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.

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.

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.

abate

Verb : (transitive)

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

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

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.

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.

abset

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.

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.

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.

aback

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

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

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

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.

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.

abaft

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

Verb : (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

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

abele

Noun : The white poplar (Populus alba).

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.

abuja

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

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.

abuzz

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

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.

abdul

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

abare

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

Noun : A surname from French.

abaya

Noun : Synonym of aba

Noun : A surname from Tagalog.

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.

abbas

Noun : A male given name from Arabic

Noun : A surname from Arabic.

abies

Noun : A tree of the genus Abies.

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

abask

Verb : in the sunshine; basking.

abram

Adjective : (obsolete) auburn

Noun : Abraham (prophet in the Old Testament).

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

abner

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

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

aboma

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

abler

Noun : A surname from German.

ab ovo

Verb : From the beginning.

abled

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

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

abime

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

ablet

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

abril

abets

Verb : (transitive) 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); to maintain.

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

abord

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

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

Verb : Alternative form of aboard

ababa

aboil

Adjective : In a boil; boiling.

Adjective : (figurative) Heated up; excited.

Verb : In a boil; boiling.

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.

ables

Noun : A surname.

abyme

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

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.

aberr

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

Verb : (transitive, rare) Distort; aberrate.

abbie

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.

abnet

Noun : The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

aband

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

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

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.

abaco

Noun : The Abaco Islands, an island and cays group in the north of the Bahamas.

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.

abadi

Noun : A surname.

aboon

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

Adjective : (Scotland, Britain dialect) Above.

Noun : (Scotland, Britain dialect) Above.

abdal

Noun : A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

abdel

abist

abyla

Noun : a promontory in northern morocco opposite the rock of gibraltar; one of the pillars of hercule

abreu

Noun : A surname from Portuguese.

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.]

abzug

Noun : A surname from German.

abila

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

abray

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

abell

Noun : A surname.

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

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

abhal

Noun : The berry of the juniper, Juniperus communis.

aborn

Adjective : born, begotten, created, developed

abrin

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

abbes

Noun : Alternative spelling of abbé [(obsolete) A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey.]

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.]

abace

abels

Noun : (biblical) The son of Adam and Eve who was killed by his brother Cain.

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic.

abida

abite

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

abmho

Noun : (electricity) A unit of measurement (10⁹ mhos) in the centimeter-gram-second scale used to measure conductance

ablen

Noun : Alternative form of ablet (freshwater fish) [A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.]

abati

Noun : A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.

Noun : (historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.

Noun : In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.

abajo

abete

abloy

abfab

abats

Noun : (rhetoric) Anesis.

abrus

abces

Noun : (uncountable, countable, usually plural in Canada, US) The English alphabet.

Noun : (obsolete, poetry) A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.

Noun : (obsolete) A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.

aboud

Noun : A surname.

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.]

ablow

Adjective : (archaic, postpositive) Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.

Adjective : (dated, postpositive) Blowing or being blown; windy.

a bomb

abana

abita

abcde

Noun : (US, uncommon) A female given name originating as a coinage.

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).

abang

abena

abomb

abstr

abihu

abair

Noun : A surname from French.

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