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7-letter words starting with a

  • abenaki — a member of a group of E Algonquian peoples living mainly in Maine and S Quebec
  • abended — Simple past tense and past participle of abend.
  • aberfan — a former coal-mining village in S Wales, in Merthyr Tydfil county borough: scene of a disaster in 1966 when a slag heap collapsed onto part of the village killing 144 people (including 116 children)
  • abermud — (games)   The first popular open source MUD. The first version of AberMUD, named after Aberystwyth, UK, was written in B by Alan Cox, Richard Acott, Jim Finnis, and Leon Thrane, at University of Wales, Aberystwyth for an old Honeywell mainframe and opened in 1987. The gameplay was heavily influenced by MUD1, written by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle, which Alan Cox had played at the University of Essex. In late 1988, Alan Cox ported AberMUD to C so it could run under UNIX on Southampton University's Maths machines. This version was named AberMUD2. Various other versions followed.
  • abetted — to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.
  • abetter — a person who abets.
  • abettor — a person who abets.
  • abeyant — temporarily inactive, stopped, or suspended.
  • abfarad — the cgs unit of capacitance in the electromagnetic system; the capacitance of a capacitor having a charge of 1 abcoulomb and a potential difference of 1 abvolt between its conductors: equivalent to 109 farads
  • abgatha — Abagtha.
  • abhenry — the cgs unit of inductance in the electromagnetic system; the inductance that results when a rate of change of current of 1 abampere per second generates an induced emf of 1 abvolt: equivalent to 10–9 henry
  • abhored — Misspelling of abhorred.
  • abideth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abide.
  • abiding — An abiding feeling, memory, or interest is one that you have for a very long time.
  • abidjan — a port in Côte d'Ivoire, on the Gulf of Guinea: the legislative capital (Yamoussoukro became the administrative capital in 1983). Pop: 3 516 000 (2005 est)
  • abience — (psychology) Withdrawal from, or avoidance of a stimulus.
  • abietic — Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees.
  • abigail — the woman who brought provisions to David and his followers and subsequently became his wife (I Samuel 25:1–42)
  • abilene — a city in central Texas. Pop: 114 889 (2003 est)
  • ability — Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it.
  • abinoam — the father of Barak. Judges 4:6; 12; 5:1.
  • abiocen — Alternative spelling of abiocoen.
  • abioses — the absence or lack of life; a nonviable state.
  • abiosis — absence of life
  • abiotic — of nonliving substances or environmental factors
  • abishag — a young maiden brought to David in his old age as a nurse and companion. I Kings 1:1–4.
  • abitibi — a lake in E Ontario and W Quebec, Canada. 369 sq. mi. (956 sq. km).
  • abjoint — to cut off part of a mycelium or spore by forming a septum
  • abjured — Simple past tense and past participle of abjure.
  • abjurer — One who abjures. (late 18th century).
  • ablated — Simple past tense and past participle of ablate.
  • ablates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ablate.
  • ablator — the heat shield of a space vehicle, which melts or wears away during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere
  • ableism — discrimination against disabled or handicapped people
  • ableist — discriminating against disabled or handicapped people
  • ablings — possibly; perhaps
  • abluent — a substance used for cleansing
  • abluted — washed thoroughly
  • aboding — (obsolete) A foreboding. (Attested from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.).
  • abogado — Counsel; advisor; councilor; barrister.
  • abolish — If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
  • abomasa — Plural form of abomasum.
  • aborded — Simple past tense and past participle of abord.
  • aborted — Carry out or undergo the abortion of (a fetus).
  • abortee — a fetus that has been aborted
  • aborter — a woman who is having or has had an abortion
  • abortus — an aborted human fetus, esp one that is less than 12 weeks old or weighs less than 17 oz
  • abought — simple past tense and past participle of aby.
  • aboukir — a village of N Egypt, in the Nile River delta: Battle of the Nile near here (1798).
  • aboulia — abulia
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