5 Letter Words That Start With AB

abide

Verb : (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand.

Verb : (transitive) To bear patiently.

Verb : (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of.

abyss

Noun : Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.

Noun : (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.

Noun : Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.

abate

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.

Verb : To reduce (something) in amount or size.

abhor

Verb : (transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To fill with horror or disgust.

Verb : (transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.

abuse

Noun : Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.

Noun : Misuse; improper use; perversion.

Noun : (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.

abode

Noun : (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.

Noun : (dated or law) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.

Noun : (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.

abysm

Noun : (archaic, poetic) Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.

Noun : (now chiefly literary) An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole.

about

Verb : On all sides; around.

Verb : Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.

Verb : From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.

abase

Verb : (transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

abash

Verb : (transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

abbey

Noun : The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.

Noun : A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.

Noun : The church of a monastery.

abbot

Noun : The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.

Noun : The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.

Noun : A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.

abade

Noun : Obsolete form of abode. [(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.]

Verb : Obsolete form of abode. [(transitive, obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.]

aback

Verb : (archaic) Towards the back or rear; backwards.

Verb : (archaic) In the rear; a distance behind.

Verb : By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)

above

Verb : Directly overhead; vertically on top of.

Verb : Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.

Verb : Into or from heaven; in the sky.

abeam

Verb : (nautical, aircraft) On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative.

Verb : (nautical, aircraft) Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.

Adjective : (nautical, aircraft) Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.

abend

Noun : (computing) The abnormal termination of a program.

Noun : (IEEE) Termination of a process prior to completion.

Verb : (computing) To terminate abnormally.

aband

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To desert; to forsake.

abaft

Verb : (nautical) On the aft side; in the stern.

Verb : (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

abord

Noun : (obsolete) The act of approaching or arriving; approach.

Noun : (rare) A road, or means of approach.

Verb : Alternative form of aboard

abyme

Noun : Obsolete form of abysm. [(archaic, poetic) Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.]

abood

Noun : A surname from Arabic.

Noun : A male given name from Arabic.

Noun : Obsolete spelling of abode. [(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.]

abrim

Adjective : Brimming, full to the brim.

Verb : Brimming, full to the brim.

abyde

Verb : Obsolete spelling of abide. [(transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand.]

abaca

Noun : Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre.

Noun : (uncountable) The fiber of this plant, used in rope, fibers, and cloth.

Noun : A barangay of Dagami, Leyte, Philippines.

abuzz

Adjective : (postpositive) Characterized by a high level of activity or gossip; in a buzz (“feeling or rush of energy or excitement”), buzzing.

abies

Noun : A tree of the genus Abies.

Noun : A tannin made from the barks of firs and spruces.

abear

Verb : (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To put up with; to endure; to bear.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To bear; to carry.

Verb : (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To behave; to comport oneself.

abime

Noun : Obsolete form of abysm. [(archaic, poetic) Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.]

absis

Noun : Alternative spelling of apsis [(architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church; an apse.]

aberr

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To go astray; to err.

Verb : (transitive, rare) Distort; aberrate.

aborn

Adjective : born, begotten, created, developed

absit

Noun : (UK) Formal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.

Noun : A portion of fermenting dough diluted to a paste with water and then cooked.

abort

Noun : (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.

Noun : (computing) The function used to abort a process.

Noun : (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.

ab ovo

Verb : From the beginning.

aboma

Noun : Any of the large South American serpents from the genus Boa or related genera.

abram

Adjective : (obsolete) auburn

Noun : Abraham (prophet in the Old Testament).

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

abuna

Noun : (Christianity) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

Noun : A river in northeastern Bolivia that forms part of its border with Brazil.

Noun : The title of the leader, or patriarch, of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

abaci

Noun : (historical, obsolete) A table or tray scattered with sand which was used for calculating or drawing.

Noun : A device used for performing arithmetical calculations; (rare) a table on which loose counters are placed, or (more commonly) an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc.

Noun : (architecture) The uppermost portion of the capital of a column immediately under the architrave, in some cases a flat oblong or square slab, in others more decorated.

abuts

Verb : (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)

Verb : (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.

Verb : (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.

abled

Adjective : (in combination) Having a range of physical powers as specified.

Noun : (among disabled people) A person who has no disability.

aboil

Adjective : In a boil; boiling.

Adjective : (figurative) Heated up; excited.

Verb : In a boil; boiling.

abert

Noun : A surname

Noun : Short for Abert's squirrel. [Sciurus aberti, a tree squirrel endemic to the Rocky Mountains from the United States to Mexico.]

abbed

Adjective : (slang, of a person) Having visible abdominal muscles; having abs.

