5-letter words containing ab
- cabas — a small ladies' bag
- cabby — a cabdriver.
- caber — A caber is a long, heavy, wooden pole. It is thrown into the air as a test of strength in the traditional Scottish sport called 'tossing the caber'.
- cabet — Étienne [ey-tyen] /eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1788–1856, French socialist who established a utopian community in the U.S. (in Illinois) called Icaria: became U.S. citizen 1854.
- cabin — A cabin is a small room in a ship or boat.
- cable — A cable is a thick wire, or a group of wires inside a rubber or plastic covering, which is used to carry electricity or electronic signals.
- cabob — kebab
- caboc — a Scottish cheese made with double cream and rolled in toasted oatmeal
- cabot — John Italian name Giovanni Caboto. 1450–98, Italian explorer, who landed in North America in 1497, under patent from Henry VII of England, and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland
- cabre — heraldic term designating an animal rearing
- cohab — a cohabiter
- crabb — George, 1778–1851, English author and philologist.
- crabs — the lowest throw in a game of chance, esp two aces in dice
- dabba — (in Indian cookery) a round metal box used to transport hot food, either from home or from a restaurant, to a person's place of work
- detab — DEcision TABle. A decision table COBOL preprocessor written by A. Chapman in 1964. Versions: DETAB 65, DETAB X.
- dorab — wolf herring.
- drabs — Plural form of drab.
- fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
- fabre — Jean Henri [zhahn ahn-ree] /ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1823–1915, French entomologist and popular writer on insect life.
- fabry — Charles (ʃarl). 1867–1945, French physicist: discovered ozone in the upper atmosphere
- flabs — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- gabar — an Iranian Zoroastrian.
- gabba — (music) alternative spelling of gabber.
- gabby — talkative; garrulous.
- gabel — (UK, legal, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
- gabes — Gulf of, a gulf of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia.
- gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- gabon — Official name Gabonese Republic. a republic in W equatorial Africa: formerly a part of French Equatorial Africa; member of the French Community. 102,290 sq. mi. (264,931 sq. km). Capital: Libreville.
- gabor — Dennis, 1900–79, British physicist, born in Hungary: inventor of holography; Nobel Prize 1971.
- gabun — Gabon.
- gabys — a female given name, form of Gabriella.
- grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- haber — Fritz, 1868–1934, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1918.
- habit — an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
- hable — Obsolete form of habile.
- habor — Khabur.
- hejab — Alternative spelling of hijab.
- hijab — a traditional scarf worn by Muslim women to cover the hair and neck and sometimes the face.
- jabal — a son of Lamech, and the progenitor of nomadic shepherds. Gen. 4:20.
- jabir — Geber.
- jabot — a decorative ruffle or other arrangement of lace or cloth attached at the neckline and extending down the front of a woman's blouse or dress or, formerly, of a man's shirt.
- kaaba — a cube-shaped building in Mecca, the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine, into which is built the black stone believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham. Muslims turn in its direction when praying
- kabab — Alt form kebab.
- kabir — fl. late 15th century, Hindu religious reformer.
- kabob — Usually, kebabs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and broiled, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, usually on a skewer.
- kabul — a republic in central Asia, NW of India and E of Iran. 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km). Capital: Kabul.
- kabwe — a city in central Zambia: oldest mining town; cave site where the fossil skull of Rhodesian man was found.
- kebab — Usually, kebabs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and broiled, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, usually on a skewer.
- krabs — Plural form of krab.
- laban — the father of Leah and Rachel and the father-in-law of Jacob. Gen. 24:29; 29:16–30.