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— English words —
  • ab n. (Informal) abdominal muscle.
  • ab n. (Slang) An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
  • ab v. (Climbing, informal) To abseil.
  • ab v. Abbreviation of abort.
  • ab n. Abbreviation of abortion.
  • ab prep. Abbreviation of about.
  • ab adv. Abbreviation of about.
  • ab n. (US) The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
  • Ab n. (Immunology) Antibody.
  • Ab prop.n. (Judaism) Av.
  • Ab prop.n. A diminutive of the male given name Abner, from Hebrew, occasionally used as a formal given name.
  • Ab n. (Dated) In Egyptian belief, the heart and will and conscience of a person, especially that of the recently…
  • Ab n. (Dated) An Ancient Egyptian amulet in the shape of a heart (ib).
  • Ab n. (Title) Abbreviation of Abbot.
  • AB prop.n. Abbreviation of Alberta, a province of Canada.
  • AB prop.n. Initialism of Artium baccalaureus.
  • AB n. Initialism of able seaman; able-bodied seaman.
  • AB n. Initialism of adult baby.
  • AB n. Initialism of afterburner.
  • AB n. Initialism of aid to the blind.
  • AB n. (Military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
  • AB n. (Organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
  • AB n. (Medicine) Initialism of antibody.
  • AB n. Initialism of artificial breeding.
  • AB n. (Law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
  • AB n. A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
  • AB adj. Initialism of airborne.
  • AB adj. Initialism of antiballistic.
  • AB adj. (Baseball) Initialism of at bat.
  • A♭ n. Alternative spelling of A-flat.
  • -ab suff. Antibody.
  • ab- pref. (Non-productive) From.
  • ab- pref. (Non-productive) Away from; outside of.
  • ab- pref. (Physics) A unit of electromagnetic charge in the centimeter-gram-second system: the abcoulomb.
  • ab. prep. Abbreviation of about.
  • ab. n. Abbreviation of antibody.
  • ab. n. Abbreviation of abridgement.
  • A&B n. Initialism of assault and battery.
  • A/B adj. (Chemistry) Initialism of acid-base. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  • a.b. n. (Nautical) able-bodied seaman.
  • a.b. phr. Initialism of as before.
  • A.B. n. Initialism of able seaman or able-bodied seaman.
  • A.B. n. Initialism of artium baccalaureus (“Bachelor of Arts”).
  • A.B. n. (Dated) A blank for a person’s name, perhaps followed by C.D., etc. for others.
— International convention —
  • ab sym. (International standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Abkhaz.
  • aB sym. (Metrology) attobel.
  • Ab sym. (Chemistry, obsolete) alabamine.
  • n. (Biochemistry) amyloid beta.
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Aynu
    • ab n. Water.
  • Azerbaijani
    • ab n. (Classical Azerbaijani) water.
  • Blagar
    • ab n. Fish.
  • Catalan
    • ab prep. Obsolete form of amb.
  • Central franconian
    • Ab n. (Westernmost Ripuarian) An abbot, monastic superior of an abbey.
  • Chechen
    • аь let. The second letter of the Chechen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • Chuvash
    • ав v. (Transitive) to bend, to curve, to crook.
    • ав v. (Transitive) to weave, to spin.
    • ав v. (Transitive) to braid, to plait.
    • ав v. (Transitive) to persuade, to convince (someone to do something).
    • ав v. (Transitive, figuratively) to break, to overcome.
    • ав part. Alternative form of авӑ.
    • ав interj. Woof (the sound of a dog barking).
  • Coptic
    • ⲁⲃ prop.n. (Judaism) The tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish…
  • Danish
    • ab prep. Ex (out of, sold from).
    • ab prep. From (with the origin in time).
    • ab v. Imperative of abe.
  • East central german