Adjective : (slang, of a person, in combination, by extension) Having abdominal muscles of a specified kind.

abace

abiol

abmis

absey

Noun : (obsolete) ABC; alphabet.

Noun : (obsolete) Absey book; abecedary.

Noun : (obsolete) An alphabetical acrostic list.

aboad

Noun : Obsolete form of abode. [(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.]

abele

Noun : The white poplar (Populus alba).

abaya

Noun : Synonym of aba

Noun : A surname from Tagalog.

abets

Verb : (transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.

Verb : (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action).

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.

aboon

Verb : (Scotland, British, Cheshire dialect) Above.

Adjective : (Scotland, British dialect) Above.

Noun : (Scotland, British dialect) Above.

abida

Noun : a feminine given name.

Noun : a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.

Noun : According to Genesis 25:4, Abida was the son of Midian, and the grandson of Abraham and his wife Keturah.

abreu

Noun : A surname from Portuguese.

abbes

Noun : A British surname.

Noun : Alternative spelling of abbé [A low-ranking member of the Roman Catholic clergy in France who is not a member of a religious order, is not a priest, and can marry and inherit property; an honorific title for such a clergymember.]

abstr

abiah

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew.

abios

abair

Noun : A surname from French.

abete

abite

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To bite; eat; devour.

ablon

Noun : A village in Calvados department, Normandy, France

Noun : A surname.

abilo

Noun : Bogo; a Philippine fruit tree, Garuga floribunda, from the family Burseraceae.

ablur

Adjective : Blurry, blurred.

abune

Noun : (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon [(Scotland, British dialect) Above.]

Verb : (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon [(Scotland, British, Cheshire dialect) Above.]

abaye

Noun : an amora of the fourth generation of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia.

abidi

Noun : Abidi, Abedi or Al-Abedi is the surname for the descendants of Prophet Muhammad's great-grandson Imam Zain-ul-Abideen or Imam Abid whose real name was Ali ibn Husayn.

abjad

Noun : A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified.

Noun : (linguistics) Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels.

Noun : The system of abjad numerals; a numeral system in which the letters of the Arabic abjad are interpreted as numerals, typically used to enumerate lists and nested lists, as well as in numerology.

abobo

Noun : a northern suburb of Abidjan and one of the 10 urban communes of this city in Ivory Coast.

Noun : Abwobo is a woreda in Gambela Region, Ethiopia.

aboda

abora

Noun : the name of an ancestral solar deity of La Palma (Canary Islands) and a traditional god of the Guanches.

Noun : the name of several reed boats built by the German explorer .

abori

abrat

abids

Noun : Abids is a major commercial center in Hyderabad, India.

abait

abdol

a bomb

abler

Noun : A surname from German.

abuja

Noun : The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.

abohm

Noun : (dated) A unit of electrical resistance equal to one billionth of an ohm (10⁻⁹ ohms), used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units.

abner

Noun : (biblical) A cousin of Saul mentioned in the Old Testament.

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

abila

Noun : An ancient city in the Decapolis, situated between Gadara and Capitolias in modern Jordan.

abrin

Noun : A toxin, akin to ricin, found in jequirity beans (Abrus precatorius).

abyla

Noun : Abyla was the pre-Roman name of Ad Septem Fratres (actual Ceuta of Spain).

Noun : a genus of colonial siphonophore in the subfamily Abylidae and the suborder Calycophorae.

abada

Noun : (obsolete) The rhinoceros.

Noun : (mythology) A herbivorous mythological creature of the Central African Congo, similar to the unicorn. Its horns are said to be an antidote to poisons, and it has brown fur, two crooked horns and a boar's tail.

abbas

Noun : (obsolete) abbot

Noun : A male given name from Arabic.

Noun : A surname from Arabic.

abc's

Noun : the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural

abamp

Noun : Alternative form of abampere [Unit of electrical current in electromagnetic and Gaussian cgs systems of units, equal to 10 amperes in SI units.]

a band

Noun : (anatomy) A strip of proteins, in the myofibril, that stains dark.

abdal

Noun : A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

abbie

Noun : A unisex given name.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Albert.

abdon

Noun : The tenth judge of Israel. (biblical character)

Noun : (rare) A male given name from Hebrew.

Noun : A village in Abdon and Heath parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO576863).

abell

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States.

Noun : A neighbourhood in north-central Baltimore, Maryland.

ablet

Noun : A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.

abnet

Noun : The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

abray

Verb : Obsolete form of abraid. [(transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.]

abril

Noun : a Portuguese and Spanish name meaning "April".

abare

Verb : (obsolete) to strip, uncover (make bare)

Noun : A surname from French.

abdul

Noun : A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.

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