Words that start with A

Angry anteaters arguing against albino antelopes.

Animals starting with A

Animals

Photo of avocado fruit

Food

Plants that start with A

Plants

Adjectives that start with A

Adjectives

Verbs that start with A

Verbs

Countries that start with A

Countries

Cities that start with A

Cities

Jobs that start with A

Jobs

Photo of an arm.

Body parts

Photo of an apple.

Fruit

Photo of an albatross

Birds

Photo of an aardvark.
MontageMan / CC BY-SA

Ais forAardvark

Scientific name: orycteropus afer
The aardvark is from Africa. It is a very good digger and sleeps during the day and comes out at night to dig. Aardvarks are distantly related to elephants. Aardvarks eat ants and termites. Aardvarks are extremely primitive in their makeup and could be called a living fossil.
Mammals, African animals
Photo of a boy using an abacus.
Nicki Dugan / CC BY-SA

Ais forAbacus

An abacus was used for counting and adding up before calculators. It is made from beads on a frame that you slide backwards and forwards.
List of devices
Photo of alalone.
yue / CC BY-SA

Ais forAbalone

An abalone is a very large sea snail. Abalones are a different shape to most snails - they have a wide, flat shell. You can still see the spiral shape in their shell. Abalones are caught and eaten as food, and their shells are used to make jewellery.
Molluscs, Food
Generated image of an abandoned shopping cart
Photographic Dictionary / CC BY-SA

Ais forAbandon

You abandon something when you completely leave it alone. You can abandon a place, a person, a project or many other things. Abandon might also mean that you give up all your restraint and self-control, for example "She abandoned herself to the music".
Verbs
Generated image of an abandoned shopping cart
Photographic Dictionary / CC BY-SA

Ais forAbandoned

Something is abandoned if if has been left alone and forsaken, with nobody caring for it or paying it attention. The shopping cart in the picture has been abandoned.
Adjectives
An abbreviation of the phrase et cetera.
Kevin Dooley / CC BY-SA

Ais forAbbreviate

Abbreviate means to shorten a word or phrase. For example, the phrase et cetera is abbreviated to etc.
Verbs
A very poor person
Shahnawaz Sid / CC BY-SA

Ais forAbject

Something is abject if it is utterly hopeless and miserable, of the worst order. For example, abject poverty.
Photo of a house ablaze
Petteri Sulonen / CC BY-SA

Ais forAblaze

Something is ablaze if it is on fire, burning brightly.
Fire
Photo of an abode
David Sawyer / CC BY-SA

Ais forAbode

An abode is a place you live, such as a house.
List of structures
Photo of an Australian Aborigine
Steve Evans / CC BY-SA

Ais forAborigine

Australian Aborigines, now called First Nations people, were the first people to live in Australia. There were once many, many different tribes, each with different traditions and languages. Around 2% of the Australian population identifies as First Nations.
Nationalities