    • ab part. (Strehlen and Schömberg, Silesian) negative particle, do not.
  • East yugur
    • ab v. To take.
  • Even
  • Ido
    • -ab suff. Secondary, in time.
  • Indonesian
    • AB n. (Finance, government, management) Initialism of anggaran belanja.
    • AB n. Initialism of arah benar.
    • AB n. (Military) Initialism of angkatan bersenjata.
    • AB n. (Business, management) Initialism of administrasi bisnis.
    • AB n. (Hematology) AB: A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood…
    • ab- pref. Ab-: from; away from; outside of.
  • Ingush
    • аь let. The second letter of the Ingush alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • Interlingua - Pennsylvania german
    • ab prep. From.
  • Irish
    • ab n. (Christianity) abbot.
    • ab part. Alternative form of ba (used in relative clauses before a vowel sound).
    • Ab prop.n. (Judaism) Av, the eleventh month of the Jewish calendar.
  • Istro-romanian
    • åb adj. White.
  • K'iche'
    • ab n. Hammock.
    • ab n. Steam.
    • ab n. Mist.
  • Kein
    • ab n. Fire.
  • Kildin sami
    • а̄в adj. Open (not closed).
  • Kumyk
    • ав n. Hunt, hunting.
  • Latvian
    • ab conj. (Archaic) or.
    • ab prep. (Archaic) around.
  • Livonian
    • ab n. (Anatomy) shoulder.
    • ab n. Help.
    • äb v. First person singular present form of the negation verb.
    • äb v. Third person singular present form of the negation verb.
    • äb v. First person plural present form of the negation verb.
    • äb v. Third person plural present form of the negation verb.
    • äb- pref. Negating prefix.
  • Macedonian
  • Malay
    • AB n. (Biology) the blood type AB.
    • AB n. Initialism of anggaran belanja (“expense estimate”).
    • ab- pref. Ab-.
    • Ab. prop.n. Abdul (a male given name).
  • Middle irish - Romani
    • ab n. River.
  • Mongolian
    • ав n. Alternative form of аав.
    • ав n. Sorcery, witchcraft, allure, charms.
    • ав n. Hunt.
    • ав n. Imperative of авах.
  • Norwegian bokmål
    • ab prep. (Economics) from; (i.e. delivered) for the seller’s expense at a location and forwarded for the buyer’s expense.
    • ab prep. (Economics, obsolete) as of.
    • ab prep. Only used in ab ovo (“ab ovo”).
    • ab n. (Colloquial) Abbreviation of avbetaling (“installment”).
  • Occitan
    • ab prep. (Guardiol) with.
  • Old french
    • ab prep. (10th century) with.
  • Old high german
    • ab prep. Of.
  • Old occitan
    • ab prep. With.
  • Parauk
    • ab v. To give, hand over.
  • Pennsylvania german
    • ab prep. Off.
    • ab prep. Away.
  • Pumpokol
    • ab n. Father.
  • Romanian
    • AB prop.n. Abbreviation of Alba, a county in Romania.
  • Russian
    • ав n. Genitive plural of а́ва.
  • Scots
    • ab n. (Orkney) impediment, hindrance, objection.
    • ab v. (Orkney) to hinder.
  • Scottish gaelic
    • ab n. Alternative form of aba.
    • a␣b' part. Creates the superlative when preceding the comparative form of an adjective or an adverb.
  • Sumerian
    • ab rom. Romanization of 𒀊 (ab).
  • Swedish
    • Ab n. (Finland) Abbreviation of aktiebolag.
    • AB n. Abbreviation of aktiebolag. (corporation; stock company; public limited company)
    • åb n. Abbreviation of återbesök (“follow-up visit”).
  • Swedish - Turkish
    • AB n. The blood type AB.
  • Tabasaran
    • аь let. The second letter of the Tabasaran alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • Turkish
    • ab n. (Obsolete, poetic) water.
    • AB prop.n. (Politics) Initialism of Avrupa Birliği (European Union).
  • Volapük
    • ab conj. But.
  • Wastek
  • Welsh
    • ab pref. A patronymic indicator; son of.
  • Wolof
    • ab art. A/an (singular indefinite article).
— English word, defined in German —
  • ab S. Meist im Plural, umgangssprachlich: Bauchmuskel.
