — (graphics, algorithm) One of the progressive coding methods used in PNG images. Adam7, named after its author, Adam M. Costello, consists of seven distinct passes over the image. Each pass transmits a subset of the pixels in the image. The pass in which each pixel is transmitted is defined by replicating the following 8-by-8 pattern over the entire image, starting at the top left: 1 6 4 6 2 6 4 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 6 5 6 5 6 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 3 6 4 6 3 6 4 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 6 5 6 5 6 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 (2000-09-12)
- adama — Admah.
- adami — Edward Fenech. born 1934, Maltese politician, president of Malta (2004–2009)
- adamo — (database) A data management system written at CERN, based on the Entity-Relationship model.
- adams — a mountain in SW Washington, in the Cascade Range. Height: 3751 m (12 307 ft)
- adana — a city in S Turkey, capital of Adana province. Pop: 1 248 000 (2005 est)
- adapt — If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully.
- adays — during the day
- adccp — Advanced Data Communications Control Protocol
- addax — a large light-coloured antelope, Addax nasomaculatus, having ribbed loosely spiralled horns and inhabiting desert regions in N Africa: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla
- added — You use added to say that something has more of a particular thing or quality.
- adder — In Europe and Asia, an adder is a small poisonous snake that has a black pattern on its back. In North America, a number of different poisonous and non-poisonous snakes are called adders.
- addie — a female given name, form of Adeline.
- addio — goodbye
- addle — If something addles someone's mind or brain, they become confused and unable to think properly.
- addon — Something to expand something else.
- adeem — to cancel or withdraw (a legal agreement)
- adela — a feminine name: dim. Della; var. Adelia; Fr. Adèle
- adele — a feminine name
- aden- — adeno-
- adeni — a native or inhabitant of Aden.
- adept — Someone who is adept at something can do it skilfully.
- adhan — a call to prayer
- adieu — Adieu means the same as goodbye.
- adige — a river in N Italy, flowing southeast to the Adriatic. Length: 354 km (220 miles)
- adios — goodbye; farewell
- aditi — (database, project) The Aditi Deductive Database System. A multi-user deductive database system from the Machine Intelligence Project at the University of Melbourne. It supports base relations defined by facts (relations in the sense of relational databases) and derived relations defined by rules that specify how to compute new information from old information. Both base relations and the rules defining derived relations are stored on disk and are accessed as required during query evaluation. The rules defining derived relations are expressed in a Prolog-like language, which is also used for expressing queries. Aditi supports the full structured data capability of Prolog. Base relations can store arbitrarily nested terms, for example arbitrary length lists, and rules can directly manipulate such terms. Base relations can be indexed with B-trees or multi-level signature files. Users can access the system through a Motif-based query and database administration tool, or through a command line interface. There is also in interface that allows NU-Prolog programs to access Aditi in a transparent manner. Proper transaction processing is not supported in this release. The beta release runs on SPARC/SunOS4.1.2 and MIPS/Irix4.0. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- adits — Plural form of adit.
- adlai — a male given name.
- adler — Alfred (ˈalfreːt). 1870–1937, Austrian psychiatrist, noted for his descriptions of overcompensation and inferiority feelings
- adlib — Alternative spelling of ad-lib.
- adlog — (language) A language which adds a Prolog layer to Ada.
- admah — one of the cities that was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah. Deut. 29:23.
- adman — An adman is someone who works in advertising.
- admen — Also called advertising man. one whose profession is writing, designing, or selling advertisements.
- admin — Admin is the activity or process of organizing an institution or organization.
- admit — If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
- admix — to mix or blend
- adnah — a Manassite deserter from Saul's to David's army. I Chron. 12:20.
- adobe — Adobe is a mixture of mud and straw that is dried into bricks in the sun and used for building, especially in hot countries.