6-letter words starting with ab
- abloom — in flower; blooming
- ablush — (of a person) blushing
- ablute — (intransitive, colloquial) To wash oneself. (First attested in the Late 19th century.).
- abnaki — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Maine and Quebec
- aboard — If you are aboard a ship or plane, you are on it or in it.
- aboded — Simple past tense and past participle of abode.
- abodes — Plural form of abode.
- abohms — Plural form of abohm.
- abolla — a cloak worn by Roman soldiers, worn draped over one shoulder and fastened with a metal brooch
- abomey — a city in SW Benin.
- aborad — (anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral).
- aboral — away from or opposite the mouth
- aborne — auburn
- aborts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abort.
- abound — If things abound, or if a place abounds with things, there are very large numbers of them.
- aboves — in, at, or to a higher place.
- abrade — To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
- abraid — to awake
- abrams — Plural form of abram.
- abrase — (obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank. (Attested only in the 17th century.).
- abrash — any variation or change, typically striation, in the different dyes of an Oriental rug as it ages.
- abrazo — an embrace used as a greeting or on parting in Spain and Latin America
- abread — (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Abroad.
- abrégé — an abridgment
- abrest — Alternative spelling of abreast.
- abroad — If you go abroad, you go to a foreign country, usually one which is separated from the country where you live by an ocean or a sea.
- abrupt — An abrupt change or action is very sudden, often in a way which is unpleasant.
- absail — Misspelling of abseil.
- abscam — the code name for an FBI investigation (1978–80) of bribery, involving members of Congress.
- abseil — To abseil down a cliff or rock face means to slide down it in a controlled way using a rope, with your feet against the cliff or rock.
- absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.
- absorb — If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
- absurd — If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
- abukir — bay at the mouth of the Nile, near Alexandria, Egypt: site of the British victory (1798) under Nelson over the French
- abulia — a pathological inability to take decisions
- abulic — a symptom of mental disorder involving impairment or loss of volition.
- abunas — Plural form of abuna.
- aburas — Plural form of abura.
- aburst — in a bursting state
- abused — Simple past tense and past participle of abuse.
- abusee — A person who is the victim of abuse (by an abuser).
- abuser — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- abuses — Plural form of abuse.
- abusio — (rhetoric) Catachresis.
- abvolt — the cgs unit of potential difference in the electromagnetic system; the potential difference between two points when work of 1 erg must be done to transfer 1 abcoulomb of charge from one point to the other: equivalent to 10–8 volt
- abwatt — the cgs unit of power in the electromagnetic system, equal to the power dissipated when a current of 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt: equivalent to 10–7 watt
- abwehr — the German high-command service for espionage, counterintelligence, and sabotage during World War II.
- abydos — an ancient town in central Egypt: site of many temples and tombs
- abying — Present participle of aby.