— English words, defined in Dutch —
  • ab n. (Anatomie), rechte buikspier.
  • ab n. (Medisch) abces, met name ten gevolge van drugsmisbruik.
— English words, defined in French —
  • ab n. (Surtout au pluriel) Abdo (muscle abdominal).
  • AB adj. (Militaire) Airborne : « Aéroporté ».
  • AB n. (Militaire) Able seaman : « Matelot de deuxième classe ».
— English word, defined in Portuguese —
  • ab s. Músculo abdominal.
— English words, defined in Italian —
  • A&B acro. Above and Beyond.
  • A&B acro. (Pediatria) Apnea and Bradycardia.
  • A&B acro. Arts & Business.
  • A&B acro. Assault and Battery.
— In German —
  • ab Präp. Mit Dativ: von etwas weg, von jemandem weg, einem Ort…
  • ab Präp. Mit Dativ oder Akkusativ: von einem Zeitpunkt weg, künftig…
  • ab Präp. Mit Nominativ, ohne Artikel, vor allem in Fahrplänen…
  • ab Adv. Weg, fort, weit ab, abgelegen.
  • ab Adv. In Verbindung mit sein, meist nur umgangssprachlich, regional…
  • ab Adv. Herab, herunter.
  • ab Adv. Örtlich, in Verbindung mit auf: auf und ab.
  • ab Adv. Zeitlich, in Verbindung mit zu, an: ab und zu, ab und an.
  • ab Adv. Verwendet, um jemandem zu befehlen wegzugehen.
  • AB Abk. Anrufbeantworter.
  • AB Abk. Deutschland: Kraftfahrzeugkennzeichen für Aschaffenburg (Bayern).
  • AB Abk. Altbau.
  • AB Abk. Abort (Toilette).
  • aß V. Schweiz und Liechtenstein: ass.
  • aß V. 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs essen.
  • aß V. 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs essen.
  • -ab Suff. Nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement für Adverbien.
  • ab- Präf. Weg, fort [1a] sich oder etwas fortbewegen [1b] sich (von…
  • ab- Präf. Zu Ende [2a] ganz und gar, bis zur Erschöpfung, bis zur…
  • ab- Präf. Nach unten, unten, herunter [3a] räumlich [3b] in der Anzahl weniger.
  • ab- Präf. [4a] ein wenig [4b] allmählich, nach und nach.
  • ab- Präf. Rückgängig machen, zum Gegenteil wenden.
  • ab- Präf. Versehen mit, darauf, daran.
  • ab- Präf. Verstärkend [7a] Betonung des Vorgangs des Basisverbs…
  • ab- Präf. In Fremdwörtern aus dem Lateinischen: weg, fort, miss-.
  • A.␣B. Abk. Augsburger Bekenntnis.
  • A.␣B. Abk. Militär: Arbeitsbataillon.
  • A.␣B. Abk. Armeebefehl.
  • A.␣B. Abk. Militär: Armierungsbataillon.
— In Dutch —
  • ab- Ter vorming van woorden met de betekenis ’weg van’, komt alleen…
— In Latin —
  • ab praep. √ Praepositio digressum de quodam loco indicans.
  • ab praep. Sine digressu, sed solum de distantia.
  • ab praep. Usus temporalis.
  • ab praep. Usus alii, e.g. agens verbi passivi.
— In French —
  • ab n.m. (Vieilli) ou (académique) Onzième mois du calendrier hébreu.
  • ab n.m. (Mythologie égyptienne) Cœur, élément central, partie de…
  • Ab sym. (Minéralogie) Abréviation usuelle pour l’albite.
  • AB adj. Résultat d’examen évalué comme juste correct, assez bien.
  • AB n.m. Amuse-bouche.
  • AB sym. Abréviation d’agriculture biologique.
  • ab- préf. Indique l’éloignement, la séparation.
  • ab- préf. Indique l’achèvement.
— In Spanish —
  • ab prep. Preposición que indica generalmente separación, alejamiento…
  • ab. abr. Medición del tiempo. Abreviatura de abril.
— In Portuguese —
  • ab s. Quinto mês do calendário religioso judaico, correspondente…
  • ab- pref. Prefixo que significa afastamento.
  • ab- pref. O mesmo que a-.
  • A.B. abr. Artium Baccalaureus (título universitário: Bacharel em Artes).
— In Italian —
  • AB acro. (Biologia) (medicina) simbolo che identifica uno dei gruppi…
  • ab- pref. Si trova in verbi, sostantivi e aggettivi di origine latina.
  • ab- pref. In sostantivi e aggettivi di tipo tecnico indica allontanamento.
  • A&B acro. (Pediatria) Apnea e Bradicardia.
336 English words from 136 English definitions

