7-letter words starting with a
- abounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abound.
- abraded — Simple past tense and past participle of abrade.
- abrader — Something that abrades; a tool or machine for abrading. (First attested in the late 19th century.).
- abrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abrade.
- abraham — the first of the patriarchs, the father of Isaac and the founder of the Hebrew people (Genesis 11–25)
- abrased — Simple past tense and past participle of abrase.
- abraser — a machine for testing the abrasion resistance of a material.
- abraxas — an ancient charm composed of Greek letters: originally believed to have magical powers and inscribed on amulets, etc, but from the second century ad personified by Gnostics as a deity, the source of divine emanations
- abrazos — Plural form of abrazo.
- abreact — to alleviate (emotional tension) through abreaction
- abreast — If people or things walk or move abreast, they are next to each other, side by side, and facing in the same direction.
- abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
- abroach — (of a cask, barrel, etc) tapped; broached
- abrooke — to bear or tolerate
- abrosia — the practice of refraining from eating
- abruzzi — a region of S central Italy, between the Apennines and the Adriatic. Capital: Aquila. Pop: 1 273 284 (2003 est). Area: 10 794 sq km (4210 sq miles)
- absalom — the third son of David, who rebelled against his father and was eventually killed by Joab (II Samuel 15–18)
- abscess — An abscess is a painful swelling containing pus.
- abscind — to cut off
- abscise — to separate or be separated by abscission
- abscond — If someone absconds from somewhere such as a prison, they escape from it or leave it without permission.
- abseils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abseil.
- absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
- absents — not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present): absent from class.
- absenty — (obsolete) absence.
- absinth — Alternate form of absinthe.
- absolue — Obsolete typography of absolve.
- absolut — (slang) absolute, usually in reference to something represented as trendy, popular, or cutting-edge.
- absolve — If a report or investigation absolves someone from blame or responsibility, it formally states that he or she is not guilty or is not to blame.
- absorbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absorb.
- absorpt — (archaic) Past participle of absorb.
- abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
- abthane — a territorial possession of the early Scottish church
- abu qir — a village of N Egypt, in the Nile River delta: Battle of the Nile near here (1798).
- abubble — (of liquids) bubbling
- abusage — wrong or improper use
- abusers — Plural form of abuser.
- abusing — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- abusion — morally wrong, corrupt, or deceptive use
- abusive — Someone who is abusive behaves in a cruel and violent way towards other people.
- abustle — Showing much activity. (First attested in the mid 20th century.).
- abuttal — abuttals. those parts of one piece of land that abut on adjacent lands; boundaries. Also, buttals. Law. the boundary lines of a piece of land in relation to adjacent lands.
- abutted — to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border (often followed by on, upon, or against): This piece of land abuts on a street.
- abutter — the owner of adjoining property
- abvolts — Plural form of abvolt.
- abwatts — Plural form of abwatt.
- abysmal — If you describe a situation or the condition of something as abysmal, you think that it is very bad or poor in quality.
- abyssal — of or belonging to the ocean depths, esp below 2000 metres (6500 feet)
- abysses — Plural form of abyss.
- abyssus — (obsolete) alternate form of abyss.