8-Letter Words Starting: ABA

• a unit of current equal to 10 amperes

• cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious

• a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave

• a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves

• capable of being abated

• the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry

• a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

• forsake, leave behind

• give up with the intent of never claiming again

• leave behind empty; move out of

• stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• a building where animals are butchered

• any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior

• 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.

• In the middle ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.

• In fortification, a barricade made of felled trees denuded of their smaller branches, with the butt-ends of the trunks embedded in the earth or secured by pickets, and the sharpened ends of the branches directed upward and outward toward an advancing enemy, for the purpose of obstructing his progress. In field-fortifications the abatis is usually constructed in front of the ditch. See fortification.

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