aba abbey abbot Abbreviation abcoulomb abdominal abdominal␣muscle Abdul abe Abkhaz able able␣bodied able-bodied␣seaman able␣seaman Abner ABO abort abortion about ab␣ovo abridgement abscess abseil acid acid-base add adjective adult adult␣baby adverb A␣flat afterburner aid airbase airborne alabamine Alba Alberta alkylbenzene all allure alphabet Alternative amb amulet amyloid amyloid␣beta Anatomy Ancient Ancient␣Egyptian and antiballistic antibody antigens Archaic around article artificial Arts as␣of assault assault␣and␣battery assembly at␣bat aviation away Azerbaijani baby Bachelor Bachelor␣of␣Arts barking base Baseball bat battery before beginning belief benar bend beta bill Biochemistry Biology blank blind blood blood␣type blood␣types bodied both braid break breeding Business But buyer calendar Can Canada caused centimeter centimeter-gram-second century charge charms Chechen chemistry Christianity civil civil␣year Classical Classical␣Azerbaijani clauses Climbing closed code Colloquial company comparative conscience convince corporation county Creates crook curve Cyrillic Dated delivered diminutive dog donate drug early ecclesiastical Economics Egyptian electromagnetic eleventh especially estimate etc European European␣Union example expense Father figuratively Finance Finland Fire First First␣person Fish flat follow followed followed␣by follow␣up for form formal forwarded fourth from Genitive give given given␣name government gram Guardiol Hammock hand hand␣over has heart Hebrew Help Hematology heroin hinder hindrance Hunt hunting illegal Immunology impediment Imperative indefinite indefinite␣article indicator informal Ingush Initialism injecting installment International in␣time ISO Jewish Jewish␣calendar Judaism language language␣code Law letter limited limited␣company location male management may Medicine Metrology Military Mist monastic month muscle name Nautical Negating negation negative Non Non-productive not objection obsolete occasionally of␣a of␣an Off Only Open Organic Organic␣chemistry origin Orkney others out out␣of outside outside␣of over overcome particle patronymic perhaps person persuade Physics plait plural poetic politics preceding prefix present process productive province public public␣limited␣company Rain receive recently relative relative␣clauses Ripuarian River Romania Romanization script seaman second Secondary seller sense shape shoulder Silesian singular Slang sold someone something son Sorcery sound spelling spin stages standards start Steam stock stock␣company superior superlative system Tabasaran take tenth that the Third Third␣person this time Title to␣the Transitive type types Union unit used usually verb visit vowel wash water weave Westernmost when White will witchcraft with Woof written year

