8-letter words starting with ab
- abhorred — to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- abhorrer — to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- abiathar — a priest of Israel and a companion of David. I Sam. 22:20; II Sam. 15:24–36.
- abidable — Alternative spelling of abideable.
- abidance — the act or state of abiding.
- abide by — If you abide by a law, agreement, or decision, you do what it says you should do.
- abietate — a salt or ester of abietic acid.
- abigails — Plural form of abigail.
- abingdon — a market town in S England, in Oxfordshire. Pop: 36 010 (2001)
- abington — urban township in SE Pa., near Philadelphia: pop. 56,000
- abiocoen — The non-living components of an environment, such as water, soil, air, etc.
- abiogeny — (biology) abiogenesis.
- abiology — The sciences, such as geology and astronomy, that collectively deal with inorganic or lifeless bodies.
- abitrary — Misspelling of arbitrary.
- abjectly — utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
- abjuring — Present participle of abjure.
- abkhazia — a disputed region of NW Georgia, between the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains: a subtropical region, with mountains rising over 3900 m (13 000 ft); Abkhazian separatists seized control of the region in 1993; Russia formally recognized it as an independent republic following the Russian-Georgian war of 2008, although Georgia still claims the region as part of its territory. Capital: Sukhumi. Pop: 220 600 (2006 est). Area: 8600 sq km (3320 sq miles)
- ablating — Present participle of ablate.
- ablation — the surgical removal of an organ, structure, or part
- ablative — (in certain inflected languages such as Latin) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb
- ablators — Plural form of ablator.
- ablegate — a papal envoy who has important duties abroad such as bringing a cardinal's insignia to him when he has just been appointed, or taking a message to a sovereign
- ableness — (uncountable, now, rare) Ability of body or mind; power; force; vigor. (First attested from around 1350 to 1470.).
- abligate — (obsolete) To tie up so as to hinder from.
- abluting — Present participle of ablute.
- ablution — the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
- abnegate — to deny to oneself; renounce (privileges, pleasure, etc)
- abnormal — Someone or something that is abnormal is unusual, especially in a way that is worrying.
- aboideau — a dyke with a sluicegate that allows flood water to drain but keeps the sea water out
- aboiteau — (Canada, Acadia) alternate form of aboideau.
- abomasal — of or relating to the abomasum
- abomasum — the fourth and last compartment of the stomach of ruminants, which receives and digests food from the psalterium and passes it on to the small intestine
- abomasus — abomasum.
- aborally — away from or opposite the mouth
- aborigin — (obsolete) Aborigine. (Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 19th century.).
- aborning — while being born, developed, or realized (esp in the phrase die aborning)
- aborting — Present participle of abort.
- abortion — If a woman has an abortion, she ends her pregnancy deliberately so that the baby is not born alive.
- abortive — An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
- abounded — to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers: a stream in which trout abound.
- about to — on the point of; intending to
- abrachia — the congenital condition of having no arms
- abradant — abrading
- abrading — Present participle of abrade.
- abraided — Simple past tense and past participle of abraid.
- abrasion — An abrasion is an area on a person's body where the skin has been scraped.
- abrasive — Someone who has an abrasive manner is unkind and rude.
- abration — Misspelling of abrasion.
- abricock — an apricot
- abridged — An abridged book or play has been made shorter by removing some parts of it.