5-letter words starting with a
- aimee — a female given name.
- aimer — a person who aims
- ain't — People sometimes use ain't instead of 'am not', 'aren't', 'isn't', 'haven't', and 'hasn't'. Some people consider this use to be incorrect.
- ainer — own.
- ainga — (in Samoa) a large family, often spanning several generations
- aioli — garlic mayonnaise
- aiora — a festival of ancient Attica at which dolls were swung from trees to commemorate Erigone's suicide by hanging.
- aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- airer — a metal or wooden frame on which clothes are hung to dry
- aires — Plural form of aire.
- airly — (dialectal) early.
- airth — a direction.
- airts — a direction.
- aisha — ?613–678 ad, the favourite wife of Mohammed; daughter of Abu Bekr
- aisle — An aisle is a long narrow gap that people can walk along between rows of seats in a public building such as a church or between rows of shelves in a supermarket.
- aisne — a department of NE France, in Picardy region. Capital: Laon. Pop: 535 326 (2003 est). Area: 7428 sq km (2897 sq miles)
- aitch — the letter h or the sound represented by it
- aituc — All India Trade Union Congress
- aiver — a working horse
- aizle — a red-hot ember or hot ashes
- ajiva — (in Jainism) a thing without life or a soul
- ajman — a sheikdom in E Arabia, the smallest of the United Arab Emirates, on the Persian Gulf. 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- ajmer — a city in NW India, in Rajasthan: textile centre. Pop: 485 197 (2001)
- ajuga — a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the mint family
- ajvar — Relish made principally out of red bell peppers, with eggplant, garlic and chili pepper, predominantly popular in the Western Balkans.
- ak-47 — a type of Kalashnikov assault rifle
- akaba — a seaport in SW Jordan, at the N end of the Gulf of Aqaba.
- akala — a Hawaiian shrub or climber, Rubus macraei, bearing a large, red, edible raspberry.
- akasa — Ether or atmosphere, as one of the elements in Hindu philosophy.
- akbar — called Akbar the Great. 1542–1605, Mogul emperor of India (1556–1605), who extended the Mogul empire to include N India
- akebi — a climbing vine, Akebia quinata, of eastern Asia, bearing inconspicuous flowers and purple, edible berries, grown as an ornamental in the U.S.
- akela — the adult leader of a pack of Cub Scouts
- akene — any small, dry, hard, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit.
- akens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aken.
- aking — Present participle of ake.
- akins — Zoë [zoh-ee] /ˈzoʊ i/ (Show IPA), 1886–1958, U.S. playwright.
- akita — a large powerfully-built dog of a Japanese breed with erect ears, a typically white coat, and a large full tail carried curled over its back
- akkad — a city on the Euphrates in N Babylonia, the centre of a major empire and civilization (2360–2180 bc)
- akkra — a seaport in and the capital of Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea.
- aknow — Obsolete form of acknow.
- akola — a city in Maharashtra, W central India, on the Morna River.
- akron — a city in NE Ohio. Pop: 212 215 (2003 est)
- aksum — an ancient town in N Ethiopia, in the Tigre region: capital of the Aksumite Empire (1st to 6th centuries ad). According to tradition, the Ark of the Covenant was brought here from Jerusalem
- akure — a city in SW Nigeria, capital of Ondo state: agricultural trade centre. Pop: 434 000 (2005 est)
- akyab — former name of Sittwe.
- alack — used to express regret, surprise, dismay, etc.
- alala — a dull, brownish-tinged crow that occurs only in Hawaii.
- alamo — Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Tex.: scene of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops (1836)
- aland — to land, on land, ashore
- alane — (inorganic compound) aluminium hydride, AlH3.