72 English words from 63 foreign definitions

Abdo abdominal Able Able␣seaman Abort Above agriculture Airborne albite amp Amuse Amuse-bouche and Apnea Arts Aschaffenburg ass Assault auf Augsburger Battery Beyond bis bouche Bradycardia Business central che correct del dem der des Deutschland Ende examen fort gar indica indicans latina Liechtenstein loco Matelot met miss muscle name nur Ort Person Plural pour que Quinto regional seaman sed sein sich Sine Singular solum Surtout temporalis ten Ter Toilette und van Verbs vor

4 foreign words from 136 English definitions

attobel baccalaureus ovo Schömberg

167 foreign words from 63 foreign definitions

abces abgelegen Abréviation Abreviatura abril ab␣und␣an ab␣und␣zu académique achèvement Adverbien Aéroporté afastamento agens aggettivi agriculture␣biologique Akkusativ Aktiv alejamiento alleen allem allmählich allontanamento Altbau Anatomie Anrufbeantworter Anzahl Artes Artikel assez aus Baccalaureus Bacharel Bauchmuskel Bayern befehlen Bekenntnis betekenis Betonung bien Biologia biologique Bradicardia buikspier calendário calendrier classe Cœur comme correspondente daran darauf Dativ dei deuxième deuxième␣classe drugsmisbruik égyptienne ein einem ein␣wenig élément éloignement Erschöpfung essen etwas évalué Fahrplänen fortbewegen Fremdwörtern für ganz ganz␣und␣gar Gegenteil generalmente gevolge gruppi hébreu Herab herunter identifica Indikativ Indique jemandem judaico juste komt künftig Lateinischen machen medicina Medición Medisch meist mês mesmo met␣name Militaire Militär Minéralogie miss- mit mois Músculo Mythologie nach Nachgestelltes nach␣und␣nach Nominativ oder ohne Onzième origine Örtlich partie passivi Pediatria pluriel Praepositio Präteritum Prefixo Preposición räumlich rechte religioso Résultat Rückgängig Schweiz separación séparation significa simbolo sostantivi tecnico ten␣gevolge ten␣gevolge␣van tiempo tipo título trova umgangssprachlich universitário uno unten usuelle Usus verbi Verbindung Versehen Verstärkend Verwendet Vieilli von vor␣allem Vorgangs vorming weg wegzugehen weit wenden wenig weniger woorden Wortbildungselement Zeitlich Zeitpunkt zum zur

3584 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

aba Aba ABA A.B.A. abb abb. ABC A.B.C. A.␣B.␣C. ABD abd. Abd. abe Abe ABE Abé ABG ABH Abi ABI abl. ABM ABN abo Abo ABO Åbo A/B/O Abp ABP abp. Abp. Abq ABQ Abq. ABR abr. abs Abs ABs ABS A♭s abs- abs. A.B.s abt ABT abt. Abu ABU +3534 words

27618 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

AABB AABC AABD AABH AABI AABL AABM AABP AABs AABT AABW aaby baba Babb babe Babe Babi Bábí Babm babs Babs BABT babu Babu baby Baby caba Caba Cabe CABF CABG câbi Cabo cabs Cabs CABs Dabb dabs EABs fabe fabs Fabs FABs GABA Gabb Gabe gabi Gabr gabs GABs +27568 words

805 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

AAB bab cab Cab CAB dab DAB EAB fab Fab FAB F.A.B. gab Gab GAB gab- -gab- hab Hab HAB Hab. IAB jab kab KAB lab Lab LAB LαB Lab. mab mAb Mab MAb -mab nab NAB -nab nab- -nab- OAB PAB Rab sab SAB Sab. tab Tab vab VAB +755 words

8 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

ba Ba BA b@ ba' -ba- B.A. B.␣A.

227 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

AAB aba Aba ABA A.B.A. abb abb. ABC A.B.C. A.␣B.␣C. ABD abd. Abd. abe Abe ABE Abé ABG ABH Abi ABI abl. ABM ABN abo Abo ABO Åbo A/B/O Abp ABP abp. Abp. Abq ABQ Abq. ABR abr. abs Abs ABs ABS A♭s abs- abs. A.B.s abt ABT abt. Abu ABU +176 words

241 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

aa Aa AA āā a'a a-a a/a a/A A-a A&A A/A a.a. A.A. A␣&␣A ac Ac AC -ac a-c a/c ac- ac. A/C a.c. A.C. ad Ad AD 'ad -ad ad- ad. A.D. A.␣D. ae AE æ Æ -ae A&E -æ a**e a.e. A␣&␣E af AF ag Ag AG Ag. A-G A/G A.G. A.␣G. ah Ah AH A"H ai Ai AI A-I a.i. A.I. AJ Ak AK al Al AL Ål -al al- a.l. &␣al. am Am AM 'am Am. A&M a.m. A.M. a.␣m. A.␣M. A.␣&␣M. an An AN -an an' an- A/N a(n) ao aO Ao AO A&O a.o. (+140 words)

24 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

AAB abb abb. ADB aeb AEB AFB AGB AHB AIB alb Alb. amb amb. AOB a.o.b. APB arb ARB Arb. ASB ATB AUB AWB


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